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How Did Transportation Influence The Development of Ohio?
  • Basic Principles Relating to Transportation
  • Earliest Highways
  • Travel by Water
  • Railroads
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Basic Principles Relating to Transportation
  • A Theory of Optimization of Human Behavior
  • Central Place Theory
  • Right-of-Way
  • Theory of Accessibility
  • Economics of Transportation
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Earliest Highways
  • Walking
  • Zane’s Trace
  • The National Road
  • Toll Roads
  • Freight Wagons
  • Stage Coaches
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Travel By Water
  • Steamboats
  • Canals
  • The Erie Canal
  • Canals in Ohio
  • Technical Problems
  • The Ohio and Erie Canal
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Travel By Water
  • The Miami and Erie Canal
  • Operations on the Canals
  • Importance of Canals to Ohio
  • The Canals Today
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Railroads
  • Technical Problems of Railroads
  • Early Railroads in Ohio
  • Raising Money to Build Railroads
  • How Railroads Affected Ohio
  • Interurban Railroads