Excerpt from The History and Economics of Transport Transport problems are not of recent or1g1n In one form or another they have ar1sen ever smee man had any goods to move from place to place, and as transport has become more completely organlsed they have provoked 1ncreasmg controversy Nor can 1t be sald that then solutlon has never been att empted In the rallway perlod alone Parllament and traders have g1ven much tlme to the1r eluc1dat10n But 1t 1s only 1n recent years that they have been systematlcally studled The new ...
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Excerpt from The History and Economics of Transport Transport problems are not of recent or1g1n In one form or another they have ar1sen ever smee man had any goods to move from place to place, and as transport has become more completely organlsed they have provoked 1ncreasmg controversy Nor can 1t be sald that then solutlon has never been att empted In the rallway perlod alone Parllament and traders have g1ven much tlme to the1r eluc1dat10n But 1t 1s only 1n recent years that they have been systematlcally studled The new Umversnles and Schools of Economlcs havmg 1ncluded the subject of transport m the curr1c ulurn for then commerce degrees, 1t has come to be treated as a branch of econormcs deservmg of accurate, selentlfic 1nqu1ry and study The mm of th1s volume 18 to assmt th1s study, and conse quently much that has been wntten IS elementary There 18 also much that, necessanly, IS sketchy, because, W1th a subject so comprehenswe, 1t has been found 1mp0551ble to deal ln deta1l th every branch to have done so would have requlred several volumes There IS much also that, 1nev1tably, touches controversml ground Where thls IS so an attempt has been made to present both s1des of the questlon as falrly and as adequately as poss1ble But whlle the prlmary mm has been to produce a text-book for the student, the authors hope that 1t Wlll be found mterestlng to the general reader, partlcularly to the busmess man whose dally affa1rs btmg h1m 1nto close contact w1th the problems of transport. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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