Mode
Road Transport
Also Known As Road Transportation
Road Mode
The movement of people and goods by vehicle over a prepared surfaced way. Roads long predate the automobile, from ancient trackways to the paved networks of Rome and Persia, but this entry covers the engineered road surface and the modern road vehicle era it enabled, unconstrained by fixed track and dependent on point to point routing rather than a shared schedule. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Facts
Core ConcernPoint to point movement over a shared, unscheduled surfaced network. 1 Origin YearThe Sweet Track in Somerset, England, built in 3807 or 3806 BC and precisely dated by dendrochronology, is among the oldest engineered trackways yet discovered. Informal paths and trails for transport on foot and with pack animals predate any constructed roadway by an unknown margin. Connections
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Source Wikipedia: Great Ocean Road
Open Questions
Source Wikipedia: Silk Road
Pioneered By
Source Wikipedia: John Loudon McAdam
Sources
1. Wikipedia: John Loudon McAdam
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John Loudon McAdam (23 September 1756 - 26 November 1836) was a Scottish civil engineer and road-builder.
- Pioneered By: John Loudon McAdam
View the Source 2. Sweet Track (Wikipedia)
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Built in 3807 or 3806 BC, the track was a walkway consisting mainly of planks of oak laid end-to-end, supported by crossed pegs of ash, oak, and lime, driven into the underlying peat.
View the Source Road Transport (Wikipedia)
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Road transport or road transportation is a type of transport using roads.
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- Open Questions: Which civilization first built engineered, standardized long distance roads: Persia, Rome, or an earlier network?, Overview
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Congestion Pricing (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation)Has Part: Congestion PricingView the Source Wikipedia: Roman Roads
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The public road system of the Romans was thoroughly military in its aims and spirit...designed to unite and consolidate the conquests
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Carries A5 (London to Holyhead)
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Wikipedia: Right-of-way (Transportation)
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Rights-of-way in the physical sense include controlled-access highways, railroads, canals, hiking paths, bridle paths for horses, bicycle paths, the routes taken by high-voltage lines (also known as wayleave), utility tunnels, or simply the paved or unpaved local roads used by different types of traffic.
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Carriers were very common in rural areas prior to motorised transport. Regular services by horse-drawn vehicles would ply to local towns, taking goods to market or bringing back purchases for the village.
View the Source Wikipedia: Great Ocean Road
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The Great Ocean Road is an Australian National Heritage-listed 240-kilometre (150 mi) stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia, between the Victorian towns of Torquay and Allansford.
View the Source Wikipedia: California State Route 1
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State Route 1 (SR 1) is a major north-south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S.
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owns and operates three regional transportation assets in the San Francisco Bay Area
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responsible for the management of much of New York City
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and their respective bridges between the islands of Honshu and Shikoku
View the Source Transport for NSW (Wikipedia)
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build transport infrastructure and manage transport services in New South Wales
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responsible for national and county public roads in Norway
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operates seven toll bridges, two tunnels
View the Source Open Questions (1 open question)
Which civilization first built engineered, standardized long distance roads: Persia, Rome, or an earlier network?
The Roman road network is the most famous engineered ancient road system and the one this atlas most often names by reflex, but it was neither the first nor necessarily the most extensive. The Persian Royal Road, built under the Achaemenid Empire and described by Herodotus, predates the major Roman roads by roughly two centuries and connected Sardis to Susa with a maintained relay postal system. Earlier still, evidence exists for engineered roadways in the Indus Valley Civilization and in Bronze Age Anatolia. Which of these counts as the first depends on how strictly the road must be engineered, standardized and centrally maintained rather than simply a well used route.
What would resolve this A settled archaeological and textual consensus on the earliest confirmed centrally engineered and maintained long distance road network, which current evidence does not yet provide with confidence beyond the Persian Royal Road as the earliest well documented case.
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