The Political Economy of Transport Innovations

Eran Feitelson and Ilan Salomon
Additional contact information
Eran Feitelson: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ilan Salomon: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Chapter 2 in Transport Developments and Innovations in an Evolving World, 2004, pp 11-26 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Many transportation and telecommunication innovations were proposed over the course of the last century. They include new technologies, new ways of organization and new ways to manage these systems. Overall, the innovations that were adopted have changed the way we conduct our affairs, as the cost and effort associated with overcoming distance plummeted. Yet, many additional options were proposed, but never adopted, or were adopted only in a very limited and modified form. In some cases, innovations were first adopted and later abandoned. These observations raise the question: Why have certain innovations been adopted while others have not?

Keywords: Traffic Congestion; Central Business District; Rail System; Rail Transit; Road Price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-540-24827-9_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783540248279

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24827-9_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Advances in Spatial Science from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().