Transport Economics (Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance)
by Anthony T. H. Chin
Transport Economics employs the principles and theories of microeconomics to analyses issues in transportation and the transport sector. Space and the intricate interaction between transport sector and the rest of the economy, complications of network effects and choices between heterogeneous services (e.g. car versus bus trips or inter-continental versus regional air freight) make analysis of the market and allocation of costs difficult. This book seeks to fill the gap and provides an Asian per...
Originally published in 1995 this book provides an authoritative and stimulating account of the issues and problems facing transport planners in the 21st century. The contributors - leading authorities from North America and Europe - put forward a wide range of points from which future technical developments and transport will be approached. They review the ways in which human needs and national expectations can be served by technological developments in the 21st Century.
After the upheavals of the 1980s, with the break-up of the National Bus Company, the 1990s saw further changes. The former NBC companies were now private companies, technically 'independents', but because of their lineage are outside the scope of this book. The 1990s saw the emergence of the larger groupings that began to swallow up some of the traditional independent operators: A1 Service in Scotland went to Stagecoach and OK Motor Services in County Durham went to the Go-Ahead Group, while ot...
Cambus Bus Memories in Colour (Bus Memories in Colour)
by Andrew Bartlett
Sustainable Approaches to Urban Transport
As cities become increasingly congested, current transport patterns are unsustainable: heavy in energy use, high in economic and environmental cost, and exacerbating inequity between those who can access high-speed travel and those who cannot. Good urban planning develops human-scale cities and encourages modes such as bicycles, increased zones exclusive to pedestrians within cities, and changed fiscal policies to incentivize public over private transport. Equally, it requires good engineering d...
The evocative photographs in this album are selected from Robert Harley's extensive collection of London tram views. They cover the era of London Transport trams, from the organisation's formation in 1933 to the closure of the remaining parts of the system in 1952, bringing back that period by the work of the photographers who dedicated time and effort to recording on film scenes of London that have long gone.
Am Anfang Waren Alle Menschen Gleich Nur Die Besten Wurden eine Busfahrerin
by Elke Rousinovic
The delectable follow up to Transit Maps of the World— with a French twistA word-of-mouth sensation, Transit Maps of the World garnered rave reviews and offered delicious eye-candy to the many who devoured its lusciously designed pages. In Paris Underground, Mark Ovenden turns his attention to the famous Paris transit system with its inimitable Art Nouveau inspired stations and Art Deco signage. More than one thousand maps, diagrams, and photographs—historical and current—along with fascinating...