Transport Industries

Freight Transport and the Modern Economy adapts a well-known textbook by Michel Savy, revising, extending and updating it for British, European and...

This book provides an introduction and overview to nine applied financial studies on the theme of transport. The studies cover a wide range of topi...

Public–private partnerships (PPPs) are arrangements between government and private actors with the objective of providing public infrastructure, fa...

This book provides an introduction and overview to nine applied financial studies on the theme of transport. The studies cover a wide range of topi...

Freight Transport and the Modern Economy adapts a well-known textbook by Michel Savy, revising, extending and updating it for British, European and...

This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography. Although Bengal industries were globally dominant on the eve of the indus...

The global airline industry, facing significant changes and discontinuity is prompted and forced to deal with a "new normal." Who would have imagin...

Deep Stall applies a framework of strategic analysis to the Boeing Company. Boeing is the world's largest aerospace / defence company, with turno...

Robert A. Van Wyck, mayor of the greater city of New York, broke ground for the first subway line by City Hall on March 24, 1900. It took four year...

The second volume in the history of the Union Pacific begins after the financial panic of 1893, one of the worst depressions Americans had yet expe...

Once an icon of American industry, railroads fell into a long decline beginning around the turn of the twentieth century. Overburdened with regulat...

"Mathew, as a member of the Organizing Committee of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, has a unique perspective on the plight of immigrant taxi dr...

This book provides an explanation of key underlying economic principles, allowing the reader to come to a better understanding of the critical fact...

From the few tickets that were sold by Alaska Airlines and former British Midland in December 1995 via the industry’s first airline booking engine ...

Profiting from the Plains looks at two inextricably linked historical movements in the United States: the westward expansion of the great Northern ...

From the few tickets that were sold by Alaska Airlines and former British Midland in December 1995 via the industry’s first airline booking engine ...

At one point in time, no place in Iowa was more than a few miles from an active line of rail track. In this splendid companion volume to Steel Trai...

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The future safety of maritime transportation in the United States—a major factor in the nation's international trade and economic well-being—will d...

From wagon trails to interstate highways, this book retraces how the leaders and employees of the Washington State Department of Transportation and...

Visionary Railroader chronicles the life of a key figure in the history of rail travel in the United States. As president of the Baltimore & Oh...

The Indiana Rail Road Company is a story of extraordinary success among the scores of independent short line and regional railroads spawned in the ...

The potential for fatigue to negatively affect human performance is well established. Concern about this potential in the aviation context extends ...

This timely book investigates the experiences of employees at all levels of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) during a ten-year period of dramatic ...

In this visually stunning and comprehensive photographic essay, railroad historian and photographer Donovan L. Hofsommer records the end of branchl...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the street railway industry was one of the largest in the nation. Once ubiquitously visible on the city stree...

Among the grand antebellum plans to build railroads to interconnect the vast American republic, perhaps none was more ambitious than the Louisville...

This book remains the sole export–import textbook aimed squarely at the academic audience. Discussing theoretical issues in depth, while maintainin...

The end of the twentieth century saw remarkable changes in the way that economic regulation was viewed. There occurred a liberalization of attitude...

This book remains the sole export–import textbook aimed squarely at the academic audience. Discussing theoretical issues in depth, while maintainin...

Today, some suppliers have grown increasingly powerful and in certain cases, earn revenues that rival or even exceed that of their automaker client...

From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival o...

In 1920, state highway engineers, federal officials, and experts from academia were among a small group convened by the National Academy of Science...

The Hocking Valley Railway was once Ohio’s longest intrastate rail line, filled with a seemingly endless string of coal trains. Although coal was t...