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From rail to road and back again? : a century of transport competition and interdependency / edited by Colin Divall and Ralf Roth.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Modern economic and social history series
- Modern Economic and Social History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Transportation.
- Transportation--Europe--History--20th century.
- Transportation--United States--History--20th century.
- Railroads--History--20th century.
- Railroads.
- Motor vehicles--History--20th century.
- Motor vehicles.
- Roads--History--20th century.
- Roads.
- Competition--History--20th century.
- Competition.
- History.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Economic conditions.
- Europe--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Europe.
- United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
- United States.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2015.
- Summary:
- "In this volume, the interdependence between road and rail transport is investigated, providing a fascinating reappraisal of the complex and shifting nature of European transportation over the last hundred years. The first half the collection examines how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport. The second part focuses on road mobility, a key success story of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: From rails to roads and back again / Colin Divall and Ralf Roth
- Part I. Rails and roads between competition and interdependency
- Rails and roads between competition and interdependency : a long and winding relationship with many innovations that failed / Ralf Roth
- Shaping British freight transport in the interwar period : failure of foresight or administration, 1919-1934? / Roy Edwards
- Conceiving distribution in the United Kingdom : the (London and) North Eastern Railway's discursive response to road haulage, 1921-1939 / Colin Divall
- Rail containers in the United Kingdom and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s / Keith Harcourt
- The sea container revolution and road-rail competition in Britain : a preliminary assessment of freightliner / Terry Gourvish
- Trucking in Germany : rise and restricted growth, 1900-1938 / Richard Vahrenkamp
- Road-rail competition in France in the 1930s : from a railway perspective / Bruno Carrière
- Containerisation in the United States during the interwar period / Albert J. Churella
- Part II. Mobility on roads : an innovative success story of the twentieth century... but rail survived
- Creative destruction? : a Schumpeterian view of innovation in car transportation / Reiner Flik
- Inventing the American road : innovations shaping the American freeway / Bruce E. Seely
- The development of the European highway network : a literature survey of studies on highway history in European countries / Reiner Ruppmann
- Motorways and the modernisation of Britain's road network, 1937-1970 / Peter Merriman
- The metamorphosis of public transport services in the Paris region : the modal and moral victory of "automobilism" in the 1920s and 1930s / Mathieu Flonneau
- Rails in the car kingdom : competition, changes and continuity in urban mobility : the case of Turin, 1914-1973 / Massimo Moraglio
- The city and the Autobahn : how Frankfurt on main promoted road traffic and realised an old dream, 1926-1956 / Reiner Ruppmann.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 140944046X
- 9781409440468
- OCLC:
- 895625034
- Publisher Number:
- 99962680913
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