The Motor Vehicle and the Revolution in Road Transport: The American Experience

John B. Rae

Chapter 3 in The Economic and Social Effects of the Spread of Motor Vehicles, 1987, pp 67-80 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The history of highway transport in the United States shows clearly that large-scale movement by road for medium or long distances or for heavy loads is a phenomenon of the twentieth-century. Before the coming of the railroad water transport was used by preference where it was available; after that the railroad made highway traffic almost exclusively local.

Keywords: Motor Vehicle; Road Transport; Rail Transport; Express Highway; Toll Road (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08624-5_3

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