| Name: Patrick M. O'Sullivan | Current: Professor |
| Birthdate: December 9th, 1941 | Birthplace: Kingsbury, Middlesex, England |
| Citizenship: British Subject (UK) |
"Forecasting Interregional Freight Flows in GB" in Chisholm, Frey and Haggett (eds.), Regional Forecasting, 1970, Butterworths, London; pp. 442-450.
"Linear Programming As a Forecasting Device for Interregional Freight Flows in GB," in H.M. Salkin (ed.) Studies in Linear Programming, 1975, North Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 293-307.
"Regional Road Investment Planning for Developing Countries: An Indonesian Application" in R.F. Peel et al. Processes in Physical and Human Geography: Bristol Essays, 1975, Heinemann, London; pp. 339-353
"Issues in Transport," in R. Davies and P. Hall (eds.), Issues in Urban Society, 1978 Penguin, London; pp. 106-131.
"On Gravity and Eruptions" reprinted in R.B. Mandal (ed) Frontiers in Migration Analysis 1981 Concept, New Delhi; pp. 61-67.
"The Geopolitics of Deterrence", Chapter 2 of D. Pepper and A. Jenkins (eds.), The Geography of Peace and War, 1985, Blackwells, Oxford, pp. 29-41.
"The Geography of Wars in the Third World" in S. Neuman & R. Harkavy (eds.), Lessons of Recent Wars II: Comparative Approaches, 1987, Heath, Lexington; pp. 34-52.
"Ireland" with M. Winsberg, W.J. Serow, C.B. Nam, D.F. Sly and R.H. Weller (eds.) Handbook on International Migration 1990, Greenwood, New York; pp. 115-129.
32 entries out of a total of 219, in J. O'Loughlin (ed.) Dictionary of Geopolitics, 1994, Greenwood, New York, 52 pp.
Edited Irish and UK entries in The Columbia Gazetteer
of the World, Saul Cohen (ed) 1998, Columbia U.P., New York.
"Accessibility and the Spatial Structure of the Irish Economy," Regional Studies, Vol. 2, 1968; pp. 195-206.
"Variations in Distance Friction in Great Britain," Area, No. 2, 1970; pp. 36-39.
"Linear Programming as a Forecasting Device for Interregional Freight Flows in GB," Regional and Urban Economics, 1972; pp. 383-396.
"The Forecasting Ability and Temporal Stability of the Coefficients of Gravity Models Applied to Truck Traffic," (with J. Byler), Traffic Engineering and Control, Vol. 15, 1974; pp. 474-476.
"A Comparison of Simple Lattice Transport Networks for a Uniform Plane," (with P. Melut), Geographical Analysis, Vol. 6, 1974; pp. 163-173.
"Forecasting Intercity Commodity Transport in the USA," (with B. Ralston), Regional Studies, Vol. 8, 1974; pp. 191-195.
"Dividing a Transport Network into Regions," Geographical Perspectives, No. 38, 1976; pp. 39-46.
"Economic Evaluations of Urban Road Schemes: Partial Versus Strategic Appraisal," Transportation Research, Vol. 11, 1977; pp. 311-323.
Refereed journal. This article reports work done as an Economic Adviser with the Department of the Environment (U.K.) and completed with an NSF grant, comparing consumer surplus estimates produced with a variety of individual link and network appraisal methods.
"On Gravity and Eruptions," Professional Geographer, XXIX, No. 2, 1977; pp. 182-185.
Refereed journal. This empirically explores the shortcomings of gravity model formulations in dealing with explosive phenomena like the spread of immigrants across the USA in the second half of the 19th century.
"Consumer Surplus in the Theory and Practice of Geographical Economics," Professional Geographer, XXIX, No. 3, 1977; pp. 353-357.
Refereed journal. A brief examination of the theoretical controversy over this measure of the benefit of public works and practical methods of estimation.
"The Spread of Traffic Effects and Regions of a Network," Environment and Planning A Vol. 9, 1977; pp. 917- 926.
Refereed journal. Reports empirical results of NSF supported research on prospects of partitioning urban networks so as to reduce the extent over which investment benefits need be evaluated.
"Geographical Decomposition for Transport System Planning," Proceedings of the Southeastern Meeting of the Society for General Systems Research entitled "Systems in Sociocultural Development," Tallahassee, April, 1978; pp. 101-104.
Not refereed. Puts transport evaluation work in general context of sparse network design and analysis.
"Sensitivity to Distance and Choice of Destinations," (P. O'Sullivan and B. Ralston), Environment and Planning A, Vol. 10, April 1978; pp. 125-136.
Refereed journal. Derives a model of destination choice from the assumption of a minimum sensible threshold of perceived differences in distance to various destinations.
"Geographically Partitioning a Transport Network," Southeastern Geographer, Vol. XVIII, No. 2, November 1978; pp. 125-136.
Refereed journal. Reports results of NSF funded empirical research on the geographical extent of the impact of road network investment.
"Distance Estimation, Spatial Ability and Geographic Bias," (P. O'Sullivan and D. Schmidt), Geographical Perspectives, Summer 1978, pp. 16-24.
Non-refereed, regional journal. Reports results of empirical survey of ability to estimate distances.
"Regions of a Transport Network," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 68, No. 3, September 1978; pp. 396-401.
This refereed journal is the foremost in the discipline. Presents a partitioning scheme for estimating impact of road improvement with an empirical example. Reporting conclusions of NSF grant supported research project.
"The Accuracy and Structure of Distance Cognition," (P. O'Sullivan, R. Bednarz and D. Burik), Geographical Perspectives, No. 43, Spring 1979; pp. 27-31.
Non-refereed, regional journal. Presents empirical evidence for the existence of a minimum sensible threshold of distance perception.
"Florida's Illicit Drug Traffic," (P. O'Sullivan and R. Ellis), The Florida Geographer, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1979; pp. 1-6.
Non-refereed, regional journal. Describes the impact of the drug traffic on Florida, discusses policy issues and prescribes legalization.
"On the Equivalence of Consumer Surplus and von Thuenian Rent", (P. O'Sullivan and B. Ralston), Economic Geography, Vol. 56, No. 1, January 1980; pp. 73-77.
Refereed journal, second to Annals AAG in prestige. Demonstrates the equivalence of Marshallian consumer surplus to von Thuenian rent.
Transport Network Planning Under Ignorance" (P. O'Sullivan and G. Holtzclaw), Transportation Planning and Technology, Vol. 6, 1980, pp. 27-32.
Non-refereed journal. Advocates use of a criterion of "robustness" in transport network planning decisions.
"Warfare in Suburbia," Professional Geographer 32(3), August 1980, pp. 355-360.
Refereed journal. Hypothesists that, on the basis of its mobility and cover characteristics, modern suburban terrain favors the offense.
"The Obliteration of Colonial West Florida," (C. Miller and P. O'Sullivan), The Florida Geographer, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1980; pp. 1-9.
Non-refereed, regional journal. Chronicles the extent, politics and human landscape of West Florida and its demise.
"Urban Sprawl and War," The Professional Geographer, Vol. 33, No. 3, 1981, pp. 371-373.
Refereed journal. Response to comments on "Warfare in Suburbia".
"Catholic Irish in the Deep South," Ecumene, Vol. 13, December 1981, pp. 42-49.
Non-refereed, geography journal. Uses census and documentary sources to examine the demographic and cultural impact of this lesser stream of Irish immigration.
"Antidomino," Political Geography Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1982; pp. 57-64.
First issue of refereed journal which has become the most cited in the discipline. Traces the origins and evolution of "domino theory" and its geopolitical ramifications, dismissing it on theoretical and historic grounds.
"A Geographical Analysis of Guerrilla Warfare," Political Geography Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1983, pp. 139-150.
Refereed journal. Empirical evaluation of the geographical military balance between guerrillas and regulars.
"Terrain and the Effectiveness of Guerrillas" (S. Rezendes and P. O'Sullivan), Papers & Proceedings of Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 9, 1986; pp. 234-239.
Non- refereed proceedings of nationwide annual conference. Statistical analysis of guerrilla success or failure related to terrain and geopolitical variables.
"Military Analysis of Urban Terrain" (J. Quick and P. O'Sullivan) The Professional Geographer 38(3), 1986 pp. 286-290.
Refereed journal. Empirical test of U.S. military doctrine's read on varieties of urban terrain, involving estimation of characteristic line-of-sight distance.
"A Theory of Revolutionary War," Papers and Proceedings Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 11, 1988, pp. 140-145.
Non-refereed proceedings of nationwide, annual conference. Uses Boulding's loss-of-strength gradient to generate geostrategies for insurgents and the incumbents.
"Irish American Geography," Eire Ireland, Fall 1988, pp. 87-93.
Non-refereed, quarterly, interdisciplinary, leading American journal of Irish studies. Empirical analysis of the geographical distribution of Catholic Irish-Americans.
"Revolutionary Warfare," Occasional Papers Institute for the Study of Geopolitics, 1989, Valdosta State College.
Non-refereed publication of funded Institute at Valdosta State. Extends discussion from geography of insurgency to the geopolitics of revolution.
"War in Cities," Papers and Proceedings Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 13, 1990, pp. 255-262.
Non- refereed proceeding of nationwide, annual conference. Looks at prospect of urban warfare in post Cold War era, focussing on Third World cities.
"On Place and Being," Geographical Perspectives 63, Spring 1992, pp. 1-12.
Non-refereed journal. Critique of post-modern discourse on "place" stemming from an interpertation of Heidegger's "Zur Seinsfrage".
"The Displacement of Identity," Political Geography, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1994, pp. 270-278
Refereed, leading journal in political geography, formerly PG Quarterly. Discussion of national identity and territoriality, using the Irish case as an instance of some separation of nationality, geography and politics.
"Geopolitical Force Fields" Geographical Analysis, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1995, 6 pp.
Refereed journal of leading outlet for analytic, theorising. Entropy-maximizing derivation of spheres of influence model of geopolitical relations, applied to case of post Cold War Central Asia.
"World Trade in the 1990s" P. O'Sullivan and A. McNelly, Geography, Vol. 81, No. 352, July 1996, pp. 275-278.
Refereed journal of the British Geographical Association. Empirical representation of the geographical structures of international trade in the post Cold War world with commentary.
"Dominoes or Dice: On the Geography of Political
Violence," The Journal of Conflict Studies, Fall 1996,(in press), (see
letter). pp. 97-108.
book manuscript: The Geography of War under revision.
A Transport Study of the Ford Motor Company Plant at Dagenham, (with Sealy, Britton and Starkie), Report to the Ministry of Transport and SE Planning Council, 1966.
Proceedings of PTRC Seminar on Trip End Estimation, which included own papers "Introduction to Current Research" and "Review of Some Estimating Equations Derived from Traffic Surveys in the UK," Planning and Transport Research and Computation Co., Ltd. London.
Baseline Energy Consumption Forecasts for Transportation: A Review and Evaluation (with Koppelman and Collum), prepared for Argonne National Laboratory, 1976.
London School of Economics, Department of Geography, Discussion Papers:
1. "Transport Networks and Socioeconomic
Change"
2. "Transport Networks and the Spatial
Structure of the Irish Economy"
3. "Regression Analysis of Rail Freight
Movements in the Republic of Ireland"
12. "The Journey to Work between Local
Authorities on Merseyside from 1921 to 1966" (with M. Rahmatullah)
28. "An Analysis of Irish Interregional
Freight Flows"
PAPERS READ AT CONFERENCES, ETC.:
"Regional Freight Traffic Generation in GB," Universities Transport Study Group, Sheffield, December 1969.
"Alternative Models for Interregional Freight Distribution," Universities Transport Study Group, Cranfield, December 1970.
"Freight Flows in GB," Institute of British Geographers, Brighton, January 1971.
"Forecasting the Demand for Interregional Freight in GB," Midcontinent Regional Association, Bloomington, Indiana, Easter, 1972.
"Flows in Networks: The Demand for Transport," Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, Georgia, 1973.
"Economic Evaluation of Urban Road Schemes," Midcontinent
Regional Science Association, Bowling Green, May 1976.
"Dividing a Transport Network into Regions," West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, Waterloo, Iowa, October 1976.
"In Search of Geographical Structure in Transport Networks," Association of American Geographers, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 1977.
"The Accuracy and Structure of Distance Cognition," West Lakes Division of Association of American Geographers, Valparaiso, Indiana, October 1977.
"Distance Estimation, Spatial Ability and Geographic Bias" and "Sensitivity to Distance and Choice of Destinations," Southeastern Division of Association of American Geographers, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 1977.
"An Empirical Investigation of Network Changes, Structures and Flows," Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1978.
"Geographical Decomposition for Transport Systems Planning," Southeast Society for General Systems Research, Tallahassee, Florida, April 1978.
"Transport and the Human Geography of Ireland" and "Transport Network Planning in the Face of Ignorance," presented to the Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 15-16, 1978.
"Transport Network Planning Under Ignorance," Southeastern Division of Association of American Geographers, Athens, Georgia, November 1978.
"The Significance of Interstates in the South," and "Baseline Energy Forecasts for Transport," Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1979.
"Warfare in Suburbia," Association of American Geographers, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1980.
"Geography of Warfare" and "Catholic Irish in the South" presentations to the Geography Club and Geography Graduate Seminar in University College Cork, Nov. 1980.
"A Geographical Analysis of Guerrilla Warfare" Southeastern Division of Association of American Geographers, Atlanta, Georgia, November 1981.
“Antidomino” Association of American Geographers, San Antonio, Texas, April 1982.
"Geography, Economics and Government" Southeastern Division of Association of American Geographers, Memphis, Tennessee, November 1982.
"Guerrilla Warfare" Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado, April 1983.
"Power and Distance" Association of American Geographers, Washington DC, April 1984.
"Urban Terrain" Applied Geography Conference, Tallahassee, November 1984.
"Terrain and Guerrillas" Applied Geography Conference, West Point, November 1986.
"The Geography of Revolution," Applied Geography Conference, St. Paul, November 1988.
"On Place and Being," Southeastern Division AAG, Mobile, November 1988.
"Strategy and Tactics of the British Army and IRA," Association of American Geographers, Toronto, April 1990
"War in Cities," Applied Geography Conference, Charlotte, October 1990.
"Terrain and Tactics," Lancaster University, England, October 1992.
"On Place and Being," University College Galway, Ireland, November 1992.
"The Geography of Warfare," Durham University, England, November 1992.
"The Geography of Political Violence," Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 1995.
"The Geography of Warfare" invited opening address to Conference Irish Geographers, Galway Ireland, May 1996.
Attended IGU World Political Map Conference, Maynooth
and Belfast, Ireland, August 1998.