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Gkoumas, Konstantinos, and Anastasios Tsakalidis. "A framework for the taxonomy and assessment of new and emerging transport technologies and trends." Transport 34.4 (2019): 455–466. online; Gourvish, Terry. "What kind of railway history did we get? Forty years of research." Journal of Transport History 14.2 (1993): 111–125. Horner, Craig.
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.
Land transport is the transport or movement of people, animals or goods from one location to another location on land. This is in contrast with other main types of transport such as maritime transport and aviation. The two main forms of land transport can be considered to be rail transport and road transport.
The first goods transport was on human backs and heads, but the use of pack animals, including donkeys and horses, developed during the Neolithic Age. The first vehicle is believed to have been the travois, a frame used to drag loads, which probably developed in Eurasia after the first use of bullocks (castrated cattle) for pulling plows.
Water transport grew rapidly in the new century, due in part to technical development under Robert Fulton's steamboat monopoly. [citation needed] Steamboats provided rapid, reliable connections from New York Harbor to other Hudson River and coastal ports, and later local steam ferries allowed commuters to live far from their workplaces. [5]
Rail transport: Heritage railways • Tram and light-rail transit systems • Melbourne tram routes • Metro systems (subways) • London Underground stations • Closed London Underground stations • Melbourne railway stations • Closed Melbourne railway stations • Named passenger trains • UK railway stations
Before 1900, most freight transported over land was carried by trains using railroads. Trains were highly efficient at moving large amounts of freight, but could only deliver that freight to centralized urban centers for distribution by horse-drawn transport. The few trucks that existed at the time were mostly novelties, appreciated more for ...
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