Transport industries

Master Airline Pilot offers a process for improving pilots' skills in risk management, situational awareness building, decision making, communications, and crew management.

The Avant-Garde in Interwar England addresses modernism's ties to tradition, commerce, nationalism, and spirituality through an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changes and development of the civil international aircraft/aviation industry.

During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War.

Control in Transportation Systems covers the proceedings of the Fourth International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)/International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)/International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) Conference on Control in Transportation Systems.

The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivity of city-regions on the one hand and knowledge generation in these city-regions on the other hand.

This book has been written to account for improvements in the regulatory regime for shipboard health, safety and welfare.

International Cooperation in the Aerospace Industry offers a unique study and analysis of how nations and industries have cooperated internationally to design and manufacture civil and military aircraft from a variety of perspectives: historical, economic, organizational, operational, and political.

Die Dampfeisenbahn war weit mehr als nur ein neues Verkehrsmittel – sie markierte den Beginn einer neuen Ära.

All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact.

The central premise of Design for Transport is that the designer's role is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user.

Over the past ten years, the study of mobility has demonstrated groundbreaking approaches and new research patterns.

Road transport is on a constant course to maintain and improve driving safety in what is a complex process involving multiple forms of risk.

Over the last decade the concept of clustering has become a central idea for analyzing the competitiveness of nations, industries and firms.

Air safety is right now at a point where the chances of being killed in an aviation accident are far lower than the chances to winning a jackpot in any of the major lotteries.

Redesigning transportation for the end of cheap oil.

During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War.

This book, originally published in 1993, develops for the US automobile industry a demand-supply model which incorporates both wholesale and retail sectors and which allows strategic pricing behaviour of US and Japanese producers to be internally determined and its effects on market behaviour and national welfare analyzed.

Why are the airlines always in a crisis?

This book provides an analysis and comparison of international insolvency rules, maritime laws and their inevitable intersection in maritime cross-border insolvencies.

Maritime navigation has rapidly developed since the publication of the last edition of the title with methods of global position fixing for shipping becoming standardized.

Despite its importance to how humans inhabit their environments, walking has rarely received the attention of ethnographers.

Originally published in 1996, this work begins by considering the changes that have taken place in the social, political and economic environment of Eastern Europe as a whole and then concentrates upon the shipping market with reference to Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

This book explores the types of conflicts that occur over marine and coastal resources, the underlying causes, and attempts to prevent them.

This book indicates the shortcomings of the current international legal system and customary international norms that govern international aviation law to comply with contemporary air transport market realities.

Airline Operations and Delay Management fills a gap within the area of airline schedule planning by addressing the close relationships between network development, economic driving forces, schedule demands and operational complexity.

This is a book about how global unionism was born in the maritime shipping sector.

This book offers new insights into the wider socioeconomic impacts of high-speed rail (HSR).

Aircraft building is a major industry for many developed countries.

International Cooperation in the Aerospace Industry offers a unique study and analysis of how nations and industries have cooperated internationally to design and manufacture civil and military aircraft from a variety of perspectives: historical, economic, organizational, operational, and political.

Die Autoren geben in diesem Buch einen umfassenden Überblick der wesentlichen Teilbereiche des Flughafen Managements.

Grand European Expresses (1962) examines the trains de luxe of the International Sleeping Car and European Express Trains Company, from the Orient Express of the 1880s to the car-sleepers of the 1960s.

Every year roughly 100,000 fatal and injury crashes occur in the United States involving large trucks and buses.

The potential for fatigue to negatively affect human performance is well established.

Reflecting the dynamic relationships between socio-technical behaviour and change, this book presents leading research on the transition process needed to achieve more sustainable transport systems.

The air transport system is a major industry with a global impact of 2.

Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914 is a cultural and engineering history of railway building in Japan during the Meiji era.

The competition between airports demands higher-quality services to satisfy passengers.

A history of the American Steel Barge Company and the vessels that it built and operated.

Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook 2023 provides a complete overview of the operational guidance governing the UK's road transport operators.

The COVID-19 pandemic showed how transport plays a role in societal responses to global events at all levels, from governments to transport operators and individuals.