A Dictionary of Transport Analysis

What exactly is “transport analysis”? As a non‐specialist, this was my first thought on picking up this dictionary from UK based independent publisher Edward Elgar. I hoped the short Introduction (pp. xiii‐xv) would provide a clear and concise definition, but after stating in the first sentence that “(T)ransport analysis is an area of study rather than an academic discipline” the talk is of understanding “how transports systems work, and how transport institutions develop and function and … the way individuals and companies view transport services” (p. xiii). Having left us a little up in the air, the Introduction goes on...