Bibliogr. en fin de chapitre. Notes bibliogr.. Index

Introduction: From rails to roads and back again / Colin Divall and Ralf Roth Part I. Rails and roads between competition and interdependency Rails and roads between competition and interdependency : a long and winding relationship with many innovations that failed / Ralf Roth Shaping British freight transport in the interwar period : failure of foresight or administration, 1919-1934? / Roy Edwards Conceiving distribution in the United Kingdom : the (London and) North Eastern Railway's discursive response to road haulage, 1921-1939 / Colin Divall Railway containers in the United Kingdom and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s / Keith Harcourt The sea container revolution and road-rail competition in Britain : a preliminary assessment of freightliner / Terry Gourvish Trucking in Germany : rise and restricted growth, 1900-1938 / Richard Vahrenkamp Road-rail competition in France in the 1930s : from a railway perspective / Bruno Carrière Containerisation in the United States during the interwar period / Albert J. Churella Part II. Mobility on roads : an innovative success story of the twentieth century... but rail survived Creative destruction? : a Schumpeterian view of innovation in car transportation / Reiner Flik Inventing the American road : innovations shaping the American freeway / Bruce E. Seely The development of the European highway network : a literature survey of studies on highway history in European countries / Reiner Ruppmann Motorways and the modernisation of Britain's road network, 1937-1970 / Peter Merriman The metamorphosis of public transport services in the Paris region : the modal and moral victory of "automobilism" in the 1920s and 1930s / Mathieu Flonneau Rails in the car kingdom : competition, changes and continuity in urban mobility : the case of Turin, 1914-1973 / Massimo Moraglio The city and the Autobahn : how Frankfurt on main promoted road traffic and realised an old dream, 1926-1956 / Reiner Ruppmann