Harvey Miller receives Edward L. Ullman Award from the AAG 

The Transportation Geography specialty group of the Association of American Geographers announced that the 2009 Edward L. Ullman Award for significant Contributions to Transportation Geography will be awarded to Dr. Harvey Miller, Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Utah.

He was nominated by Nigel Waters of George Mason University, who noted that "Dr. Miller is perhaps best known to transportation geographers in North America for his seminal text on transportation GIS, published in 2001 and co-authored with Professor Shih-lung Shaw. Equally important has been his work in time geography, time-space geography and the analysis of accessibility in urban spaces. He has published over 35 peer-reviewed papers in the most outstanding journals in his field and over 15 book chapters.

"The Edward L. Ullman Award has been offered by the Transportation Geography Specialty Group since 1990 for outstanding contributions to the field of transportation geography. It is named in honor of Edward Ullman (1912-1976), a distinguished transport geographer at the University of Washington who made significant contributions to the study of spatial interaction, railroads, and commodity flows, among many other topics (for a complete review, see: http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/faculty/ullman.html).

Dr. Miller joins a long list of illustrious transport geographers who have received this award (the full list is available at the TGSG website: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/tgsg/).