Public Transportation

This unique book explains how to think systematically about public transportation through the lens of physics models. The book includes aspects of system design, resource management, operations and control. It presents both, basic theories that reveal...

Coach styles at the start of the 1950s were still very traditional. All that was about to change with the introduction of the new underfloor-engined chassis and an increase of maximum length. Improvements in technology helped styles become more...

Since the mid-1940s, London began to resell its buses after they were no longer suitable for service in the capital. Bus and coach operators both big and small would snap up these buses and use them for further service. Perhaps the most noticeable...

In the 1970s you could travel from the Scottish border to the Yorkshire coast resort towns using only red and white United buses. In the 2000s you can still do the same but in turquoise Arriva buses. It would be easy to assume little has changed, but to...

The origins of Dennis Brothers dates back to the 1890s, when John Dennis moved from his home in Devon to Guildford and began building bicycles. In 1901, he diversified into motor vehicles, at first cars and two years later vans, fire engines, and buses...

The Metropolitan counties of South and West Yorkshire have some of the most intensive bus operations outside Birmingham and London. The former metropolitan counties include considerable amounts of rural terrain alongside densely populated urban areas. ...

This book offers a concise, chronological history of bus and coach travel, exploring the significant contribution this form of travel has made to the development of Britain's tourism industry. Through eight chapters the book explores the way that bus...

Bus operations across Hampshire, England's eighth largest county, are covered in this book, with the bus scene in each district, town and city in the county being fully described and illustrated. Major companies Aldershot & District, Hants & Dorset,...

The highly varied territory of bus operator Stagecoach South West extends from the city centres of Exeter and Plymouth to busy seaside resorts and the rural country areas of Devon, and also strays into neighbouring counties. This book will illustrate the...

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...

Southdown Motor Services, the well-known and respected bus and coach operator based on the south coast, ran buses and coaches in a delightful green and cream livery that is still fondly remembered today. Here, Simon Stanford looks at Southdown from the...

Hong Kong has long been a place of great interest to transport enthusiasts. Its mixture of predominantly British-built buses operating in a bustling south China setting holds endless fascination while Hong Kong Tramways' 1920s-style tramcars evoke past...

Edinburgh is reputed to have more buildings designated as of 'special architectural or historic interest' than any other city in the world. These range from rows of Georgian terraced houses and individual Victorian tenement blocks to such diverse...

Wit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road.They say that only truck drivers experience the true grandeur and landscape of America: the winding mountainsides at sunrise, the first frosts of winter descending on apple orchards,...

When bus and coach manufacturers or bodybuilders brought out a new design, they would usually provide a demonstration vehicle for would-be purchasers to try out before buying. These vehicles would later be sold off after a few years and were sometimes...

Over the years Scania has provided various models for operation in London, first arriving in 1989. A larger batch of Scania N113CRBs were purchased by London Buses Limited in the early 1990s, bodied by Alexander and Northern Counties. These passed to...

The Routledge Handbook of Public Transport is a reference work of chapters providing in-depth examination of the current issues and future developments facing public transport. Chapters in this book are dedicated to specific key topics, identifying the...

The trams and trolleybuses that once operated in Maidstone could fairly be said to embody all that was good in providing a decent public service attuned to local demands. The attractive livery used for the Corporation fleet, golden ochre and cream, added...

Trams, Buses, and Rails recounts the unique and little-known 130-year history of Bangkok's transportation system, from the first horse-powered tramway in 1888 to the mass transit urban railway of the twenty-first century. Using government archives and...

This unique book explains how to think systematically about public transportation through the lens of physics models. The book includes aspects of system design, resource management, operations and control. It presents both, basic theories that reveal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933245553Author Jim KershnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Documentary Media LLCPublisher Documentary Media LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857945515Author 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 9781857944266Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

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...

Nowhere had the nineteenth-century rivalry between competing railways companies had a more marked effect on the much later motor-omnibus industry than in the South West of England. Criss-crossing and, in some cases, almost parallel lines, laid or...

Following the 1920s, bus transport experienced several decades of strong growth with an explosion of new operators and bus types. Charabanc trips were popular and many people chose the bus as their way of exploring the country and visiting the seaside...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857942378Author David HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

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 9781857944600Author Henry ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Silver Link BooksPublisher Mortons Media Group

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. ...

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 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...

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