Public Transportation

Although to many enthusiasts, municipal vehicles never extended beyond the trams, trolleybuses and buses that were required to provide the basic public service, behind them were a range of vehicles that were required to enable operations to proceed...

First released in 2007, the bestselling Transport Revolutions argued that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines...

Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world addicted to automobility. It highlights the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuel path and gives viable technological alternatives which can be deployed to find a solution. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857941814Author David HarveyFormat 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 9780980361629Author Graham CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 352g

Cities around the globe struggle to create better and more equitable access to important destinations and services, all the while reducing the energy consumption and environmental impacts of mobility. An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338249Author Alan BrotchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 273mm * 210mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908347213Author Peter WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Nostalgia Road Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing

The structure that anchors Chicago.Every day Chicagoans rely on the loop of elevated train tracks to get to their jobs, classrooms, or homes in the city's downtown. But how much do they know about the single most important structure in the history of the...

During the 1990s and 2000s the bus and coach scene across the Midlands evolved at a much greater rate to that of the preceding decades. From 1986 the subsidiaries of the National Bus Company were privatised along with several municipally-owned companies...

In 2020, Capital Transport arranged the scanning of over 500 Southdown bus negatives of Peter Mitchell taken in the 1950s and 1960s. The best of these form the bulk of the images in this beautiful volume produced for Heathfield Publishing. Combined with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913555191Author Peter WallerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Unique BooksPublisher Unique Publishing Services Ltd

What will the world be like in 2050? This book explores possible future worlds through eight hard science fiction stories. Taking in automation, big data, climate catastrophe and government disfunction, each tale looks at the world through the eyes of...

Few people would have envisaged that when the fledgling D&G Bus commenced operations in April 1998 with four vehicles that twenty-five years later it would become larger than its neighbour First Potteries. That journey has seen expansion through...

In 1974 Richard Stubbing left Somerset and moved to the Guildford area, where he lived for forty-three years. Here, he was able to take in the wider vehicles choices of former BET companies such as Southdown, plus London-types, municipal operators and...

What will the world be like in 2050? This book explores possible future worlds through eight hard science fiction stories. Taking in automation, big data, climate catastrophe and government disfunction, each tale looks at the world through the eyes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087187Author David MetzFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

This is the illustrated story of the development of bus and tram services in the Edinburgh area in the period following the deregulation of bus services. There are examples of transport providers both new and old – some of these are long-term survivors,...

This book covers the ever-changing bus scene in Norfolk, Suffolk and Northern Essex since 2016. Operators covered include First Essex, First Eastern Counties, Arriva Colchester, Ipswich Buses, and the Go Ahead Group, as well as independent operators such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087170Author David MetzFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Railway engineer and transport policy specialist Gareth Dennis shows why the railways are key to the fight for a better world for us all.The world's railways were almost entirely created by capital and empire for extraction and exploitation, so what...

JIM BLAKE'S latest book on London's buses may come as a surprise, since he usually concentrated on older vehicles in the fleet. However, the unpopular, unsuccessful DMs and DMSs were still part of London Transport's history, so he recorded them too,...

From humble beginnings, Edwards Coaches has become the largest family owned and independent public transport operator in South Wales. At its base in Llantrisant, it proudly employs around 800 staff and operates in the region of 300 vehicles to fulfil...

When Walter Alexander established his coachbuilding business in Falkirk in 1924, he could not have imagined that by 1983 it would be the largest supplier of double-deck bus bodies in the word. Being based in Scotland, a large percentage of Alexander’s...

Although a small number of coach bodies built by continental companies had entered British fleets during the 1970s, deregulation of coach services in 1980 saw a mass influx from across the channel. Vehicles bodied or manufactured by companies such as Van...

In this series, Richard Stubbings traces the changing, ever-evolving nature of bus scenes around South West and South East England. This book, comprising previously unpublished photographs, offers a nostalgic tour of Kent and East Sussex, from the early...

Nowadays, the European coach market is dominated by a few manufacturers whose products are sold throughout the continent and beyond. It wasn’t always like this. From the end of the Second World War until the late 1960s, virtually all buses and coaches...

The Mercedes-Benz Citaro first entered service in London during 2002, in both rigid and articulated forms. Over the coming years, the articulated type was used to convert a number of central London services from Routemaster and doubledeck operation. A...

Following on from his volume looking at the final years of half-cab buses in the Midlands, Mike Rhodes looks at the major bus fleets employing half-cab buses in north-west England in the 1970s, including those located around Manchester, Liverpool and...

For seventy years, Duple were one of the two best known names in coachbuilding in Britain. Formed in Hornsey, London in 1919 before moving north to Blackpool, Duple grew to be one of the most popular suppliers of luxury coach bodies for the UK market...

The Gray family of Clackmannan have been synonymous with transport since the late 1880s. From days of blacksmiths in Clackmannan to the locally famous Gray’s Garage in Lochies Road, rich transport links in both passenger transport and haulage are still...

Initially operating on contract work, CT Plus Yorkshire had a huge impact during its last decade of significant expansion before closure in summer 2022. From its core network of school and accessible transport work, the company was responsible for...

Tours are common part of the itinerary of holidaymakers in the UK. There are long-distance tours, using the most modern coaches fitted with the latest seating and features for passenger and driver comfort and relaxation, and local tours using modern...

Southdown Motor Services was formed in 1915 and went on to become the well-known and highly respected operator of green-and-cream buses and coaches seen along the south coast of Sussex and Hampshire. Fast forward to today and there are over a hundred...

Philip Wallis visited South and West Wales several times with his camera between 1961 and 1963 and captured on film a great variety of bus operators in that part of the country. Civic pride was strong and no less than seven municipal undertakings ran bus...

Despite all the current hype making people believe that electric and hybrid vehicles are a staggering present-day breakthrough in the quest for a carbon-zero future, both are, in fact, old technology introduced over 100 years ago that has been refined...

Formed in 1969, four years later in 1972 the state-owned National Bus Company introduced a corporate livery and identity for all its subsidiary companies and continued such until the early 1980s, except within the Tyne & Wear and West Yorkshire PTEs...

For seventy years, Duple were one of the two best known names in coachbuilding in Britain. Formed in Hornsey, London in 1919 before moving north to Blackpool, Duple grew to be one of the most popular suppliers of luxury coach bodies for the UK market...

Essex is a very varied county ranging from the urban areas in the south, such as Brentwood, Basildon and the huge Southend conurbation, to the less built up middle and north areas of the county, which themselves include interesting places such as...

The history of affordable public transport in the Yorkshire city of Leeds began in 1871, when horses began pulling trams around the city. Leeds Corporation purchased the network in 1893 and electrification followed soon afterwards. The system expanded,...