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Zusatztext This book gives very thorough information on transportation history. Readers will find a bundle of detailed stories on the development of transportation systems in various (mostly US) cities! and on more general transport evolutions such as the decline in train ridership due to increasing car use in the middle of the 20th century! and peak car use in the present decade. To show how extensive this book is! it also has chapters on the rise and decline of telegraph andtelephone use. Informationen zum Autor William Garrison is Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. David Levinson is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Klappentext Examines the genesis of tranportation policy in the US and UK, in relation to how transportation systems are deployed and become mature. Zusammenfassung Examines the genesis of tranportation policy in the US and UK, in relation to how transportation systems are deployed and become mature. I WAVE ONE ; 1 STEAMBOAT ; 2 BIRTH OF THE RAILWAY ; 3 TURNPIKES ; II PHASE 1 OF THE LIFECYCLE ; 4 INVENTING AND INNOVATING ; III WAVE TWO ; 5 MARITIME ; 6 RAILROADS DEPLOYED ; 7 GOOD ROADS ; 8 TRANSIT ; 9 TELEGRAPH ; IV PHASE 2 OF THE LIFECYCLE ; 10 MAGIC BULLET ; V WAVE THREE: ; 11 AMERICAN SHIPPING ; 12 TAKING FLIGHT ; 13 RAILROADS REGULATED ; 14 BUSTITUTION ; 15 PUBLIC ROADS ; 16 URBAN PLANNING: WHO CONTROLS THE TURF? ; 17 TELEPHONE ; VI PHASE 3 OF THE LIFECYCLE ; 18 AGING ; VII WAVE FOUR: 1939 ; 19 LOGISTICS ; 20 THE JET AGE ; 21 RAILROADS RATIONALIZED ; 22 INTERSTATE ; 23 RECAPITALIZATION ; 24 LORD KELVIN'S CURSE ; VIII LIFECYCLE DYNAMICS ; 25 LIFECYCLE ; 26 META-CYCLES ; 27 ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT ; 28 HIGHER-SPEED RAIL ; 29 INTERNET ; 30 TECHNOLOGY: HARD AND SOFT ; X BEYOND THE LIFECYCLE ; 31 POLICY ; 32 SPECULATIONS ; XI AFTER WORDS: REECTIONS ON TRANSPORTATION EX- ; PERIENCES ; 33 I-35 W ; 34 DESIGN OF A LIFE ; 35 COMMENCEMENT ; XII END MATTER ; 36 INSTITUTIONS ; 37 ENDNOTES ...
