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The Political Economy of Transport Innovations

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Book cover Transport Developments and Innovations in an Evolving World

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Many transportation and telecommunication innovations were proposed over the course of the last century. They include new technologies, new ways of organization and new ways to manage these systems. Overall, the innovations that were adopted have changed the way we conduct our affairs, as the cost and effort associated with overcoming distance plummeted. Yet, many additional options were proposed, but never adopted, or were adopted only in a very limited and modified form. In some cases, innovations were first adopted and later abandoned. These observations raise the question: Why have certain innovations been adopted while others have not?

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  1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Eran Feitelson & Ilan Salomon

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  1. Groupe Transport et Mobilité (GTM), Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons (FUCAM), 151, Ch. de Binche, 7000, Mons, Belgium

    Michel Beuthe

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  3. Department of Economics, Faculty of Statistics, University of Bologna, Piazza Scaravilli 2, 40126, Bologna(BO), Italy

    Aura Reggiani

  4. Department of Law, University of Lecce, Via Monteroni, snc, 73100, Lecce(LE), Italy

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Feitelson, E., Salomon, I. (2004). The Political Economy of Transport Innovations. In: Beuthe, M., Himanen, V., Reggiani, A., Zamparini, L. (eds) Transport Developments and Innovations in an Evolving World. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24827-9_2

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