Inter-modal network externalities and transport development: Evidence from roads, canals, and ports during the English industrial revolution

Networks and Spatial Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-338

  Bogart, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

British transport; Industrial Revolution; Inter modal network externalities

Indexed keywords

BRITISH TRANSPORT; INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS; NETWORK EXTERNALITY; PORT INFRASTRUCTURE; ROAD DEVELOPMENT; ROAD IMPROVEMENT; TIME-SERIES DATA; TRANSPORT MODES;

CANALS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; INDUSTRY; ROADS AND STREETS;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 70449534115     PISSN: 1566113X     EISSN: 15729427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11067-008-9060-0     Document Type: Article

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