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  • Public Transport

    Its Planning, Management and Operation

    by Peter R. White ...
    Series series Natural and Built Environment Series
    Public Transport provides an accessible introductory text to the field of public transport systems, covering bus, coach, rail, metro, domestic air and taxi modes. The market structure is set out, together with data collection methods. The technology of bus and rail systems is introduced with particular reference to peak capacity and energy consumption. An analysis of cost structures and costing ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

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  • Human Transit

    How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

    by Jarrett Walker ...
    Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem is that transit debates attract many kinds of experts, who often talk past each other. ... Read more

    $93.49 CAD

  • Uncommon Carriers

    by John McPhee ...
    What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation.Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. Uncommon Carriers is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Concorde Conspiracy

    The Battle for American Skies 1962-77

    by Graham M Simons ...
    An innovation in aviation development, Concorde was the subject of political rivalry, deceit and treachery from its very inception. After their failure to be the first nation to develop a jet airliner for transatlantic flight or to send spacecraft into space, the US Government was adamant that they would beat other nations to the goal of supersonic flight and so development of the SST began. ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transforming Urban Transport

    The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility

    Edited by Nicholas Low ...
    Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must be changed from auto-based mobility to systems of sustainable transport in which public transport, ... Read more

    $309.18 CAD

  • Travel Fast or Smart?

    A Manifesto for an Intelligent Transport Policy

    by David Metz ...
    Britain does not have a coherent transport policy, and conventional transport economics has reached a dead end. A transport policy should incorporate systematic thinking about the travel needs of society, but in Britain public investment in the transport system has been extraordinarily volatile. We closed underused railways and then experienced a doubling of passenger numbers, prompting huge new ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Better Public Transit Systems

    Analyzing Investments and Performance

    by Eric Christian Bruun ...
    Better Public Transit Systems is a complete primer for performance and investment analysis of public transportation. Whether you’re planning a major new public transit project, an extension or expansion of an existing system, or evaluating the needs of your current system, this book provides the tools you need to define your goals and objectives and conceive and analyse design alternatives. This ... Read more

    $309.18 CAD

  • The Transport Debate

    by Jon Shaw, Iain Docherty ...
    Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
    At a time when transport is high on the political agenda and government decision-making is being vigorously scrutinised, there is a need for an incisive and accessible analysis of the key policy issues. This book is a highly readable introduction to the transport debate from two experts in the field. The authors celebrate the advantages of a modern transport system, but argue that years of poorly ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • How Great Cities Happen

    Integrating People, Land Use and Transport

    by John Stanley, Janet Stanley, Roslynne Hansen ...
    Series series Cities series
    Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of the city, rather than how it functions as a place to live and visit. How Great Cities Happen addresses this challenge by developing a wider, all-encompassing ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects

    Building Resilient Regions, Volume IV

    Edited by Margaret Weir, Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial, Harold Wolman ...
    The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.Volume four of the series introduces and examines thoroughly the concept of regional ... Read more

    $42.19 CAD

  • Sustainable Logistics

    Edited by Cathy Macharis, Sandra Melo, Johan Woxenius, Tom van Lier ...
    Series Book 6 - Transport and Sustainability
    This book will bring a state of the art overview of the research done in sustainable logistics. It will be structured along the four A's of sustainable logistics:- 1 Awareness: it is important that companies and policy makers are aware of the effects of their activities and policies. New methods to estimate the effects of the logistic activities and the change towards more sustainable ways will be ... Read more

    $213.99 CAD

  • Parking

    Issues and Policies

    Edited by Stephen G. Ison, Corinne Mulley ...
    Series Book 5 - Transport and Sustainability
    Travel by car invariably involves the use of a car parking space at the start and end of the journey, the provision of which impacts on travel demand and travel behaviour. The presence or absence of parking at the destination also has significant implications for the demand for public transport. The impact of parking on mode share and travel demand more generally thus has implications for ... Read more

    $260.99 CAD