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Zusatztext 'This set of essays should provoke much quiet contemplation of the rail-road issues of the 20th century.' Railway and Canal History Society Informationen zum Autor Ralf Roth is Professor of Modern History at the Historisches Seminar! Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität! Frankfurt! Germany. Colin Divall is Professor of Railway Studies at the University of York. Zusammenfassung Rail transport did not vanish in the twentieth century any more than road transport vanished in the nineteenth with the appearance of the railways. This book examines how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport, and exploring the degree to which railways depended on road transportation at different times and places. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; I: Rails and Roads Between Competition and Interdependency; 1: Rails and Roads Between Competition and Interdependency; 2: Shaping British Freight Transport in the Interwar Period; 3: Conceiving Distribution in the United Kingdom; 4: Railway Containers in the United Kingdom and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s; 5: The Sea Container Revolution and Road-Rail Competition in Britain; 6: Trucking in Germany; 7: Road-Rail Competition in France in the 1930s:; 8: Containerisation in the United States During the Interwar Period; II: Mobility on Roads; 9: Creative Destruction? A Schumpeterian View of Innovation in Car Transportation; 10: Inventing the American Road; 11: The Development of the European Highway Network; 12: Motorways and the Modernisation of Britain's Road Network, 1937–70; 13: The Metamorphosis of Public Transport Services in the Paris Region; 14: Rails in the Car Kingdom; 15: The City and the Autobahn 1926–56
