Railroad origins and urban effects of last mile logistics in Mexico City, ca. 1890-1950

Authors

  • Guillermo Guajardo Soto , Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades (CEIICH), Uni¬versidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24197/tst.48.2022.47-82

Keywords:

Railroad, Mexico, Last Mile, Logistics

Abstract

The article is concerned with the origins of logistics in the capital of Mexico from the last decade of the 19th century until the end of the 1950s, through a mode of delivery and cargo taking that employed an entire set of facilities of classification yards, lateral circulation, shunting and auxiliary tracks, which carries out forward and reverse movements of locomotives and hauling equipment in order to load, unload and assemble trains. With these final delivery activities, the railroad has created its own artificial logistics space and established an urban morphology that resulted in a "logistic archipelago" within the city, until 1958 when operations and tracks were concentrated in a large terminal in the north of Mexico City.

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Author Biography

  • Guillermo Guajardo Soto, , Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades (CEIICH), Uni¬versidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

    Investigador de Carrera Titular "C" e Investigador del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores-Conacyt - Programa de Investigación Ciencia y Tecnología

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Published

2022-06-08 — Updated on 2022-06-16

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How to Cite

Railroad origins and urban effects of last mile logistics in Mexico City, ca. 1890-1950. (2022). TST. Transportes, Servicios Y Telecomunicaciones, 48, 47-82. https://doi.org/10.24197/tst.48.2022.47-82 (Original work published 2022)