Transport: general interest

Have you ever dreamed of being able to change your destiny?

Why do we have airlines?

This is an economic analysis of pricing and subsidy policies for urban roads and urban public transit in Ontario.

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This is an economic analysis of pricing and subsidy policies for urban roads and urban public transit in Ontario.

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The history of the north-shore railways provides a case study in the complexities of industrial development in nineteenth-century Quebec.

The history of the north-shore railways provides a case study in the complexities of industrial development in nineteenth-century Quebec.

Construction is normally the largest of a nation's industries and the use of concrete exceeds by far the use of all other construction materials combined.

The growth of aviation and the increasing size and power of aircraft has made aerodynamic noise a major problem for society.

Railways presented nineteenth century governments with political as well as economic problems: their inherently monopolistic tendencies were recognized almost from the start.

In 1804 an Ojibwa named Ogetonicut was facing trial in Upper Canada for the murder of a white settler.

Few industries in Canada have developed as quickly, or under as much government control, as air transport.

Among the many twentieth-century explosions in technology that have made the world into a global village, few have had tangible or far-reaching an impact as aviation.

The SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent storm with some 200 people aboard was later remembered as ';New England's Titanic.

This is a story about one man's lifelong passion and commitment to flight, starting as a teenager and detailing the intense process of learning to fly in Piper Cubs, then sharing the many experiences of flight with its joys and sorrows as experienced by the author over a sixty-five year span.

Road Warriors Life Lessons is an inspiration.

Despite repeated assurances that flying is safe, hardly a day goes by without a fatal aircraft crash.

A text which focuses on the relationship of local politicians and professional planners in the planning process, adopting a conceptual framework within which a series of case studies is analysed.

Drawing on transit experience from various countries and markets, this book examines the economic environment of transit operations, the cost and production properties of transit service supply and the policies and prospects of transit regulatory reform.

This volume presents the report of the Pacem in Maribus Conference on Ports as Nodal Points in the Global Transport System held in Rotterdam in August 1990.

A work of reference to the sources of statistical material of all kinds, both official and unofficial, on rail and sea transport.

Current Aeronautical Fatigue Problems contains the papers presented at the Symposium on Current Aeronautical Fatigue Problems, held in Rome in April 1963.

Marine Auxiliary Machinery, Seventh Edition is a 16-chapter text that covers the significant advances in marine auxiliary machinery relevant to the certification of competency examinations.

Productivity in U.

Cargo Handling and the Modern Port covers various concerns in the handling of goods in a contemporary port.

Transport Sociology: Social Aspects of Transport Planning focuses on the importance of an efficient transport plan in ensuring order in neighborhoods and social functions, as well as management and control of the environmental impacts of transport systems in communities and cities.

Strategic Planning in London: The Rise and Fall of the Primary Road Network examines the relationship between order and change in the urban planning process.

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.

Rikisha to Rapid Transit: Urban Public Transport Systems and Policy in Southeast Asia examines the historical development of urban public transport systems and policy in Southeast Asia.

Aircraft Fatigue: Design, Operational and Economic Aspects contains the proceedings of the "e;"e;Symposium on Aircraft Fatigue-Design, Operational and Economic Aspects,"e;"e; held in Melbourne, Australia, on May 22-24, 1967.

Traffic Planning and Engineering, Second Edition takes into account underlying trends in traffic planning and engineering.

Ever since the invention of the locomotive generations of people have been fascinated by railways and its myriad images and sounds, the rhythmic puffing of the steam locomotive, the sound of trains negotiating curves or entering and emerging from tunnels, the sight of smoke billowing out of the chimney of the locomotive forming a cloud over the train and so on.

The Construction of Bridge is one of the most difficult sciences in civil engineering field.

How can a CEO spend creative energy to improve the performance of his organization instead of spending patch-up energy to quick-fix symptoms of problems?

A globally customizable infrastructure plan can be adapted for other countries in minimal expenses, time, and changes.

A globally customizable infrastructure plan can be adapted for other countries in minimal expenses, time, and changes.

Steam Trains and Jigsaw Puzzles strikes most people as an intriguing title.

When Peter took charge of the flight deck of the 777 and took off from Beijing airport, there was nothing to suggest that this trip would be anything other than a routine flight of the sort he had made so many times before.

What constitutes a community?

Tony Garcia Jr.

The New Science of the UFO now completes author and researcher Kenneth W.

In the fifties, with the occupation of Japan.

Lee Gutkind's memoir of motorcycling, and an ode to the solitude, independence, and exhilaration of the open roadFew things loom as large in our imaginations as the idea of a cross-country trip, exposed to the elements and open to whatever challenges lie around the bend.

Whether for the newcomer to the vehicle sales industry, theexperienced salesperson or the dealership principal with awell-established business, Winning Ways in Vehicle Sales is ahighly practical handbook that provides a wealth of hands-oninformation to catapult any auto sales business from good togreat.

This fascinating story explains how aviation crashes are investigated, and what goes on behind the scenes to improve safety.

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It is 1936, and BEN FINDLAY, a 16-year-old Michigan farm boy, wanders to a local airport to escape his abusive father.

From the moment when the launching of HMS Dreadnought made every capital ship in the world obsolete overnight, we have been fascinated with these powerful surface combatants.