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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.
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.
This includes all aspects of transportation, including the movement of goods and the purchase of all transportation-related products and services as well as the movement of people". [70] Employment in the transportation and material moving industry accounted for 7.4% of all employment, and was the 5th largest employment group in the United States.
On Thursday, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited the town of East Palestine, Ohio, for some much-needed damage control. The catastrophic 3 February derailment of a nearby train ...
The alignments are still partially used today, for instance, parts of England's A1. Before the 13th century, there were no organized networks of streets inside cities, merely shifting footpaths. With the invention of the horse harness and wagons with swivelled front axles that could make tight turns, urban street networks stabilized. [14]
In Pontiac, a new museum is opening to tell 170 years of automotive history. It has more than 70 vehicles and interactive exhibits. Pontiac Transportation Museum opens Saturday with vintage cars ...
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]
History of Transportation in the United States before 1860 (1917). pp 366–72 online Archived January 10, 2016, at the Wayback Machine; 698pp; Encyclopedic coverage; railroads by state pp 319–550; Google edition; Miner, Craig.