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Why does transport policy change?

Expert knowledge, pressure groups, and political agendas all contribute to shaping the nation’s transport policy

Phil Goodwin
06 February 2015
Protestors against the Newbury bypass in the 1990s
Protestors against the Newbury bypass in the 1990s

 

Transport history is a separate little sub-discipline of history, overlapping into politics, economics and geography, focusing on topics such as – for example – the effect of canals on the location of industry, links between transport technology and the slave trade, and how the money was initially raised for railway investment. I remember being bemused when I was at Oxford, facing a continual uphill struggle to defend the intellectual case for the rather different sort of work that...

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Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin

Phil Goodwin is professor of transport policy at the Centre for Transport and Society, University of West of England, Bristol, and emeritus professor at University College London. Email: philinelh@yahoo.com

 



 

 
 
 

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