Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“simon mcdonnell”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “simon mcdonnell”
Skip side bar filters

  • 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

People who read this also enjoyed

  • 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

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Airline Operations and Scheduling

    by Massoud Bazargan ...
    Operations research techniques are extremely important tools for planning airline operations. However, much of the technical literature on airline optimization models is highly specialized and accessible only to a limited audience. Allied to this there is a concern among the operations research community that the materials offered in OR courses at MBA or senior undergraduate business level are too ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Big Ditch

    How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

    by Noel Maurer, Carlos Yu ...
    An incisive economic and political history of the Panama CanalOn August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu reveal a more complex story. Examining the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Airport Systems, Second Edition

    Planning, Design and Management

    by Peter Belobaba, Richard L. de Neufville, Tom G. Reynolds, Amedeo R. Odoni ...
    THE MOST PRACTICAL, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE PLANNING, DESIGN, AND MANAGEMENT OF AIRPORTS--UPDATED BY LEADING PROFESSIONALS"With the accelerated rate of change occurring throughout the aviation industry, this edition is a timely and very effective resource for ensuring both airport professionals and those interested in airports acquire a comprehensive understanding of the changes taking place, ... Read more

    $139.49 USD

  • Move

    How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure

    by Rosabeth Moss Kanter ...
    Americans are stuck.Americans are stuck.We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs and project approvals due to gridlocked leadership. And when we can’t move, when goods are delayed, and when information networks can’t connect, then economic opportunity deteriorates and social inequity grows. We don’t have to take it anymore! In Move, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    Driverless cars are the future. That is what the tech giants, the auto industry and even the government want us to think. Almost daily there are media stories about how we will soon all be able to rip up our driving licences, sit in the back seat and let the car take us around. But is this really going to happen? Christian Wolmar has dug behind the hype and found a very different story. We are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Advanced Aircraft Flight Performance

    by Antonio Filippone ...
    Series Book 34 - Cambridge Aerospace Series
    This book discusses aircraft flight performance, focusing on commercial aircraft but also considering examples of high-performance military aircraft. The framework is a multidisciplinary engineering analysis, fully supported by flight simulation, with software validation at several levels. The book covers topics such as geometrical configurations, configuration aerodynamics and determination of ... Read more

    $124.69 USD

  • Foundations of Gas Dynamics

    by Ruey-Hung Chen ...
    Foundations of Gas Dynamics covers supersonic and subsonic flow phenomena where compressibility of the fluid cannot be ignored. It finds application in jet and rocket propulsion systems as well as handling industrial gas flow at high speeds. Students and engineers in the mechanical, aerospace, and chemical disciplines will find it useful. It begins with basic concepts such as isentropic flows, ... Read more

    $133.69 USD

  • Airport Competition

    The European Experience

    Edited by Peter Forsyth, David Gillen, Jurgen Muller, Hans-Martin Niemeier ...
    The break-up of BAA and the blocked takeover of Bratislava airport by the competing Vienna airport have brought the issue of airport competition to the top of the agenda for air transport policy in Europe. Airport Competition reviews the current state of the debate and asks whether airport competition is strong enough to effectively limit market power. It provides evidence on how travellers chose ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Transportation Security

    by Clifford Bragdon ...
    Insecure transportation systems are costing our worldwide mobility-based economy as much as 6% of GDP annually. The effectiveness of security measures vary widely. In the United States, depending on the mode of transportation, it ranges from "medium effectiveness for airports to "low effectiveness for maritime, rail, transit, and intermodal activities. Situational awareness and interoperability ... Read more

    $83.69 USD

  • Developing Strategies for the Modern International Airport

    East Asia and Beyond

    by Alan Williams ...
    Developing Strategies for the Modern International Airport identifies and analyses the primary issues facing the modern international airport, and their role in a global economy. Based on the premise that the aviation industry has a primary and decisive role in the economic and social development of the modern international economy, this book examines the modern international airport and its ... Read more

    $73.99 USD