Transport Industries

Aviation Markets: Studies in Competition and Regulatory Reform is a collection of 17 papers selected from David Starkie's extensive writings over t...

Flying High traces the incredible career of the founder and chairman of JetBlue, David Neeleman, from his teenage ventures and beginnings in the tr...

With the coming of railroads, upstart Chicago quickly became the Midwest's center for commerce and trade, overtaking its older rival, St. Louis. Th...

Heathrow is 60 on 1 January 2006. Alan Gallop chronicles Heathrow's first 60 years, exploring how a small agricultural community on the outskirts o...

Cammell Laird's shipyard has brought tremendous benefit to the social and economic fabric of the area. For Ian Collard, who grew up in the Wirrall,...

Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the histor...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of trains and train travel. Letherby and Reynolds have conducted extensive research with all those conce...

With the demise of European socialist economies and the marketization of Asian communist countries, a new global capitalism has reshaped the config...

This book provides an in-depth exploration of trains and train travel. Letherby and Reynolds have conducted extensive research with all those conce...

On the Ground charts labor relations in the airline industry, unraveling the story of how baggage handlers--classified as unskilled workers--built ...

After 9/11, the initial focus from the U.S. government, media, and the public was on security at commercial airports and aboard commercial airlines...

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...

This advanced practical textbook deals with the issue of risk analysis, measurement and management in the shipping industry. It identifies and anal...

This title was first published in 2003. Suburbanizing the Masses examines how collective forms of transport have contributed to the spatial and soc...

Under and post COVID-19 conditions, companies are adapting to smart ways of operating and managing logistics processes to counteract the negative i...

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...

First published in 1985, this Atlas uses over 50 specially drawn maps to trace the rise and fall of the railways’ fortunes, and is supported by an ...

Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Passenger is Flying the Plane is the fourth in a series written at the encouragement of practitioners in the global airli...

Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geo...

Originally published in 1982, The Railwaymen examines the impact of the transformation which took place in the British Railways in the second half ...

Originally published in 1963, The Railwaymen recounts the struggle of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants from its foundation in 1872 until...

This book is a unique collection of perspectives provided by a mix of leading academics, industrialists and government officials on the challenges ...

Exploring the social, economic, and legal impact of the growth of the railroads, Sarah Gordon has written a richly informed narrative history of an...