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  • The Economic Geography of Air Transportation

    Space, Time, and the Freedom of the Sky

    by John T. Bowen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves. Fundamentally, air transportation has helped redefine the scale of human geography by dramatically reducing the cost of distance, both in terms of time and money. The result is what the author terms the ‘airborne world’, meaning all those places dependent upon and transformed by relatively ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • The Next Crash

    How Short-Term Profit Seeking Trumps Airline Safety

    by Amy L. Fraher ...
    If you are one of over 700 million passengers who will fly in America this year, you need to read this book. The Next Crash offers a shocking perspective on the aviation industry by a former United Airlines pilot. Weaving insider knowledge with hundreds of employee interviews, Amy L. Fraher uncovers the story airline executives and government regulators would rather not tell. While the FAA claims ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Network Industries

    Edited by Matthias Finger, Christian Jaag ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    In recent decades, network industries around the world have gone through periods of de- and re-regulation. With vast amounts of sometimes conflicting research carried out into specific network industries, the time has come for a critical over-arching assessment of this entire industry in order to provide a platform of understanding to aid future research and practice.This comprehensive resource ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals)

    The Effects of Government Policy, 1945-79

    by Peter Dunnett ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries.Rather than blaming labour and management, as has frequently been the case, the author argues that the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Business Planning in Transport

    by Adam Simmons ...
    If you work in operations, finance or marketing in any part of the public transport sector, this book was written for you. Adam Simmons provides a set of practical business planning tools aimed at developing a business in the public transport sector, primarily – railways, ferry, long distance bus/coach and air transport services. Business planning is a combination of many closely intertwined ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Fleet Purchasing, Maintenance and Reliability

    by Diarmaid Murphy ...
    OverviewFleet Purchasing and Maintenance is a concise, easy to understand guide on vehicle purchasing and fleet maintenance for the benefit of business and maintenance managers at all levels, plus students and academics. Not a textbook full of formulas but a guide containing both detail and insights for the practicing fleet and financial manager.The book first covers all aspects of the vehicle and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Estimation of Uncertainty of Wind Energy Predictions

    With Application to Weather Routing and Wind Power Generation

    by David Zastrau ...
    Series Book 9 - Maritime Logistik / Maritime Logistics
    Currently, a new generation of fuel-efficient ships, which use wind force in addition to conventional propulsion technology, is being developed. This study describes a mathematical method for a probabilistic estimate of the wind propulsion force on a ship route. The method is based on quantile regression, which makes it suitable for various ship routes with variable weather conditions. Furthermore ... Read more

    $58.39 USD

  • Train Doctor

    Trouble Shooting with Diesel and Electric Traction

    by Roger Senior ...
    Train Doctor is the story of Roger Senior's career in the railway industry, from 1968 when the author joined British Railways, until his retirement from Great North Eastern Railway.The book takes you from the 1970s period, with its first generation Diesels, through to privatisation in 1994 and the electrified East Coast main line.This will be of interest to enthusiasts and modern railway ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Administration in India

    The Higher Civil Service

    by S.R. Maheshwari ...
    This book is about public administration in India, which is often synonymous with the role and performance of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS). The author stresses the indispensability of the civil service in a democratic polity like India and the decisive role it plays in assisting with the social and economic development of the country. He also examines the corruption in the bureaucracy ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Freight Transport and the Modern Economy

    by Michel Savy, June Burnham ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    Freight Transport and the Modern Economy adapts a well-known textbook by Michel Savy, revising, extending and updating it for British, European and international readers. It deals not only with the technical aspects of transport, logistics and supply chain management, but also the interactions between transport professionals and the public authorities in the modern social, political, economic and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Resource Allocation Problems in Supply Chains

    by R. A. Malairajan, Dr. K. Ganesh, Dr. M. Punniyamoorthy, Dr. Sanjay Mohapatra ...
    Resource Allocation (RA) involves the distribution and utilization of available resources in the system. Because resource availability is usually scarce and expensive, it becomes important to find optimal solutions to such problems. Thus RA problems represent an important class of problems faced by mathematical programmers. This book focuses on development of models and heuristics for six new and ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • Life in a Georgia Town

    The True Story of the Real South

    by Sean Ross ...
    My name is Sean Peyton Ross.I write this book for present and future generations to read while I still have enough mental capacity and memory to write it before my injury depletes me.I was basically a late term miscarriage born by c section at 6 and 3/4 months old. 5 times I should have died. I am and always have lived on borrowed time. I was kept alive in an incubator by the doctors until I ... Read more

    $3.99 USD