Why does transport policy change?

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

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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