TRANSPORTATION AND WORLD DEVELOPMENT

Advances in transport technology, aided by global communications, have reduced the time and distance separating the rich countries from the poor and have created an increasingly interdependent planet. But vast areas of the developing world remain isolated and immobile, their output and incomes minimal, their basic needs unmet, and their potential as producers and consumers unrealized. A world half immobilized and disconnected from the economic mainstream stands little chance of being adequately fed and supplied as billions of additional people come to inhabit the earth. The economic fortunes of all nations are now inextricably bound, and levels of living for all peoples will depend on extending the transportation system that is a prerequisite of progress in other sectors. Transportation is not the only ingredient of economic development, but without it little else can succeed in modernizing agriculture, promoting industry and responding to the further growth of urbanization. A collaborative international effort is required to design the strategy and to organize and finance an accelerated effort to complete the global transportation system and further economic development objectives. (Author/TRRL)

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  Rivista Internazionale Di Economica Dei Transporti

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• Authors:
  • Owen, W
• Publication Date: 1984-8

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 123-133
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Transport Economics
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue Number: 2/3
  • ISSN: 0391-8440
  • Serial URL: http://www.libraweb.net/riviste.php?chiave=67

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Administration; Communications; Cooperation; Developing countries; Development; Economic development; Economics; Financing; History; International; International compacts; Technological innovations; Transportation
• ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 9098: Communication; 150: Developing countries; 9013: Development; 255: Economics; 244: Financing; 741: Goods traffic; 9096: History; 9108: Improvement; 1121: Intermodal transport (freight); 9034: International; 173: Policy; 744: Public transport; 1155: Transport
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Finance; History; Planning and Forecasting; Society; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00394598
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1985 12:00AM