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Timeline of transportation technology

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This is a timeline of transportation technology and technological developments in the culture of transportation.

Antiquity

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A traditional Polynesian catamaran
Dionysus riding on a small galley-like craft in a painting from the Dionysus cup by Exekias, from c. 530 BC[1]

Middle Ages

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Horse collars and cart between 1350 and 1375

17th century

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  • 1604 – The world's first recorded overland wagonway, the 2-mile (3.2 km) Wollaton Wagonway, is built by Huntingdon Beaumont in Nottingham, England, for the transport of coal.[6][7][8]
  • 1616 - The first recorded mechanical ropeway was by Croatian Fausto 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.
  • 1672 – Ferdinand Verbiest built what may have been the first steam-powered scale model car.[10][11]

18th century

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19th century

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Early 19th century

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Late 19th century

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Late 19th century modes of transport, Japan.
First Zeppelin ascent, 1900

20th century

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Early 20th century

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Early 20th Century modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929

Late 20th Century

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A 0 series Shinkansen high-speed rail set in Tokyo, May 1967
Concorde 001 first flight in 1969
Space shuttle launch
C5 enthusiasts gather at the Brooklands Museum
First fully low floor tram in Bremen

21st century

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2020s

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Transportation technologies in society

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2024: A comprehensive global review of harms from personal car transport is published.

Sustainable transport

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  • 2020 – First commercial flight of a hydrogen fuel cell plane.[85]
  • 2020 – Google Maps begins including bike shares in its widely used route planning functionality.[86]
  • Early 2020s – Researchers investigate safe ways of public transport during the COVID-19 pandemic.[87][88][89]
  • 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

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Milestones in autonomous sustainable / public transport vehicles are also listed in this section.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ A "tube" railway is an underground railway constructed in a cylindrical tunnel by the use of a tunnelling shield, usually deep below ground level.

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Further reading

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  • 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