On the Use of Geographic Information Systems in Economic History: The American Transportation Revolution Revisited
介绍了一个历史地理信息系统交通数据库的构建，用于分析19世纪美国交通与通信革命的空间影响，并基于数据给出初步发现和重新解读。
Transportation improvements in the nineteenth century loom large in the historiography of the profession during the twentieth century. This article describes the ongoing construction of a historical geographic information systems (GIS) transportation database designed to provide new insights into the impact of the transportation and communications revolution in the continental United States by providing evidence on the spatial dimensions of those changes over time. It also reviews some preliminary findings and reinterpretations based upon these data.