History overview

How did we get from there to here?

I think it’s important to know the history of the relationship of the driver and the car so here is a brief history of how things have changed.

(The Henry Ford Museum, personal communication, 2012)

(The Henry Ford Museum, personal communication, 2012)

 

In 1945 the United States had a population of 133 million people who owned 25 million automobile. By 2005 the U.S. population had grown to 295 million. There was roughly one vehicle for every 1.6 people. The human population of U.S. has increased by about 2.2 but the automobile population has increased by 7.5 ( M. Levy , 2010, p. 234). One of the powerful forces behind the increase in automobile ownership was the large increase in average real personal income in the years following World War II.  The increase in money flow enabled more people to automobiles
 and suburbanization. Which increased the one’s 
need for an automobile.

Widespread automobile ownership facilitates suburbanization.
( M. Levy , 2010, p. 236)

 

(The Henry Ford Museum, personal communication, 2012)

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(The Henry Ford Museum, personal communication, 2012)

(The Henry Ford Museum, personal communication, 2012)

(The Henry Ford Museum, personal communication, 2012)

(The Henry Ford Museum, personal communication, 2012)

(The Henry Ford Museum, personal communication, 2012)

 Reference~

• -Levy, John M.. "Chapter 12: Transportation Planning." Contemporary urban planning. 9th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall,Inc: Longman, 2010. pp.234-237. Print.