Transport industries

Turkey is one of the largest and most important shipping and logistics centres in the world.

This classic book in the Kemp and Young series has been fully revised and updated by David J Eyres, author of the well-known Butterworth-Heinemann title "e;Ship Construction,"e; and will prove indispensable to the student reader.

Peak-hour traffic congestion has become a major problem in most U.

This book assesses business regulation in the context of globalisation and policy-making.

Core Principles of Maritime Navigation introduces the main navigation concepts required by trainees and professionals involved in maritime operations.

Based on in-depth empirical research, this book develops our understanding of maritime transport costs, the maritime industry and the competitiveness of regions in a global market environment through a geographical lens.

This narrative recounts the 18th and 19th century shipping out of Pacific islanders aboard European and American vessels, a kind of counter-exploring, that echoed the ancient voyages of settlement of their island ancestors.

Now in its fifth edition, this hallmark text provides a comprehensive, article-by-article guide to the workings of the CMR Convention, as incorporated into English Law by the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965.

Principles of Private and Public Planning (1951) looks at a key economic question: plan or no plan?

Sets forth practices to ensure security and foster international trade Written with an international perspective, this book analyzes the complex set of factors affecting the security of port and maritime operations, including shipping, politics, economics, crime, and terrorism.

Do we become better or worse drivers as we age?

This clear text provides a broad introduction to transportation geography.

Transit Oriented Development: Making it Happen brings together the different stakeholders and disciplines that are involved in the conception and implementation of TOD to provide a comprehensive overview of the realization of this concept in Australia, North America, Asia and Europe.

Originally published in 1997 and now re-issued with some updated material, this chronology lists the major events in the history of the automobile.

First published in 1999, the main feature of this book is its multidisciplinary nature, since the book focuses on the complexity of spatial/ economic networks from several methodological points of view.

The aviation industry is a major driver of world trade.

The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life - from trade and transportation to health and recreation.

Flight Testing, Volume IV: Instrumentation Systems serves as a guide to flight test instrumentation systems for establishing flight test programs.

Get a complete look into modern traffic engineering solutions Traffic Engineering Handbook, Seventh Edition is a newly revised text that builds upon the reputation as the go-to source of essential traffic engineering solutions that this book has maintained for the past 70 years.

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.

Aviation safety and astronautics safety are taught as technical subjects informed, for the most part, by quantitative methods.

At the start of the twentieth century the United States led the world in advances in aviation, with the first successful engine-powered flights at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and Dayton, Ohio, beginning in 1903.

This book is one of three inter-connected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action established in 2015.

The best resource on how to establish and run a company flight department--revised and updated!

The Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seafarers is a comprehensive set ofguidelines and safe working practices designed to ensure the safety and health of seafarersworking on board merchant ships.

Various combinations of commercially available technologies could greatly reduce fuel consumption in passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, minivans, and other light-duty vehicles without compromising vehicle performance or safety.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis and modelling of demand, capacity, quality of services, economics, and sustainability of the air transport system and its main components - - airports, airlines, and ATC/ATM (Air Traffic Control/Management).

The largest enterprise in the capitalist world between 1920 and 1945, the Deutsche Reichsbahn (German National Railway) was at the center of events in a period of great turmoil in Germany.

This book, first published in 1974, provides a comprehensive review of the application of economic concepts to the appraisal of transport systems.

A study of past and prospective business development around rail transit stations in the Washington DC area.

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a peer-reviewed research journal, has been published annually since 2004.

This volume brings together some of the leading names in global aviation policy research to provide a unique and ground breaking synthesis of current debates on sustainable aviation.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of the business of maritime transport.

Railway workers were a uniformed and respectable section of the Victorian and Edwardian working class.

From the Spanish galleons of the 16th century to the cruise ships and crude oil tankers of the 21st, maritime industries have been central to American economic, political, and cultural life.

This book opens up the debate on the interrelations between space and mobilities with regard to different dimensions of social inequality.

A comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe, first published in 2005.

This book provides an explanation of key underlying economic principles, allowing the reader to come to a better understanding of the critical factors that structure and guide transport markets.

The purpose of this book is twofold.

Combining contemporary HRM theory and practice with debates in critical management and in industrial relations, this book examines the peculiar challenge that civil aviation pilots present for management.

At the heart of the U.

Chapter 1 examines the implementation of certain Coast Guard programs, including those involving performance monitoring, the Service's Capital Investment Plan, and commercial fishing vessel safety.