Introduction

Feng Xie () and David Levinson
Additional contact information
Feng Xie: Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Chapter Chapter 1 in Evolving Transportation Networks, 2011, pp 3-5 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The world would have been radically different without canals, railways, turnpikes, and freeways. Over the last two centuries, the development of these modern transportation systems has been transformative. Evidence abounds. Dating to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when electric street railways were rapidly adopted across the developed world, people relied so extensively on streetcars for commuting and shopping that proximity to a streetcar line determined where they lived and where they worked. As a consequence, the extension of streetcar lines produced finger-shaped residential areas along these lines that featured across many North American cities.

Keywords: Transportation System; Transportation Network; Transportation Infrastructure; Transportation Planning; Network Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

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:trachp:978-1-4419-9804-0_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9781441998040

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9804-0_1

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Transportation Research, Economics and Policy from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().