William Louis Garrison (1924–2015) was an American

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transportation Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, ...

analyst and professor at the

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. While at the Department of Geography, University of Washington in the 1950s, Garrison led the " quantitative revolution" in geography, which applied computers and statistics to the study of spatial problems. As such, he was one of the founders of

regional science Regional science is a field of the social sciences concerned with analytical approaches to problems that are specifically urban, rural, or regional. Topics in regional science include, but are not limited to location theory or spatial economics, ...

. Many of his students (dubbed the "space cadets") went on to become noted professors themselves, including:

Brian Berry Brian Joe Lobley Berry (born February 16, 1934) is a British-American human geographer and city and regional planning (disambiguation), city and regional planner. He is Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor in the School of Economic, Political an ...

, Ronald Boyce, Duane Marble, Richard Morrill, John Nystuen, William Bunge, Michael Dacey, Arthur Getis, and

Waldo Tobler Waldo Rudolph Tobler (November 16, 1930 – February 20, 2018) was an American-Swiss geographer and cartographer. Tobler's idea that "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things" is referred to ...

. His transportation work focused on

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, the deployment of modes and logistic curves, alternative vehicles and the future of the car.

Books by Garrison

* ''Studies of Highway Development and Geographic Change'' (with Brian Berry, Duane Marble, John Nystuen, and Richard Morrill) Greenwood Press, New York. (1959) * ''Tomorrow's Transportation: Changing Cities, Economies, and Lives'' (with Jerry Ward) , 2000 * ''The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment'' (with David M. Levinson) , 2005 * ''The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment'' (with David M. Levinson) (Revised, re-organized, and expanded version of 2005 volume). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. , 2014

Important papers

* Berry, B.. and Garrison, W. L. 1958: "The functional bases of the central place hierarchy". ''Economic Geography'' 34, 145 – 54.

External links

William L. Garrison Award for Best Dissertation in Computational Geography (biennial award for innovative research into the computational aspects of geographic science)

CUTC Award for Distinguished Contribution to University Transportation Education and Research 1998 (includes brief autobiographical sketch)

William L. Garrison died

References

* Barnes, Trevor J. "Placing ideas: genius loci, heterotopia and geography’s quantitative revolution" ''Progress in Human Geography'' 28,5 (2004) pp. 1 – 3

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