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Making Federal Highway Spending More Productive: Analyses, Approaches & Perspectives by Rickey Lambert 9781536103144
$250.51Federal spending on highways totaled $46 billion in 2014, roughly a quarter of total public spending on highways. About 95 percent of that amount was spent for the construction of highways or for their improvement, expansion, and major repair, and the... -
The Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Management by Michela Pellicelli 9780323855327
RRP: $201.50$188.64The Digital Transformation of Supply Chain Management offers a roadmap to all areas of supply chain management, with the idea of ecosystem as a center of gravity. The book describes the impact of Internet-driven global information and communication... -
U.S. Freight Rail Economics and Policy: Are We on the Right Track? by Jeffrey T. Macher 9780367786465
RRP: $83.98$73.63The passage of the Staggers Rail Act in 1980 led brought a renaissance to the freight rail industry. In the decade following, economists documented the effects of the Act on a variety of important economic metrics including prices, costs, and... -
Short Sea Shipping in the Age of Sustainable Development and Information Technology by Tiago A. Santos 9780367232429
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book provides a thorough understanding of Short Sea Shipping (SSS) and its role in transport chains, presenting a revision of EU policies for SSS. Infrastructure and equipment required for the success of SSS are discussed, including critical... -
The Business of Transportation [2 volumes] by Darren Prokop 9780313397356
$209.71This is a must-have resource for anyone interested in the latest information about the complex field of transportation-and how it is transforming today's business environment. This wide-ranging, two-volume work explores the transportation industry in... -
Supply Chain Security [2 volumes]: International Practices and Innovations in Moving Goods Safely and Efficiently by Andrew R. Thomas 9780313364204
$227.89A practical, global-centric view of how to make the worldwide supply chain safer, more resilient, and efficient. With more and more enterprises managing supply operations that reach farther and farther from headquarters, Supply Chain Security:... -
Choosing Safety: A Guide to Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis in Complex, High-Consequence Systems Michael V. Frank 9781933115542
RRP: $102.88$89.59The technological age has seen a range of catastrophic and preventable failures, often as a result of decisions that did not appropriately consider safety as a factor in design and engineering. Through more than a dozen practical examples from the... -
Transport and Ethics: Ethics and the Evaluation of Transport Policies and Projects Bert van Wee 9781849809641
$221.78This insightful book discusses the use of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) for transport policy options from an ethical perspective.Each detailed chapter deals with issues such as; the use and ethical aspects of CBA in transport, social exclusion, the... -
Transport, the Environment and Security: Making the Connection by Rae Zimmerman 9781849800204
$221.78Effective means of transport are critical under both normal and extreme conditions, but modern transport systems are subject to many diverse demands. This path-breaking book uniquely draws together the typically conflicting arenas of transport, the... -
The Economics and Political Economy of Transportation Security by Kenneth Button 9781849803731
$186.08In this clear and observant book, Kenneth Button provides an overview of the economics and political economy of transport security, considering its policy from an economic perspective. His analysis applies micro-economic theory to transport issues,... -
Transport, Welfare and Externalities: Replacing the Polluter Pays Principle with the Cheapest Cost Avoider Principle by Dieter Schmidtchen 9781848444119
$191.12This book discusses a paradigm shift for dealing with the internalization of external costs in transport. Crucial to the analysis is the insight that the polluters are not the only cost drivers; both pollutees and the state can also contribute to... -
North American Freight Transportation: The Road to Security and Prosperity by Mary R. Brooks 9781847207999
$211.28Heightened awareness of North America's vulnerability to terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 has precipitated a crisis for transport suppliers and cargo owners, one that jeopardizes economic prosperity. Mary Brooks examines one industry sector of the... -
Accessibility, Equity and Efficiency: Challenges for Transport and Public Services by Karst T. Geurs 9781784717889
$221.78Leading researchers from around the world show, in this volume, the importance of accessibility in contemporary issues such as rural depopulation, investments in public services and public transport, and transport infrastructure investments in Europe... -
Forecasting Urban Travel: Past, Present and Future David E. Boyce 9781784713607
RRP: $102.80$94.19Forecasting Urban Travel presents in a non-mathematical way the evolution of methods, models and theories underpinning travel forecasts and policy analysis, from the early urban transportation studies of the 1950s to current applications throughout the... -
Port-City Interplays in China by James Jixian Wang 9781472426895
RRP: $283.50$246.29China has progressed dramatically since 1978 when the country started its economic reforms and opened up to the world economy. It took only three decades for China to develop from a closed, centrally planned economy with little sea-borne trade into the... -
Risk Management and Corporate Sustainability in Aviation by Dr. Ayse Kucuk Yilmaz 9781409411994
RRP: $283.50$247.13Sustainability factors should be considered by managers like any other business risk issue; these factors are expected to have a substantial impact on corporate management. Air transport corporations need a strong sustainability management framework to... -
Aviation and Tourism: Implications for Leisure Travel Anne Graham 9781409402329
RRP: $104.98$92.19Transport is an essential element of tourism, providing the vital link between the tourist generating areas and destinations. Good accessibility, which is determined by the transport services provided, is a fundamental condition for the development of... -
Fundamentals of Airport Planning: Theory and Practice by Ravi Lakshmanan 9781032335131
RRP: $75.58$66.55Airport planning, especially the airside, is based on strict compliance with regulatory requirements. In heavily urbanized, industrialized countries, where suitable sites for new airport developments are increasingly hard to find – and subjected to... -
Mahan Air: The Ayatollah's Air America Babak Taghvaee 9781802825831
RRP: $35.68$25.79Established 31 years ago by means of a fleet of Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-154 passenger aircraft, Mahan Air soon turned into the largest airline of Iran. Despite being highly sanctioned by the US government and many other EU countries, Mahan Air has managed... -
Accessibility and Spatial Interaction by A. Condeco-Melhorado 9781782540724
$221.78The concept of accessibility is linked to the level of opportunities available for spatial interaction (flows of people, goods or information) between a set of locations, through a physical and/or digital transport infrastructure network. Accessibility... -
Transport in Human Scale Cities by Milos N. Mladenovic 9781800370500
$221.78This timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the critically uncertain aspects of the sustainability transformation of our societies. It argues that the potential of human scale thinking needs to be recognised, both... -
Cockpit Engineering by D. N. Jarrett 9781138273771
RRP: $69.28$62.08Cockpit Engineering provides an understandable introduction to cockpit systems and a reference to current concepts and research. The emphasis throughout is on the cockpit as a totality, and the book is accordingly comprehensive. The first chapter is... -
Re-Thinking Mobility: Contemporary Sociology by Vincent Kaufmann 9781138250239
RRP: $113.38$98.43All too often, mobility is evoked as a preferred indicator in explanations of space-time compression and its impact. However, in failing to clearly distinguish speed potentials from their use, such analyses veer towards technological determinism, or... -
Innovation in Public Transport Finance: Property Value Capture by Shishir Mathur 9781138250130
RRP: $104.98$91.35With all levels of governments currently, and for the foreseeable future, under significant fiscal stress, any new transit funding mechanism is to be welcomed. Value capture (VC) is one such mechanism, which involves the identification and capture of a... -
Transport Disadvantage and Social Exclusion: Exclusionary Mechanisms in Transport in Urban Scotland by Julian Hine 9781138263932
RRP: $104.98$91.35There is currently much interest in the role that transport plays in promoting, or alleviating 'social exclusion'. Exclusionary processes are, of course, multi-dimensional and a mixture of physical barriers, financial constraints, time budgets, access... -
Staffing the ATM System: The Selection of Air Traffic Controllers by Hinnerk Eissfeldt 9781138254732
RRP: $96.58$84.27Issues of personnel development in air traffic control (ATC) have become a major topic in aviation recruitment and training. Proper selection and training methods are needed in order to reach a high level of efficiency and reliability in ATC. Pilots were... -
Above and Beyond: Exploring the Business of Space by Louis Brennan 9781138098183
RRP: $273.00$235.43The global space sector has always been regarded as a cutting-edge field, futuristic and at the forefront of innovation. In recent years, the sector has undergone massive change, giving rise to a high-technology niche worth over $330 billion in revenues... -
Air Piracy, Airport Security, and International Terrorism: Winning the War Against Hijackers by Peter St. John 9780899304137
$172.05As international terrorism has grown over the past decades, airlines and airports have become increasingly popular targets for violent attacks and hijackings. In this volume, Peter St. John provides a survey of international air piracy and airline... -
Making Money with Boats, 2nd Edition by Fred Edwards 9780870336270
RRP: $39.88$25.45This second edition is a comprehensive, entertaining guide to mixing boating with business. Leaping ahead of the first edition, this guide keeps up with a boating industry that has become much more regulated and competitive. It shows old salts and... -
City Distribution and Urban Freight Transport: Multiple Perspectives by Cathy Macharis 9780857932747
$232.28City distribution plays a key role in supporting urban lifestyles, helping to serve and retain industrial and trading activities, and contributing to the competitiveness of regional industry. Despite these positive effects, it also generates negative... -
Deep Stall: The Turbulent Story of Boeing Commercial Airplanes by David W. Thornton 9780754646266
RRP: $283.50$246.29Deep Stall applies a framework of strategic analysis to the Boeing Company. Boeing is the world's largest aerospace / defence company, with turnover in the region of US $60bn. The book examines the relative decline of Boeing in the civil aircraft... -
The Economics of Airlines SECOND EDITION by Volodymyr Bilotkach 9781788213813
RRP: $157.50$146.90The airline industry is fundamental to the workings of the global economy. Yet, ironically for an industry of such sheer scale and economic muscle, profit margins are razor thin and many airlines struggle to break even. The precarious economics of the... -
Driving Change by David Metz 9781788211208
RRP: $157.50$146.90Drawing on comparative detail from Europe, North America, and the rest of the world, Driving Change provides a nuanced overview of the UK's modern transport system and the role of business models and policy choices in its evolution. The common features... -
Why Flying Is Miserable: And How to Fix It by Ganesh Sitaraman 9798987053584
RRP: $27.28$18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987053584Author Ganesh SitaramanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Columbia Global ReportsPublisher Columbia Global Reports -
Maritime Order and the Law in East Asia by Nong Hong 9781138561656
RRP: $283.50$247.13Many of the maritime disputes today represent a competing interest of two groups: coastal states and user states. This edited volume evaluates the role of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in managing maritime order in East... -
Defining Aerospace Policy: Essays in Honor of Francis T. Hoban by Julianne Lammersen-Baum 9781138381131
RRP: $100.78$87.80Featuring contributions from many of the most prominent contemporary figures in the US aerospace community, this book provides unprecedented insights into the ways in which aerospace policy is developed and implemented. Based on a wide range of real-life... -
Electric Vehicles: Technology, Policy and Commercial Development Joao Vitor Fernandes Serra 9781138374973
RRP: $104.98$91.35Modern electric vehicles (EVs) are well suited to most people's general transport needs. Despite this, their adoption at a large scale has been grindingly slow. What are the reasons for this? Unlike most books which focus on the technical aspects of EV... -
Regulating Transport in Europe by Matthias Finger 9781781004821
$221.78This book concerns the regulation of transport within a European context, covering air, inland waterways, rail, road passenger and freight, urban public transport, and short sea shipping. All these sectors have experienced substantial changes over the... -
The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities by Jeffrey R. Brown 9780197601525
RRP: $44.08$37.67The story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the 20th century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborhoods in the 21st. American cities are distinct from almost all others in the degree to which freeways... -
Maritime Accident and Incident Investigation by Alexander Arnfinn Olsen 9781032530239
RRP: $130.18$114.68Maritime Accident and Incident Investigation covers a wide range of topics relating to maritime-orientated organisational hazards and risks, as well as root cause analyses and techniques for analysing evidence. Its approach to maritime casualty and...