National Rail Network Planning Diary April 2017 - April 2018
by Nick Andrews
Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get. So off he went, spending six months circumnavigating the globe on the world's worst conveyances: the statistically most dangerous airlines, the most crowded and dangerous ferries, the slowest buses, and the mos...
Twelve Royal Tigers
by Michael Eyre, Peter Greaves, and Martin Ingle
A future 'quiet HGV' permissive certification scheme (Published Project Reports, #432)
by P A Morgan, M Muirhead, M J Ainge, and PG Abbott
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...
Coachwork by Eastern Coach Works (Sea and Land Heritage Series Book, #16)
by Malcolm White
Kirkcaldy Corporation Tramways began to operate an electric tram service in Kirkcaldy in 1903, connecting with the Wemyss and District Tramways Company service to Leven, further up the Fife coast, which began in 1906. In 1928 Walter Alexander & Sons introduced a motor bus service in direct competition with the trams, as a result of which the tramways closed at the start of the 1930s. Following on from that, Alexanders' buses operated services in Kirkcaldy and central Fife until they were absorbe...