Transport industries

This book takes an interdisciplinary, institutional, and historically informed approach to the economics of transport, providing a more nuanced and complete understanding of human transport choices, individually and collectively, and the related choice of location, including the formation of cities.

Ohne Logistik ist unser tägliches Leben unmöglich geworden, ohne Logistik gäbe es keine Globalisierung.

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.

This collection of edited papers, first published in 1990, has two broad sets of objectives.

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.

Maps have long held a fascination for travellers and would-be travellers alike.

This volume is the second 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.

Incorporates More Than 25 Years of Research and ExperienceRailway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation presents a comprehensive overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems, from design through to construction and operation.

This text is among the first to reveal the intricacies of an airline's Operations Control Centre; especially the thought processes, information flows, and strategies taken to mitigate disruptions.

This work examines the causes of airplane accidents and what private and public policies are needed to improve aviation safety.

Transformations in Mobility provides a panoramic overview of the changing mobility business landscape, helping transportation leaders and consultants make sense of the most important trends, challenges and opportunities impacting this sector.

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

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.

Do you ever wonder why an airline's communication strategy can crash and burn in a crisis?

A restorative just culture has become a core aspiration for many organizations in healthcare and elsewhere.

Spurred by global macro-economic shifts, commercial and financial turbulence, as well as technological leaps in the early years of the new millennium, the Danish shipping industry has changed dramatically since the turn of the century.

We live in a world that is ever on the move, as is increasingly recognised within research on mobilities.

Title first published in 2003.

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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.

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

This book, first published in 1974, provides a comprehensive review of the application of economic concepts to the appraisal of transport systems.

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

Sea freight remains overwhelmingly the most common form of transport for goods globally.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Why do organisations decline, and what happens when they do?

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

This book offers a novel explanation of the transformation of London's transport from a free market to a public corporation rooted in social and political legitimacy rather than economic rationality.

While change in the aviation sector is hardly a new phenomenon, going forward the rate of change will accelerate due to the emergence, convergence, and intersection of powerful internal and external forces.

Inland waterways are a host for a mode of transport that is not as visible to the general public or as used as it once was.

Control in Transportation Systems covers the proceedings of the Fourth International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)/International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)/International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) Conference on Control in Transportation Systems.

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

Road passenger transport management is an important role, involving the planning and coordinating of passenger transport operations, including routes and schedules.

This book describes the main classical combinatorial problems that can be encountered when designing a logistics network or driving a supply chain.

Ideal for researchers and practitioners looking for fresh approaches to transport problems, this book combines cutting-edge qualitative and quantitative knowledge to inform transport futures.

Women play an essential role in the transport workforce worldwide, working in formal and informal jobs in public transport, road freight and logistics, rail, maritime and aviation sectors, in ports and in active travel.

The aviation industry is being transformed by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones - commercially, militarily, scientifically and recreationally.

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

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.

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

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

A transportation indicator is a measure of change over time in the transportation system or in its social, economic, environmental, or other effects.

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