Summary - TST 18

TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES


TST 18

Richard Vahernkamp
Motorization and Autobahn Projects in Germany in the Interbellum

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Key Words: Motorways; Road networks; Motorization; Transport planning.

[ Abstract ]

This article discusses how motorways evolved in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on the various projects, on the discussion of a European motorway network and on the role of the Hafraba association, which has been significant in Germany. This paper shows how the motorway concept developed from the Italian motorways to the Frankfurt-Mannheim Autobahn, the Bonn-Cologne Autobahn and to the design of the Nazi Autobahn project and it explains how the quick start of the Nazi Autobahn project in 1933 relied on the preparatory works of the Hafraba association.