
Department of Global Studies and Geography
Hofstra University
Hempstead, New York 11549 USA
Jean-paul.Rodrigue@hofstra.edu
Phone: (516) 463-5765
Fax: (516) 463-6519
Jean-Paul Rodrigue received a Ph.D. in Transport Geography from the Université de Montréal (1994) and has been at the Department of Economics & Geography at Hofstra University since 1999. In 2008, he became part of the Department of Global Studies and Geography.
Dr. Rodrigue, as project director, contributed to the development of a web site about transport geography and was chair of the Transport Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (2004-2006). He is also on the international editorial board of the Journal of Transport Geography, the Journal of Transport and Land Use, the Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport, acts as the Van Horne Researcher in Transportation and Logistics, is a member of University Transportation Research Center, Region II of the City University of New York and is an associate member of the PortEconomics.eu initiative. He regularly performs advisory and consulting assignments for international organizations and corporations. Dr. Rodrigue is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Advanced Manufacturing (2011-2012).
He has authored
3 books, 21 book chapters, more than 35 peer reviewed papers, numerous
reports, and delivered more than 120 conferences and seminar presentations,
mostly at the international level. His first book about the
global economic space, has been published
by Les Presses de l'Universté du Québec and won the 2001 PricewaterhouseCoopers
award (Prix du livre d'affaire) for the best French business-related
book published in North America. His second book,
The Geography of Transport Systems, was published by Routledge in
July 2006 and the second edition was published in May 2009.

Dr. Rodrigue's research interests mainly cover the fields of transportation and economics as they relate to logistics and global freight distribution. Area interests involve North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, and East and Southeast Asia. Specific topics over which he has published extensively cover maritime transport systems and logistics, global supply chains and production networks, gateways and transport corridors. Current projects involve: