Transport industries

This Colossal Project presents an absorbing epic on the building of the fourth Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and allows ships to bypass Niagara Falls.

Part of the Kemp and Young series, this book provides a concise introduction to meteorology.

This book provides a flight plan for riding the impending connectivity transformation curve.

The dogma of the sovereignty of the state, deriving from the Peace of Westphalia, underpins much of the modern-day international system.

This book examines terrorism's impact on the international aviation security regime, with a focus on the role of the United States.

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

This is a story of hope in the face of widespread consternation over the global climate crisis.

History and Development of Airline Cabin Safety offers an understanding of how cabin safety evolved over time.

This book provides a wealth of information and a critically required framework for sustainable automobile policy development in major Asian countries.

Many business sectors have been, and are being, forced to compete with new competitors-disrupters of some sort-who have found new ways to create and deliver new value for customers often through the use of technology that is coupled with a new underlying production or business model, and/or a broad array of partners, including, in some cases, customers themselves.

This is a must-have resource for anyone interested in the latest information about the complex field of transportation-and how it is transforming today's business environment.

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that hugely constrains existing transportation infrastructure in cities.

Invaluable to participants of navigation control courses, candidates for Class 2 and Class 1 (master mariner) and all practising navigating officers.

This book considers both the present state of Arctic shipping and possible future trends with reference to the various sectors of maritime transportation: cruise tourism, container traffic and bulk shipping.

Cars, Automobility and Development in Asia explores the nexus between automobility and development in a pan-Asian comparative perspective.

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.

This book is dedicated to metaheuristics as applied to vehicle routing problems.

Vulnerability to sudden supply chain disruption is one of the major threats facing companies today.

A classic reference text for both nautical students and for all who have a professional involvement with marine electronic navigation systems, this second edition has been substantially enlarged to include all of the electronic systems now encountered by navigation / communication personnel.

This collective volume explores the ways merchants managed to connect different spaces all over the globe in the early modern period by organizing the movement of goods, capital, information and cultural objects between different commercial maritime systems in the Mediterranean and Atlantic basin.

Das Buch behandelt eingangs die aktuelle Situation des Wandertourismus, seine wachsende wirtschaftliche Bedeutung und die Ursachen für diese Entwicklung.

Cutting through the confusion around the nature and implications of digitalization, this book explores the rise of the new digital networks, how they affect traditional infrastructure, and how they will eventually need to be regulated.

First published in 1999, this book applies formal economic measures to the passenger and taxpayer benefits of public transit service in the United States under a public choice analytical framework.

Maritime transport is one of the most ancient supports to human interactions across history and it still supports more than 90% of world trade volumes today.

When combined with artificial intelligence, advanced computing architectures and enhanced communications, sensor technologies can monitor vessel performance and the adjacent environment to detect conditions that may hinder voyage completion.

The Impact of Soviet Shipping (1987) is a detailed analysis of the operations and impact of Soviet shipping.

Americas founders envisioned a federal government of limited and enumerated powers.

Aviation remains one of the most active and challenging domains for human factors and applied psychology.

The presentation of mental illness at work has different implications and consequences depending on the specific nature of the job, work context, regulatory framework and risks for the employee, organisation and society.

This book reports on original research and practical findings fostering resilient and sustainable transportation systems in response to the climate crisis.

This book is the eleventh volume of a sub-series on Road Vehicle Automation, published as part of the Lecture Notes in Mobility.

An examination of the role and struggles of dockworkers-enslaved and free-in Charleston between the American Revolution and the Civil WarWorking on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers-black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant-in Charleston, South Carolina, between the American Revolution and Civil War.

If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present.

Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore.

South China Sea (SCS) issues are complex and dynamic, ranging from historic claims to present day military occupation, from military security to regional stability, from rhetorical appeasements to national interests, from intraregional competition to extraregional involvement.

Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles evaluates various technologies and methods that could improve the fuel economy of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, such as tractor-trailers, transit buses, and work trucks.

International Freight Transport presents the key changes and issues in the fast-moving industries of trade and transport.

To improve screening of containerized cargo for nuclear and radiological material that might be entering the United States, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking to deploy new radiation detectors, called advanced spectroscopic portals (ASPs).

Modern societies rely upon prodigious amounts of oil for transport activity.

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.

Decision-making on outsourcing new product development (especially innovation projects), such as engaging and managing the supply chain, is far from easy.

As the first study to document the Baghdad Railway construction, rather than the rhetoric surrounding it, this work challenges nearly a century of scholarship on German imperialism and Ottoman decline--scholarship that has too often hinged on the alleged Great Power victimization of the Ottoman Empire.