Inland Waterways and Long-distance Freight Traffic

D. M. Hayter and C. H. Sharp
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D. M. Hayter: University of Leicester
C. H. Sharp: University of Leicester

Chapter 21 in The Economics of Long-Distance Transportation, 1983, pp 286-302 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract It may seem surprising that a paper written in Britain and intended for an international conference should deal with inland waterways. This form of transport has been very much neglected in the UK and our canal system still consists mainly of waterways built in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. However, recent research carried out at Leicester University (Garratt et al., 1979) has suggested that there would be some advantages in using rivers and waterways to allow sea-going vessels carrying long-distance traffic to provide a direct service to inland areas. The Leicester research was based on the River Trent but some of the conclusions may be of more general application.

Keywords: Freight Transport; Road Bridge; Trade Growth; Freight Traffic; Cargo Handling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17013-5_21

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