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  • Good To Go? Decarbonising Travel After the Pandemic

    by David Metz ...
    Series series Perspectives
    Travel is central to our lives. The transport system brings us the goods and services that we need and allows us to access the experiences and opportunities that we seek. Yet our transport system has many problems: congestion and overcrowding, noise, air pollution and carbon emissions, deaths and injuries, and the intrusion of vehicles into unsuitable locations. Much effort and money has been ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Travel Fast or Smart?

    A Manifesto for an Intelligent Transport Policy

    by David Metz ...
    Britain does not have a coherent transport policy, and conventional transport economics has reached a dead end. A transport policy should incorporate systematic thinking about the travel needs of society, but in Britain public investment in the transport system has been extraordinarily volatile. We closed underused railways and then experienced a doubling of passenger numbers, prompting huge new ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Limits to Travel

    How Far Will You Go?

    by David Metz ...
    As affluence grows, it gets easier to travel faster and further. But research shows that, despite this, the average travel time in all societies remains steady at roughly an hour a day. The implication is that people are choosing to increase the distance they regularly travel, rather than opting for shorter journey times. While this clearly offers advantages in terms of reaching more desirable ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Lunatic Express

    Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes

    by Carl Hoffman ...
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Making Transit Fun!

    How to Entice Motorists from Their Cars (and onto their feet, a bike, or bus)

    by Darrin Nordahl ...
    Series series Island Press E-ssentials
    Why do people in Stockholm prefer to take the stairs over the escalator? Why do Londoners enjoy hanging out at bus stops? How do carmakers convince us to buy gas-guzzling, environmentally damaging, and wallet-draining machines? It's called the fun theory. What Darrin Nordahl illustrates in this delightful book is that transit can be just as inviting, exciting, and even seductive as the automobile, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Are Trams Socialist?

    Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Local Governments and Climate Change

    Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

    Edited by Maryke van Staden, Francesco Musco ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global warming is changing the world as we know it. Climate change can have catastrophic impacts in numerous cities across the world. It is time for us to react – quickly and effectively. The European Community (EC) has been leading the fight against climate change, making it one of its top priorities. We have introduced the most ambitious targets of their kind, known as the “20/20/20 by 2020” ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Cereal Straw as a Resource for Sustainable Biomaterials and Biofuels

    Chemistry, Extractives, Lignins, Hemicelluloses and Cellulose

    by RunCang Sun ...
    Materials from renewable resources are receiving increased attention, as leading industries and manufacturers attempt to replace declining petrochemical-based feedstocks with products derived from natural biomass, such as cereal straws. Cereal straws are expected to play an important role in the shift toward a sustainable economy, and a basic knowledge of the composition and structure of cereal ... Read more

    $274.49 USD

  • Transforming Urban Transport

    From Automobility to Sustainable Transport

    Edited by Nicholas Low ...
    Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must be changed from auto-based mobility to systems of sustainable transport in which public transport, ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • Cola Cowboys

    by Franklyn Wood ...
    This vivid account tells the story of the truckers who were driving from the UK to the Middle East in the early 1980s. The journey was rough, tough, exhausting, dirty, uncomfortable and dangerous. Journalist Franklyn Wood reports that 'in the course of the one trip we are following, seven Britons died in accidents.' Among the physical hazards were icy mountain hairpins, unmade roads and desert ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How To Be A School Bus Driver

    by Dave Bross ...
    If your kids ride the School Bus they may be exposed to more danger than they need to be.This book will help you pinpoint exactly where any problems are and help you make an informed decision about how much risk there is.You were thinking about becoming a school bus driver?Get this book first, before you decide anything.Why?Because you'll want to know:- What rule number one is.- How to find your ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Broadband Strategies Handbook

    by Tim Kelly, Carlo Maria Rossotto ...
    The Broadband Strategies Handbook is a guide for policymakers, regulators, and other relevant stakeholders as they address issues related to broadband development. It aims to help readers, particularly those in developing countries, by identifying issues and challenges in broadband development, analyzing potential solutions to consider, and providing practical examples from countries that have ... Read more

    $25.19 USD