Summary - TST 17

TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES


TST 17

Rafael Barquín
Una revisión del cálculo del coste de transporte terrestre de Gómez-Mendoza

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Key Words: Agricultural market; freight transportation;literature; transportation cost; rail-road competition.

[ Abstract ]

The principal aim of this paper is to estimate the cost of Spanish road transport at the end of the 19th century, from data provided by a government questionnaire sent to the village mayors. This information had already been used before for the same purpose (Gómez Mendoza, 1982), but that calculation contained several numerical and documentary errors, and its results had been misinterpreted. The new estimate is half the cost of the previous one (or a third in some other cases, depending on the interpretation).