Transport industries

Governments around the world are struggling to meet their commitments to achieve targets relating to reductions in greenhouse gases.

This book belongs to the Port Economics and Global Supply Chain Management strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series, commissioned by Hercules Haralambides.

Airline Management Finance: The Essentials is of significant benefit to airline industry practitioners seeking a focused, neatly contained and accessible resource that provides explicit financial information pertinent to their current or future role.

In recent years, the European air transport industry has seen a number of important changes, with more on the horizon.

Routes are arguably the most valuable of airline assets.

This book provides an introduction and overview to nine applied financial studies on the theme of transport.

Crew Resource Management (CRM) training was first introduced in the late 1970s as a means to combating an increased number of accidents in which poor teamwork in the cockpit was a significant contributing factor.

Large technological systems, such as seaports, nuclear power stations, wind farms and natural gas extraction, provide vital functions for society.

the Ship Captain's Medical Guide is intended primarily for use on vessels where there is no medical professional, such as a doctor, on board.

The shipping business is a lesser-known industry, but it is an extremely influential element in the global economy.

The security of the U.

This book addresses each of the Air Navigation Services' five broad categories of services provided to air traffic during all phases of operation: air traffic management (ATM), communication, navigation and surveillance services (CNS), meteorological services for air navigation (MET), aeronautical information services (AIS) and search and rescue (SAR).

After 9/11, the initial focus from the U.

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the technology employed by the British navy changed not just the material resources of the British navy but the culture and performance of the royal dockyards.

An examination of the relationship between competition and the deregulation and liberalisation of the US and European air transport sectors reveals that the structure of the air transport sector has undergone a number of significant changes.

To Americans living in the early twentieth century, E.

The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book.

This report assesses the configuration-management and performance-verification options for the development and regulation of commercially available Explosive Detection Systems (EDS) and other systems designed for detection of explosives.

The passage of the Staggers Rail Act in 1980 led brought a renaissance to the freight rail industry.

The third in a series of sector-specific assessments of U.

Women play an essential role in the transport workforce worldwide, working in formal and informal jobs in public transport, road freight and logistics, rail, maritime and aviation sectors, in ports and in active travel.

Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain.

The Geography of the Port of London (1957) deals with the mid-century functions of the port studied in relation to their physical setting and in the light of their historical development.

Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of globalisation, and the specific, tangible materialities of particular times and places.

This book primarily focuses on the coordinated development of port groups and the environment.

Soviet Central Asia (1989) explores the economic development of the four republics of Central Asia that suffered under Moscow's economic policies - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kirghizia.

This book looks at the latest advances in autonomous driving, demonstrating that a future once considered science fiction is now close at hand.

This book covers every aspect of the dry docking of sea going vessels.

This book, originally published in 1985, examines the development of the car industry in Coventry within both its local context and the wider economic environment.

Public transport is essential to the quality of life of its passengers, both as a means to move around but also to achieve a sustainable environment.

Green Construction is a specialized and skilled profession, and the author has extensive experience in this field.

The semiconductor industry is at the forefront of current tensions over international trade and investment in high technology industries.

This book offers new insights into the theory and practice of economic airport regulation.

This book explores how emerging mobility practices have transformed spaces in order to fit the needs of highly mobile people, as well as the changing relationship between people and territory.

This book provides a contemporary look at spaceports, not only from relevant technological drivers, policies, and legal perspectives, but also from impacts associated with airspace use and aviation stakeholders.

Women of Color in the Aviation Industry offers a critical look at the reasons why the aviation industry remains underrepresented with minoritized groups, particularly women of color.

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston.

Delays in construction projects are frequently expensive, since there is usually a construction loan involved which charges interest, management staff dedicated to the project whose costs are time dependent, and ongoing inflation in wage and material prices.

As an important industry, transportation costs account for a considerable percentage of the gross national product of countries.