Transport law Books

Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Development of two wheelers/bicycles and their use Manuel Stoffers 2. E-bikes Jessica Bourne 3. Street level design for cycling Marc Schlossberg 4. Network level design for cycling Regine Gerike 5. A global overview of cycling trends Ralph Buehler 6. Modeling (forecasting) of cycling behavior Serge Hoogendoorn 7. Interactions of cyclists with other road users Heather Kaths 8. Inequalities and determinants of cycling Eugeni Vidal 9. Physical and mental health of cyclists Paul Kelly 10. Emission reduction potentials from mode-shift to cycling Christian Brand 11. Cycling safety Jake Olivier 12. Innovations in data collection and research methods Greg Griffin 13. Tools for practitioners John Parkin 14. Cycling during and after COVID Angela Francke 15. Translating evidence into practice: bottlenecks in cycling planning and policy Kevin Krizek

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: THEORY AND BACKBROUND 2. Fundamentals and Data Collection 3. Crash-Frequency Modeling 4. Crash-Severity Modeling Part 2: HIGHWAY SAFETY ANALYSES 5. Exploratory Analysis of Safety Data 6. Cross-sectional and Panel Studies in Safety 7. Before-After Studies in Highway Safety 8. Identification of Hazardous Sites 9. Models for Spatial Data 10. Capacity, Mobility, and Safety Part 3: ALTERNATIVE SAFETY ANALYSES 11. Surrogate Safety Measures 12. Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques Appendix A. Negative Binomial Regression Models and Estimation Methods B. Summary of Crash-Frequency and Crash-Severity Models in Highway Safety C. Computing Codes D. List of Exercise Data

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Book SynopsisTaking a global approach, this insightful Handbook brings together leading researchers to provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in railway regulation with a particular focus on countries that rely heavily on railways for transportation links, such as Japan, India and France. Despite numerous liberalisation attempts in recent years, the railway sector is still excessively complex, with regulations varying throughout the world. The Handbook on Railway Regulation gathers, for the first time, these various approaches and practices, using a historical and systematic approach to identify the main lessons for all countries. The Handbook also considers the most pressing issues for those working in and with railway systems, and outlines future trends in the development of global rail. Specific topics covered include the digitalization dilemma in the industry, rail sector reforms and regulation, and competition in the market for rail freight and passenger services. This Handbook provides an invaluable contribution to the discussion of railway regulation worldwide, and will be a crucial compendium for students and scholars of transportation, regulation and competition looking to explore different approaches to the topic. This will also be an invaluable read for railway policymakers and regulators looking to deepen their understanding of contemporary regulations around the world.Trade Review‘This book is for those who appreciate the role of railways in transport and in reaching broader public objectives. It is a well-developed and well-written compendium of 14 country-specific rail sector analyses combined with nine topic-oriented discussions covering the tradeoffs between structure, competition objectives, and the scope and powers of regulation. The Handbook does a good job of presenting the experience and near-term prospects of an extremely complex set of issues.’ -- Lou Thompson, Journal of the Transportation Research Forum'This collection of original papers takes a genuinely international look at the economic regulation of railways. It covers all forms of rail operations (freight, passenger, and local) and a diversity of regulatory regimes, as well as having a substantial geographical coverage. The editors have managed to entice a cornucopia of experts from around the world to contribute. The volume is timely. Railways over the last 50 years have seen economic regulatory adjustments that have affected their ownership, operations, methods of finance, and investment priorities. While one can easily find a common thread in many of these changes, the overriding emphasis has been on more reliance on market forces and lighter interventions by governments, there are considerable national variations in the instruments deployed and the outcomes that have emerged. This volume allows experts to keep abreast of events and thinking in the rail regulatory world and offers newcomers an almost encyclopedic account of the practical and intellectual challenges involved.' --Kenneth Button, George Mason University, US'A great resource for politicians, managers, competition lawyers and economists, seeking an overview of the implemented regulatory frameworks within the railway sector in Europe and beyond.' --Frank Miram, Deutsche Bahn AGTable of ContentsContents: 1. Railway Regulation: A comparative analysis of a diverging reality Juan Montero and Matthias Finger 2. Railway Regulation in Germany Thomas Fetzer 3. The ongoing process of liberalization of the railway sector in France Stéphane de la Rosa 4. Developments in Rail Regulation in Britain Chris Nash and Andrew Smith 5. Railway Regulation in Italy Nadia Bert and Germano Guglielmi 6. Spain: Between the failure of freight and the success of high speed Alberto Garcia Alvarez 7. Railways in Switzerland Matthias Finger 8. Regulatory challenges of open-access passenger competition in the Czech Republic Zdeněk Tomeš, Martin Kvizda, Monika Jandová and Václav Rederer 9. China’s railway development: a cyclical process of de-regulation and re-regulation Linda Tjia Yin-nor 10. Railways in South Korea Leif Karlén 11. Indian railways: challenges and opportunities Rachna Gangwar 12. Railways in Japan Fumio Kurosaki 13. Rail sector reforms and regulation in Russia Yu.Z. Saakyan 14. The deregulation of Turkish railways Şahin Ardıyok and Evren Sesli 15. Railways and Railways Regulation in the United States: Surely You Don’t Want Jones Back? Russell Pittman 16. Towards a new architecture for technical regulation of Europe’s railways Christian Chavanel 17. Regulating Rail Mass Transit: A century-long legacy and still looking for fine tuning Pierre Messulam 18. Competitive tendering for regional trains: What can be learnt from economic literature? Patricia Perennes 19. Competition law challenges in domestic rail passenger services Mariarosaria Ganino 20. Financing railways Georg Götz and Jan Thomas Schäfer 21. The consumer perspective on railways Mark van Hagen 22. Competition in the market of rail passenger services: the experience of small and medium-sized new entrants in long-distance services in Europe Rodolfo Ramos 23. High-speed rail: From first principles to final expectations Michel Leboeuf 24. The digitalization dilemma in the railway industry Juan Montero Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Driven has been received as not only a touching tribute to those who lost their lives, but also to two women, Ana and Isabelle, who in their unimaginable grief decided to fight for justice in the name of their sons." -- Linda Hersey * Times & Transcript *

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Book SynopsisThe nation's air, land, and marine transportation systems are designed for accessibility and efficiency, two characteristics that make them vulnerable to attack. The focus of chapter 1 is how best to implement and finance a system of deterrence, protection, and response that effectively reduces the possibility and consequences of terrorist attacks without unduly interfering with travel, commerce, and civil liberties. Almost every conversation about surface transportation finance begins with a two-part question: What are the "needs" of the national transportation system, and how does the nation pay for them? Chapter 2 is aimed almost entirely at discussing the "how to pay for them" question. On 4 December 2015, President Barack Obama signed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act; P.L. 114-94). As reported in chapter 3, the act authorised spending on federal highway and public transportation programs, surface transportation safety and research activities, and rail programs for five years to 30 September 2020. Despite significant investments in public transportation at the federal, state, and local levels, transit ridership has fallen in many of the top 50 transit markets. If strong gains in the New York area are excluded, ridership nationally declined by 7% over the past decade. Chapter 4 examines the implications for federal transit policy of the current weakness and possible future changes in transit ridership. Congress created the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) program to offer long-term, low-cost loans to railroad operators, with particular attention to small freight railroads, to help them finance improvements to infrastructure and investments in equipment. This program is discussed in chapter 5. The Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) carry out different approaches to rail safety oversight. FRA has a more centralised safety oversight program for railroads, while FTA's program for oversight of rail transit safety largely relies on state safety agencies to monitor and enforce rail transit safety, as established in federal statute. Chapter 6 examines (1) key characteristics of FRA's and FTA's rail safety oversight programs and (2) strengths and limitations of FRA's and FTA's rail safety oversight programs. Research sponsored by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has identified driver behaviour as the main cause of highway-rail grade crossing crashes and that factors such as train and traffic volume can contribute to the risk of a crash. Chapter 7 examines: (1) the focus of FRA's grade-crossing-safety research, (2) how states select and implement grade-crossing projects and what data are available from FRA to inform their decisions, and (3) the challenges states reported in implementing and assessing projects and the extent to which FHWA assesses the program's effectiveness.Table of ContentsFor more information, please visit our website at:https://novapublishers.com/shop/transportation-congressional-issues-financing-and-improvements/

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Book SynopsisNoise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet is the nations most prominent anti-noise organization, focusing on excessive noise from motorcycles, loud car stereos, and leaf blowers. Noise Free America has dozens of chapters in around 25 states, and its memebers conduct anti-noise public education campaigns at the local, state, and federal levels. The organization provides an Ask an Expert service, with advice to the public from a noise control engineer and a former Houston police officer. Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet issues a monthly Noisy Dozen press release, highlighting excessive noise in a community, business, or industry, or by an individual. Noise Free America has been featured in more than 350 media stories, including on 20/20, CNN, and NPR, as well as in ''Time'' magazine, the ''New York Times'', and the ''Washington Post''. The organizations web site contains numerous noise ordinances, a model noise ordinance, radio public service announcements, sample letters, and a manual on How to Fight Noise.

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides about $40 billion to the states annually to build and maintain highways and bridges through the federal-aid highway program. This book describes the process and factors that could affect highway project time frames; examines state DOTs'' views on the benefits and challenges of the provisions to expedite highway projects established in SAFETEA-LU and describes additional initiatives that state DOTs and FHWA have implemented to expedite the completion of highway projects.

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Book SynopsisOn 6 July 2012, President Barack Obama signed the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21; P.L. 112141). The act authorised spending on federal highway and public transportation programs, surface transportation safety and research, and some rail programs and activities through September 30, 2014. MAP-21 authorised roughly $105 billion for FY2013 and FY2014 combined. This book examines the MAP-21 Act and the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) program, which is designed to fill market gaps and leverage substantial non-federal investment by providing federal credit assistance to help finance surface transportation projects including highway, transit, rail, and intermodal projects.

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Book SynopsisÜbersichtlich strukturiert und prägnant zusammengefasst, vermittelt der Band die Grundlagen des Transportrechts: vom deutschen Gütertransportrecht über das Speditions-, Umzugs- und Lagerrecht bis zu den internationalen Regelungen des Transportrechts. Die wichtigsten gesetzlichen Normen werden im Wortlaut vorgestellt, verständlich kommentiert und in Schaubildern und Übersichten zusammenfassend dargestellt. Auch die nationalen und internationalen Speditionsbedingungen finden Berücksichtigung.Table of ContentsEinführung.- Das deutsche Frachtrecht.- Besondere Regelungen im deutschen Transport- und Lagerrecht.- Der Europäische Straßentransport geregelt durch die CMR.- Das Recht des internationalen Lufttransports - Das Montrealer Übereinkommen.- Das Recht des internationalen Bahntransports - Die CIM.- Eine kurze Übersicht über das deutsche Seehandelsrecht.- Hinweise zur Vertiefung.

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Book SynopsisNow it its second edition, The Law of Yachts and Yachting is a comprehensive treatise on the law relating to yachts and provides its readers with a thorough analysis of maritime law as relevant to the superyacht sector. Written by a team of leading yachting practitioners and researchers, it covers the legal issues arising during the life of a yacht. The book is written for the legal practitioner, yacht-broker and manager concerned with the operation of professionally crewed yachts including financing, registration, chartering, insurance, compliance and casualty management.Key Features -The only practitioners' book on the area It covers all major aspects of yachting law in a single book The Law of Yachts and Yachting is highly comprehensive - despite its main focus on contract and tort law, it contains references to public law and international law and practice References to case law, English, foreign and internationalAppendicTrade Review'...an important contribution to the understanding of how English law is applied to this industry sector, and indeed should be on the shelf of every solicitor, every barrister and every arbitrator who purports to advise or adjudicate on disputes arising out of the construction, the ownership, the design or the operation of yachts.'John Leonida, The Journal of International Maritime LawTable of Contents1. Yacht-Building Contracts 2. Yacht Registration 3. Value Added Tax and Yachts 4. Yacht Finance 5. Insurance Legislation and Contracts 6. Employment and Manning 7. Yacht-Brokers 8. Yacht Chartering and the MYBA Form 9. Mooring 10. Sale and Purchase under the MYBA Form 11. Yacht Codes: Safety and Compliance for Superyachts 12. Accidents at Sea 13. The Recycling of Yachts

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Book SynopsisApproximately 40 per cent of value of international trade comes from goods carried by air, and the consequences of goods being damaged, destroyed or delayed can be serious, substantial, and perhaps unforeseen. This exciting new book is the only one on the market that deals exclusively with air cargo insurance, and will therefore, be a vital addition to the collection of any practitioner, professional or academic working in the field. Air Cargo Insurance analyses the model policies and standard terms and conditions on the London markets. The authors also provide readers with an invaluable perspective on cases in other jurisdictions, and the book discusses freight forwarders' relations with airlines and addresses the possibility of recovery from third parties. This book, written by two of the leading experts in the field, provides invaluable guidance to practitioners, arbitrators and cargo-claims professionals. It will help to ensure that air cargo insurance contracts arTable of Contents1: General Principles2: Air Cargo Insurance: General Principles3: Insurance Claims by Cargo Interests4: Liability Insurance5: Air Cargo Liability Insurance Claims6: Air Cargo Property Claims

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Book SynopsisWritten by a team of acclaimed practitioners and leading academics, this book brings together in one single volume an analysis of contemporary legal issues concerning ship building, sale and finance contracts. It offers a comprehensive, expert and thoroughly practical guide on what is a very complex area of law in today''s international shipping industry. The book presents a detailed and critical analysis of standard and non-standard shipbuilding and sale contracts, including vital but often overlooked issues such as payment and refund guarantees, which have been at the forefront of recent litigation and practice. It also critically and thoroughly analyses several types of standard insurance contracts, including shipbuilder''s risks and mortgagee''s interests, which are not adequately dealt with elsewhere and it provides a critical and contemporary discussion on the legal and practical issues surrounding ship finance, ship mortgages and more esoteric issues such as the use ofTrade Review'The editors are to be congratulated in bringing together this collection of stimulating contributions.The book will be of great value to academics, law students, researchers, legal practitioners, shipbrokers and bankers.'Richard Coles, Journal of International Maritime Law Table of ContentsPart I: Legal issues relating to ship building 1. Contracting by Numbers: The Different Characteristics of the Main Shipbuilding Contracts Professor Andrew Tettenborn 2. The BIMCO Newbuildcon Standard Form Shipbuilding Contract: Salient Features and Pitfalls Chris Kidd 3. Remedies for Breach of Shipbuilding Contracts- Is English Law 'Fit for Purpose'? Simon Curtis 4. The Application of the 'Prevention Principle' in the Ship Building Context Simon Kverndal QC 5. Drafting and Interpreting Payment and Refund Guarantees in the Shipbuilding Context John Forrester 6. The Evolving Nature of Builders' Risks Cover Professor Baris Soyer Part II: Ship sale contracts and practice 7.Battle of the Sale Forms Matt Hannaford 8. 'As Is'...As You Were?The Union Power and 'As Is' Provisions in Ship Sale and Purchase Contracts 9. The Practicalities of Ship Sales in the Current Market William Maclachlan Part III: Legal and practical issues relation to ship finance10. Ship Mortgages: Enforcement and Remedies Charles Buss 11. Mortgagees' Interest Insurance Peter Macdonald Eggers QC 12. Lease Finance and Demise Charters-Lessors’ Risks and Liabilities Professor Simon Baughen 13.Financing Newbuilding Vessels and Barecon 2001: A Fair Deal? Dr Theodora Nikaki 14. Shipping Finance and Sanctions 15. Using Derivatives to Finance Ship Sales and Shipbuilding: A Civil Law Perspective Professor Dr Olivier Cachard

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Book SynopsisJames W. Ely Jr, tells the history of the rail industry, showing that two institutions - the railroad and American law - had a profound effect on each other. It also documents the change and innovation the railroad brought the country.Trade ReviewA monumental achievement - it should be on the shelves of every railroad, economic, and legal historian. Herbert Hovenkamp, Author of Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937; ""Fills a large void in the field of legal history. There is nothing else available that covers this subject, or even comes close."" Lawrence M. Friedman, Author of A History of American Law; ""A unique and wide-ranging book on a relatively untouched subject that should appeal to anyone interested in the history of the American railroad."" John F. Stover, Author of American Railroads; ""An incredibly ambitious book from a master at writing about sweeping legal topics in a meaningful and readable way."" Paul Kens, Author of Lochner v. New York: Economic Regulation on Trial

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