Trade in parts and components has benefited from falling transport costs, reflecting containerisation and related advances in logistics.
Yet falling transport costs have made this centripetal force less important over the past half-century, leaving many industrial cities, like Detroit, in deep trouble.Cities today have a productivity advantage for different reasons, to do with ideas rather than costs.
But self-driving by Anglican ladies and gentlemen in episcopal purple doesn't always end well; a female bishop in Maryland has been charged with manslaughter after knocking down a cyclist.And in many countries clerics who fall into transport temptation have paid a professional price.
Major injuries were accidental falls, transport injuries, and self-inflicted injuries.
The most frequent causes of injuries requiring hospitalisation for Indigenous youth were falls, assault, transport crashes and intentional self-harm.
The making of even the simplest goods is chopped up into a number of different stages, reflecting relative costs in different countries and falling international transport costs.
With internal trade barriers falling and transport industries being deregulated, the air-express market is promising in Europe, and in Mexico and Latin America, too.
Eighty-eight per cent of children (301) were traumatized, 39% of them (118) due to war injuries (WI) and 61% (183) due to CA. Forty-three per cent of WI (gunshot wound 34%, explosion 66%) but only 19% of injuries due to CA (falls 24%, transport accidents 56%, burns 9%, penetrating injuries 9%, unknown cause 2%) involved polytraumas defined as a New Injury Severity Score (NISS) >15 (P <0.001).
Sydney is continually recognised for its liveability and increasingly for its sustainability, but we fall behind on transport.
Surprisingly, the analysis found that if emissions reductions were achieved by scaling up the safeguards mechanism, much of the burden would fall on the transport sectors and coal seam gas industries, while large coal-fired generators would avoid the impact of the tightening baselines.
