AUTOMOTIVE TRANSPORTATION 181
Defined, Radical Changes to be Expected. Business Passenger
Traffic: Jitney and Taxicab, Motor Bus -- Qualifications,
Fares, Competition with Street Cars, Cross-country Service,
Carriers of School Children, Transfer between Depots. Pleasure
Passenger Traffic: An Influence in the Purchase of Automobiles,
Pleasurable Effect of Automobile Riding, Recreational and
Pathological Benefits of Motoring, Cost of Motoring. Freight
Traffic: Cost and Time Factors, Motor Trucks and Congested
Districts, Time Devoted to Loading and Unloading, Depots,
Warehouses, Devices, Removable Bodies, Sectional Containers,
Store to Door Delivery, Mass Loading. Devices Connected with
the Truck. Devices Separate, Special Types of Bodies. Traffic
between Towns: Economic Distance, Licenses and Insurance,
State Regulation without Competition, Development of State
Regulation. Motor Bus Traffic: Buses, Rates, Future of Motor
Bus and Other Types of Transportation. To and from the Farm:
Importance of Farm Trucking, Arguments in Favor of, Cost of
Trucking, Diversified Farming, Intensive Farming, Live Stock.
Trucking, Benefits to the Farmer, Economy of Farm Trucking,
Parcel Post Service and the Farm, Rural Express, Milk Trucks,
Convenience to the Farmer, Purchasing a Truck. Terminal
Facilities: Advantages. Social Aspect of Motor Transportation:
Effect on Merchandising, Housing, Unification of Society,
Standard of Living, Size of Farms, Salesmen, Hotels, City and
Country Stores. Consolidated Rural Schools: The Public School
and Patriotism, Peace, Changing Concepts of Public Schools.
Rural Mail Delivery. Automobile and Health: As a Form of
Exercise, Effect on Styles; Medical Science; Sanitary Effects
-- Mosquitoes, Flies. The Automobile and Crime: Bootlegging,
Robbery, Vandalism. Types of Automobile Transportation.