Public Transportation

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854143945Author Roger TorodeFormat HardbackPage Count 213Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

From 1940 until the mid-1970s Britain supplied Portugal with many of its bus chassis. In the capital city of Lisbon, the local operator was CCFL, which was the first buyer of heavyweight British-built bus chassis. Between 1947 and 1949 some 141...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854143570Author Mick WebberFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Capital Transport PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing

The first trams to be operated in West Bromwich belonged to the South Staffordshire Tramways Company, which began operating double-deck steam trams from Handsworth to Wednesbury in 1883, eventually extending the route to Dudley. Between 1885 and 1893 the...

Golden Miller was a rare bus operator permitted to run bus services within London Transport's vast monopoly area. Starting in 1967, the company went on to build up a network of routes around Feltham in west London and Staines in Surrey. Its frequently...

During the nineteenth century, Birmingham grew rapidly, becoming the second largest population centre in England. Tramways were introduced to the city as a more efficient way of transporting this large population. Although the first trams were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338584Author Stuart EmmettFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm

Though they serve one of England's smallest counties, the smaller operators in Bedfordshire contain some very interesting vehicles. For many years they were mostly employed on private hires and contract work, but nowadays the majority of their income...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873793725Author Martin PetchFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

What are the best transit cities in the US? The best Bus Rapid Transit lines? The most useless rail transit lines? The missed opportunities? In the US, the 25 largest metropolitan areas and many smaller cities have fixed guideway transit-rail or...

Coaches have long been a part of life in Britain, from the days of eighteenth-century stage coaches galloping along muddied tracks to air-conditioned fleets cruising the motorways of the modern day. As we moved past the horse-driven coaches of the past,...

Throughout their existence from 1904 until 1981, the Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Co. was an idiosyncratic operator whose operational area ranged from the Welsh Marches and Shropshire in the west to Northamptonshire and Rutland in the east; and...

The motor bus did not come to Woking until 1911. Unlike many other areas the town was not subsumed into the network of the major territorial operators for a considerable time. It was on the extreme fringe of the empires of Aldershot & District and London...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857943948Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956531216Author Pat LuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Roundtrip publishingPublisher Roundtrip publishingWeight(grams) 343g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944532Author Conn HFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546966Author Susan HandyFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906419530Format PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Noodle BooksPublisher Crecy Publishing

Large companies operated bus and coach services within the city of Aberdeen and within the surrounding countryside of Aberdeenshire and further afield. However, they were not the only ones to do so, and a variety of smaller independent operators were and...

Although Coventry Corporation had been running a tram service since the 1880s, the Corporation's first bus services did not come into operation until 1914. The outbreak of the First World War that September, however, meant that the bus chassis built for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945126Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media GroupDimensions(mm) 169mm * 238mm * 5mm

Transport choices must be transformed if we are to cope with sustainability and climate change, but this can only be done if we understand how complex transport systems work. Straightforward choices are never made between one transport mode and another;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944600Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711035355Author Stewart J BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692713655Author Ben MandellFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Amazing Publishing IncPublisher Amazing Publishing IncWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645943603Author Aymeric PerfrementFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Aymeric PerfrementPublisher Aymeric PerfrementWeight(grams) 186g

Is there any job that the VW bus hasn''t done? Fire engine, ambulance, snow-plough, mobile home, shop, cement mixer, school bus. The list is endless and although critics call it ugly, many owners and fans know different.'Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780160937064Author Federal Highway AdministrationFormat PaperbackImprint Claitor's Pub DivisionPublisher Claitor's Pub DivisionWeight(grams) 1674g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039179301Author Claude BoucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620914154Author Gerrit J JordaanFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Department of Civil Engineering, University of PrePublisher Department of Civil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910415627Author Stewart J. BrownFormat HardbackImprint Key Publishing LtdPublisher Key Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711031364Author A MILLARFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Author Stan Yorke takes a look at the story of public transport, explaining how services developed into the system we are familiar with today. From horse-drawn coaches and trams to trains and buses, with stops on the way to take in the genius of...

Instantly recognizable, endlessly imitated, beloved by tourists and Londoners alike: London's buses are iconic. Not merely a vital component of the city's infrastructure, they are equally embedded in its culture; written about, sung about, joked about,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897990186Author David DonatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint British Bus Publishing LtdPublisher British Bus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857944259Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

Stagecoach came to Merseyside in 2005 when they purchased the independent operations of Glenvale Transport, acquiring Gillmoss depot and an aging second-hand fleet of buses. Very quickly the Stagecoach livery became an established sight, particularly in...

For many years, bus and coach operators have experimented with vehicle types to find the vehicles that best fit their requirements. By borrowing buses and coaches from manufacturers and other operators, they can assess the pros and cons of new and...

This book, set within a social gerontology and transport behaviour studies paradigm, examines current debates and issues around transport for older people and its relationship to health and wellbeing for individuals and society as a whole. This...

Numerous books have been written which deal with transport problems in developed and developing countries, and with the planning and management of transport organisations in developed countries, but none deals specifically with the planning, regulation,...