Institutions
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 706260
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Mercator-e Project
The main research objective of this project is evaluate the changes in the transportation historical networks evaluating their connectivity and the costs and times of travel.
Results
This is the webpage of the Mercator-e Project. Here you'll find all the documentation about this project: description, objectives, methodology, results, dissemination and historical networks available to download. Some of the data produced in this project has the aim to answer important historical questions about the unequal development of the Iberian peninsula territories. Questions like:
- How was the mobility and the transport costs & times in the Iberian Peninsula from Roman times until the XIXth Century?
- How and why do centers of economic, political and social power evolve and change? How are these structural changes reflected in the transport network of a territory?
- How did the political decisions affect the transportation networks over the centuries? And which was their economical impact?
The knowledge on Iberian Transportation Networks for the community
In this project you'll find a place where download maps and files about Iberian Transportation Networks. If you want to collaborate you can send us your data and it will be upload in our system (fully credited, of course!)
Data and Maps
To document, digitise and publish all the transportation roads of the Iberian Peninsula from Roman Times until the XIXth Century is a huge enterprise. Although this project is focused to work on a wide geographical scale (the entire Iberian Peninsula), we are looking to provide the most possible detailed information. One of the main dissemination objectives of this project is offer to the wide scientific and general society a free source of information about historical networks. For that reason, if you detect a lack of information of one territory or you have been developing a research and want to aggregate it to our network repository (with your credits) we'd be very grateful if you get in contact with us. Some international researchers has kindly provided their data to this project in order to make all of their research more available to the entire community and to increase the general information about the Iberian historical transportation networks.
More about Mercator-e
Here you will find an explanation about this project.
Objectives
The main objective of this project is to understand the role of infrastructures in the social, political and economical evolution of the Iberian territories, from
Conferences and Papers
Do you want to check where I’ve been in the past or where I’ll be in the near future? Check the list of talks and papers.
Researchers involved in the project
Pau DE SOTO (Main researcher)
PhD in Classical Archaeology (2010) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). Pau de Soto has specialised in the use of GIS and Network Analysis
Daniel ALVES (Supervisor)
Daniel Alves is Assistant Professor at the History Department in Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas (FCSH), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, and researcher in