Transport Industries

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...

The Great Persuader is the biography of a robber baron, the greatest railroad mogul of them all-Collis P. Huntington, the Sacramento, California, s...

For over 170 years the Welland Canals have been a major industrial catalyst and an important agent of urban evolution, spawning a series of distinc...

Canada is a great maritime nation. Although ships and the sea havebeen part of its history for centuries, very little is known about themen and wom...

Sager argues that sailors were not misfits or outcasts but were divorced from society only by virtue of their occupation. The wooden ships were sma...

Featuring contributions from many of the most prominent contemporary figures in the US aerospace community, this book provides unprecedented insigh...

“Furs is what brings us,” remarked an early trader in the Oregon Country, adding, however, that “the difficulty of getting the necessary supplies w...

Nineteen years ago, David McLean was appointed by the prime minister of Canada to the board of directors of CN, after which he was elected chairman...

The British railway network was a monument to Victorian private enterprise. Its masterpieces of civil engineering were emulated around the world. B...

"And you thought the passengers were mad. Airline employees are fed up, too-with pay cuts, increased workloads and management's miserly ways, which...

From its beginnings as a small studio in the 1920s, the Disney Company has become one of the most influential organizations in the world of enterta...

From its beginnings as a small studio in the 1920s, the Disney Company has become one of the most influential organizations in the world of enterta...

Whether you're negotiating with an angry boss or a difficult colleague - or, indeed, a stubborn teenager - you can learn to use your emotions to he...

In 1903 the Wright Brothers achieved their dream of powered flight and from then on man’s domination of the skies became a reality. The military po...

The Great Western Railway struggled with what was called 'the women question' for many years. It had heartily agreed with The Railway Sheet and Off...

This book, first published in 1965, illustrates the world of management in the airline industry. It examines the external relations with customers,...

This book, first published in 1946, deals with the question of the history, development and likely future of the civil air industry. It is full of ...

London s Heathrow Airport is the busiest international airport in the world, and has been for decades. Since it s opening in 1946 the world s airli...

In recent years, the spotlight of international attention on Brazil has often been in the area of logistics infrastructure—for example, on its capa...

The increase in practical problems generated by the intensive growth in air transport has necessitated the development of specialised operations re...

This text is among the first to reveal the intricacies of an airline’s Operations Control Centre; especially the thought processes, information flo...

This book, first published in 1963, examines the various aspects, roles and necessary skills of management in the transport industry. It looks at b...