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  • Aviation Visual Perception

    Research, Misperception and Mishaps

    by Randy Gibb, Rob Gray, Lauren Scharff ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Human Factors for Flight Operations
    Vision is the dominant sense used by pilots and visual misperception has been identified as the primary contributing factor in numerous aviation mishaps, resulting in hundreds of fatalities and major resource loss. Despite physiological limitations for sensing and perceiving their aviation environment, pilots can often make the required visual judgments with a high degree of accuracy and precision ... Read more

    $235.99 USD

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  • Wild Ride

    Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination

    by Adam Lashinsky ...
    In your pocket is something amazing: a quick and easy way to summon a total stranger who will take you anywhere you’d like. In your hands is something equally amazing: the untold story of Uber’s meteoric rise, and the massive ambitions of its larger-than-life founder and CEO.Before Travis Kalanick became famous as the public face of Uber, he was a scrappy, rough-edged, loose-lipped entrepreneur. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Canal 250

    The Story of Britain's Canals

    by Anthony Burton ...
    When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love he abandoned the court, retired to his estate near Manchester and built a canal to serve his coalmines. The Bridgewater Canal was the sensation of the age and led others to follow the example of the enterprising Duke of Bridgewater. From his starting point in 1760, over the next half-century Britain was covered by a network of waterways that ... Read more

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  • Aftermath

    by Robert Firth ...
    Tenerife, the worst accident in aviation history; like all pilots, Captain Van Zantenâs decision to go for the take-off was only one of the many thousands of decisions he had made in his career. Rain, snow or fog obscuring the view of the entire runway was not uncommon and something he had experienced many times.He was thinking about many things; the delays, his inconvenienced passengers, the ... Read more

    $8.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Transport without the hot air

    Volume 1: Sustainable solutions for UK cities

    by Steve Melia ...
    Series series without the hot air
    The UK population will reach 70 million by 2027. How will all these people get around? Is building more, wider roads really the solution?If you've ever studied, worked in or used transport, there's a good chance you'll have stopped one day and asked yourself 'why?'. With population numbers rising and more than three-quarters of the British population living in urban areas, cities are becoming ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Transport Beyond Oil

    Policy Choices for a Multimodal Future

    by Neil Sipe, Todd Litman, Deborah Gordon, Deron Lovaas, Jago Dodson, Robert Noland, Christopher Hanson, Joanne R. Potter, Bradley W. Lane, Projjal K. Dutta, Petra E. Todorovich Messick, Edward Burgess, Simon McDonnell, Jie (Jane) Lin, Kevin Mills, Alan Sanford Drake, Peter Newman, Jeffrey Kenworthy, Anthony Charles Hull, David G. Burwell ...
    Seventy percent of the oil America uses each year goes to transportation. That means that the national oil addiction and all its consequences, from climate change to disastrous spills to dependence on foreign markets, can be greatly reduced by changing the way we move. In Transport Beyond Oil, leading experts in transportation, planning, development, and policy show how to achieve this fundamental ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • Statistical Techniques for Transportation Engineering

    by Kumar Molugaram, G Shanker Rao ...
    Statistical Techniques for Transportation Engineering is written with a systematic approach in mind and covers a full range of data analysis topics, from the introductory level (basic probability, measures of dispersion, random variable, discrete and continuous distributions) through more generally used techniques (common statistical distributions, hypothesis testing), to advanced analysis and ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks Vol 1

    Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks (IAVSD 2017), 14-18 August 2017, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia

    Edited by Maksym Spiryagin, Timothy Gordon, Colin Cole, Tim McSweeney ...
    The International Symposium on Dynamics of Vehicles on Roads and Tracks is the leading international gathering of scientists and engineers from academia and industry in the field of ground vehicle dynamics to present and exchange their latest innovations and breakthroughs. Established in Vienna in 1977, the International Association of Vehicle System Dynamics (IAVSD) has since held its biennial ... Read more

    $305.00 USD

  • Introduction to Surface Engineering

    by P. A. Dearnley ...
    This highly illustrated reference work covers the three principal types of surface technologies that best protect engineering devices and products: diffusion technologies, deposition technologies, and other less commonly acknowledged surface engineering (SE) techniques. Various applications are noted throughout the text and additionally whole chapters are devoted to specific SE applications across ... Read more

    $127.09 USD

  • Network Design And Optimization For Smart Cities

    by Panos M Pardalos, Konstantinos Gakis ...
    Series Book 8 - Series On Computers And Operations Research
    This comprehensive reference text is a collection of important research findings on the latest developments in network modeling for optimization of smart cities. Such models can be used from outlining the fundamental concepts of urban development to the description and optimization of physical networks, such as power, water or telecommunications. Networks help us understand city economics and ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • Lightweight Composite Structures in Transport

    Design, Manufacturing, Analysis and Performance

    Edited by James Njuguna ...
    Lightweight Composite Structures in Transport: Design, Manufacturing, Analysis and Performance provides a detailed review of lightweight composite materials and structures and discusses their use in the transport industry, specifically surface and air transport. The book covers materials selection, the properties and performance of materials, and structures, design solutions, and manufacturing ... Read more

    $296.99 USD

  • Intelligent Transportation Systems

    From Good Practices to Standards

    Edited by Paolo Pagano ...
    Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are the way forward for sustainable growth of mobility at all levels (local, regional, national, transnational). The book reviews the current status of Research & Development. It includes connected (and autonomous) cars and buses, real-world large-scale field trials, data analysis and assessment of technological solutions. Standards and normative aspects in the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD