Road Transport Industries

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is now transforming logistics and supply chain industries. Consumer habits are changing fast and supply chains are...

The disparity between urban and rural motor vehicle fatalities in the U.S. is well documented in academic research and reports show discrepancy bet...

Speeding is defined as exceeding posted speed limits or driving too fast for conditions. This is a behaviour that some drivers engage in without re...

On 6 July 2012, the President signed into law a new two-year transportation reauthorisation bill, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century...

This book provides guidelines for the implementation of an adaptive lighting system for roadway lighting. Based on the analysis of crashes and ligh...

A Study Guide for the Operator Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) in Road Freight 2020 is a vital study guide that offers the thorough pr...

The ultimate objective for the book is to be a useful tool to increase awareness surrounding the importance of the use and the proper adjustment of...

Commercial vehicles such as tractor trailers and school buses must be operated by skilled drivers who are mentally and physically capable of perfor...

Transport Operator Licensing takes operators through the whole process of licensing, looking at when licences are required, giving advice on applyi...

This book tells the story of Robert Walker Haulage. Established in 1935, Robert Walker never intended to run a haulage business; he initially bough...

This book looks at the latest advances in autonomous driving, demonstrating that a future once considered science fiction is now close at hand.   ...

A new, comprehensive guide to motoring and transport museums offering a fresh conversation on their role and the portrayal of our motoring history....

Petrol stations have been with us for 100 years. They have been built on countless rural and industrial landscapes, often becoming a linchpin of th...

Its hard to imagine a history of British engineering without Rolls-Royce: there would be no Silver Ghost, no Merlin for the Spitfire, no Alcock and...

In this book, cargo securing in road transport using the restraining method with top-over lashing is presented. Cargo securing is the prevention of...

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) use information and communications technologies (ICT) to deliver transport improvements instead of extending ph...

Wit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road.They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of...

Between the two world wars and in the years that followed, several generations relied on country buses. In the days when few could afford a car, th...

The Logistics and Supply Chain Toolkit provides practical tools for warehouse, inventory and transport managers and students to help them tackle th...

White Light recounts the life of Cambridge garage owner Andy Kent. Told with heart-wrenching honesty, courage and a lot of humour, this is the stor...

In the mid-1950s, an innovative group of women at General Motors (dubbed the Damsels of Design by marketers) and their counterparts at Ford, Hudson...

Lavington & Devizes Motor Services (L&DMS) was not a typical West Country rural independent bus operator. Across Britain, many village-base...

Many Americans spend frustrating hours each year stuck in congested traffic, a situation that costs the country billions of dollars annually and in...