Links: Transportation

Around the World in the 1890's.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/wtchome.html
Part of the American Memory, Library of Congress Collection the World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection contains nearly nine hundred images by American photographer William Henry Jackson. In addition to railroads, elephants, camels, horses, sleds and sleighs, sedan chairs, rickshaws, and other types of transportation, Jackson photographed city views, street and harbor scenes, landscapes, local inhabitants, and Commission members as they traveled through North Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania.

Bluenose: Back in Time.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/flinn/bluenose/bluenose.html

This is a page devoted to the history of the first schooner Bluenose that raced as a real sailing vessel as well as working ship beginning in 1921.

Bodleian Library: Toyota City Imaging Project.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/toyota/openpage.html
A collection of motoring and transport images from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera at the Bodleian, Oxford University.

H.M. Bark Endeavour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Bark_Endeavour
His Majesty's Bark Endeavour was originally a merchant collier named Earl of Pembroke, whose construction was completed by early 1768 at Whitby, North Yorkshire. She was ship-rigged, and sturdily built with a capacious hold. Despite not being very fast her flat-bottomed hull was well-suited to sailing in shallow waters and more importantly for her proposed use.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
http://www.bts.gov/
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) is an operating administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The Bureau is headed by a Director appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. BTS started operations in December 1992, and is required by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 to improve the knowledge base for public decision making, and to improve public awareness of the nation's transportation system and its consequences. BTS compiles, analyzes, and makes accessible information on the Nation's transportation systems; collects information on intermodal transportation and other areas as needed; and works to enhance the quality and effectiveness of government statistics.

Cutty Sark, Greenwich, UK.
http://www.cuttysark.org.uk/
An opportunity to step back in time to the most romantic days of merchant shipping... when wind & tide, the skill of a crew, and the shrewdness of a ship's master were almost the sole arbiters of the success of a voyage.

First in America's Skies.
http://www.historynet.com/magazines/aviation_history
History Net has many articles on the history of flight.

Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.
http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/showroom/intro.html

This museum has one of the finest automotive history collections in the country. In addition to holding almost 300 vehicles, the museum maintains an extensive collection of automotive product literature from virtually every American automobile manufacturer and selected foreign manufacturers, automobile advertising and promotional material, and a vast selection of books and periodicals.

History of Flight: NASA.
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/history31.htm
A brief history of flight with illustrations done by the All Star Network of NASA.

Legacy of the Horse.
http://www.imh.org/imh/kyhpl3a.html
This site is developed by the International Museum of the Horse. This includes a detailed with illustrations history of the relationship of the horse and the human.

National Bicycle History Archive.
http://members.aol.com/oldbicycle

This website is dedicated to identification, cataloging and restoration advice on bicycle history, especially Classic American bicycles 1920 through 1965.

Northwestern University Transportation Library.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation/
One of the largest transportation libraries in the world, the Transportation Library at Northwestern has information on transportation (air, rail, highway, water, pipeline), law enforcement and police management, and environmental impact assessment. The transportation collection emphasizes current socioeconomic aspects, particularly management, operations, finance, planning, regulation and safety. All transportation modes--air, rail, water, highway, and pipeline--are represented; both U.S. and international publications are collected. Other aspects, such as technology and history, are covered selectively. The law enforcement collection focuses on police administration and training, and traffic law enforcement. The environmental impact statement collection (nearly 40,000 volumes) includes most of the EIS's prepared under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

Nova Online: Fast Speed Cars.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/2208fast.html

The history of land speed records is really the history of automobile transportation. With the advent of better design and aerodynamics for speed records came the advent of more stream-lined engineering for consumer vehicles.

Pedaling History Bicycle Museum.
http://www.pedalinghistory.com/
Have you ever wondered how the bicycle came about? What was the first machine that started it all? Pedaling History features one of the world's largest collections of antique and classic American bicycles, including thousands of items of cycling-related memorabilia.

Road Through the Wilderness: The Making of a National Road.
http://www.connerprairie.org/historyonline/ntlroad.html

This is a detailed paper by Timothy Crumrin on the evolution of a road. The first cries for a "national road" were heard before there was even a nation. These calls for a road to the west came as early as the 1740s. With the troubled birth of the United States came renewed calls for a road to the west. The cited reasons were much the same as before. Such a road would facilitate settlement and that seemed particularly important now that Revolutionary War veterans had been given tracts in the west. Also growing was the idea that the nation had to expand in order to survive and flourish.

The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI).
http://tti.tamu.edu/
The Institute engages in research pertaining to all forms of transportation - including all phases of activities concerned with the movement of people, goods, and services - and identifies and helps to solve major state and national transportation problems. To fulfill its mission, TTI conducts interdisciplinary and multi-modal research extending into the planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance, enforcement, economic, environmental, and social aspects of transportation.

The Transportation Directory ( North America Ed.).
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5355/
This is a listing of all known web sites which provide information concerning common carrier transportation within North America. Only carriers with regularly scheduled transportation are shown. Charter-only carriers are not included.

U.S. Department of Transportation.
http://www.dot.gov/
The mission of the DOT is to serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future.