Urban transit development in Europe and the United States. 1850-1914. This paper examines the growth of urban public transit with special reference to technological innovation, adaptation, and diffusion. Analyzing why the United States took the lead in exploiting the possibilities of horse-drawn street railways to 1880, the author investigates extensive European and American efforts to substitute mechanical traction for inadequate animate power and the eventual breakthrough in the United States to a radically superior system using overhead electric wires in 1888. Contrasting the very rapid acceptance of this major innovation in the United States with slower diffusion in Europe and an accompanying search for technical modifications, the a...
Using electricity in railway operation became a real option towards the end of the nineteenth centur...
Abstract This introduction corresponds in parts to the synthesis given at the International Congress...
The aim of this paper is to test the common idea that the railway network deeply modified the french...
From horse to tram'. The mechanization of urban transports. 1850-1900. At the verge of the 19th cen...
[Abstract]: The electrification of trams has been one of the most significant changes in urban trans...
Abstract The predominating technical system based on steam power was no better able to promote a col...
Urban mobility and public transportation. Paris, 1855-1914. Up to the middle of the nineteenth cent...
Technological change and incremental technology, at various levels, are believed to have played an ...
Today, electric railways have wide diffusion and promise to expand much more in the coming years due...
Whether the present generation had discovered the ultimate force in nature most applicable to the s...
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Technical Reference Centerhttps://doi.org/10.21949/152...
In the 19th C, the towns in Alsace and Lorraine grew rapidly, as elsewhere in Europe, vwith the exce...
International audienceTransnational perspective at work : municipal American travellers in Europe 19...
During the second half of the 19th century transportation costs decreased sharply. Among the most n...
International audienceTrolleybuses and the European cityscape : energy choices under environmental p...
Using electricity in railway operation became a real option towards the end of the nineteenth centur...
Abstract This introduction corresponds in parts to the synthesis given at the International Congress...
The aim of this paper is to test the common idea that the railway network deeply modified the french...
From horse to tram'. The mechanization of urban transports. 1850-1900. At the verge of the 19th cen...
[Abstract]: The electrification of trams has been one of the most significant changes in urban trans...
Abstract The predominating technical system based on steam power was no better able to promote a col...
Urban mobility and public transportation. Paris, 1855-1914. Up to the middle of the nineteenth cent...
Technological change and incremental technology, at various levels, are believed to have played an ...
Today, electric railways have wide diffusion and promise to expand much more in the coming years due...
Whether the present generation had discovered the ultimate force in nature most applicable to the s...
Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Technical Reference Centerhttps://doi.org/10.21949/152...
In the 19th C, the towns in Alsace and Lorraine grew rapidly, as elsewhere in Europe, vwith the exce...
International audienceTransnational perspective at work : municipal American travellers in Europe 19...
During the second half of the 19th century transportation costs decreased sharply. Among the most n...
International audienceTrolleybuses and the European cityscape : energy choices under environmental p...
Using electricity in railway operation became a real option towards the end of the nineteenth centur...
Abstract This introduction corresponds in parts to the synthesis given at the International Congress...
The aim of this paper is to test the common idea that the railway network deeply modified the french...