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Title: STEAM VERSUS ELECTRIC VERSUS INTERNAL COMBUSTION: CHOOSING VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY AT THE START OF THE AUTOMOTIVE AGE
Accession Number: 00983333
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: The choice of engine technology for the automobile is currently at issue, but not for the first time. When the automobile was introduced to the United States in 1895, it was not apparent what engine technology would prevail. Steam, electric, and internal combustion engines all had their own merits. But within a few years internal combustion had eclipsed its rivals to become the single commercially viable engine technology. Many factors that affected the choice of internal combustion have been noted in the literature and in the popular press; here a model integrates all these factors into a single comprehensive framework. The critical years when the technology choice occurred are pinpointed, and a new, comprehensive framework is used to identify the key factors that determined the choice.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1885, Transportation Management and Public Policy 2004.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 00983332
Language: English
Corporate Authors: Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Loeb, A PPagination: p. 1-7
Publication Date: 2004
Serial: ISBN: 0309094801
Features: References
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TRT Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; History; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Dec 16 2004 12:00AM
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