Dr. Rodrigue’s research interests focus primarily on transportation and economics as they relate to logistics, intermodal transportation, and global freight distribution. He has published extensively on topics including maritime transport systems and logistics, global supply chains, gateways, and transport corridors. He has authored 9 books, 40 book chapters, and more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, along with numerous reports, and has delivered more than 200 conference and seminar presentations, mostly at the international level. He ranks among the top 2% of the most-cited scholars worldwide and among the top 100 in the field of transport and logistics. His co-authored paper on port regionalization and the development of port/hinterland supply chains has become one of the world’s most-cited papers on maritime transport.
His textbook, The Geography of Transport Systems, now in its sixth edition, is widely acknowledged as the world’s most-used and most-cited transportation textbook. His co-authored textbook, Port Economics, Management and Policy, was published in 2022, with a second edition released in 2026, and is regarded as the world’s most influential and frequently cited port textbook. In 2019, he received the Edward L. Ullman Award from the American Association of Geographers for outstanding contribution to the field of transport geography. In 2022, Dr. Rodrigue was appointed a Distinguished Fellow at the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study / Department of Maritime Administration, Texas A&M University.