Transport industries

Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel.

Selecting the right aircraft for an airline operation is a vastly complex process, involving a multitude of skills and considerable knowledge of the business.

Selecting the right aircraft for an airline operation is a vastly complex process, involving a multitude of skills and considerable knowledge of the business.

Car Troubles central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematized.

Car Troubles central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematized.

Within the developed world, airlines have responded to the advice of advocates for corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) to use the intertwined dimensions of economics, society and environment to guide their business activities.

Within the developed world, airlines have responded to the advice of advocates for corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) to use the intertwined dimensions of economics, society and environment to guide their business activities.

City and state governments around the world are struggling to achieve environmentally sustainable transport.

City and state governments around the world are struggling to achieve environmentally sustainable transport.

How can the social sciences help us to understand the past, present and potential futures of cycling?

How can the social sciences help us to understand the past, present and potential futures of cycling?

Discussing the concept of mobility at large and that of spatial mobilities in particular, this book makes the case for daily spatial mobilities as a distinct type of mobility and explores this concept from a variety of perspectives.

Discussing the concept of mobility at large and that of spatial mobilities in particular, this book makes the case for daily spatial mobilities as a distinct type of mobility and explores this concept from a variety of perspectives.

The central premise of Design for Transport is that the designer's role is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user.

The central premise of Design for Transport is that the designer's role is to approach design for transport from the point of view of the user.

Many books focus on individual differences and how those relate to traffic safety such as accident proneness, gender differences, age, alcohol, and the effects of drugs.

Many books focus on individual differences and how those relate to traffic safety such as accident proneness, gender differences, age, alcohol, and the effects of drugs.

The public debate over civilian use of drones is intensifying.

The public debate over civilian use of drones is intensifying.

This book discusses several methodological problems in traffic psychology which are not currently recognized as such.

This book discusses several methodological problems in traffic psychology which are not currently recognized as such.

This book, the first full-length text on the subject, explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car.

This book, the first full-length text on the subject, explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car.

This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952).

This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952).

The purpose of this book is twofold.

The purpose of this book is twofold.

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

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

The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale.

The coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale.

The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivity of city-regions on the one hand and knowledge generation in these city-regions on the other hand.

The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivity of city-regions on the one hand and knowledge generation in these city-regions on the other hand.

European cities increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic.

European cities increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic.

In a world seeking to tackle global environmental problems such as climate change, the importance of local and national institutional change to deal most effectively with these issues is critical.

In a world seeking to tackle global environmental problems such as climate change, the importance of local and national institutional change to deal most effectively with these issues is critical.

While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood.

While the operational realities of intermodal transport are relatively well known, the institutional challenges are less well understood.

With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed.

With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed.

Much work has been done on port governance yet little has addressed intermodal terminal governance, despite the clear similarities.

Much work has been done on port governance yet little has addressed intermodal terminal governance, despite the clear similarities.

Business travel has become indispensable to the global economy, not only due to its necessity in the maintaining of corporate networks, but also because of the associated economies that cater to the daily requirements of the business traveller.

Business travel has become indispensable to the global economy, not only due to its necessity in the maintaining of corporate networks, but also because of the associated economies that cater to the daily requirements of the business traveller.

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.

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.

Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows.

Our world is unquestionably one in which ubiquitous movements of people, goods, technologies, media, money, and ideas produce systems of flows.

Bringing together the leading authors currently working at the intersection of social science and transport science, this volume provides a companion to the well-established and extensive international Transport and Society series.