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Advances in Road Construction Technology in France

In: The Economic and Social Effects of the Spread of Motor Vehicles

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  • Dominique Barjot

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Branded as the foremost social evil by some, hailed as indispensable means of individual liberty by others, motor vehicles (or, rather, their politically influential owners and the motoring lobby’s powerful pressure groups) were soon responsible for road improvement and, in more recent years, as the number of motor vehicles has grown greater, for massive road construction programmes. Studies carried out by the Direction Générale des Routes du Ministère de l’Urbanisme et du Logement (the Roads Department of the Ministry for Housing and Town and Country Planning) make it possible to outline the main features and problems of road-building in the Motor Age: and my own research in the archives of the Fédération Nationale des Travaux Publics (French Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors) and of some of the major road-construction firms, notably the Société Chimique et Routière d’Entreprise Générale and Société Routière Colas, have enabled me to supplement these official studies.

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  • Dominique Barjot, 1987. "Advances in Road Construction Technology in France," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Theo Barker (ed.), The Economic and Social Effects of the Spread of Motor Vehicles, chapter 15, pages 291-312, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08624-5_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08624-5_15
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