This article addresses, in general principles, what the economic effects of the improvement of transportation infrastructure are, in short-term andlong-term analyses, and throughout the mercantile, industrial, and contemporary eras. The essay advances the acknowledgment of context as a decisive factor in the economic effects of the improvement of such infrastructure. Context, as a decisive factor, means that the economic outcome of such infrastructure depends highly on the larger network of transportation infrastructures rather than on one specific aspect of it. The second advancement that this article makes is the joint progression of transportation, information, production, and infrastructure. As information promotes and stimulates the contextual network of transportation infrastructures, there is asimultaneous interrelation between the methods of production that facilitate the economic growth that these networks provide.
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