Transport industries Books
Indiana University Press John W. Barriger III
Book SynopsisIn John W. Barriger III: Railroad Legend, historian H. Roger Grant details the fascinating life and impact of a transportation tycoon and "doctor of sick railroads" and his role in transforming the transportation industry.Trade Review"In this volume, noted author and historian H. Roger Grant traces the interesting life and 50-plus-year career of John W. Barriger III, known in some circles as the "doctor of sick railroads." * The Michigan Railfan *Thanks to Roger Grant's latest book, Barriger and his amazing legacy endures, waiting to be rediscovered by a new generation of readers. Trust me, you'll learn a lot. * Classic Trains *Grant tells the story of this visionary leader quite well. Readers will find in his biography an extraordinary tale of the travails of twentieth-century railroading through the career of this one man. * The Annals of Iowa *H. Roger Grant's biography, John W. Barriger III, offers a new and much needed perspective on this prominent individual. Grant brings together an overview of Barriger's carrer developments with an appropriate balance of insights into his early life and introduction to railraods. -- Thomas C. Cornillie * Journal of Transport History *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Early Life and Career2. Government Man3. Monon4. Transition Years5. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie6. Missouri, Kansas and Texas7. More RetirementsEpilogue
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Indiana University Press Last Train to Texas
Book Synopsis1) Behind the scenes look at the railroad industry from an industry insider. 2) Features stories and history of railroad owners, conductors, and others throughout the past four decades. 3) Author is very well known in the railroad industry and is interested in events. 4) Railroad memoirs have sold well for IUP.Trade ReviewLast Train to Texas depicts modern railroading, warts and all, though a fascinating amalgam of stories. Readers finish understanding Frailey's love of railroading because of the breadth of his narratives. -- Mark Lardas * The Daily News Galveston *...a terrific read, a collection of short, snappy essays that mirror Fred's ceaseless curiosity about not only the business of railroading, but more importantly its people. -- Kevin Keefe * Trains Magazine *This book is more than just about a rail line re-birth in Nowheresville, Texas. Rather, it is an outstanding anthology of 46 short stores compiled by Fred Frailey recounting his rail adventures over the past four decades. The author's writing style is contemporary, straightforward, and entertaining with its clever wit. -- David J Mrozek * The Michigan Railfan *"...this book is a pleasent diversion, perfect for pool-side reading. Longtime followers of Fred W. Frailey will want to read this book." -- Bill Hough * The NRHS Bulletin *Table of ContentsForeword by Thomas G. HobackPart I: Running the Railroads1. President Carter to the Rescue2. The Man You Never Wanted to Cross3. Watch Rob Run4. Thinking Outside the Container5. The World According to Mcclellan6. The Saga of 'Pisser Bill'7. A Man in Full8. Mike Haverty's Long Shadow9. How to Go Boots Up in Railroading10. The Battles of Powder River11. When Lou Menk Saved a Zephyr12. Inside the Mind of Michael Ward13. The Legacy of Hunter Harrison14. A Battle for Supremacy in the WestPart II: Travels around Trains15. The Cocoon of a Long-Distance Train16. No Place for Man or Beast . . . or Train17. The Ladies from Cork Are Aghast18. Crossing the Country in a Blur19. Ode to a Coach Yard20. By Train to the End of the Earth21. Pencil-Whipping Train 10122. I Plead the Fifth23. My Prestigious Experience24. The Late, Late Train25. The Train to Cordoba26. You Gotta Love the Soo Line27. New York City, Then28. New York City, Now29. Best Little Railroad in Effingham30. Last Train to Texas31. Railroading in a Fiery Furnace32. Night Train to NowherePart III: Kicking the Train Down the Tracks33. Miss Katy's Funny Pieces of Paper34. Moments I'd Rather Forget35. The Timeless Clovis Sub36. What's the Matter with Florida?37. The Brain Drain38. A Little Drawbridge that Couldn't39. That Commodore Vanderbilt Feeling40. The Ageless World of Stan Kistler41. Saturday Night Fever42. Who Really Saved Illinois Central43. Why You May Yet Read by Candlelight44. 14th Street at Night45. The Wreck of Old 5446. The Mother of All Traffic Jams
£23.74
MH - Indiana University Press The Men Who Loved Trains
Book SynopsisIntrigue, greed, lust for power, boardroom battles, and takeover warsTrade ReviewThe Men Who Loved Trains is a riveting morality story of intrigues, boardroom battles, corporate takeovers, and secret cabals aiming for control of a large part of America's transport system. A rare behind-the-scenes story of an epic battle over power and personal gain. * Marshall Loeb, columnist for Dow Jones's MoneyWatch and former editor of Fortune and Money magazines *The men who loved trains deserve a writer who loves them as well. This excellent book is a perfect match of subject and author. -- Carol Loomis * Fortune *This absorbing book takes you on an entertaining ride through the train wars of the last 30 years. It is filled with intrigue and backbiting in the executive suites and with stories of how the railroaders got away with unbelievable waste—until it all caught up with them. -- William Neikirk * Chicago Tribune *This fascinating volume by Rush Loving details the painful re-shaping process that the railroads in the northeast underwent over the past four decades. -- David J. Mrozek * Michigan Railfan *Table of ContentsPreface1. The Forrest Gump of Railroading2. Meeting the Blue-Eyed Jew from Minnesota3. A Cabal at the Greenbrier4. The Portly Virginia Gentleman5. An Eleventh Hour Surprise6. "Where the Hell Is Harrisburg?"7. Cooking the Books8. "That Telephone Man"9. The Granddaddy of Enron10. Some High Society Sex11. "They Are Going to Run Out of Cash"12. The Scandals Unfold13. Booted Off the Property14. A School Band on the Railroad Tracks15. The Unsinkable Chief Wawatam16. Donning the Mantle of Moses17. Merging Railroads over Bourbon18. Selling the Shiny Silver Sphere19. "God Save Me from the Planners and Thinkers!"20. Son of Penn Central21. "Why the Hell Do We Need Four Tracks Out Here?"22. Girding for Battle23. "We Will Fight with Every Means at Our Disposal"24. John Snow, CEO25. A Catalog of Blunders26. "I Think We Want to Be Seen as Somewhat Crazy"27. In the Betrayal Suite28. The Day the Horse Fell DownIndex
£21.59
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Last Train to Auschwitz The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability
Book SynopsisGrounded in history and case law, Last Train to Auschwitz traces the SNCF's journey toward accountability in France and the United States, culminating in a multimillion-dollar settlement paid by the French government on behalf of the railways.Trade ReviewAn excellent, well-written, original contribution to a growing field of business and human rights. Last Train to Auschwitz engagingly weaves together victims' narratives and historical and legal archives to provide a compelling contribution to the study of corporate accountability and transitional justice."" - Leigh Payne, University of Oxford ""A pathbreaking book on Holocaust memory. Setting the SNCF struggle with its past into a transatlantic exchange, Federman has written an integrated history of an unfinished controversy that has already lasted more than thirty years. An important work for understanding the role of businesses in transitional justice."" - Jean-Marc Dreyfus, University of Manchester
£60.00
WW Norton & Co Full Upright and Locked Position
Book SynopsisSit back, relax, and enjoy the flight, our pilots still intone. But who are they kidding?Trade Review"Fact-packed and engaging." -- Wall Street Journal"Anyone who wonders why they are always in the last boarding group—regardless of seat assignment—should read Full Upright and Locked Position." -- Patricia Harris - Boston Globe"Intriguing… Resonant… a narrative that is part lifting of the veil and part condemnation of commercial airlines’ loss of soul." -- Christine Thomas - Miami Herald"A spellbinder on the state of aviation and its discontents." -- Gerry Wingenbach - Flyertalk.com"Mark Gerchick demonstrates a comprehensive grasp of the aviation system: economics, safety, politics, and the passenger experience. His grasp of aviation safety (i.e., what should you worry about?) is especially compelling. Any air traveler will find Full Upright and Locked Position lively, interesting, and informative reading." -- Carol J. Carmody, former vice-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)"I fully expect that some day soon I’ll be on a flight where every passenger is reading the same book: Full Upright and Locked Position. It won’t make the plane seem any less cramped, or the pricing or schedule policies any less maddening, or the security any easier to deal with. But Mark Gerchick’s clarity, knowledge, and humor will give everyone a better sense of how American air travel became such a joyless (though safe) ordeal, and what hope there is ahead." -- James Fallows, author of China Airborne and national correspondent for The Atlantic"Illuminating…The insights provided will make the turbulence a little easier to bear." -- Publishers Weekly"A thorough disclosure on today’s airlines and the passengers who use them—best read while still on the ground." -- Kirkus Reviews
£12.34
WW Norton & Co Super Pumped
Book SynopsisA The New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era.Trade Review"If you want to understand modern-day Silicon Valley, you need to read this book. The tale of Uber, the queen of the so-called ‘unicorns,’ is a parable about power—and the lengths to which some startup founders will go to amass it and hold onto it. Aside from being a delicious read, Mike Isaac’s account is also teeming with new revelations that will shock and outrage you." -- John Carreyrou"Travis Kalanick changed an entire industry, made billions of dollars, and made a company into a verb, and he did so by destroying anything and anyone who stepped in his way. A riveting read about bro culture gone awry." -- Nick Bilton - Vanity Fair"Mike Isaac reveals the toe-curling tale of how Travis Kalanick drove a revolutionary taxi app to global success — and the brink." -- The Sunday Times"This forensic account of the rise and fall of Kalanick is a great “behind the headlines” read for Valley types." -- The Sunday Times"[Isaac] spins a compelling yarn that chronicles the transit company’s unruly development into… a publicly traded, billion-dollar global behemoth, often aided by spying on competitors and outwitting transportation regulators… [Super Pumped] is no dry business profile but a tale that Isaac has deeply reported yet still made accessible." -- William Nottingham - Los Angeles Times"... entertaining and well-researched book..." -- Business Book of the Year 2019 - The Sunday Times"What makes ‘Super Pumped' different, and justifies its description as a page-turner rather than a dry corporate history, is the visceral world in which Kalanick was determined to operate. It’s a gripping account of Uber’s rapid rise, its pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers, the company’s toxic internal culture and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance." -- Engineering and Technology"Isaac is great at the ticktock of events as they unfold, but his best work comes when he steps back to examine the bigger picture." -- Leslie Berlin - The New York Times Book Review"[Isaac’s] meticulously reported account of Uber’s trajectory avoids the easy paths." -- Nitasha Tiku - Wired"... if you want to understand how some of Silicon Valley’s biggest players tick, this is the book for you." -- City AM"Tenacious New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac chronicles the dramatic rise, fall and subsequent hand-wringing at the world’s most controversial start-up." -- Best tech Christmas gift ideas for 2019 - inews"Mike Isaac’s dramatic account of the rise and fall of Uber at the hands of founder Travis Kalanick is all thriller." -- Festive Wish List: Tech Books 2019 - The Evening Standard
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Environmental Impact of Railways
Book SynopsisA renaissance in railways and the formal recognition of environmental priorities are both features of the last quarter of the twentieth century, but relatively little has been published about the individual and collective environmental impacts of railways. There is an urgent need to address the subject comprehensively. New railways are being planned in many countries and environmental assessment has become an essential element of planning. Most of the impacts of railways have existed for well over a hundred years and many of these continue to be relevant today. Some new issues, such as the operation of very fast trains or the routeing of tracks to carry them, require special attention. This book brings together the main planning and management issues concerning the way railways, established, newly-constructed, or upgraded, have an impact on the environment. It provides a step-by-step assessment of how the engineer, planner, environmental manager, transport specialist or railway operatoTable of ContentsRAILWAYS AND PLANNING. Environmental Planning. Railway Planning. Passenger Traffic. Freight. IMPACTS ON PEOPLE. Social Impacts and Public Perception. Noise and Vibration. Pollution. Visual Impacts. Construction. IMPACTS ON RESOURCES. Resource Use and Route Selection. Residential, Commercial and Productive Land. Nature Conservation. Heritage and Amenity. Railways in Scenic Landscape. Environmental Evaluation of Land Resources. PLANNING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. Environmental Rail Transport Solutions. References. Index.
£242.06
John Wiley & Sons Inc Transportation Network Analysis
Book SynopsisThe fabric of all societies is held together by networks of various kinds, such as water supply, energy supply, sewage disposal, communication and, perhaps most importantly, transportation.Table of ContentsPreface v 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation and approach 1 1.2 Network representation 2 1.3 Modes of travel 3 1.4 Network equilibrium 3 1.5 Generalised costs 5 1.6 Demand curves 6 1.7 Link cost functions 6 1.8 Supply curves 10 1.9 lntermodal equilibrium 12 1.10 User benefit and surplus 14 1.11 Time dependency 15 1.12 Structure of the book 15 2 Transportation Networks 17 2.1 Introduction 17 2.2 Network terminology 17 2.3 Transportation network types 19 2.4 Flow and cost variables 21 2.5 Incidence matrices 22 2.6 Conservation relationships 24 2.7 Shortest path algorithms 25 2.8 Path enumeration and column generation 29 2.9 Link choice probabilities 29 2.10 Utility maximisation and expected minimum cost 33 2.11 Network capacity 34 2.12 Space-time networks 34 2.13 Network equilibrium 37 2.14 Concluding remarks 40 3 Optimality 41 3.1 Introduction 41 3.2 Kinds of variable 41 3.3 Matrix operations 42 3.4 Objective functions 45 3.5 Constraints 47 3.6 Optimality conditions 49 3.7 Dual variables 51 3.8 Lagrangian equation 54 3.9 Sensitivities 56 3.10 Method of successive averages 59 3.11 Iterative balancing 59 3.12 Summary 61 3.13 Notation 65 4 Cost Functions 67 4.1 Introduction 67 4.2 Traffic representation 67 4.3 Link costs 68 4.4 Junction costs 72 4.5 Priority junctions 78 4.6 Signal controlled junctions 78 4.7 Discussion 82 5 Deterministic User Equilibrium Assignment 83 5.1 Introduction 83 5.2 Existence and uniqueness 86 5.3 Solution algorithms 89 5.4 Sensitivity 95 5.5 Most likely path flows 100 5.6 Elastic demand 102 5.7 lime-dependent networks 108 5.8 Discussion 111 6 Stochastic User Equilibrium Assignment 113 6.1 Introduction 113 6.2 Existence and uniqueness 115 6.3 A general equivalent optimisation problem 118 6.4 Logit assignment 120 6.5 Probit assignment 133 6.6 Sensitivity 134 6.7 Elastic demand 138 6.8 Space-time networks 140 6.9 Discussion 148 7 Trip Table Estimation 149 7.1 Introduction 149 7.2 Maximum entropy 150 7.3 An generalised least squares 155 7.4 Bi-level programming 156 7.5 Linear path flow estimation 160 7.6 Log-linear path flow estimation 164 7.7 lime-dependent methods 170 7.8 Conclusions 176 8 Network Reliability 179 8.1 Introduction 179 8.2 Connectivity 179 8.3 Structure function 180 8.4 Structure function and reliability value 183 8.5 Exact methods 185 8.6 Heuristic methods 186 8.7 Travel time reliability 191 8.8 Future challenges 192 9 Network Design 193 9.1 Introduction 193 9.2 Objective function 195 9.3 Bi-Level programming 196 9.4 Sensitivities 197 9.5 Numerical example 199 9.6 Conclusions 204 10 Conclusions 205 10.1 Network equilibrium 205 10.2 Traffic assignment 206 10.3 Path flow estimation 207 10.4 Network reliability 208 10.5 Network design 208 References 209 Index 215
£150.26
Wiley Modern Transport Geography 2 Rev
Book SynopsisThis book should be in the library of every transportation researcher. Ronald Sheck Intermodal and guideway research program director, Center for Urban Transportation Research, University of Florida There is no escape from transport. By sea, air, road or rail, we rely on transport to connect individuals, businesses and cities.Trade Review"This is an excellent textbook..." --Progress in Human Geography, January 2001Table of ContentsTransport Geography: An Introduction. Transport and Development: Theoretical Approaches. The Role of Transport in the Development Process. Transport Policy and Control. Transport and Environment. Urban Travel Patterns. Urban Transport Problems and Solutions. Inter-Urban Transport. Rural Areas: The Accessibility Problem. Transport for Tourism and Recreation. Bulk Freight Transport. Multimodal Freight Transport. International Surface Passenger Transport: Prospects and Potential. International Air Transport. Sustainability.
£87.26
University of California Press The Big Rig
Book SynopsisTrucking used to be one of the best working-class jobs in the United States. Drawing on more than 100 in-depth interviews and years of extensive observation, this book explains how this massive degradation in the quality of work has occurred, and how companies achieve a compliant and dedicated workforce despite it.Trade Review"The Big Rig is sure to become the touchstone study of U.S. trucking. Coupling fascinating accounts of personal struggles with sharp structural analyses linking these struggles to macroeconomic forces, it is the best kind of ethnographic sociology." * Men & Masculinities *"Engagingly written and very thorough... The Big Rig is a strong contribution to scholarship on work and occupations, economic sociology, and institutional analysis." * American Journal of Sociology *"Compelling... This rich ethnographic account is grounded in sociological inquiry of labor relations and age-old questions of capitalist interests and class struggle." * Contemporary Sociology *"This is a powerful and important book that brings clear insights into some of the machinations of contemporary American capitalism." -- Shane Hamilton, University of York * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Where Did All These Bad Jobs Come From? 1. The CDL Mill: Training the Professional Steering-Wheel Holder 2. Cheap Freight, Cheap Drivers: Work as a Long-Haul Trucker 3. The Big Rig: Running the Contractor Confidence Game 4. Working for the Truck: The Harsh Reality of Contracting 5. Someone to Turn To: Managing Contractors from an Arm’s Length Away 6. “No More Jimmy Hoff as”: Desperate Drivers and Divided Labor Appendix A. Data and Methods Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press The Filth of Progress
Book SynopsisFor more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological feats performed while canals and railroads were built and lionized the capitalists who financed the projects. This book focuses on the suffering and survival of the workers who were treated as outsiders.Trade Review"Despite navigating such huge geographical and cultural boundaries, The Filth of Progress is able to present a coherent history, which hardly veers off the main tracks of its arguments... an instant classic." * Oregon Historical Quarterly *"The Filth of Progress provides fresh insight into the United States' 19th-century infrastrastructure projects by illuminating their 'dark underbelly' . . . . Dearinger's success and originality lie in his comparative framework, which examines how Irish, Chinese, and Mormon and other native-born workers struggled for identity. . . . An excellent analysis." * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *"Dearinger has added a thoughtful and well-researched contribution to this genre of scholarship." * Labour/Le Travail *"An important contribution to American history and should have an exceptionally profound effect on our understandings of western history and the "transportation frontier" in particular." * Montana: The Magazine of Western History *"The Filth of Progress... [gives] voice to those absent from the official records: here Dearinger’s work triumphs and becomes a fascinating study of a tumultuous period of American history and the formation of American identity." * Journal of American Culture *"The Filth of Progress offers important directives for Gilded Age historians. It urges us to remember who built the infrastructure that defined the Gilded Age. It asks us to consider the legacies of their work in the last decades of the nineteenth century. It reminds us that creating the idea of progress was also laborious. And, in suggesting just how much Gilded Age ideas about nation, citizenship, masculinity, and work were shaped by omitting Irish, Mormon, and Chinese workers, it reminds us of the power and perils of forgetting." * Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era *"Dearinger builds upon the work of scholars such as Gunther Peck and Andrew Urban to reincorporate waged work, reframed in Western and global historiographical turns, within the newer history of capitalism that has tended to emphasize the importance of slavery, commodification, and finance. The Filth of Progress deserves a wide readership." * American Historical Review *"Dearinger illustrates how class, ethnicity, and gender intersected in workers’ quests to reorient their personal — and, perhaps, the nation’s — destiny." * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *"The Filth of Progress joins books such as Peter Way’s Common Labour (1993) in reclaiming the lives of unskilled common laborers. . . . Dearinger has produced a thoughtful and thought-provoking book that complements critical revisionist histories of nineteenth-century American development." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments 1 * "Bind the Republic Together": Canals, Railroads, and the Paradox of American Progress 2 * "A Wretched and Miserable Condition": Irish Ditchdiggers, the Triumph of Progress, and the Contest of Canal Communities in the Hoosier State 3 * "Abuse of the Labour and Lives of Men": Irish Construction Workers and the Violence of Progress on the Illinois Transportation Frontier 4 * "Hell (and Heaven) on Wheels": Mormons, Immigrants, and the Reconstruction of American Progress and Masculinity on the Transcontinental Railroad 5 * "The Greatest Monument of Human Labor": Chinese Immigrants, the Landscape of Progress, and the Work of Building and Celebrating the Transcontinental Railroad 6 * End-of-Track: Reflections on the History of Immigrant Labor and American Progress Notes BibliographyIndex
£22.50
University of California Press A Peoples History of SFO
Book SynopsisAn illuminating profile of the San Francisco Bay Area, and its regional and global influence, as seen from the focal point of San Francisco International Airport (SFO). A People's History of SFO uses the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to tell a multifaceted story of development, encounter, and power in the surrounding region from the eighteenth century to the present. In lively, engaging stories, Eric Porter reveals SFO's unique role in the San Francisco Bay Area's growth as a globally connected hub of commerce, technology innovation, and political, economic, and social influence. Starting with the very land SFO was built on, A People's History of SFO sees the airport as a microcosm of the forces at work in the Bay Areafrom its colonial history and early role in trade, mining, and agriculture to the economic growth, social sanctuary, and environmental transformations of the twentieth century. In ways both material and symbolic, small human acts have overlappeTrade Review"Inside the airport, you can’t literally see the past. Still, you might be able to commune with it when you read Eric Porter’s new lively book." * San Francisco Examiner *"Starting his history with the indigenous peoples and concluding with the airport’s impact on the environment in the twenty-first century Bay Area, Porter offers a history of the San Francisco airport deeply rooted in place and the iterative history of the Bay Area and its largest air transportation facility." * Pacific Historical Review *"This innovative, engaging book illuminates the extent to which a major urban airport can inform a spectrum of topics, in this case business promotion, labor relations, race relations, and environmental challenges. . . . The text offers a wealth of material on how important a large airport can be beyond serving as just a transportation hub." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Three Views of SFO 1. Out of the Mud 2. Making San Francisco Airport 3. Of Fighting Planes and Flowers 4. A Black Future in the Air Industry? 5. The Politics of Jet Noise 6. Differing Degrees of Welcome 7. Sanctuary’s Gateway 8. Shoreline Futures Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Transportation Economics
Book SynopsisUnlike any other book available, this collection uses a detailed analysis of econometric results from current transportation literature to provide an integrated collection of theory and application. Case studies are used to illustrate the economic principles developed, while testable hypotheses and economic results are highlighted throughout the text to provide a well-developed introduction to the foundations of transportation economics.Trade Review"Transportation Economics is an exceptionally well-done book which includes all the major points of interest in transportation economics and then some. McCarthy combines economic theory with econometric methods in a case-study approach and, in so doing, provides a comprehensive view of the entire field. The 'chapter highlights' are an excellent review of the ideas and topics presented. This is an excellent book for the upper-level undergraduate student and graduate student." Peter D. Loeb, Rutgers University. "This is a rigorous text providing a comprehensive coverage for both the student and the specialist in transportation economics. It is strongly recommended." Dr. Saad Yousif, Salford University.Table of ContentsPreface. 1. An overview of Transportation Acitivites. 2. Statistical Analysis of Economic Relations. 3. Transportation Demand - Divisible Goods Case. 4. Transportation Demand - Discrete Good Case. 5. Firm Production and Cost in Transportation - The Long Run. 6. Firm Produciton and Cost in Transportation - The Short Run. 7. Competition, Concentration and Market Power in Transportation. 8. Regulation, Deregulation, and Efficiency in Transportation. 9. Transportation Investment. 10. Welfare Effects of Public Sector Pricing and Investment. 11. Congestion Pricing. 12. Transportation and Land Use in Urban Areas. 13. Transportation Safety.
£45.55
Harvard University Press Black Jacks
Book SynopsisW. Jeffrey Bolster, master mariner and historian, shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America.Trade Review[A] first-rate contribution. Bolster…spent a decade pulling together for the first time two centuries of seaborne black history… [T]he book crackles with enough drama for many novels or plays. -- Carla Davidson * New York Times Book Review *For the past 10 years, W. Jeffrey Bolster…has labored obsessively to unearth the rich and long-forgotten history of America's black mariners. His newly published book…may prove the most instructive historical offering of the year. It reminds Americans that black seamen, like black cowboys, labored long and to great effect at one of the cultural linchpins of American history… [W]hat's most remarkable about Bolster's book is both the numbers of black sailors he found in the past and the extraordinary wealth of evidence documenting their lives. -- Ken Ringle * Washington Post *[An] extraordinary story… Bolster's writing is intelligent and strong, as he stresses his central point that the life of a black sailor in the age of sail was essentially a dignified one… Bolster argues convincingly that for any ambitious African American trapped in the plantation world of the Americas, the life of a maritime sailor represented a huge leap forward in circumstances and possibilities… The real achievement of Black Jacks is to remind us that black seafaring in the age of sail was not limited to the middle passage, and that black sailors were the eyes, the ears, and the mouthpieces of the African American community at a time when America was attempting to stifle the community's collective cry of outrage… Bolster shows us that for over a century, while seafaring remained a contemptible occupation for the white man, it was a noble occupation for the black man, and it played a central role in the creation of an African American identity. -- Caryl Phillips * New Republic *Himself a master mariner, Bolster presents us with an area of the African diaspora which as been overlooked even by scholars of African American history. His book is important at a number of levels. It is a most original piece of work, based on careful scholarship, yet it also tells a cracking yarn. The subject may seem, at first glance, marginal. In fact it is central, not least because all Africans who survived into the Americas had themselves endured a major maritime experience. We now know, thanks to Bolster, the degree to which maritime experiences formed a continuing theme in African American life from first conquest until the mid-19th century. -- James Walvin * Times Higher Education Supplement *Black Jacks is one of the most significant historical works published thus far in this decade. That it is about an important group of maritime workers—black seamen—is an added bonus. The fact that it is also a joy to read provides a third excellent reason to recommend this book… [It] is an exhaustively researched, beautifully written volume that cries out to be read by a broad cross-section of historians… All in all, this is a book worth owning and returning to repeatedly. Most important, it is that rare book that deserves to be savoured, literally and figuratively. In short, Black Jacks is a magnificent scholarly achievement that can be commended to readers with no serious reservations. -- Lewis R. Fischer * The Northern Mariner *This long-overdue book takes us on a voyage of discovery in what we thought were familiar waters as W. Jeffrey Bolster—a veteran seaman and University of New Hampshire associate professor of history—lifts our collective awareness of a little known maritime subject… Bolster eloquently articulates his keen knowledge of 18th- and 19th-century American sea history as it relates to those of African descent, slave and free, seamen, laborers, statesmen, and entrepreneurs… Black Jacks intellectually broadens our perspective by bringing this unsung saga to a bright light and its rightful position on American and sea history's horizons. -- Steven W. Jones * Sea History *This highly readable book and thoroughly researched study offers interesting details of shipboard racial interaction and surprising information on the reception afforded African Americans in Atlantic and Caribbean ports. -- John C. Walter * Seattle Times *A fascinating, untold, and important story. -- Geoffrey Elan * Yankee Magazine *This book is an excellent combination of scholarship and engagement, always informed by the author's first-hand knowledge of the sea. -- Frank McLynn * Literary Review *In Black Jacks, historian and master mariner W. Jeffrey Bolster tells the long-ignored story of black seamen in this country between 1740 and the end of the Civil War, revealing the critical role that they played in helping to forge a black identity. At the beginning of the this period, Anglo-American deep-sea labor was largely white, and virtually all sea-faring blacks were slaves. By the turn of the nineteenth century, almost one in five U.S. seamen were black, and most of them were free. And at the end of the period, the tide had turned again, and a combination of different factors squeezed most African-Americans out of the maritime labor force. Professor Bolster never loses sight of the larger picture, but he also recognizes the collection of compelling stories that he has gathered—stories of the famous (such as Frederick Douglass, who escaped from slavery disguised as a sailor), of the nameless, and of many more in between. * Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce *Black Jacks fills a big gap in Atlantic maritime history. It wonderfully describes the heretofore untold contributions of the tens of thousands of free and enslaved black men who served on board ships in the coastal trade and on deep-sea expeditions in the 18th and 19th centuries. Inspired by the tales of elderly black sailors in the Caribbean heard while he was a tall ship captain, Bolster vividly details the adventures and experiences of African American sailors throughout the seafaring world. * U.S. Magazine *Licensed master mariner Bolster writes a descriptively rich, engaging narrative of African American seafarers from the 1740s to the 1860s. He recounts how tens of thousands of African American sailors formed an important sector of the maritime labor force, shaped mariner culture and the identity of free black communities, and linked the Atlantic world of the black diaspora… This excellent study is highly recommended. * Library Journal *Many black sailors were sophisticated linguists, entrepreneurs in port, ready raconteurs; and Bolster draws from a range of literate, often lyrical voices in this little-known labor force… [A] well-researched book. * Publishers Weekly *In Black Jacks, W. Jeffrey Bolster tells an almost unknown side of blacks and the sea, stories of African American slaves, free men, and runaways who worked as seamen from 1740 to 1865. It's the story, he says, of a phenomenon that in all the generally accepted books and museum exhibits was basically being ignored… [Black Jacks] is thoroughly researched and documented. But Bolster knows that history is story, and he has turned out a highly readable book that focuses on the lives of many remarkable men. The black sailors' dedication to freedom is a recurring theme of the book… Black sailors brought the news of the world, especially the black world, to the plantation slaves when they stopped to pick up or discharge goods, giving the isolated slaves a sense of being part of a much larger community. They provided role models of pride and independence to those who felt beaten down by the rigors of slavery. And they frequently hid slaves aboard their vessels, enabling them to escape to freedom. As Bolster says in his conclusion, black sailors 'contributed to a larger sense of black collectivity… [They] were crucial cultural mediators in the creation of black America.' -- Pat Parnell * King George Journal *Ten years were spent in researching and writing Black Jacks, and the result is a major contribution to African-American and American maritime histories. It is unlikely that readers of the book will ever again limit their view of slavery to field hands and domestics or associate blacks at sea only as victims of the dreaded Middle Passage. The overwhelming number of black seamen prior to the American revolution were slaves… In vivid detail, this book relates the contributions black jacks made to African-American society as sources of pride in accomplishment, as dispensers of knowledge of a world beyond the sea, and as contributors to the formation of a distinctive black culture in America. Bolster has produced a work of sound scholarship that tells a very important story in a most exciting fashion. -- Frederick M. Binder * Journal of the Early Republic *Jeffrey Bolster's personal seafaring experience lends vibrance to his gorgeously detailed account Black Jacks. This deserving analysis of Africa-American sailors, who totaled twenty thousand men and composed one fifth of the United States' maritime labor force by the early nineteenth century, illustrates important ways of conceptualizing both early African-American and maritime history… These is no doubt that Black Jacks will have a powerful impact on the field. Bolster's portrayal of maritime work culture is a significant contribution to our understanding of early African-American work settings. His imaginative research and use of sources, neglected in this review, set a high standard for future work in maritime history. Most importantly, as interest in the fields of both African-American and Atlantic history continues to surge, Bolster has written the best overall assessment to date of African-American seafarers. Black Jacks introduces Bolster as an important figure in these vibrant fields of research. -- Thomas Buchanan * Journal of Social History *W. Jeffrey Bolster charts new ground by examining in detail the role and experiences of African-American seamen in a crucial phase of American history. To support his main argument that 'the rise and fall of African American seafaring in the age of sail was central to the creation of black America,' Bolster skillfully teases out from numerous primary sources material on African-American mariners in Africa and the diaspora… [His] important book provides a fascinating glimpse of the experiences of African-American seamen. His interesting and detailed description of the thousands of captured black sailors held at Dartmoor Prison during the War of 1812 recalls the dangers that often accompanied these individuals, for whom no eighteenth or nineteenth-century society had a clearly defined legal position. Rather than being simply maritime history, this is social history at its most eloquent… By successfully mining many traditional sources, [Bolster] has helped us understand the multifaceted nature of the African-American community. -- Edward L. Cox * American Historical Review *Almost nothing has been set down on the important role both slaves and free blacks played in the maritime trades in the 18th and early 19th centuries… Jeffrey Bolster has now moved to fill that notable gap with a volume sure to make its mark in maritime history. Well researched, carefully documented, precise in its distinctions and pleasantly readable, this book will stand as a tribute to America's seagoing blacks, as well as to its author… As a bonus—reflective of Bolster's 10 years at sea—it vividly portrays life before the mast… For a vicarious experience of life on a sailing vessel…during America's days of sailing glory, this book is the one to read. -- James M. Morris * Daily Press (Hampton Roads, VA) *Black Jacks is more than the story of African American seafarers between 1740 and 1865. It is a vivid account of the fluid and multi-dimensional nature of black identity… Bolster's book is a marvelous and readable account of a previously neglected segment of American history. It convincingly forces us to reconsider the roles blacks played in forging the modern identity of America. Take together with Luraghi's History of the Confederate Navy, these important studies are worthy additions to the bookshelf of anyone who professes an interest in southern history. -- Gene A. Smith * Journal of Southwest Georgia History *From time to time, a new book picks up a long-neglected thread of history and carefully traces the way it is delicately interwoven with the rest of the fabric. To read such a work is not only to appreciate the author's skill and perception, it is to never look at the fabric the same way again. Such a book is Black Jacks, by W. Jeffrey Bolster, seaman and historian… A careful researcher and a level-headed writer, he offers perceptions that bring this history alive. -- Tom Jackson * WoodenBoat Review *Black Jacks investigates a substantial and largely unexamined African American presence aboard Anglo-American coasting craft, 'blue water' merchants, privateers, pirate ships, whalers and naval vessels… Specialist and general readers will surely share Bolster's sense of the importance of his subject and warm to his lively and evocative presentation. -- Peter Thompson * English Historical Review *Black Jacks places sailors of color squarely at the center of Atlantic maritime culture. W. Jeffrey Bolster deserves our thanks for recovering an exciting, essential chapter in African-American history, one that not only deepens our appreciation for the roles black men played (as both able seamen and buccaneers), but also vividly demonstrates the fluidity and multi-dimensional complexity of black identity. -- Charles Johnson, author of Middle PassageBolster's own long experience as a seaman adds a note of realism and color to his fine descriptions of life aboard the early sailing ships. His extensive research has given him a notably sensitive understanding of the precarious lives led by black sailors, both at sea and ashore. He has breathed new life into the neglected history of black mariners, both slave and free. This story has remained too long untold. -- Gerald E. Thomas, Rear Admiral, U.S. NavyOne more of the gaps in African-American history has been filled, thanks to Jeffrey Bolster's book, Black Jacks. Here, Jacks is short for jacktar ('colloq., sailor'). In any given year between 1800 and 1850, Bolster estimates, shipping employed more than 100,000 American males; one-fifth were black… [This] is a seamark book. -- James H. Bready * Baltimore Sun *W. Jeffrey Bolster's purpose here is to urge people to rethink black maritime history… [He] admirably reveals the richness of Africa's legacy to America as it was fashioned over centuries by mariners who endured deprivation and hardship but seized their opportunities with imagination and courage. -- Sari Hornstein * William and Mary Quarterly *Black Jacks is a work of energy, imagination, and deep knowledge of a central experience in African-American history. It exudes Jeffrey Bolster's engagement with the subject, imbuing the history of black sailors with something of the mildewed stench of the forecastle and the bracing aromas of the open sea, the harsh realities of shipboard tyranny and the liberating possibilities of the sea. It will quickly become a central work in African-American history. -- Ira Berlin, University of Maryland at College ParkThis book breaks new ground in seeking to explore and explain trends in employment of blacks, free and enslaved, in the American merchant fleet up to the Civil War… Both maritime historians and historians of American slavery will learn much from Jeffrey Bolster's most useful study. -- David Richardson * Labour History Review *This deeply researched and elegantly written book…is impressive…an important…substantial work of historical scholarship. Students of early America, African America, slavery, and maritime history cannot afford to ignore it. -- Frank Cogliano * Borderlines *This marvelously rich study of a scarcely known, but critically important, aspect of American maritime history will surprise and delight readers. A groundbreaking study told with sensitivity and depth, it demands that we broaden our view of eighteenth and nineteenth century African American labor and its importance to seafaring. -- James Oliver Horton, George Washington UniversityThe fruit of a truly prodigious amount of research carried out by a blue-water sailor turned historian, it deals with an important but largely neglected strand in the cable of American history… He shows many almost entirely forgotten aspects of that vanished world… I shall not soon forget his description of the hundreds of captured black American sailors in Dartmoor during the war of 1812. -- Patrick O'Brian, author of The Yellow AdmiralBolster has done a fine job in illuminating an important part of American maritime history. He makes a valuable contribution to standard antebellum American history by looking at a major period of change from the black sailor's perspective. He is to be congratulated for shedding light on a too-long neglected subject. -- Tom Costa * International Journal of Maritime History *Bolster's book offers a marvelous entry into the world of the black sailor and the way men of African descent spread Afro-Atlantic art and culture across the seven seas. Melville would have been proud to read this text. -- Robert Farris Thompson, Yale UniversityThis [is] a lively exploration of a neglected chapter of American history. -- Michael Kenney * Boston Globe *Black Jacks does stand out as a landmark: the first published history of the American black men that documents their lives as sailors in a broadly conceived Atlantic world… Black Jacks is thought-provoking work that builds upon the studies of slaves and free blacks outside the plantation systems. Bolster applies the insights of the authors of these works to an understudied area in black history. -- Craig T. Marion * Journal of World History *Black Jacks provides a nuanced account of black maritime life and labor in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries… Bolster writes with the authority of a seasoned seaman and the sensitivity of a well-trained social historian. Drawing on these aptitudes his account is particularly rich in its explorations of the dynamics of race and class, the generation and play of cultural styles and forms, and the politics of meaning that might be inferred from the descriptive traces of past actions he so ably recovers from his sources… Black Jacks is a well-written, impressively documented, handsomely produced book that certainly does offer a convincing corrective; a book that should appeal to undergraduate and non-academic readers as well as to specialists. -- Charles V. Carnegie * New West Indian Guide *
£17.06
Harvard University, Asia Center Wings for the Rising Sun A Transnational History
Book SynopsisIn Wings for the Rising Sun, scholar and former airline pilot Jürgen Melzer tells the history of Japanese aviation as a story of international cooperation, competition, and conflict. He details how Japan absorbed technologies from abroad, fostered public enthusiasm for aviation at home, and eventually crafted boldly original flying machines.Trade ReviewExtremely well-written and beautifully presented…Melzer’s book has excellently made the case that aviation is worthy of study, not merely for understanding the development of the industry itself but also for gaining a much better understanding of the workings of the Japanese state, media, and public during this period. -- Christopher Hood * Journal of Japanese Studies *Melzer’s history of aviation in Japan speaks to several audiences. For readers interested in the history of aviation, and particularly in the development of aircraft as military technology, the book offers a clear and detailed account that begins with balloon flights in the late nineteenth century and ends with attempts to develop jet engines during the last stages of World War II…[Melzer] brings to his work an intimate knowledge of the engineering of aircraft as well as the pleasures and challenges of flying them…Wings for the Rising Sun surely has a long career ahead of it as the standard, go-to work on the history of flying in Japan. -- David L. Howell * Pacific Historical Review *A fascinating study that delves into the complex dynamics of the time—individual, organizational, social, domestic, and international—that helped shape the process, thinking, and outcomes of technology transfer over the years. This book makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship on technology transfer and aviation history at large. -- Takashi Nishiyama * Technology and Culture *Melzer makes a unique contribution to the extant literature on the history of modern Japanese technology by choosing a subject that has until now been overwhelmingly dominated, at least in the English language, by titles targeting military aircraft buffs. -- M.G. Sheftall * Monumenta Nipponica *
£43.31
Harvard University Press Hong Kong Takes Flight
Book SynopsisCommercial aviation took shape in Hong Kong as the city developed into a powerful economy. In Hong Kong Takes Flight, John Wong argues that Hong Kong’s development into a regional and global airline hub was not preordained and views the city’s globalization through the prism of its airline industry.Trade ReviewHong Kong Takes Flight successfully amalgamates aviation history with colonial and business history…Vigorously respond[s] to the call for putting the history of flight into a wider context…Deserve[s] praise for highlighting aviation’s crucial role in forging new identities amid dramatic geopolitical change. -- Jürgen P. Melzer * Technology and Culture *John Wong tells a fascinating story of the metamorphosis of commercial aviation in colonial Hong Kong and how the remarkable transformation helps shed light on the intersection of changing regional politico-economic dynamics, on the one hand, and intensifying globalizing processes, on the other. While there are not a few studies with ‘Global’ and ‘Hong Kong’ in their titles, as far as I am aware Wong’s is the first serious scholarly study that explicitly connects these two lines of inquiry. What distinguishes Wong’s study is his deft use of a variety of archives [and his] uncanny ability to weave together many seldom-told stories based on disparate archival materials. -- Robert Bickers, Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of History, University of BristolHong Kong’s development from major seaport to global aviation hub was not predetermined. The city’s newly autonomous colonial administrators and its famed corporate agility leveraged contingent historical and geopolitical circumstances to make it. Wong reveals with clarity and detail how Hong Kong was not only made into a global aviation hub, but also how that hub remade identities and interests in the city. -- Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Family Distinguished Professor, Duke UniversityA fascinating story of the metamorphosis of commercial aviation in colonial Hong Kong and a timely reminder that Hong Kong as a global hub was made, not born. -- Leo K. Shin, Convenor of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative, University of British Columbia
£43.31
Harvard University Press Railroads and the Transformation of China
Book SynopsisTo convey modern China's history and the forces driving its economic success, rail has no equal. From warlordism to Cultural Revolution, railroads suffered the country's ills but persisted because they were exemplary institutions. Elisabeth Köll shows why they remain essential to the PRC's technocratic economic model for China's future.Trade ReviewKöll…has done a rare thing, and done it magnificently. She has written a book that will inform historians and economists of China, but also curious new readers, who will get a brainful of China’s development from the last emperors to the current president-for-life, Xi Jinping… She is adept at showing the impact of railways on all aspects of Chinese life. -- Jonathan Mirsky * Times Higher Education *Köll’s book could lead to the emergence of a field of Chinese railroad studies just as the First Transcontinental Railroad led to the spatial magnification of America… Many topics we thought we knew—gender, machines, space, capitalism, social stratification—are connected and expanded through the fresh lens of railroad history. -- Elya J. Zhang * Business History Review *A sweeping account of the railways themselves as well as the impact of railway expansion on multiple dimensions of Chinese life…Wide-ranging and insightful. -- Thomas G. Rawski * China Quarterly *Required reading. It is an exhaustively sourced analysis of how geopolitics, business organization, and social relations influenced the development of one of China’s most important industries. -- Matthew Lowenstein * PRC History Review *Offers a powerful lens for understanding twentieth-century China…Köll’s work offers an important new perspective on the development of China’s rail network. The conclusions that she draws from the case of the Jin-Pu line speak broadly to scholars interested in infrastructure, technology, economy, and the power of the modern state. -- Judd C. Kinzley * Journal of Asian Studies *As the first comprehensive history of China’s railroad development in any language, Elisabeth Köll’s well-researched account addresses issues of interest to historians of technology…Not only offers perspectives from the non-Western world, underrepresented in the histories of transportation and mobility; it also highlights the deep history behind the managerial innovation and adaptability that prompted policy makers to place railroads at the heart of China’s One Belt, One Road initiative. -- Ying Jia Tan * Technology and Culture *Fills a long-standing gap… Valuing the railroads as one of the most important transportation tools, the Chinese are continuing to build their high-speed train networks. Thus, Köll’s book is a timely contribution to our understanding of modern China through the lens of the ongoing railway expansion. * Choice *So far the most comprehensive survey of China’s railroad history…The detailed studies relying on primary sources and in-depth discussions on how China’s railroads as institutions with wide social, economic, cultural, and political functions make this book the most reliable reference for anyone who is interested in understanding China in the modern times. -- Xiansheng Tian * Frontiers of History in China *Köll is clearly a master of archival diplomacy, for she has over time found materials accessible to no other foreign scholar, resulting in one of the richest studies in the evolution, management, finances, and labor politics of any Chinese enterprise. It gives nuanced and sustained attention to the intersection of business and politics that remains to this day a critical factor for the success or failure of business in China. -- William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and GrowthThe history of Chinese railroads is a topic so important, it is surprising we have had to wait so long for a book like this—the most comprehensive history of Chinese railways in either Chinese or English. Based on previously unused archives and interviews, Elisabeth Köll gives readers a picture of the building and development of what has become one of the largest railway networks in the world. At the same time, Köll provides a new perspective on a broad sweep of Chinese history from the final years of the Qing dynasty, through war and revolution in the twentieth century, and into China’s economic rise since the 1980s. -- Brett Sheehan, author of Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision
£31.41
Harvard University Press Portrait of a Port Boston 18521914
Book SynopsisThis classic portrayal of Boston's glorious maritime past opens a window onto the history of American port cities.Trade ReviewEasily the best collection of historical marine photographs published in many years… This book gives a wonderfully representative cross section of a busy East Coast seaport in the last half of the nineteenth century. * National Fisherman *Following Bunting’s text is rather like being taken on a tour of a port by a venerable harbor pilot. Crisp and competent, he directs your attention to features which must be instantly obvious to him but would be overlooked by the novice. -- Timothy Severin * Chicago Tribune *Although the author and compiler of this wonderful book states that it is a book of photographs, it is far more than that. It is a lovingly told story of a port—Boston—through the lenses of old-time photographers, contemporary accounts, and well-written research. -- Andrew F. Willis * Boston Globe *One can fish happily and enjoyably in these pages; something good comes up on every page. But it is better to bathe, for by doing so the reader gains an admirable idea of what happened to the port of Boston. -- Walter Muir Whitehill * Boston Herald *[This is the] first paperback edition of a marvellous book of photographs, with annotations, interpretations and brief essays by an expert who loves his subject. No other book I know evokes the maritime history of the Atlantic coast so well. * Canadian Yachting *This book includes a marvelous collection of…illustrations, which along with the text by W. H. Bunting, the compiler and annotator, provide a most impressive Portrait of a Port… It is a beautiful book. * Historical Journal of Massachusetts *I confess to owning a trio of copies [of this book]—one in the living room on my shelf of favorites, a grimy research copy in the studio, and a third to lend. You may ask, ‘Why would a book published nearly a quarter of a century ago warrant another review?’ Out-of-print for some time, new readers ought to know of its re-issue, for it is chock full of marvelous photographs selected with love and care and contains writing of the most informative and entertaining nature. -- John W. Hutchinson * Nautical Research Journal *Considerably more substantial, both in size and content, than most pictorial maritime histories, this handsomely produced volume is most certainly not just another ‘coffee-table book’ …[It is] delightful for the browser [and] gratifyingly informative. * Choice *
£19.90
Harvard University Press American Railroads
Book SynopsisOverregulated and displaced by barges, trucks, and jet aviation, railroads fell into decline. Their misfortune was measured in lost market share, abandoned track, bankruptcies, and unemployment. Today, rail transportation is reviving. American Railroads tells a riveting story about how this iconic industry managed to turn itself around.Trade ReviewDetailed, sophisticated, occasionally technical, and provocative, [Gallamore and Meyer’s] book provides a superb and often fascinating analysis of the economics, technological change, and the impact of public policy on an iconic American industry… Gallamore and Meyer have thrown down the gauntlet to policymakers. The burden may well now be on them to demonstrate, through a careful analysis of costs and benefits, that regulation of passenger and/or freight railroads is in the public interest. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Philadelphia Inquirer *A comprehensive account… American Railroads is a readable history with a focus on freight rail. -- Daniel Machalaba * Wall Street Journal *This book is a readable and provocative economic and business history of American railroads over the twentieth century. It draws together the themes of infrastructure development, regulation, stagnation and financial crisis, deregulation, and finally revitalization. It is a fascinating and instructive tale, very well told. -- Porter K. Wheeler, Transportation Policy Consultant, and former Manager of P3 Projects, Maryland Transportation AuthorityA remarkable book and an exceptional resource for a variety of constituencies in the transportation field. -- Joseph M. Sussman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
£24.26
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Rock Island Requiem The Collapse of a Mighty
Book SynopsisThe Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company was a powerful Midwestern railroad that once traversed thirteen states but eventually succumbed to government regulation and a changing economy. Gregory Schneider chronicles the Rock Island's painful decline and reveals some of the problems within the American railroad industry.Trade ReviewAn exciting story that is well researched and pleasingly written and that makes a major contribution to recent railroad history." - H. Roger Grant, author of The Railroads: The Life Story of a Technology"Schneider's careful research shows that misguided regulation forced a troubled railroad out of business and made bankruptcy lawyers rich. Rock Island Requiem reminds us how the all-powerful Interstate Commerce Commission turned the railroad industry into a basket case, much to the nation's loss." - Marc Levinson, author of The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger"In Schneider's tightly-organized, clear, and illuminating history, the Rock Island becomes a key ingredient in the reshaping of the economic partnership between government, industry, and finance at a crucial period in American history." - Edward Brunner, author of Splendid Failure and former employee of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RailwayTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction Act One: Merger 1. A Mighty Fine Line 2. Merge or Die 3. Bleak House 4. The Waiting Is the Hardest Part 5. Too Big to Fail Act Two: Bankruptcy 6. Bankruptcy Blue(s) 7. Stayin' Alive 8. The Omen 9. Walking Dead Men 10. The Rock Is Dead Act Three: Liquidation 11. Too Late the Hero 12. Long Live the Rock Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£28.46
Emerald Publishing Limited Track Geotechnology and Substructure Management
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive study which provides practical advice and guidance on the important role played by ground engineering in the construction of railway track, the use of which will result in optimum quality with the minimum maintenance effort and the most economical use of resources.Table of ContentsTrack components and loading Soil properties In situ tests for soil properties Analytical track models Residual stresses and plastic deformations in granular layers Properties of ballast material Ballast maintenance cycle characteristics Subballast requirements Subgrade behaviour Subgrade improvement alternatives Geosynthetic applications in track Track drainage Machines and methods Track geometry and track quality Mechanics-based maintenance model
£160.07
Emerald Publishing Limited Accessibility and the Bus System Concepts to
Book SynopsisContaining up-to-the-minute research outcomes, this book is vital for city transport planners, bus system designers and implementers, transport engineers, civil engineers, bus operators, transport consultants and policy makers.Table of Contents1. Cities and their need for a transport system 2. Determining who should have what: capabilities, equality, equity, difference and wellbeing 3. The four pillars: Accessibility, Mobility, Movement and Transport 4. How a bus system helps to implement policy 5. Access to the bus system: where and how this can be achieved 6. Passengers and pedestrians 7. The interface between vehicles and infrastructure 8. Capacity of the bus system 9. Service provision: routes and frequency 10. Bus system: London 11. Bus system: Curitiba 12. Bus system: Bogota 13. Energy and emissions 14. Accessibility and interfaces with the pedestrian system 15. Possibilities for the future: sustainability, resilience and `adaptivity' 16. Conclusions
£124.45
Kogan Page Ltd Managing Transport Operations
Book SynopsisManaging Transport Operations explains the wide range of skills demanded of transport managers, who must understand the economic, social, political and technical aspects of road, rail, air and sea transport, while ensuring that levels of safety and reliability are not compromised
£42.74
Kogan Page Ltd Aviation Logistics
Book SynopsisMichael Sales specializes in press relations and consultancy for the transport industry. He has handled a number of prestigious clients, including Airports of Paris, Air France Express, Athens International Airport, Cologne Bonn Airport, ECS, Basque regional industrial promotion, Düsseldorf Airport, Budapest Airport and many more. He is also a freelance journalist.Trade Review"Aviation Logistics is a neatly put together study of the past, present, and future of air cargo and transport. Sales adheres to all of the challenges he lays out for the industry as a whole - namely, he integrates coverage of other modes of transportation as appropriate rather than limiting his discussion to the mode he knows best." * Kelly Barner, Buyers Meeting Point *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Air cargo – trying harder; Chapter - 02: The world of air cargo, Oliver Evans, former TIACA; Chapter - 03: Air cargo history; Chapter - 04: Airport connections; Chapter - 05: Cargo handling agents – the impact of IT; Chapter - 06: Road feeder service; Chapter - 07: Freight forwarder; Chapter - 08: Cool logistics; Chapter - 09: Express and mail; Chapter - 10: Special air cargoes; Chapter - 11: Cargo security and risk; Chapter - 12: Environment; Chapter - 13: Innovation and trends in air logistics; Chapter - 14: Views on the future; Chapter - 15: The law – organizations and regulations governing international aviation Chapter - 16: Glossary of common air freight terms
£42.74
Kogan Page Ltd International Freight Transport
Book SynopsisProfessor Anthony Beresford is Programme Director for the MSc International Transport at Cardiff University and Director for the suite of Masters Programmes within Logistics and Operations Management. Professor Beresford has travelled widely in an advisory capacity within the ports and transport fields in Europe, Asia and North America.Dr Stephen Pettit is a researcher for the Transport and Shipping Research Group in Cardiff Business School. He has been involved in a range of transport related research including a ground-breaking project for the Department of Transport.Trade Review"A great book which not only covers issues in international freight transport but also gives detailed insight into key corridors and markets which would be essential for people working in this sphere." * Michael Nielsen, Transportation Manager, India-ASEAN, Caterpillar Inc. *"The perfect companion not only for someone who wants to deeply understand how international freight transport operates but also for someone who wants to update their knowledge. The book provides an excellent synthesis of current and future issues affecting international freight transport based on cases with truly global footprint." * Dr Stavros Karamperidis, Assistant Professor of Shipping & International Logistics, Heriot Watt University *"This book is an important contribution to the on-going debate about the importance of international freight transport in the context of the ever-growing influence of globalisation. With a strong theoretical as well as practical basis, and supported by a substantial and wide ranging literature, a clear understanding of the economic, social and political contexts will be welcomed as a topical and practical guide to the sector." * Professor Michael Roe, Chair of Maritime Governance, Plymouth University *"International Freight Transport is a comprehensive compendium of a practical research in this fast-evolving area. I found the assembly of papers to provide a broad and, most importantly, up-to-date background on the main industry's segments along with several case studies from around the world. I highly recommend the book as an essential reading to practitioners, researchers in port authorities, port operators, shipping lines, logistic providers, government agencies involved in transport and logistics, and academic institutes." * Dr Asaf Ashar, Research Professor (emeritus), National Ports & Waterways Initiative (NPWI), USA and Independent Consultant, Ports, Shipping and Intermodal Transportation *"This book provides comprehensive coverage of the most important contemporary ideas and issues in international freight transport and logistics. These are conveyed through an eclectic mix of applied contexts that add significant interest and relevance to the underlying concepts. Expertly edited, this book is a thoroughly absorbing read that comes highly recommended for both students and practitioners." * Professor Kevin Cullinane, Professor of International Logistics & Transport Economics, University of Gothenburg *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction – Cases, Structures and Prospects; Section - ONE: Trade and the Transport Environment; Chapter - 01: Demand, Supply and Freight Rates – The Shipping of Global Trade [Hassiba Benamara, Jan Hoffmann and Frida Youssef]; Chapter - 02: Trade and Customs Procedures in International Freight Transport – Requirements, Issues and Trends [Andrew Grainger]; Section - TWO: International Freight Transport in Practice; Chapter - 03: Multimodal Transport Solutions for Grain Exports from Kazakhstan [Timur Bimaganbetov, Anthony Beresford and Stephen Pettit]; Chapter - 04: The Transport of Oil and Gas [Hance D Smith and Azmath Jaleel]; Chapter - 05: Global Container Transport [Rolf Neise]; Chapter - 06: Car Shipping [Paul Nieuwenhuis]; Section - THREE: Trading Regions; Chapter - 07: International Freight Logistics in South East Asia – The Indonesia–Malaysia–Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT) [Ruth Banomyong]; Chapter - 08: North America’s Evolving International Freight Transport – Challenges and Responses [Michael Ircha]; Chapter - 09: International Freight Transport in South America – The Case of Colombia [David B Grant, Rodrigo Britto, Juan Pablo Soto, Marcus Thiell]; Chapter - 10: International Freight Transport in Southern Africa [Christopher Savage]; Chapter - 11: Freight Transport in Korea and Taiwan [Su-Han Woo, Po-Lin Lai, Doori Kim and Jungeun Kim]; Section - FOUR: Challenging Environments and Transport Futures; Chapter - 12: Overcoming International Freight Transport Challenges in a Disaster Response Context [Peter Tatham and Gyöngyi Kovács]; Chapter - 13: Transport Futures – Reconciling the On-Demand Economy with Global Production Chains [Peter Wells]
£52.24
Kogan Page Ltd Supply Chain Risk Management
Book SynopsisDonald Waters has over 30 years' experience of teaching and working in logistics and operations management. He uses his specialized knowledge of operations and supply chain management working for various organizations around the world in this book. Donald Waters is now a visiting professor at various leading universities in Europe and the United States. He is the author of several well-known logistics books. He is a member of the CILT. Trade Review"A straightforward discussion from understanding the basics to understanding the future of risk analysis and how to deliver a risk management strategy.... The tables, matrices, diagrams and tools are excellent, and clearly guide you through the whole risk management end-to-end process." * Logistics & Transport Focus *"[E]xcellent book ... a comprehensive overview of many important issues in managing supply chain risk. More than 15 case studies and a straightforward hands-on practical approach make this book an enjoyable read. I bought this book as a text book, and as such it does a great job. ...it lets you not forget the real world and its real problems. This book is written with the manager in mind, and is interspersed with examples from real life, along with calculations and illustrations that explain the concept in a manner that is practical and easy to follow." * Jan Husdal, husdal.com *"This is one of the best descriptive books in the topic, written in a simple, easy to understand language." * Jorge Ayala-Cruz, Amaz.com reviewer *"Waters... discusses the importance of supply chain risk management, core areas, and principles... Included are case studies of many companies such as Nokia, IBM, and BP, as well as other situations like food scares, oil supplies, and the Y2K bug." * Book News, Inc. *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Working with risk; Chapter - 02: Defining risk; Chapter - 03: Supply chain management; Chapter - 04: Trends affecting the supply chain; Chapter - 05: Approaches to risk management; Chapter - 06: Identifying risks; Chapter - 07: Analysing risks; Chapter - 08: Responding to risks; Chapter - 09: A network view of risk; Chapter - 10: Creating resilient supply chains; Chapter - 11: Business continuity management; Chapter - 12: Review
£108.75
Kogan Page Ltd Introduction to Global Logistics
Book SynopsisJohn Manners-Bell is the founder and CEO of Transport Intelligence, a leading supplier of market solutions to the global logistics industry. He is Honorary Visiting Professor at the London Metropolitan University, adviser to the World Economic Forum and a former Chairman of the Supply Chain Council of the World Economic Forum. Prior to establishing Transport Intelligence, he worked as an analyst in consultancies specializing in international trade, transport and logistics. John Manners-Bell is author of Logistics and Supply Chains in Emerging Markets and Supply Chain Risk.Trade Review"This updated second edition deals with a wide range of complex issues in a straightforward style. The book benefits from the author's many years of experience as a global logistics expert. This knowledge and insight has been brought together into a single volume that will be extremely valuable for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of the complex forces for change affecting global logistics." * Michael Browne, Professor of Logistics and Urban Freight Transport, University of Gothenburg *"Global logistics capabilities have been a foundation of the huge growth in world trade and economic activity in the emerging economies. The downturn of 2008/9 has heralded a new era of regional trade and changing business models, alongside continued intercontinental trade. This book, from a world expert, unravels and explains the massive complexity of services, segments, geographies and technologies that will be needed to adapt to a new normal. It will be a huge help in anchoring their thinking." * Alan Braithwaite, Chairman, LCP Consulting and Visiting Professor, Cranfield School of Management *Table of Contents Section - 00: Introduction; Section - 01: What’s shaping the global logistics market?; Section - 02: An industry in transformation: towards consolidation; Section - 03: Logistics market development by geography; Section - 04: The emergence of logistics clusters; Section - 05: International freight forwarding; Section - 06: Contract logistics; Section - 07: European road freight; Section - 08: Express parcels; Section - 09: Air cargo; Section - 10: Container shipping; Section - 11: The European rail and intermodal sectors; Section - 12: Supply chain technologies; Section - 13: Supply chain dynamics of vertical sectors; Section - 14: Risks in global supply chains; Section - 15: The e-commerce logistics phenomenon; Section - 16: Supply chain innovation and disruption; Section - 17: Ethical and sustainable supply chain strategies;
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Kogan Page Ltd Urban Logistics
Book SynopsisMichael Browne is Professor of Logistics and Urban Freight Transport at the University of Gothenburg. Sönke Behrends is a senior researcher at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Gothenburg.Johan Woxenius is Professor of Maritime Transport Management and Logistics at the University of Gothenburg.Genevieve Giuliano is Professor and Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government at the University of Southern California. She is also Director of METRANS Transportation Center.José Holguín-Veras is William H Hart Professor and Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation and the Environment at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.Trade Review"Urban Logistics will give a competitive edge. It is rooted in the real-world experiences of leaders at the top of their game, sharing lessons learned from some of the most complex cities around the world." * Stacey D Hodge, former Director, Office of Freight Mobility, New York City Department of Transportation, USA *"'This book provides a powerful and topical set of authoritative chapters that address the rapidly changing scene of urban logistics, covering complexity, heterogeneity, innovation in delivery systems and technological advances. It provides a welcome addition to the international research in this growing area of transport and, as such, will be of interest to those involved in management, policy and innovation.'" * David Banister, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK *"Management and regulation of urban freight transport is becoming increasingly important for operators, customers and policymakers. In spite of the importance of the subject, there is still a dearth of research, analysis and evaluations. This book will be useful for policymakers and for anyone needing to get a broad overview of this crucial and fast-moving field.'" * Jonas Eliasson, Director, Stockholm City Transportation Administration, Sweden *Table of Contents Section - ONE: Setting the scene; Chapter - 01: Introduction to urban logistics; Chapter - 02: Metropolitan economies and the generation of freight and service activity – An international perspective; Chapter - 03: Urban logistics – The regional dimension; Chapter - 04: Urban planning policies for logistics facilities: a comparison between US metropolitan areas and the Paris region; Chapter - 05: The dualism of urban freight distribution – City vs suburban logistics; Chapter - 06: Port cities and urban logistics; Section - TWO: Urban logistics diversity; Chapter - 07: The logistics of parcel delivery – Current operations and challenges facing the UK market; Chapter - 08: E-commerce trends and implications for urban logistics; Chapter - 09: Food and urban logistics – A fast-changing sector with significant policy and business implications; Chapter - 10: Consolidation centres in construction logistics; Chapter - 11: The socio-economic benefits of off-peak hour distribution – The case of Stockholm; Section - THREE: Making change happen; Chapter - 12: Stakeholder engagement and partnerships for improved urban logistics; Chapter - 13: Multi-actor multi-criteria analysis as a tool to involve urban logistics stakeholders; Chapter - 14: Off-hour deliveries – The importance of outreach and proper planning; Chapter - 15: The procurement process – A key to improved urban logistics efficiency; Chapter - 16: Future developments in modelling and information
£52.24
Kogan Page Ltd Decarbonizing Logistics
Book SynopsisAlan McKinnon is Professor of Logistics at Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg. He has been researching and teaching freight transport and logistics for almost forty years and has published extensively in journals and books. He was a member of the European Commission's High Level Group on Logistics, Chairman of the World Economic Forum's Logistics and Supply Chain Industry Council and a lead author of the transport chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report. He has spent many years researching the links between logistics and climate change and been an adviser to governments, international organizations and companies on this topic.Trade Review"Professor McKinnon is making again a ground-breaking contribution. The greenhouse gas footprint of logistics is large. Reducing it relies on several mechanisms, because logistics involves many activities and participants. This book disentangles this complexity and proposes a clear framework for reduction. It identifies interventions by shippers, service providers or the public sector. The book lays the foundations of initiatives to come. It should appeal to a wide range of policymakers, academics and practitioners." * Jean-François Arvis, Lead Economist, The World Bank *"The UK's rising transport emissions are an indicator of the importance and timeliness of this book. The clear analytical approach, using the latest models - whilst avoiding complex language and mathematics - provides practical, evidence-based advice for a wide range of users, including logistics companies, regulators, politicians, policy makers and researchers." * Baroness Brown of Cambridge, DBE FREng FRS, Deputy Chair of the UK Committee on Climate Change *"Continued advances in logistics have enabled ever more globalized production of goods and services, bringing higher incomes, new jobs and more consumer choice in developed and developing countries alike. This progress has come at a price: the CO2 emissions associated with moving the raw materials, inputs and consumer goods are causing climate change with detrimental effects for the same populations that benefit from the growing trade. Alan McKinnon's book could not come at a more timely moment. We need to decarbonize logistics if we want to ensure that in the long term its negative impacts don't outweigh its contribution to global wellbeing. The book's analysis, combined with concrete policy recommendations to reduce the carbon intensity of logistics, provide invaluable tools for national policy makers and the international community." * Sergio Barbarino, Chair of the European Technology Platform for Logistics *"This book is a long-overdue and comprehensive analysis that goes far beyond explaining why we need to decarbonise logistics - a sector that is expected to triple in volume by 2050. It synthesises a huge and highly diverse literature and shows that there is no shortage of strategies and carbon-reducing initiatives. Policy-makers and business leaders, committed to bringing emissions down to levels consistent with the COP21 Paris Climate Change Agreement will find a wealth of technical information and practical examples to help then update regulation and design programs and action plans." * Wolfgang Lehmacher, Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries, World Economic Forum *"The timing of releasing this book on the market is impeccable - with many governments currently grappling with how best to reduce their transport-related greenhouse gas emissions based on their nationally determined contributions committed under the Paris Climate Agreement, and the International Maritime Organisation recently agreeing to reduce global shipping-related greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050. The book is extremely well compiled, building on many years of practically orientated research experience by the author on this topic. It is truly international in its presentation. I would highly recommend the book for transport policy makers, logistics firms, shipping companies, local government representatives, vehicle manufacturers, internet retail businesses, and IT specialists working in this arena." * Professor Ralph Sims, Co-ordinating Lead Author, Transport Chapter in the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) *"Decarbonizing Logistics will become the reference for all logistics professionals." * Rasmus Valanko, Director of Climate and Energy, World Business Council for Sustainable Development *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Climate change: the nature and scale of the challenge; Chapter - 02: Developing a decarbonisation strategy for logistics; Chapter - 03: Reducing freight transport intensity; Chapter - 04: Shifting freight to lower carbon transport modes; Chapter - 05: Improving asset utilisation in logistics; Chapter - 06: Transforming energy use in road freight transport; Chapter - 07: Transforming energy use in maritime, air cargo and rail freight sectors; Chapter - 08: Decarbonising logistics at the national level: the case of the united kingdom;
£118.75
Kogan Page Ltd Container Logistics
Book SynopsisDr Rolf Neise was the Global Head of Logistics Operations at BAT (British American Tobacco plc.) responsible for defining Logistics Excellence in the End-to-End Supply Chain. Prior to BAT, Dr Neise worked in several consultancies where he collected in-depth experience in reorganization and optimisation projects in different industries (automotive, telecommunication, chemistry) and companies across the world. He currently works as a lecturer at the International School of Management (ISM) in Germany and as a senior consultant supporting multinational companies in optimising their supply chain management and logistics structures.Trade Review"This is a landmark publication - there are few people in the supply chain industry better placed than Rolf Neise to pick apart the intricate web that connects customers, carriers and logistics service providers. His insight is accompanied by a world-class team of industry experts writing on some fascinating topics." * Gavin van Marle, Managing Editor, The Loadstar *"It is important to take into account the interest of all stakeholders in the chain, particularly shippers and cargo owners, and their view is clarified in this book. This fills a gap in the literature." * Jens Meier, CEO, Hamburg Port Authorities *"The timing of this book is spot on. I am convinced that this book can contribute to the dialogue that is needed between all parties in the maritime supply chain." * Nik Delmeire, Secretary General, European Shippers' Council *"Managing logistics is an art and, as Rolf Neise points out in his book, it's not without its challenges." * Jesper Kjaedegaard, Partner, Mercator International; formerly Global Head, Maersk Line, and CEO, the Maersk Company *"Real-world cases and academic frameworks providing food for thought for the experienced shipping professional." * Peter Sand, Chief Shipping Analyst, BIMCO *"Shipping lines, logistics service providers, ports and beneficial cargo owners - they all need to know about containers and how they impact business. This book provides the answers. Neise charts the history of containerization, explains current challenges and opportunities, and looks at how technology, higher-quality data and value concepts will change its future." * John Fossey, Maritime Transport Consultant, Moffatt and Nichol, and Contributing Editor, World Cargo News *Table of Contents Section - ONE: The Maritime Container Logistics Chain (MCLC); Chapter - 01: Global Container Trade – The Past and the Future [Eyden Samunderu, International School of Management (ISM), Dortmund, Germany]; Chapter - 02: The Maritime Container Transportation Chain (MCTC) [Rolf Neise, International School of Management (ISM), Hamburg, Germany]; Chapter - 03: History and Usage of Containers in Logistics and Beyond [Hildegard Buschmann, Merle & Sheppard, Wuppertal, Germany / New Zealand]; Section - TWO: The Effective Management of the MCLC; Chapter - 04: Empty Container Logistics – A Prospective Local Approach in the Port Of Hamburg [Marco Hofmann and Lillian Schmidt, Hamburg Port Authorities (HPA), Hamburg, Germany]; Chapter - 05: Port and Terminal Operations [Maik Ullrich and Michael Baumert, HPMPORT, Hamburg, Germany]; Chapter - 06: Multimodal Transport of Mining Equipment from Germany to Kazakhstan [Zhanat Abdugalimov, Anthony Beresford, and Stephen Pettit, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff, UK]; Chapter - 07: Cooperation and Collaboration between Shipping Lines [Alan Robertson, Webster Robertson Ltd, London, UK]; Chapter - 08: Collaboration in the Container Shipping Industry – New Technologies Enabling Collaboration between Shipping Lines and Terminals [Robert Inchausti, XVELA, Oakland, California, USA]; Section - THREE: The Integration of the MCLC into Global Supply Chain Management; Chapter - 09: Global SCM and Resulting Shippers’ Requirements [Rolf Neise, International School of Management (ISM), Hamburg, Germany]; Chapter - 10: Advanced Benchmarking and Market Intelligence – A Key Instrument in Optimising Container Logistics Procurement [Björn Klippel, TIM Consult, Mannheim, Germany]; Chapter - 11: Formation of a Shipper Council to Improve Data Quality and Share Best Practices [Gregory Kefer, Infor Corporation, San Francisco, USA]; Chapter - 12: IoT Solutions in Maritime Logistics: Transports of Perishable Dairy Goods [Stefan Viehmann and Hans-Thoralf Bieber, Kuehne + Nagel (AG & Co. KG), Hamburg, Germany]; Chapter - 13: The Service-Dominant Perspective to Create Value in the Maritime Business [Qeis Kamran, International School of Management (ISM), Dortmund, Germany]; Chapter - 14: Industry Trends and Opportunities [Rolf Neise, International School of Management (ISM), Hamburg, Germany]
£52.24
Kogan Page Ltd Warehousing and Transportation Logistics
Book SynopsisProfessor Heinrich Martin was a lecturer at the University of Applied Science in Hamburg for over 30 years, and has been a visiting lecturer in universities around the world. His areas of expertise include transportation systems, warehousing systems, order picking systems, material flow systems and factory planning. Dr Martin has lead multiple projects with numerous organisations.Trade Review"Concise and clear, the book conveys the key components of transport and warehousing logistics. The practical examples illustrate the connection between technology and organization." * Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Lothar Schulze, Leibniz Universität Hannover *"This is a technical book that summarizes and explains the theoretical comprehension and practical applications of logistical technologies. Thoroughly recommended not only for the aims of education at universities but also as beneficial reference in the workplace." * Prof. Dr.-Ing. Li Li, PhD, Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: Logistics Structures Within Companies; Chapter - 02: Material Flow Logistics; Chapter - 03: Transporting Goods – Packaging, Loading Unit; Chapter - 04: Basic Transport Logistics; Chapter - 05: Continuous Conveyor; Chapter - 06: Discontinuous Conveyor; Chapter - 07: Switching; Chapter - 08: Handling; Chapter - 09: Basic Warehouse and Picking Logistics; Chapter - 10: Warehouses and Shelves; Chapter - 11: Picking Systems; Chapter - 12: Planning System and Project Management; Chapter - 13: Information Logistics
£56.99
Kogan Page Ltd Air Transport Management
Book SynopsisProf Dr Eyden Samunderu (PhD) is a leading expert and well trusted advisor in the area of air transport with extensive international consulting experience. He is Program Director for a Master's programme at the International School of Management (ISM) in Dortmund Germany. He is currently a Board Advisor at Aviation Partners Africa London as well as sitting as Advisory Board Member for the Hamburg Aviation Conference. His research interests are in air transport economics, airport infrastructure financing, container and shipping logistics, competition policy, multimarket contact and strategic group theory in air transport.Trade Review"Air Transport Management is full of important information and insights related to the global and regional aviation industries. It's a brilliant piece of work that I highly recommend." * Alexander Herring, Managing Director, ADB Safegate South Africa *"This is a significant book for academics and practitioners who are interested in the characteristics, dynamics and challengesof the airline industry. It covers important areas in the field, including alliances, business models and coalitions." * Leonardo Corbo, Assistant Professor of Management, University of Bologna *Table of Contents Chapter - 01: The scope of the airline industry; Chapter - 02: Growth and change in the airline industry – Air transport liberalization; Chapter - 03: The airline alliances; Chapter - 04: Airline industry analysis – A structure-conduct-performance perspective; Chapter - 05: Airline competing business models; Chapter - 06: Airline competition dynamics; Chapter - 07: Measuring airline performance; Chapter - 08: Strategic groups in the airline industry; Chapter - 09: The future outlook of air transport; Chapter - 10: Conclusion; Chapter - 11: Index
£47.49
Kogan Page Ltd Urban Logistics
Book SynopsisMichael Browne is Professor of Logistics and Urban Freight Transport at the University of Gothenburg. Sönke Behrends is a senior researcher at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Gothenburg.Johan Woxenius is Professor of Maritime Transport Management and Logistics at the University of Gothenburg.Genevieve Giuliano is Professor and Margaret and John Ferraro Chair in Effective Local Government at the University of Southern California. She is also Director of METRANS Transportation Center.José Holguín-Veras is William H Hart Professor and Director of the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation and the Environment at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.Trade Review"Urban Logistics will give a competitive edge. It is rooted in the real-world experiences of leaders at the top of their game, sharing lessons learned from some of the most complex cities around the world." * Stacey D Hodge, former Director, Office of Freight Mobility, New York City Department of Transportation, USA *"'This book provides a powerful and topical set of authoritative chapters that address the rapidly changing scene of urban logistics, covering complexity, heterogeneity, innovation in delivery systems and technological advances. It provides a welcome addition to the international research in this growing area of transport and, as such, will be of interest to those involved in management, policy and innovation.'" * David Banister, Emeritus Professor of Transport Studies and Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK *"Management and regulation of urban freight transport is becoming increasingly important for operators, customers and policymakers. In spite of the importance of the subject, there is still a dearth of research, analysis and evaluations. This book will be useful for policymakers and for anyone needing to get a broad overview of this crucial and fast-moving field.'" * Jonas Eliasson, Director, Stockholm City Transportation Administration, Sweden *Table of Contents Section - ONE: Setting the scene; Chapter - 01: Introduction to urban logistics; Chapter - 02: Metropolitan economies and the generation of freight and service activity – An international perspective; Chapter - 03: Urban logistics – The regional dimension; Chapter - 04: Urban planning policies for logistics facilities: a comparison between US metropolitan areas and the Paris region; Chapter - 05: The dualism of urban freight distribution – City vs suburban logistics; Chapter - 06: Port cities and urban logistics; Section - TWO: Urban logistics diversity; Chapter - 07: The logistics of parcel delivery – Current operations and challenges facing the UK market; Chapter - 08: E-commerce trends and implications for urban logistics; Chapter - 09: Food and urban logistics – A fast-changing sector with significant policy and business implications; Chapter - 10: Consolidation centres in construction logistics; Chapter - 11: The socio-economic benefits of off-peak hour distribution – The case of Stockholm; Section - THREE: Making change happen; Chapter - 12: Stakeholder engagement and partnerships for improved urban logistics; Chapter - 13: Multi-actor multi-criteria analysis as a tool to involve urban logistics stakeholders; Chapter - 14: Off-hour deliveries – The importance of outreach and proper planning; Chapter - 15: The procurement process – A key to improved urban logistics efficiency; Chapter - 16: Future developments in modelling and information
£150.30
Kogan Page Ltd Road Passenger Transport Management
Book SynopsisAnthony Francis is a consultant providing guidance on operating and commercial issues affecting the road, rail and aviation transport industries to passenger transport companies. He previously worked in senior strategic roles for the Department of Transport, the Strategic Rail Authority and Arriva.David Hurdle is an independent transport consultant and a transport and town planner. He has written and spoken extensively on sustainable transport issues. He has worked for local government and the public transport industry.Table of Contents Section - ONE: How the bus business works; Section - 01: Definition of road passenger transport; Section - 02: History, heritage, current challenges; Section - 03: The legal and regulatory framework; Section - 04: Planning; Section - 05: Vehicles and fuels; Section - 06: Operations; Section - 07: Fares, ticketing and other revenue – turning a social service into a business; Section - 08: Human resources case study: Metroline; Section - TWO: Wider engagement; Section - 09: The present and potential market for public transport; Section - 10: Bus provision and land use planning; Section - 11: Bus priority; Section - 12: Planning and operating a rural bus service; Section - 13: Further partnerships between bus operators, local authorities and employers; Section - 14: The bus industry in Wales; Section - 15: Working with the public; Section - 16: The value of the bus to society; Section - 17: Presentation; Section - 18: The future and new technology; Section - 19: Appendix I (by Cyril McIntyre) – Regulation of road passenger transport in the Republic of Ireland; Section - 20: Appendix II (by Gavin Booth) – Scotland’s buses; Section - 21: Index
£47.49
University of British Columbia Press Heavy Traffic
Book SynopsisCanada and the United States exchange the world''s highest level of bilateral trade, valued at $1.4 billion a day. Two-thirds of this trade travels on trucks. Heavy Traffic examines the way in which the regulatory reform of American and Canadian trucking, coupled with free trade, has internationalized this vital industry.Before deregulation, restrictive entry rules had fostered two separate national highway transportation markets, and most international traffic had to be exchanged at the border. When the United States deregulated first, the imbalance between its opened market and Canada's still-restricted one produced a surprisingly difficult bilateral dispute. American deregulation was motivated by domestic incentives, but the subsequent Canadian deregulation blended domestic incentives with transborder rate comparisons and concerns about trade competitiveness.Daniel Madar shows that deregulation created a de facto regime of free trade in trucking services. RTrade ReviewProfessor Madar provides a strong, well-crafted and insightful account of the process by which the highly regulated trucking industry was deregulated after 1980 in the U.S. and Canada, and how, in conjunction with free trade and industrial changes, the trucking business has been transformed. -- The Donner Prize JuryTable of ContentsPrefaceAcronyms1 Introduction2 The State in Action: Regulation’s Origins and Effects3 The State Withdraws: Critique and Reform in the United States4 Deregulation, Discrimination, and Diplomacy: The Trucking War5 The State Withdraws: Reform, Trade, and Federalism in Canada6 After Deregulation7 ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
£73.95
Cornell University Press The Next Crash
Book SynopsisIf you are one of over 700 million passengers who will fly in America this year, you need to read this book. The Next Crash offers a shocking perspective on the aviation industry by a former United Airlines pilot. Weaving insider knowledge with hundreds of employee interviews, Amy L. Fraher uncovers the story airline executives and government regulators would rather not tell. While the FAA claims This is the golden age of safety, and other aviation researchers assure us the chance of dying in an airline accident is infinitesimal, The Next Crash reports that 70 percent of commercial pilots believe a major airline accident will happen soon. Who should we believe? As one captain explained, Everybody wants their $99 ticket, but you don't get [Captain] Sully for ninety-nine bucks. Drawing parallels between the 2008 financial industry implosion and the post-9/11 airline industry, The Next Crash explains how aviation industry risk management processes have not kTrade ReviewFraher, a former commercial pilot and U.S. Naval Aviator, presents a seasoned analysis of today's eroding safety standards and their implications for future airline disasters. Though Fraher, now an organizational consultant, writes in the language of business school case studies and training manuals, her well-supported argument is indisputable: the post-9/11 state of the industry is perilous. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPrologue: Falling 1. The (Not So) Secret Secrets 2. The Roots of Turbulence 3. Riding the Jet Stream 4. A New Solution: Deregulation 5. Escalating Risks 6. Strapped In for the Ride 7. Airlines Today Epilogue Acknowledgments Appendix A: Airline Pilot Questionnaire Results Appendix B: Airline Pilot Interview Guide
£22.79
University of Toronto Press The Soviet WoodProcessing Industry
Book SynopsisSystematic study of the geography distribution of the wood-processing industry has received recent Soviet attention, yet the results have been disappointing. Soviet work has been descriptive and lacking in critical analysis of the location problem. In particular, there has been little, if any, attempt to assess the geographic distribution of the industry within the general context of location theory and to evaluate the role played by individual location factors. This monograph is a case study in the application of linear programming techniques to the analysis of transportation patterns within the wood-processing industry. It will add to North American studies not only a knowledge of the location of wood-processing industries but also a better understanding of the factors which have influenced the location of wood-processing in the Soviet Union.(University of Toronto Department of Geography Research Publications No. 4).
£14.24
University of Toronto Press Transportation Rates and Economic Development in
Book SynopsisThis book examines the influence of transport costs on regional economic development in northern Ontario. It begins with an overview of the Canadian freight rate structure, with emphasis on railway rates, and a brief look at the history of federal rate policy. A theoretical model of rate determination is then constructed to permit measurement of the impact on producers and consumers of alternative rate-setting policies. Using econometric techniques and 1975 data, rate changes are related to the inputs and outputs of northern Ontario’s economy, and the effect on the region of subsidies and regulations is discussed.Freight rates on inbound shipments are found to be much higher than on goods exported from the area. A central discovery is that regulations limiting competition in the Ontario trucking industry have raised highway freight rates significantly beyond the national average. In this situation transport subsidies are unlikely to affect rates, Professor Bonsor argues
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University of Nebraska Press Come Fly with Us
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space HistoryCome Fly with Usis the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as “payload specialists” came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for an equally wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons. Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas focus on this special fraternity of spacefarers and their individual reflections on living and working in space. Relatively unknown to the public and often flying only single missions, these payload specialists give the reader an unusual perspective on the experience of human spaceflight. The authors also bring to light NASA’s struggle to integrate the wide-ranging personalities and professions of these Trade Review"Well-researched. . . . Space-travel fans will delight in myriad details and copious interviews."—Publishers Weekly"An interesting perspective and stands as a welcome addition to space-shuttle history."—Gilbert Taylor, Booklist“I’m surprised that nobody has written a book about the payload specialist program before now. This program sponsored some outstanding on-orbit scientific research that was conducted by a truly diverse and dedicated group of extraordinary people. This is a great story of the shuttle era, extremely well researched and told.”—Col. Jerry L. Ross, USAF (Ret.), NASA astronaut and author of Spacewalker “No history of the space shuttle program could ever be considered complete without exploring the many accomplishments of the payload specialists. This consistently fascinating book is packed from start to finish with previously untold and sometimes controversial stories that delve into an intriguing aspect of life and work aboard America’s space shuttles. The authors have done a magnificent job.”—Rick Houston, space historian and coauthor of Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992“Before being selected as a payload specialist, I had already worked with NASA’s astronauts, instructing them on ways to interpret different oceanographic features and patterns from orbit. I then flew my own journey of discovery with the crew of STS-41G. This wonderful book brought back so many memories of an amazing time, the beauty of our planet as seen from orbit, and some truly unforgettable people.”—Paul D. Scully-Power, payload specialist, STS-41GTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Genesis of the Payload Specialist 2. Integrating the Payload Specialists 3. Spacelab, a New Era in Spaceflight 4. Mission to Planet Earth 5. Time to Specialize 6. The Supermission 7. Europe’s Coming Out Party 8. Supersonic in a Paper Airplane 9. The Highest Ground 10. Space Walker 11. First Passenger 12. International Goodwill 13. The Spaceman from Chilpancingo 14. On the Way to Disney World 15. Walking through Fire Epilogue Appendix: Summary of Missions Carrying Payload Specialists, 1983–86 Sources Index
£33.30
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Spies and Shuttles
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Rutgers University Press Politics Across the Hudson The Tappan Zee
Book SynopsisThe State of New York is now building one of the world's longest, widest, and most expensive bridges - the new Tappan Zee Bridge - stretching more than three miles across the Hudson River, approximately thirteen miles north of New York City. Urban planner Philip Plotch offers a behind-the-scenes look at three decades of contentious planning and politics centred around this bridge.Trade Review"Philip Plotch combines a terrific story with a relentless search for evidence and doses of humor to give us a first-rate portrayal of the political process at work. He recounts the efforts over several decades to replace the aging Tappan Zee Bridge. Through three decades of struggle and failed plans, three governors—George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer, and David Paterson—kept the project alive though often on a 'death watch.' Plotch reveals how Governor Andrew Cuomo picked up the torch, manipulated the facts where he thought it necessary, and overcame many obstacles to begin construction." -- Jameson W. Doig * author of Empire on the Hudson *"We spend years in traffic yet know little of the brew of politics, bureaucracy, interests, and ideals keeping us there. Planner and political scientist Plotch examines this principle through one transportation planning debacle: the three-decade struggle to refurbish or replace the Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River north of New York City ... Anyone concerned about the place of large infrastructure projects in the modern U.S. should consider this sobering case study." * Publisher's Weekly *"Plotch has tremendous insight into the challenges of building extraordinarily complex projects in difficult political and fiscal climates. His professional experience and probing questions have enabled him to help explain Planet Albany—a place where thought defies gravity." -- David A. Paterson * Governor of New York, 2008-2010 *"Philip Plotch's political history about the replacement of New York's Tappan Zee Bridge should be on the bookshelf of planners and other practicioners, elected officials, community members, and students engaged in or entering megaproject and urban politics debates ... Plotch skillfully tells the painful story of this bridge's evolution through a three-decade saga of conflict between elected officials, engineers, planners, environmentalists, and others who held divergent views about addressing traffic congestion in the corridor. The book is carefully researched and benefits from Plotch's extensive collection of primary materials and interviews with more than 100 key actors, including governors and influential members of the public and advocacy organizations...At times, I felt witness to interviews and his discoveries in real time…At its foundation, this book is a guide to what not to do in megaproject development. …Thus, Politics Across the Hudson provides an accessible and useful primer on what one can expect to surface and evolve potentially during a megaproject's long, winding path in deference to the phrase “expect the unexpected.” * Journal of the American Planning Association *“The Tappan Zee Bridge has been a symbol of infrastructure inaction in the U.S. over the last several decades – until now! New York State's Governor Cuomo has found the way to overcome the bickering among the many stakeholders and actually get to construction of the much needed replacement for this obsolescent and heavily used structure. How he did it, and how decades of issues stood in the way, are well told by Dr. Philip Plotch. This is a treatise for policy makers, planners, engineers, community leaders. Plotch has brought to light the genius in how to get big things done. It should go on your shelf next to your copy of Caro.” -- Robert E. Paaswell * Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering (City College of New York) and Director Emeritus *“Even with my lifelong interest in traffic congestion, I had much to learn from Politics Across the Hudson. What resonated most with me is the extremely lengthy process of conflicting viewpoints among the many agencies involved in our transportation systems. Nothing gets done fast." -- Anthony Downs * author of Stuck in Traffic *“Plotch’s analytical skills are top-notch and his writing is incisive and succinct. He writes with a historian's attention to detail, a political scientist's interest in theory, and a public policy scholar's fascination with how the sausage is actually made.” -- Jeffrey Smith * assistant professor of Politics and Advocacy, The New School, New York *"Governor David Patterson held about 6 meetings a month. That's according to Professor Philip Plotch who recently published a book, Politics across the Hudson, about the Tappan Zee Bridge and the construction." -- Stephen Nesson * WNYC *"The resulting Politics Across the Hudson: The Tappan Zee Megaproject is a short, compelling account of how good politics rarely translates into good public policy. Its 191 pages make for easy reading and its 41 pages of footnotes and bibliography, for authoritative telling" * Times Herald *"Plotch, a former planning official with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., writes with depth and wit about engineering, bureaucracy and politics" * Times Union *"On list of books for Political Junkies on Your Christmas List" * Newsmax *Winner of the prestigious American Planning Association journalism award for its “in-depth research, hard hitting analysis and compelling look at the politics behind New York's first major new bridge in more than 50 years.” * American Planning Association *“Using original documents and conducting numerous interviews with key players, the author went a long distance to unravel this complex process. In so doing, he managed to eloquently, and in great detail, trace the project’s political, planning and bureaucratic evolution.” * Journal of Planning Literature *Philip Plotch gives a brief history and sums up the future of the Tapen Zee Bridge project in this short video (http://youtu.be/PltWbA1aBhI) -- for WNYC“a wonderful book about this infrastructure megaproject" * Journal of the American Planning Association *"How the governor latched onto decades of planning to achieve his new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge" by Philip Mark Plotch * Westchester Journal News *"Cuomo astride our infrastructure: He got the Second Ave. Subway and new Tappan Zee over the finish line, but how?" op-ed by Philip Plotch * New York Daily News *"Why can't we build anything? Plus Lawyers (!), SoftBank pressures and more Amazon HQ2" by Danny Crichton and Arman Tabatabai * TechCrunch *"Truck traffic surges on Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, drops at George Washington Bridge" by Thomas C. Zambito and Frank Esposito * LoHud.com *"How Gov. Thomas Dewey engineered Tappan Zee Bridge toll money to edge out Port Authority" by Thomas C. Zambito * LoHud.com *"Plotch’s Politics Across the Hudson makes abundantly clear, understanding how infrastructure declines and deteriorates is enormously important." * Journal of Planning Literature *"Saint Peter’s Resident Transportation Expert Appears on One-on-One with Steve Adubato" https://www.saintpeters.edu/news/2019/08/01/saint-peters-resident-transportation-expert-appears-on-one-on-one-with-steve-adubato/ * One-on-One with Steve Adubato *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsGuides to This BookIntroduction1 The I-287 Corridor: From Conception to Congestion2 Searching for Congestion Solutions (1980–1988)3 Finalizing Plans for the HOV Lane (1988–1995)4 Killing the HOV Lane (1994–1997)5 Permut’s Rail Line and Platt’s Bridge6 Pataki’s Task Force: Raising Expectations Sky High (1998–2000)7 The Thruway Authority versus Metro-North (2000–2006)8 Eliot Spitzer Doesn’t Have Enough Steam (2007–2008)9 David Paterson: The Overwhelmed Governor (2008–2010)10 Andrew Cuomo Takes Charge in 201111 Public Reaction and Cuomo’s Campaign (2011–2012)12 Lost Opportunities and Wasted ResourcesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Flights of Imagination
£44.96
The University of Alabama Press Southwest Virginias Railroad Modernization and the Sectional Crisis in the Civil War Era
Book SynopsisThis work examines the construction of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad through southwest Virginia in the 1850s, before the Civil War began. The building and operation of the railroad reoriented the economy of the region toward staple crops and slave labour.
£19.76
University of Pittsburgh Press Stalins Railroad
Book SynopsisMatthew Payne details the building and impact of the Turkestano-Siberian Railroad, one of the major construction projects of Stalin's first Five Year Plan.Trade Review“Scholars looking to more fully comprehend the complex dynamic of Soviet industrialization and its interplay with nationality policy will learn much from this thoughtful study.” —Russian Review“Provides valuable insights on the first years of the Soviet great industrialization drive. Those interested in Stalinisn, socialist industrialization, and ethnic relations will find it an enjoyable and stimulating reading.” —European Review of History“A work of remarkable achievement and considerable importance. Payne has discovered a rich microcosm of the early Soviet Union in the Turksib project. ... [He] adds significant insight into the ethnic and racial conflicts that resulted from Turksib and a fresh interpretation of Stalin’s crusade to overthrow all of existing society.” —McCormick Messenger
£40.50
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Dictionary of Transport Analysis
Book SynopsisCutting through jargon, the entries concentrate on the social science aspects of transportation analysis, defining many of the terms used in transportation, and providing valuable information on some of the major institutions and technologies affecting this sector.Trade Review’There appears to be no other recently published work offering similar encyclopedic style coverage... A Dictionary of Transport Analysis is a quality book...’ -- Reference Reviews‘A Dictionary of Transport Analysis provides detailed definitions to terminology used in transportation policy and administration. . . This will be a useful addition to academic and research libraries that serve students studying transportation at the advanced level.’-Shannon Graff Hysell, American Reference Books Annual 2012
£51.25
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Transport and Development
Book SynopsisIn the last forty years or so the research field exploring the relationship and interaction between transport and development has developed rapidly.Trade Review'The role of transport in the development of cities and regions is a topic of immense importance. The editors have brought together authors from all over the world with experience of the methods needed to assess the impact of transport and analysis of the evidence of a varied range of projects. The result is a genuine Handbook of the state of the art, but with clear insights into future problems. It is highly recommended reading for researchers, policy makers and politicians.' --Roger Vickerman, University of Kent, UK'This timely compendium offers some of the best, up-to-date knowledge on how transport and development, richly defined, jointly shape each other. Written by some of the most authoritative voices in the field and encyclopedic in its coverage, the Handbook on Transport and Development brings together fresh, grounded insights from across the globe, at multiple geographic scales, and for everything from bikeways to fast inter-city trains. It is a wonderful reference and must-have library addition to anyone who cares about charting sustainable urban, regional, and mobility futures.' --Robert Cervero, University of California, Berkeley, US'For more than a century cities have been urged to integrate the two fields of urban planning and transport planning. But too often these professional fields have evolved in their own institutional silos. Now they are beginning to grow together again in a new joint practice. This book will be a foundational text for the real practice of transport and urban development planning. It contains contributions from all the principal scholars in the field, and examines all the main issues and fields of inquiry. It does fine justice to the legacy of Professors Sir Peter Hall and Piet Rietveld. To practitioners and researchers I say, "Have this book to hand on your shelf".' --Nicholas Low, University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: PART I AN INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPORT AND DEVELOPMENT 1. The Transport and Development Relationship Robin Hickman, Moshe Givoni, David Bonilla and David Banister PART II URBAN STRUCTURE AND TRAVEL 2. Urban Structure and Travel Philip Stoker, Susan Petheram and Reid Ewing 3. Urban Passenger Transport Energy Consumption and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A Global Review and Assessment of Some Reduction Strategies Peter Newman and Jeff Kenworthy 4. Homes, Jobs and Commuting: Development Location and Travel Outcomes Peter Headicar 5. New Household Location and the Commute to Work: Changes over Time Robin Hickman and David Banister 6. Spatial Structure and Travel: Trends in Commuting and Non-commuting Travels in US Metropolitan Areas Peter Gordon and Bumsoo Lee 7. New Urbanism and Travel Marcial Echenique and Alastair Donald 8. Residential Location and Travel: Hangzhou and Copenhagen Compared to Studies in Cities Worldwide Petter Naess 9. Public Transport-Orientated Development and Network Effects Carey Curtis 10. The Effects of Neighbourhood Type and Self-Selection on Driving: A Case Study of Northern California Xinyu (Jason) Cao 11. The Role of Attitudes in Accounting for Self-Selection Effects Bert Van Wee and Patricia Mokhtarian 12. How Stable are Preferences for Neighbourhood Type and Design in Residential Moves? Kevin J. Krizek, Ahmed El-Geneidy and Ryan Wilson 13. Community Design and Active Travel Susan Handy 14. Street Networks Wesley Marshall, Norman Garrick and Stephen Marshall PART III TRANSPORT AND SPATIAL IMPACTS 15. Transport and Urban Development Piet Rietveld and Frank Bruinsma 16. Methods for Estimating the Economic Impact of Transportation Improvements: An Interpretive Review Michael Iacono and David Levinson 17. Transport Projects and Wider Economic Impacts Torben Holvad and Steen Leleur 18. Urban Freight: Freight Strategy, Transport Movements and the Urban Spatial Economy David A. Hensher and Zheng Li 19. Spatial Implications of Public Transport Investments in Metropolitan Areas: Some Empirical Evidence Regarding Light Rail and Bus Rapid Transport Eran Feitelson and Orit Rotem-Mindali 20. High-Speed Trains and Spatial-Economic Impacts. A British-French Comparison on Two Scales: Intra- and Inter-Regional Chia-Lin Chen and Peter Hall 21. Assessing the Wider Impacts of the Jubilee Line Extension in East London Peter Jones 22. The Developmental Impacts of the Madrid Metro Line 12 on Retail Activities Around Stations Lucia Mejia Dorantes 23. Bus Rapid Transit and Buses with High Levels of Service: A Global Overview Dario Hidalgo and Juan Carlos Muñoz 24. The Expansion of Large International Hub Airports Andrew R. Goetz 25. Decision Making and Major Transport Infrastructure Projects: The Role of Project Ownership Chantal C. Cantarelli and Bent Flyvbjerg 26. Road Pricing, Impacts and Cost Effectiveness Jan Anne Annema 27. Incomes, Accessibility and Transport Poverty Gordon Stokes 28. Development and Social Policy: The Role of Transport in Social Development, in the UK Context Susan Kenyon 29. The Car in the Neighbourhood: Residential Design and Social Outcomes in Southern Germany Iqbal Hamiduddin 30. Accessibility: Theory and Practice in the Netherlands and UK Karst Geurs and Derek Halden PART IV WIDER DIMENSIONS IN TRANSPORT AND DEVELOPMENT 31. More Than A to B: Cultures of Mobilities and Travel Ole B. Jensen 32. Car Fixation, Socialization and Opportunities for Change Ellen Matthies and Christian A. Klöckner 33. Telecommunications and Travel Galit Cohen-Blankshtain 34. E-Retailing, The Network Society and Travel Orit Rotem-Mindali 35. Parents, Children and Automobility: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities Robyn Dowling 36. Old Age and the Importance of the Car in Maintaining Activity Patterns in Scandinavia Randi Hjorthol and Susanne Nordbakke 37. Ageing Populations and Travel Gamze Dane, Anna Grigolon, Soora Rasouli, Harry Timmermans and Dujuan Yang 38. Investigating Urban Oil Vulnerability Jago Dodson, Neil Sipe and Terry Li 39. Troublesome Leisure Travel: Counterproductive Sustainable Transport Policies Erling Holden and Kristin Linnerud 40. The Future of Transport and Development in the New Millennium: The Inescapable Implications of Climate Change Mayer Hillman 41. The Value of Transition Management for Sustainable Transport Harry Geerlings and Flor Avelino 42. The Regional Tram-Train of Kassel, Germany: How Regional Responsibility Leads to Local Success Helmut Holzapfel and Rainer Meyfahrt 43. The Making of European Transport Policy Dominic Stead 44. Understanding Process. Can Transport Research Come to Terms with Temporality? Tim Schwanen PART V SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 45. Transport and Development – What Next? David Banister, David Bonilla, Moshe Givoni and Robin Hickman Index
£256.00
Cornell University Press The Corn Belt Route
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fine, engaging, and enlightening study of a corporate underdog's struggle to survive." -Railroad History "Grant tells a good story. His narrative is balanced between the factual, the anecdotal, and the broader issues."—Technology & Culture "A thorough, well-written study of building and running a major midwestern 'little' railroad." -Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsTable of Contents Preface to the 1996 Edition Preface to the 1984 Edition Chapter One: A. B. Stickney Builds a Railroad: The Minnesota & Northwestern, 1883-1887 Chapter Two: The Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City, and the Formation of the Chicago Great Western, 1887- 1892 Chapter Three: Running the Maple Leaf Route, 1892-1904 Chapter Four: Years of Growth, 1895-1904 Chapter Five: Reorganization, Rehabilitation, and Recuperation: The Samuel M. Felton Years, 1908-1929 Chapter Six: Scandal, Depression, and War, 1929-1948 Chapter Seven: The Deramus Era, 1948-1957 Chapter Eight: The Final Decade, 1957-1968 Afterword Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£30.40
Cornell University Press Chicago Aviation
Book SynopsisFrom the dawn of flight, Chicago has played a vital role in the development of aviation. Favored by geography and a superb network of railroads, the Windy City rapidly became the nation''s crossroad. Young''s richly illustrated history portrays the inventors, entrepreneurs, and aviators who conquered the skies and made Chicago the nation''s premier hub for air travel and transport. Aviation''s colorful figures come to life as Young recounts tales of the pilots, patrons, and passengers who sparked public interest in the early days of flight. Beginning with Chicago''s first aviation event—a balloon ascension on July 4, 1855—Young traces the local personalities and technologies that helped make the dream of flight a reality. He offers the most complete account to date of pioneer Chicago aviator Octave Chanute, whose series of daring glider experiments led to international attention and a friendship with the Wright brothers, who sought his advice before their laTrade Review"Original.... A significant contribution to the field." -William F. Trimble, Auburn University "Truly impressive.... Young has a gift for weaving together historical facts about transportation and colorful stories of the past."—Joseph P. Schwieterman, DePaul UniversityTable of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Part I: Chicago at the Dawn of Powered Flight 1. The Balloons 2. Octave Chanute 3. The Flying Machine Comes to Chicago 4. The Aero Club Part II: Chicago as a Growing Air Center 5. The First Airports 6. The Changes that War Brought 7. Early Commercial Aviation 8. Airlines Come to Chicago Part III: Chicago—Airport to a Nation 9. Air Disasters 10. Emergence of Modern Airlines 11. The Airports 12. The Jet Age Epilogue Appendices A—1911 International Air Show B—Major Air Disasters in the Chicago Area C—Intercity Travel Mileage D—Chicago Airport Traffic E—United Airlines Fleet Notes Bibliography Index
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