800 – The streets of Baghdad are paved with tar.[citation needed]
9th century – The sine quadrant, was invented by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in the 9th century at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.[3]: 128 The other types were the universal quadrant, the horary quadrant and the astrolabe quadrant.
10th century – sea-going junk ships built in China.
1616 - The first recorded mechanical ropeway was by CroatianFausto Veranzio who designed a bicable passenger ropeway
1620 – Cornelius Drebbel builds the world's first known submarine, which is propelled by oars (although there are earlier ideas for and depictions of submarines).
1644 - Adam Wybe builds world's first cable car on multiple supports. It was the biggest built until the end of the 19th century.[9]
1655 - Stephan Farffler was a Nuremberg watchmaker of the seventeenth century whose invention of a manumotive carriage in 1655 is widely considered to have been the first self-propelled wheelchair.
1662 – Blaise Pascal invents a horse-drawn public bus which has a regular route, schedule, and fare system.
1761 - Marine chronometer invented as a means to accurately determine longitude.
1769 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot demonstrates his fardier à vapeur, an experimental steam-driven artillery tractor
1776 – First submarine to be propelled by screws, and the first military submarine to attempt an attack on a ship, Turtle, is built by David Bushnell. The attack fails to sink HMS Eagle.
1812 – First commercially successful self-propelled engine on land was Matthew Murray's Salamanca on Middleton Railway using toothed wheels and rail.
1812 – Timothy Hackworth's "Puffing Billy" ran on smooth Cast Iron Rails at Wylam Colliery near Newcastle
1814 – George Stephenson built the first practical steam-powered railway locomotive "Blutcher" at Killingworth Colliery.[16]
1816 – The most likely originator of the Bicycle is the German, Baron Karl von Drais, who rode his 1816 machine while collecting taxes from his tenants.
1822 – Stephenson built a locomotive and designed the railway for Hetton Colliery which is first railway not to use any horse-traction but it did have several rope hauled sections.
1822 – First Meeting of Liverpool Manchester Railway Company Permanent Committee.[17]
1825 - Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1 runs on Stockton & Darlington Railway which opens as first public railway and uses horses and self-propelled steam engines and stationary engines with ropes along a single track. No stations and no timetables as anyone could hire the track to use their own vehicle on it.[18]
1826 – Bill passed for Liverpool and Manchester Railway at second attempt and George Stephenson commences work on 35-mile twin track line permitting simultaneous travel in both directions between the 2 towns. Means of traction not specified to reduce opposition.[19]
1829 – Rainhill Trials to find best self-propelled engine for Liverpool Manchester line are won by Robert Stephenson's Rocket proving there is no need for horse traction or static engines on the main line.[21]Rocket becomes basic formula for all future steam engines with boiler tubes, blast pipe, and the use of coal rather than coke.
1830 – Liverpool and Manchester Railway opens. First public transport system without animal traction, first public line with no rope hauled sections for main journey, first twin track, first railway between 2 large towns, first timetabled trains, first railway stations, first train faster than a mail coach, first tunnels under streets, first proper modern railway which formed the template for all subsequent railways.[22]
1838 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's SS Great Western, the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, inaugurates the first regular transatlantic steamship service.
1839 - An early electric boat was developed by the German inventor Moritz von Jacobi in 1839 in St Petersburg, Russia. It was a 24-foot (7.3 m) boat which carried 14 passengers at 3 miles per hour (4.8 km/h). It was successfully demonstrated to Emperor Nicholas I of Russia on the Neva River.
1840s – Railway Mania sweeps UK and Ireland. 6,220 miles (10,010 km) of railway line were built
1882 - The trolleybus dates back to 29 April 1882, when Dr. Ernst Werner Siemens demonstrated his "Elektromote" in a Berlin suburb. This experiment continued until 13 June 1882
1888 - Flocken Elektrowagen built by German inventor Andreas Flocken, the first true electric car.
1889 - The first interurbantram-train to emerge in the United States was the Newark and Granville Street Railway in Ohio, which opened in 1889.
1889 - First introduced in 1889, battery vehiclesmilk floats expanded use in 1931 and by 1967 gave Britain the largest electric vehicle fleet in the world.
1890s – Bike boom sweeps Europe and America with hundreds of bicycle manufacturers in the biggest bicycle craze to date
1895 - First motorbus. The first internal combustion omnibus of 1895 (Siegen to Netphen) In Siegerland, Germany, two passenger bus lines ran briefly, but unprofitably, in 1895 using a six-passenger motor carriage developed from the 1893 Benz Viktoria.[34]
first diesel motorship was also the first diesel–electric ship, the Russian tanker Vandal from Branobel, which was launched in 1903
1904 - The first non-experimental trolleybus system was a seasonal municipal line installed near Nantasket Beach in 1904; the first year-round commercial line was built to open a hilly property to development just outside Los Angeles in 1910.
1908 - the Kohlerer-funicular went into service in Bolzano. It was the first modern (enclosed) cable car in the world to carry passengers.
1908 – First mass-produced automobile- Henry Ford develops the assembly line method of automobile manufacturing with the introduction of the Ford Model T.
1924 - The world's first functional diesel locomotive (diesel-electric locomotive) (Eel2 original number Юэ 001/Yu-e 001) started operations, designed by a team led by Yuri Lomonosov and built 1923–1924 by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen in Germany.
A 0 series Shinkansen high-speed rail set in Tokyo, May 1967Concorde 001 first flight in 1969Space shuttle launchC5 enthusiasts gather at the Brooklands MuseumFirst fully low floor tram in Bremen
1976 – Concorde makes the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight.
1977 – The first semi-automated car was developed in 1977, by Japan's Tsukuba Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, which required specially marked streets.
2004 - First modern urban transit aerial cable car Metrocable (Medellín).[57][58]
2008 - Tesla Roadster, first mass production lithium-ion battery electric car.
2009 - Škoda 15 T world's first completely low-floor tram with articulated bogies introduced.
2010s - Mobile apps and online platforms for finding, planning, offering and booking affordable public transport such as buses as well as carsharing, bicycle sharing and carpooling emerge and are becoming popular along with associated transportation infrastructure networks (examples: BlaBlaCar, Flixbus)[59][60]
2022 – A study estimates the air pollution impacts on climate change and the ozone layer from rocket launches and re-entry of reusable components and debris in 2019 and from a theoretical future space industry extrapolated from the "billionaire space race". It concludes that substantial effects from routine space tourism should "motivate regulation".[78][79]
2023 – A study outlines challenges of aviation decarbonization by 2050 whose identified factors mainly are future demand, continuous efficiency improvements, new short-haul engines, higher SAF (biofuel) production (including measures that affect their competitiveness and deployment), CO2 removal to compensate for non-CO2 forcing, and related policy-options. With constant air transport demand and aircraft efficiency, decarbonizing aviation would require nearly five times the 2019 worldwide biofuel production, competing with other hard-to-decarbonize sectors and land-use (or food security).[80]
2022 – The first rail line entirely run by hydrogen-powered trains debuts in Germany.[90] The state company owning the railway later switches to electric models since they are "cheaper to operate".[91] Two other hydrogen trains have been reported as of 2023: Mireo Plus H by Siemens in Germany (under development) and an urban train by the Railway Rolling Stock Corporation in China.[92]
2023 – The first test-runs of a superconducting maglev test line, called a hyperloop, are carried out in Datong, China (50 km/h of ~1,000 km/h). Hyperloop One conducted the world's first test carrying passengers in pods, reaching a speed of 172 km/h in Los Angeles in 2020, but reportedly abandoned the goal of transporting humans as of 2023.[93]
2023 – A comeback of sleeping trains in Europe is reported as demand for more comfortable travel modes than overnight buses and sustainable transport rises. A new generation of such trains is released.[94][95][96][97]
Autonomous vehicles
Milestones in autonomous sustainable / public transport vehicles are also listed in this section.
2020 - CR400BF-C 'Fuxing Hao', a variant of CR400 Fuxing series, running on Beijing–Zhangjiakou intercity railway is the world first high-speed rail service capable of driverless automation in commercial operations. The specific Grade of Automation (GoA) was not announced.[98][99]
Early 2020s - Multiple electric, autonomous buses open for public transport – albeit with a local professional driving-assistant – are being launched around the world[100][101] after the first such bus started operating for the general public in a Swiss town in 2018.[102][contradictory]
2021 – The pilot project of the "world's first automated, driverless train" is launched in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The conventional, standard-track, non-metro train technology could, according to reports, theoretically be implemented for rail transport worldwide and is reported to also be substantially more energy efficient.[103][104][contradictory]
2021 – The first autonomous cargo ship, MV Yara Birkeland is launched in Norway. The fully electric ship is expected to substantially reduce the need for truck journeys.[107]
^David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World. Princeton University Press, 2010 ISBN 1400831105 p461
^King, David A. (1987). Islamic Astronomical Instruments. London: Variorum Reprints. ISBN 0860782018.
^"Der Reiszug – Part 1 – Presentation". Funimag. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
^Kriechbaum, Reinhard (15 May 2004). "Die große Reise auf den Berg". der Tagespost (in German). Archived from the original on 28 June 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
^Smith, Richard S. (1960). "England's first rails: a reconsideration". Renaissance & Modern Studies. 4: 119–134. doi:10.1080/14735786009391434.
^New, John (2004). "400 years of English railways: Huntingdon Beaumont and the early years". Backtrack. 18: 660–5.
^Waggonway Research Circle (August 2005). "The Wollaton Wagonway of 1604: the World's first overland railway" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2012.
^"WIEBE ADAM – Encyklopedia Gdańska" (in Polish). Encyklopediagdanska.pl. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
^"1679–1681 – R P Verbiest's Steam Chariot". History of the Automobile: origin to 1900. Hergé. Retrieved 8 May 2009.
^Setright, L. J. K. (2004). Drive On!: A Social History of the Motor Car. Granta Books. ISBN 1-86207-698-7.
^Amato, Joseph (November 2004). On foot: a history of walking - Google Book Search. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814705025. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
^"History of Inline Skate – When Were Rollerblades Invented?". 16 September 2021.
^ abcC.D. Buchanan (1958). "1". Mixed Blessing: The Motor in Britain. Leonard Hill.
^Smiles, Samuel (1906). Lives of the engineers: Work of James Brindley; John Smeaton; John Rennie; Thomas Telford; George Stephenson; Robert Stephenson and others. UK: The Folio Society. p. 256. ISBN 0-7153-4279-7.
^Thomas, RHG (1980). The Liverpool and Manchester Railway. UK: BT Batsford Ltd. p. 15. ISBN 0713405376.
^Smiles, Samuel (2006). The Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The Folio Society. pp. 268–270. ISBN 0-7153-4279-7.
^Carlson, Robert (1969). The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Project. UK: David and Charles :Newton Abbot. p. 179. ISBN 0-7153-4646-6.
^Thomas, RHG (1980). The Liverpool and Manchester Railway. UK: BT Batsford Ltd. p. 95. ISBN 07134-05376.
^Thomas, RHG (1980). The Liverpool and Manchester Railway. UK: BT Batsford Ltd. p. 75. ISBN 07134-05376.
^Carlson, Robert (1969). The Liverpool and Manchester Railway Project 1821–1831. Newton Abbot: David and Charles. pp. 11–16. ISBN 0-7153-4646-6.
^Falco, Charles M.; Guggenheim Museum Staff (1998), "Issues in the Evolution of the Motorcycle", in Krens, Thomas; Drutt, Matthew (eds.), The Art of the Motorcycle, Harry N. Abrams, pp. 24–31, 98–101, ISBN 0-89207-207-5
Suriray, "Perfectionnements dans les vélocipèdes" (Improvements in bicycles), French patent no. 86,680, issued: 2 August 1869, Bulletin des lois de la République française (1873), series 12, vol. 6, page 647.
Louis Baudry de Saunier, Histoire générale de la vélocipédie [General history of cycling] (Paris, France: Paul Ollendorff, 1891), pages 62–63.
^C. N. Pyrgidis. Railway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation. CRC Press, 2016. P. 156
^Ye. N. Petrova. St. Petersburg in Focus: Photographers of the Turn of the Century; in Celebration of the Tercentenary of St. Petersburg. Palace Ed., 2003. P. 12
^"Benz Patent Motor Car: The first automobile (1885–1886)". Daimler. Archived from the original on 21 October 2018.
^Johnston, Ben (12–15 September 2010). "Battery Rail Vehicles". railknowledgebank.com. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
^Wolmar, Christian (2005) [2004]. The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How It. Atlantic Books. p. 4. ISBN 1-84354-023-1.
^Al-Khatib, Talal (5 December 2011). "Parasailing: What You Need to Know Before You Go".
^"Runcorn New Town - 7.3 Transport". rudi.net. Archived from the original on 18 October 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
^"Bus Priority Systems (Bus Rapid Transit) - Special Feature On Kerb Guided Buses (O-Bahn)". citytransport.info.
^Henshaw, David (1 June 2004). "Honda Step-Compo". A to B Magazine.
^"The Ultracapbus - VAG Nürnberg - Öffentlicher Personennahverkehr in Nürnberg". Vag.de. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
^Stefan Kerschl, Eberhard Hipp, Gerald Lexen: Effizienter Hybridantrieb mit Ultracaps für Stadtbusse Archived 11 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine 14. Aachener Kolloquium Fahrzeug- und Motorentechnik 2005 (German)
^"Concorde's last flight: Is this the greatest aviation photograph of all time?". 25 November 2018.
^M. Fröhlich, M. Klohr, St. Pagiela: Energy Storage System with UltraCaps on Board of Railway Vehicles Archived 11 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine In: Proceedings - 8th World Congress on Railway Research Mai 2008, Soul, Korea
^Kono, Y.; Shiraki, N.; Yokoyama, H.; Furuta, R. (2014). "Catenary and storage battery hybrid system for electric railcar series EV-E301". 2014 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-Hiroshima 2014 - ECCE ASIA). pp. 2120–2125. doi:10.1109/IPEC.2014.6869881. ISBN 978-1-4799-2705-0. S2CID 22030223.
^"Probably the world's fastest train". TheGuardian.com. 15 January 2004.
^Macguire, Eoghan (13 September 2013). "Skypods: Are gondolas the next big thing in urban transport? | CNN Business". CNN.
^"Billiganbieter erobern den Fernreisemarkt". Retrieved 25 August 2021.
^Guihéry, Laurent (15 November 2019). "Long Distance Coach Services in France and Germany: the new European competition between Flixbus and BlaBlaBus". Rivista di Economia e Politica dei Trasporti. 1 (2019). Retrieved 25 August 2021.
^"China Presents the World's First Hydrogen-Fueled Tram". 21 March 2015.
^"China Develops World's First Hydrogen-Powered Tram". IFLScience. 24 March 2015.
^"Navya: First Autonomous Shuttle Service Launched in Israel". Bloomberg.com. 18 January 2021.
^Connolly, Kate (23 September 2018). "Germany launches world's first autonomous tram in Potsdam". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
^"MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts". 21 November 2018.
^"Hydrogen fuel cell train to enter service". NHK World - Japan. 16 September 2018. Archived from the original on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
^"JD.com, Meituan and Neolix to test autonomous deliveries on Beijing public roads". TechCrunch. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
^Hawkins, Andrew J. (22 July 2020). "Waymo is designing a self-driving Ram delivery van with FCA". The Verge. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
^"Arrival's delivery van demos its autonomous chops at a UK parcel depot". New Atlas. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
^Buss, Dale. "Walmart Presses Its Distribution Legacy To Lead In Automated Delivery". Forbes. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
^Cooley, Patrick; Dispatch, The Columbus. "Grubhub testing delivery robots". techxplore.com. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
^"Self-driving delivery van ditches 'human controls'". BBC News. 6 February 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
^Krok, Andrew. "Nuro's self-driving delivery van wants to run errands for you". CNET. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
^"Changes in transport behaviour during the Covid-19 crisis – Analysis". IEA. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
^Liu, Zhu; Ciais, Philippe; Deng; Schellnhuber, Hans; et al. (14 October 2020). "Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 5172. Bibcode:2020NatCo..11.5172L. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18922-7. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 7560733. PMID 33057164.
^Gössling, Stefan; Kees, Jessica; Litman, Todd (1 April 2022). "The lifetime cost of driving a car". Ecological Economics. 194: 107335. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107335. ISSN 0921-8009. S2CID 246059536.
^"Space tourism from companies like SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin could undo work to repair ozone layer, study finds". Sky News. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^Ryan, Robert G.; Marais, Eloise A.; Balhatchet, Chloe J.; Eastham, Sebastian D. (June 2022). "Impact of Rocket Launch and Space Debris Air Pollutant Emissions on Stratospheric Ozone and Global Climate". Earth's Future. 10 (6): e2021EF002612. Bibcode:2022EaFut..1002612R. doi:10.1029/2021EF002612. ISSN 2328-4277. PMC 9287058. PMID 35865359.
^Bergero, Candelaria; et al. (30 January 2023). "Pathways to net-zero emissions from aviation". Nature Sustainability. 6 (4): 404–414. doi:10.1038/s41893-022-01046-9. S2CID 256449498.
^Walker, Peter (8 March 2024). "Health gains of low-traffic schemes up to 100 times greater than costs, study finds". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 May 2024.
^Aldred, Rachel; Goodman, Anna; Woodcock, James (March 2024). "Impacts of active travel interventions on travel behaviour and health: Results from a five-year longitudinal travel survey in Outer London". Journal of Transport & Health. 35: 101771. Bibcode:2024JTHea..3501771A. doi:10.1016/j.jth.2024.101771. ISSN 2214-1405.
^"As some countries spurn cars, the U.S. continues to embrace highways". NBC News. 30 March 2024.
^Miner, Patrick; Smith, Barbara M.; Jani, Anant; McNeill, Geraldine; Gathorne-Hardy, Alfred (February 2024). "Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment". Journal of Transport Geography. 115: 103817. Bibcode:2024JTGeo.11503817M. doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2024.103817. hdl:20.500.11820/a251f0b3-69e4-4b46-b424-4b3abea30b64. ISSN 0966-6923.
^Tovey, Alan (24 September 2020). "First hydrogen-powered plane takes flight". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 6 December 2022.
^Porter, Jon (20 July 2020). "Google Maps now shows cycling routes using docked bike-sharing schemes". The Verge. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
^Ku, Donggyun; Yeon, Chihyung; Lee, Seungjae; Lee, Kyuhong; Hwang, Kiyeon; Li, Yuen Chong; Wong, Sze Chun (2021). "Safe traveling in public transport amid COVID-19". Science Advances. 7 (43): eabg3691. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abg3691. PMC 8535823. PMID 34678065.
^"Transportation Institute releases promising findings of COVID-19 public transit study". Fresno State News. 28 October 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
^Watson, Rowan; Oldfield, Morwenna; Bryant, Jack A.; Riordan, Lily; Hill, Harriet J.; Watts, Julie A.; Alexander, Morgan R.; Cox, Michael J.; Stamataki, Zania; Scurr, David J.; de Cogan, Felicity (9 March 2022). "Efficacy of antimicrobial and anti-viral coated air filters to prevent the spread of airborne pathogens". Scientific Reports. 12 (1): 2803. Bibcode:2022NatSR..12.2803W. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-06579-9. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8907282. PMID 35264599.
^Buckley, Julia. "The world's first hydrogen-powered passenger trains are here". CNN. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
^Papadopoulos, Loukia (10 August 2023). "First adopter of hydrogen trains switches to electric models". interestingengineering.com. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
^"China hat elektrischen Zug mit Wasserstoffantrieb entwickelt". www.forschung-und-wissen.de (in German). Retrieved 24 February 2023.
^"Breakthrough in China hyperloop project aiming to transport people at 1,000km/h". South China Morning Post. 19 January 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
^"Why sleeper trains are being revived across Europe". BBC News. 16 March 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
^Georgiadis, Philip (10 March 2023). "'We are full': the rebirth of Europe's sleeper trains". Financial Times. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
^"Dream travel: How Europe's sleeper train network is set to expand". euronews. 9 March 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
^"Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains". techxplore.com. Retrieved 12 November 2023. Austrian rail operator OeBB on Saturday unveiled its new generation of sleeper trains—a response to demands from travelers for less pollutant alternatives to planes and petrol or diesel cars. Night trains are starting to make a comeback in Europe thanks to their low-carbon footprint…
^"China's Fuxing series, can run up to 350 kilometers per hour (217 mph) without a driver". CNN. 8 January 2020.
^"World's fastest driverless bullet train launches in China". The Guardian. 9 January 2020.
^Benson, Thor. "Self-driving buses to appear on public roads for the first time". Inverse. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
^"Europe's first full-sized self-driving urban electric bus has arrived". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
^"Self-driving bus propels Swiss town into the future". CNN. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
^"Germany unveils first self-driving train". techxplore.com. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^"Germany: Hamburg gets first fully automated tram | DW | 11.10.2021". Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com). Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^"MIT deploys first full-scale autonomous Roboat on canals of Amsterdam". New Atlas. 28 October 2021. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
^Deshayes, Pierre-Henry. "First electric autonomous cargo ship launched in Norway". techxplore.com. Retrieved 11 December 2021.
Further reading
Deboffles, Xavier (2011). Chronologie des transports. Le Cannet: Éd. Tableaux synoptiques de l'histoire, TSH. ISBN 978-2-35972-031-0.
Wilson, Anthony (1995). On the Move: A Visual Timeline of Transportation. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978-1-56458-880-7.
Bruno, Leonard C. (1993). On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-8103-8396-8.
Berger, Michael L. The automobile in American history and culture: a reference guide (Greenwood, 2001).
Condit, Carl W. The railroad and the city: a technological and urbanistic history of Cincinnati (The Ohio State University Press, 1977) online.
Eckermann, Erik. World history of the automobile (SAE International, 2001).
Gkoumas, Konstantinos, and Anastasios Tsakalidis. "A framework for the taxonomy and assessment of new and emerging transport technologies and trends." Transport 34.4 (2019): 455–466. online
Gourvish, Terry. "What kind of railway history did we get? Forty years of research." Journal of Transport History 14.2 (1993): 111–125.
Horner, Craig. The Emergence of Bicycling and Automobility in Britain (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) online review
Kellermann, Robin, Tobias Biehle, and Liliann Fischer. "Drones for parcel and passenger transportation: A literature review." Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 4 (2020): 100088. online
Knowles, Richard D., Fiona Ferbrache, and Alexandros Nikitas. "Transport's historical, contemporary and future role in shaping urban development: Re-evaluating transit oriented development." Cities 99 (2020): 102607. online
Matthews, Jodie. "Canals in nineteenth-century literary history." in Transport and Its Place in History (Routledge, 2020) pp. 136–150.
Parissien, Steven. The life of the automobile: the complete history of the motor car (Macmillan, 2014).
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The railway journey: The industrialization of time and space in the nineteenth century (Univ of California Press, 2014).
Takatsu, Toshiji. "The history and future of high-speed railways in Japan." Japan Railway & Transport Review 48 (2007): 6-21. online