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The history of transport is largely one of technological innovation. Advances in technology have allowed people to travel farther, explore more territory, and expand their influence over increasingly larger areas. Even in ancient times, new tools such as foot coverings, skis, and snowshoes lengthened the distances that could be traveled.
The first forms of road transport were pack animals carrying goods over tracks that often followed game trails, such as the Natchez Trace. [1] In the Paleolithic Age, humans did not need constructed tracks in open country.
On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-8103-8396-8. Berger, Michael L. The automobile in American history and culture: a reference guide (Greenwood, 2001). Condit, Carl W. The railroad and the city: a technological and urbanistic history of Cincinnati (The Ohio State University Press, 1977) online.
2009-06-12 20:42 DavidLevinson 1240×1753× (4726318 bytes) Fundamentals of Transportation wikibook in .pdf format, June 10, 2009 version; 2008-07-23 18:02 DavidLevinson 1239×1650× (1394112 bytes) Fundamentals of Transportation wikibook combined into a single .pdf as of July 23, 2008 (will be periodically updated).
In the 2009 book, Trucking country: The road to America's Walmart economy, author Shane Hamilton explores the history of trucking and how developments in the trucking industry helped the so-called big-box stores (such as Walmart or Target) dominate the retail sector of the U.S. economy. [26]
This book covers the functional design of roads and highways including such things as the layout of intersections, horizontal curves, and vertical curves. Standard Specifications for Transportation Materials and Methods of Sampling and Testing. AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. This manual is the base bridge design manual that all DOTs ...
History of transportation in Washington (state) (3 C, 13 P) Pages in category "History of transportation in the United States" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
History of rail transportation in California; John S. Casement; Central Pacific Railroad; List of Union Pacific Railroad civil engineers 1863 to 1869; History of railroads in Colorado; Commercial Historic District (Potlatch, Idaho) Confederate railroads in the American Civil War; Credit Foncier of America; Crédit Mobilier scandal