Transport industries

This book deals with the economic impact of technological changes and the rise of passenger shipping on social relations on board and ashore in European shipping industries between c.

In The Financiers and the Nation (1934) Mr.

Smart shipping is a future method for transporting ocean cargo and exploring the resources of oceans for medical drugs, food, energy resources, and other products.

Freight Transport and the Modern Economy adapts a well-known textbook by Michel Savy, revising, extending and updating it for British, European and international readers.

Organizational communication impacts service efficiency and productivity.

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis placed on local and regional integration in major planning projects and infrastructure development including roads, rail and waterways.

Deep Stall applies a framework of strategic analysis to the Boeing Company.

Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage - the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic - readily comes to mind.

Most transport operators have little experience of the regulations surrounding the carriage of dangerous goods.

If you work in operations, finance or marketing in any part of the public transport sector, this book was written for you.

Airline Operations and Management: A Management Textbook presents a survey of the airline industry, with a strong managerial perspective.

Die Ausschreibungsverordnungen für öffentliche Bauaufträge sind hierzulande komplex.

In recent decades urban regions around the world have engaged in a new process of development based on the creation of new knowledge.

Knowledge management has been widely applied to various industries as a good strategy to help improve firms' performance.

Urban Transportation Systems is a complete guide to the types of transportation available to communities together with the technical tools needed to evaluate each for given circumstances.

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.

Usually described as "e;state"e; industries, European airlines have been criticized as uncompetitive, overmanned, and subsidized.

This volume is the first of a two-volume set of the Proceedings of the XXVI International Conference on Living and Walking in Cities, held September 6-8 2023 at the University of Brescia, Italy.

Comprising contributions from a range of experts, this volume offers a critical commentary on the government's sustainable transport policy.

This book aims to provide a complete overview of the current status of lifestyle and transport changes in China, focusing on the ongoing trends in lifestyle and transport technologies, which are shaping a new lifestyle and transport system.

Containing some of the most recent and original studies on parking regulation and management from different disciplines, this book offers rigorous analysis from top researchers with a clear intention to deliver policy implications and provide information to the public.

Approximately 80 per cent of European and American citizens live in an urban environment.

Urban expert John Rossant and business journalist Stephen Baker look beyond the false promises of the past to examine the real future of transportation and the repercussions for the world’s cities, the global economy, the environment, and our individual lives.

Introduction to Ship Engine Room Systems outlines the key systems, machinery and equipment found in a ship's engine room.

This book presents the outcomes of the trans- and interdisciplinary research project NEMo (Nachhaltige Erfullung von Mobilitatsbedurfnissen im landlichen Raum - Sustainable Fulfilment of Mobility Needs in Rural Areas).

This comprehensive handbook, prepared by leading ocean policy academics and practitioners from around the world, presents in-depth analyses of the experiences of fifteen developed and developing nations and four key regions of the world that have taken concrete steps toward cross-cutting and integrated national and regional ocean policy.

This book explores China's ambition to build itself into a maritime power.

Port Business is essential reading for all those with an interest in trade and transportation and the role of ports in the global supply chain.

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.

This book provides an updated, concise summary of forecasting air travel demand methodology.

The importance of the international maritime transport industry is difficult to overstate.

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

The Northern peripheries of Europe, which are covered by this book, are associated with remoteness, the frontier, isolated communities, colonialism and resource extraction.

As part of the national effort to improve aviation safety, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chartered the National Research Council to examine and recommend improvements in the aircraft certification process currently used by the FAA, manufacturers, and operators.

The complexity, diversity, and random nature of transportation problems necessitates a broad analytical toolbox.

This comprehensive book describes in practical terms - underpinned by research - how recruitment, selection, and psychological assessment can be conducted amongst pilots.

Principles of the Carriage of Goods by Sea offers students studying this topic as part of their LLM or LLB course an accessible, comprehensive overview of the subject from a leading expert in the field.

This book provides a response to the unexpected challenges imposed on every aspect of today's maritime business.

Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter.

The end of the twentieth century saw remarkable changes in the way that economic regulation was viewed.

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