Geographic information systems for transportation principles and applications miller and shaw 2001 remains the only major authored text on the interdisciplinary field of geographic information systems for transportation gis thowever miller and shaw is a product of the 20th century and the fields of gis transportation and gis t have . Computer based transportation applications and databases have been a fact of life for several decades transportation information however has often not been accessible in a user friendly manner and integrating data from diverse sources has too often been a challenge in itself geographic information systems gis have revolutionized spatial planning and decision making by using the spatial . Geographic information systems gis have revolutionized spatial planning and decision making by using the spatial dimension of the depicted world as a common thread according to which all information can be referenced the application of gis to transportation research gis t is quickly becoming a mature domain of application of the gis . Selected papers preface j c thill geographic information systems for transportation in perspective j c thill a geographic information system framework for transportation data sharing kj dueker ja butler map accuracy and location expression in transportation reality and prospects v noronha mf goodchild a three stage computational approach to network matching d xiong