Technology transfer of urban highways and interchange design in the 1960s
The case of the Ayalon Crosstown Expressway, Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10249035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roy Kozlovsky (0000-0003-4079-4637, Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 434-457 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Transport History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5266 • E-ISSN: 1759-3999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022526620910291 |
| OpenAlex | W3012043407 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 14 |
This paper reconstructs the design history of the Ayalon Crosstown Expressway in Tel Aviv, a project that initiated the technology transfer of American and European transport planning methods to Israel. It examines the unstable, evolving dynamics between agents pushing the technology such as the World Bank and international traffic planning firms, and local institutions pulling or opposing it such as the city, the highway company, and various competing governmental departments. The five successive plans developed for that highway by Canadian, American, French, and British planners offer themselves to comparative analysis of national design philosophies of urban highway systems. Through a close reading of the different geometric plans of one bifurcating interchange, the paper analyses how the technology was adapted to fit the Israeli political, administrative, and economic environment, and identifies a shift in highway planning rationality and techniques for governing mobility at the American source of innovation
Civil engineering · Geography · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Regional science · Tel aviv · Town planning · Transport engineering · Transportation planning · Urban planning · Computer Science · Engineering · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |