History of road transport
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Main category: History of road transport
Antiquity
[edit]Early
[edit]Main category: Ancient Roman roads
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Via di Porta Rosa, Velia, Italy
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Puente Romano , Mérida, Spain. With an overall length of 792 m and still in use, is the largest surviving Roman bridge
Late
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Roman Empire 125 roads map
Middle Ages
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Horse collars and cart between 1350 and 1375
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Pont du Diable completed 1351
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Pont Grand completed 1583
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Pont de Nyons
17th century
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Prior to 1625
18th century
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The Iron Bridge, Shropshire, the first bridge built entirely from cast iron
19th century
[edit]Main category: Road transport in the 19th century
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The "Elektromote", the world's first trolleybus,
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1871
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An overview of available travel methods; a German lithograph, 1888
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Kuruma zukushi / Melange of vehicles. Japanese print shows various forms of transportation employed by people, including a train, horse-drawn carriage, horse-drawn trolley, rickshaw, bicycle, hand-drawn carts. Man drawing water from a well, woman with child on back walking. 1889
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People are using various modes of transport, some in carriages running on steam. Engraving.
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Philadelphia, 1897
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Chicago-Loop-1900
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California cycleway, 1900
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20th century
[edit]Main category: Road transport in the 20th century
Early
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1909
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1921
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1922
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1914
Late
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History of buses
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A double-deck trolleybus in Reading, England, 1966
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Cars per 1000 Inhabitants 1960 - 2000 Houston San Francisco Sydney Chicago Los Angeles Pheonix Munich Zurich Toronto Brussels New York Stockholm Vienna London Copenhagen
21st century
[edit]Main category: Road transport in the 21st century
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Police in Bremen on w:Segways
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w:Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit train at Metro Trans 2018
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w:de:Roller Buggy (2005)
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The Trikke works by shifting body weight
Future
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1831 cartoon predicting the future
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“Ein Reisehotel” in the year 2000. Germany, 1898 or earlier
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“Wüstenschiff”, Germany, 1931 (“… kann 300 Passagiere mit höchstem Comfort durch die entlegensten Wüsten und Landstriche bringen. Wasser, Nahrungsmittel und Betriebsstoff kann das Fahrzeug auf Monate mit sich führen”.)