Transport Industries

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the economics of airports for all managers, regulators and educators within the aviation industry. Writ...

In the foreseeable future the alliance will become an increasingly important feature of the airline industry around the world. Despite its growing ...

This volume fulfills a long-felt need for a single text which documents the theoretical foundations of travel choice modeling. With contributions f...

This book is directed at a wide range of readers interested in transport and/or European policies. It gives an overview of the current problems and...

Rapid developments in information technology have many implications for the organisation and management of transport and logistics. Information tec...

This two volume set presents the reader with new strategies for the contributions of psychology and Human Factors to the safe and effective functio...

Railway workers were a uniformed and respectable section of the Victorian and Edwardian working class. They built their trade unions in the face of...

This volume is based on selected papers presented at the triennial IATBR (International Association for Travel Behavior Research) conference in Aug...

This book is concerned with driver fatigue across all transport modes. Most research into the effects of fatigue has been restricted to studies of ...

This study of CAMI Automotive, a unionized joint venture between General Motors and Suzuki, is the most comprehensive ever undertaken of a lean pro...

Usually described as 'state' industries, European airlines have been criticized as uncompetitive, overmanned, and subsidized. But this view begs th...

This book has clear aims: to address both the multi-faceted challenge - that the industry has never made any sustainable profits, and some possible...

This book, first published in 1932, provides a survey of the subject of railway economics as a whole, including the theory and practice of railway ...

Aerospace is a major world industry. This handbook, first published in 1987, provides a world survey of the industry in statistical form. The first...

Starting from the premise that airports can be run as commercial successes, The Airport Business aims to place the business as a whole within a con...

This title was first published in 2000: A comprehensive assessment of the markets and outlook for the air transport industry in the Asia-Pacific re...

Covering cost structures and cost problems as well as costing methodologies, this book, first published in 1988, aims to enhance understanding of t...

This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early...

This title was first published in 2001. A general introduction to the study of motorised road haulage in Britain from its beginng up to the outbrea...

This book, fist published in 1979, traces the growth of Britain’s inland transportation systems, chiefly for goods traffic, by road, canal and rail...

Ports are the vital hubs of the maritime transport industry, and crucial to the flow of global trade. The protection of this global supply chain fr...

This survey, first published in 1934, was designed as a contribution to our knowledge of poverty, its incidence and causes. Poverty is a product of...

Practically everybody in the community uses the transport system, and an eighth of personal consumption expenditure in Britain is spent on transpor...

The physical distribution of products is an important element in the marketing operations of all productive enterprises, and in many cases efficien...

South China Sea (SCS) issues are complex and dynamic, ranging from historic claims to present day military occupation, from military security to re...

Over the last thirty years Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) have been used to deliver transport capital projects and services. PPPs are complex a...

East Asia has led rapid economic growth in the last few decades with India joining them over the last five years. Automotive parts manufacturers ha...

The story of Wyndham Clifford Watts is one of humble beginnings and exceptional ingenuity; originally from Gwent in Wales, W Clifford Watts moved t...

This book analyzes the choices and constraints of management within the Bangladesh garment industry and how management negotiates these challenges ...

Originally published in 1975, The Volunteer Force is a study of the part-time military force which came into being to meet the mid-nineteenth centu...

Air Transport and Regional Development Policies is one of three interconnected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Tec...

The history of the ore boom on the Iron Range and the role railroads playedIn 1865, the nation’s largest iron ore deposits were discovered in north...

Air Transport and Regional Development Policies is one of three interconnected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Tec...

The definitive history of one of the nation’s great transcontinental railroads In the sprawling Northwest, from the upper Mississippi River valley ...

The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were officially joined on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah, with the driving of a golden spik...

The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event. An integrated industry was broken-up into numerous com...

In August 1963, one of the best-selling aircraft of British civil aviation, the BAC One-Eleven, took to the skies for the first time. With an order...

From its earliest flights in 1926, carrying mail and occasionally a solo passenger to Chicago, to its acquisition by Delta in 2010, Northwest Airli...

Nimrod J. Bell worked as a conductor for several southern railroads in their formative period, from 1857 to 1894. After his career was cut short by...

The Southern Railway may not have been the most glamorous of the ‘Big Four’ companies that emerged from the grouping of 1923, but it was the great ...

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Few American states can match the rich and diverse transportation heritage of Ohio. Every major form of public conveyance eventually served the Buc...

Hard Air is a book about extraordinary flying—flying under conditions that keep fighters on the carrier deck and rockets on the launch pad—a book a...

A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land—America's railroads—The Men Who Loved Trains introduces some of the most d...

The Hybrid Factory in the United States will be the English translation of a book published in April 2005 by Toyo Keizai Shinpo Sha, a leading busi...