Fixing the roads
Fixing the roads
- April 24, 2026
- Research by Dan Bogart, economics, published in Explorations in Economic History, featured by the University of Cambridge
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In a study published in Explorations in Economic History, researchers from Cambridge and UC Irvine analysed the mode and speed of travel of nearly 100 diarists between the mid-1600s to 1820, together with their observations about the quality of the roads they were using. … UC Irvine’s Professor Dan Bogart, and Cambridge’s Professor Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Dr Alan Rosevear found that roads were 78 percent more likely to be judged ‘at least acceptable’ in the period 1760–1820 than in the period 1660–1759.
For the full story, please visit the University of Cambridge.
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