Transport Technology & Trades

The incredible true story of the origin of human flight, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough. On a winter day in 1903, in the Out...

Aviation congestion and delay is an issue of long standing. Statistically, there was a significant increase in congestion and delay throughout the ...

The crash of Air France Flight 447 (AF447) off the coast of Brazil in June 2009 and the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) in th...

Until recently, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) had applied relatively uniform methods to screen airline passengers, focusing prim...

The complexity of integrating the earthing of an AC electrified railway with various electrical distribution systems and exposed conductive parts m...

  All aboard! Discover all the foul facts behind the story of trains and railways across the world with history's most horrible headli...

This book explores the treatment of safety risks in railways, analysing both heavy rail and metros. It is structured into eight chapters, and start...

It is not well known how far back in time that ships were invented. Despite this, some archaeological remains were found dating back to 6300 BC. Ba...

The Westford Knight is a mysterious, controversial stone carving in Massachusetts. Some believe it is an effigy of a 14th century knight, evidence ...

In 1977, the iconic Swindon Works was building locomotives. By 1986, it was shut down. In The End of the Line, Ron Bateman recounts the fight to sa...