TRANSPORTATION AND WORLD DEVELOPMENT

The intercontinental transport network in much of the world dead-ends outside the major cities, and more than half of the world's people are stranded in rural hinterlands that are disconnected from the economic mainstream. While the mobile countries are affluent, immobility and poverty characterize large numbers of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The question for world leaders and transport policy-makers is how these needs can be anticipated and appropriate efforts undertaken to hasten completion of the transportation system of the earth on which the world's development is so critically dependent.

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  • https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021808590?urlappend=%3Bseq=383
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/7938948
• Corporate Authors:

  Eno Transportation Foundation

  P.O. Box 2055, Saugatuck Station
  Westport, CT  United States  06880-0055
• Authors:
  • Owen, W
• Publication Date: 1985-7

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 365-374
• Serial:
  • Transportation Quarterly
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Eno Transportation Foundation
  • ISSN: 0278-9434

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Developing countries; Economic development; Rural areas; Transportation; Transportation policy
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00457944
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1986 12:00AM