Monthly Archive: February 2018
Transport by river and Canal
Long before roads were invented the most common way of transporting goods and people large distances was by boat. Sea travel enabled international journeys while the rivers gave an opportunity for boats to make trips all around a country. Before the invention of the steam engine boats were powered either…
Back to Basics: Walking for Pleasure
As highlighted in one of our previous articles, walking is not often thought of as a go-to mode of transport. Much less likely, for most people, would be to think of taking a walking holiday.
The commercial use of roads
As soon as technology had created cars for personal and family use it wasn’t long before people started to create ways in which business could be created from vehicles using the roads. The most obvious way that this happened was with the creation of the haulage business. Most industrial raw…
The development of the car on the road
Cars today are an every part of life. In the developed world the vast majorities of households have access to at least one car. It is now part of the later stages of childhood that as soon as a teenager is old enough they start to learn to drive. The…