Urban Mass Transit
eBook - PDF

Urban Mass Transit

The Life Story of a Technology

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Urban Mass Transit

The Life Story of a Technology

About this book

This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of people around. Just a few hundred years ago, the size of cities was limited by the time it took people to move from one part of the city to another. The development of successive technologies has forever altered the urban landscape. From horse-drawn omnibuses to subways to current light-rail, this volume highlights the technological and social struggles that have accompanied urbanization and the need for an efficient and cost-effective means of transportation in cities.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Series Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Chronology
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Before Electrification
  7. 2. The Trolley Ascendant
  8. 3. Competition
  9. 4. Rail or Rubber?
  10. 5. Heavy and Light Rail
  11. 6. Conclusion
  12. Afterword: But What About Judge Doom?
  13. Glossary
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index