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i still think we're looking at this in too narrow a way: the Problem lay with the architectures of the socio-economic system that these transportation elements are part of.
for example if you are managing a supply chain by computer, the components are updated in real time, the system looks coherent and tight in terms of flows of objects and, by extension, geography. but that geography is possible because you have regular connecting transportation linkages--without them, it makes no sense to have, say, a facility in southern china, a facility in sri lanka, a facility in the bahamas and a facility in new jersey be part of the same production cycle.
the problem then is ot economy of scale but a particular set of ways to organize production around economies of scale.
it's a very basic political question.
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