Espaço, tempo e preço dos transportes: a utilização da rede ferroviária em finais do século XIX

In the nineteenth century with the construction of channels and the introduction of rail-ways, the relationship between space and transport costs was changing. This evolution, according to the liberal assumptions, should be at the origin of equal market access conditions. To understand the contribution of railways to the construction of the domestic market, in late nineteenth century Portugal, we have a survey resulting from the answers of the Municipalities. Treatment of this survey is done in this article using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) witch allows us to present the problem under a different light