Transport industries

The regulation of modern civil aviation can be traced back to the later years of the Second World War.

This is the first book to cover the Global Marine Distress and Safety System (GDMSS) in a comprehensive and readable way.

The SAGE Handbook of Transport Studies is an authoritative survey of contemporary transportation systems examined in terms of economic, social, and technical issues, as well as environmental challenges.

This book explores how transportation models can play a role in a changing transport planning and policy making context.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the changes and development of the civil international aircraft/aviation industry.

The regulation of modern civil aviation can be traced back to the later years of the Second World War.

The modern shipping industry has reached maturity; market demand and landscape shifts force industry agents to find new pathways to successful development.

High Speed Rail's (HSR) main objective is to attract air passengers between big metropolitan areas however the main territorial implications in many cases occur not in these metropolitan areas but in the intermediate cities.

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.

A primary mission of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the assurance of safety in civil aviation, both private and commercial.

The Routledge Handbook of Commercial Space Law provides a definitive survey of the transitions and adjustments across the stakeholder community contributing to outer space activities.

In Psychology and Human Performance in Space Programs: Research at the Frontier, leading space researchers from multiple fields of expertise summarize the recent growth of knowledge, the resulting tools and techniques, and the research still needed to protect humans in space.

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

Inventing Mobility For All: Mastering Mobility-as-a-Service with Self-Driving Vehicles explores 'Mobility-as-a-Service' and explains the impact of this mobility concept on social and societal life, as well as on global travel behaviours.

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.

If human error only starts to explain how accidents happen in complex, adaptive systems, what does the rest of the explanation look like?

The industry known as "e;general aviation"e;--encompassing all flying outside of the military and commercial airlines--dates from the early days of powered flight.

The Geography of the Port of London (1957) deals with the mid-century functions of the port studied in relation to their physical setting and in the light of their historical development.

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

DHL: From Startup to Global Upstart is the story of a startup that became the first worldwide logistics service organization, fighting regulation, trade restrictions, customs, and many other technical issues to develop processes that have stood the test of time to become the accepted norm in delivery throughout the world.

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

By their very nature, construction projects can create seemingly endless opportunities for conflict.

A Short Economic and Social History of Twentieth Century Britain (1968) overcomes the statistical complexities of the twentieth century by establishing long-term social and economic trends to provide a succinct analysis of Twentieth Century Britain.

A comprehensive treatment of the mechanics of multilayers and its implications for reliability, with easy-to-use software to compute key results.

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

For civil aviation to progress it has never been just about technology and business practices.

This title was first published in 2002: There is a multitude of assessment methods available for analyzing and reporting on the impacts of policies, all with different underlying assumptions and a wide range of criteria.

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.

Transport managers perform an essential and rewarding function in society, controlling the infrastructure that allows people and goods to move around conveniently and swiftly.

Soviet Agriculture in Perspective (1969) examines the framework within which Soviet agriculture had to operate from the start: the dilemma of a revolutionary regime in a backward peasant country, the straightjacket of a bureaucratic system inherited from Tsarism, made even more rigid by the internal tensions of the new society, and the imperative needs of economic development.

This work applies the theory and techniques of economic efficiency measurement to the realistic context of the ports industry.

Privatization began in the 1970s with Carter's deregulation of some business, and increased with the Thatcher administration in the United Kingdom, the Reagan administration in the United States, and many communist and socialist countries.

The Autonomous Vehicle (AV) has been strongly heralded as the most exciting innovation in automobility for decades.

How can the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), the nation's newest federal statistical agency, contribute to the work of the U.

Why are the airlines always in a crisis?

Green Construction is a specialized and skilled profession, and the author has extensive experience in this field.

The drone industry is one of the most exciting and dynamic sectors in the modern world, growing and developing at an exponential pace.

Practically everybody in the community uses the transport system, and an eighth of personal consumption expenditure in Britain is spent on transport.

Remedies are vital in commercial litigation.

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

In the last decade many countries turned to private sources to provide services formerly offered by public agencies.