Transport industries

An exploration of near-future urban planning as airports become the center of cities, changing the way we live and conduct business.

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

This book reveals to readers the secrets and mindsets of air show performances.

'Magnificent' Robert MacfarlaneWinner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearOur lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us.

This is a fully revised, new edition on the topic of instrumentation and control systems and their application to marine engineering for professional trainees studying Merchant Navy Marine Engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC) as well as Electrical/Marine Engineering undergraduate students.

The bible on operation and economics within the maritime transport industry, covering types of ship, issues related to crew, cargo and ports, and examining changes in the industry.

This book gives a complete picture of the Maritime Transport Industry so that those involved with shipping can see their own specific field of interest in perspective and understand how the basic mode of transport operates.

The world of the railways weaves a spell over many people.

We are starting to see the first real progress in space exploration in the private sector, and there are many jobs becoming available in this fascinating new field.

Global disruption, new technologies and changing consumer habits are causing turmoil in the supply chain industry.

Shipping flows - maritime 'footprints' - remain underexplored in the existing literature despite the crucial importance of freight transport for global trade and economic development.

Shipping flows - maritime 'footprints' - remain underexplored in the existing literature despite the crucial importance of freight transport for global trade and economic development.

Asian shipping entrepreneurship relies on strong ties between private entities and public institutions (i.

Asian shipping entrepreneurship relies on strong ties between private entities and public institutions (i.

Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous.

Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous.

Air traffic and the aviation industry have grown rapidly on the Chinese mainland in the two and a half decades since China's open door policy.

Air traffic and the aviation industry have grown rapidly on the Chinese mainland in the two and a half decades since China's open door policy.

This is an important contribution to the new urban history, describing and analysing one of the best examples of a company town in nineteenth-century Europe.

This is an important contribution to the new urban history, describing and analysing one of the best examples of a company town in nineteenth-century Europe.

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

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

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

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

This volume examines general driving offences, concentrating on those which punish risk-taking whilst driving, with the primary goal of increasing road safety.

This volume examines general driving offences, concentrating on those which punish risk-taking whilst driving, with the primary goal of increasing road safety.

The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom.

The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom.

Following on from 2005's Rail Human Factors: Supporting the Integrated Railway, this book brings together an even broader range of academics and practitioners from around the world to share their expertise and experience on rail human factors.

Following on from 2005's Rail Human Factors: Supporting the Integrated Railway, this book brings together an even broader range of academics and practitioners from around the world to share their expertise and experience on rail human factors.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

For the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific 'silos'.

For the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific 'silos'.

Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions.

Routes and roads make their way into and across the landscape, defining it as landscape and making it accessible for many kinds of uses and perceptions.

The Chinese shipping industry is a particularly prominent industry and has rapidly expanded over the last decade.

The Chinese shipping industry is a particularly prominent industry and has rapidly expanded over the last decade.

In recent years, the environmental, social and economic concerns regarding laissez-faire retail decentralization policies have resulted in an emergence of a global trend towards the provision of wider choices of good quality public transport modes in suburban areas.

In recent years, the environmental, social and economic concerns regarding laissez-faire retail decentralization policies have resulted in an emergence of a global trend towards the provision of wider choices of good quality public transport modes in suburban areas.

Based on the work of the STELLA (Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons with America) Focus Group 3, this volume brings together leading transport academics to discuss society behaviour and public/private transport.

Based on the work of the STELLA (Sustainable Transport in Europe and Links and Liaisons with America) Focus Group 3, this volume brings together leading transport academics to discuss society behaviour and public/private transport.

Globalisation is heavily dependent on physical transport, as people and goods travel over longer distances and with higher frequency.

Globalisation is heavily dependent on physical transport, as people and goods travel over longer distances and with higher frequency.

The ways in which we travel have a huge impact on sustainability.