WARTIME COMMUTING.

Wartime production placed extraordinary demands on factories, roads, transit, housing, and worker movement. Transportation was part of the machinery of production.

Girls and men coming out of the Highland Park Chrysler plant — REAL DETROIT SOURCE · Workers leaving the Highland Park Chrysler plant in Detroit, spring 1942.
Source: Arthur S. Siegel / source record · Public domain — FSA/OWI

RESEARCH LENS

Reading wartime movement

Shift changes and factory commuting
Transit and road pressure around industrial plants
Movement of materials and finished war production
Housing and transportation as linked problems
Connections to Ford, Lincoln, Vickers, and the broader industrial city

CONNECT THE CITY

Transportation became production infrastructure.

Factory routes, transit demand, worker movement, and wartime road use stay tied to period maps, schedules, and records.

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