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  • Rethinking Urban Transport After Modernism

    Lessons from South Africa

    For the last seven decades, urban settlement policy worldwide has been increasingly dominated by modernist precepts and by urban decisions made in discipline-specific ’silos’. The urban management consequences have been invariably negative, with increasing sprawl, fragmentation and separation resulting in a wide range of environmental, social and economic problems. This book explores the role of ... Leer más

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  • Storms of Controversy

    The Secret Avro Arrow Files Revealed

    The development of the Avro Arrow was a remarkable Canadian achievement. Its mysterious cancellation in February 1959 prompted questions that have long gone unanswered. What role did the Central Intelligence Agency play in the scrapping of the project? Who in Canada's government was involved in that decision? What, if anything, did Canada get in return? Who ordered the blowtorching of all the ... Leer más

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  • Cola Cowboys

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Railway Disasters

    de Simon Fowler ...
    Series series Images of Transport
    British railways are one of the safest ways of travelling. That they are so is the result of painful lessons learnt over many decades, for there have been many hundreds of railway disasters.This book looks at some of the most famous as well as some that have been all but forgotten, matching graphic illustrations with eyewitness accounts of people who were there and the confidential reports of the ... Leer más

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  • Designing Geodatabases for Transportation

    Designing Geodatabases for Transportation addresses the construction of a GIS to manage data describing the transportation facilities and services commonly organized around various modes of travel. Although details of each mode can be quite different, this book demonstrates how all modes of travel follow a basic conceptual structure consisting of an origin, a destination, a path between the two, ... Leer más

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  • International Perspectives on Destination Management and Tourist Experiences

    Insights from the International Competence Network of Tourism Research and Education (ICNT)

    Series Libro 11 - Schriftenreihe des Instituts fuer Management und Tourismus (IMT)
    The International Competence Network of Tourism Research and Education (ICNT) covers various areas of research. ICNT’s fourth book offers insights of tourism experts with a wide range of interest and expertise on the way tourism is understood and worked in different countries around the world. The first part of this volume focuses on factors influencing the management of tourism destinations, ... Leer más

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  • Trucking Country

    The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy

    Series series Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America
    Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial ... Leer más

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  • Trolleybus Twilight

    Britain's Last Trolleybus Systems

    de Jim Blake ...
    In this new photographic album from Pen & Sword, transport historian and photographer Jim Blake presents a fascinating selection of pictures of a form of public transport now sadly missing from Britain's streets trolleybuses. ... Leer más

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  • The Story of Canadian Roads

    de Edwin Guillet ...
    Series series Heritage
    From the portage trails snaking their way through the wilderness to superhighways carrying the raw materials and produce of an industrial nation, Canada's roads have had a romantic but long-neglected history. For the first time their development is described in this handsomely illustrated volume by a distinguished Canadian historian. Mr. Guillet has written a book which is often humorous and ... Leer más

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  • Tourism, Public Transport and Sustainable Mobility

    Series Libro 4 - Tourism Essentials
    This book offers a comprehensive global examination of the relationship between public transport and tourism as well as exploring other sustainable transport modes. It offers a unique view by analysing tourism through the public transport lens and vice versa. The volume provides an account of how the public transport experience can be improved for tourists so that its value can be maximised and a ... Leer más

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  • Road Pricing

    Theory and Evidence

    Edición de Georgina Santos ...
    Series Libro 9 - Research in Transportation Economics
    Traffic congestion affects towns and cities everywhere and in some places it is regarded as one of the most urgent and important problems in need of a solution. Road pricing is undoubtedly recognised as an effective traffic demand management tool. The recent London congestion charging scheme seems to be showing that public and political opposition is not insurmountable. Thus, the ghost that ... Leer más

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  • Southern Steam: January–July 1967

    Countdown to Extinction

    At the beginning of 1967 the writing was clearly on the wall for Southern Steam, with the intention of eliminating it altogether on the 18th June of that year. From the 2nd January, with the Brush type 4s working many main line trains including the Bournemouth Belle, steam was reduced to thirteen departures from Waterloo, three of which were in the early hours.From the 3rd April this was further ... Leer más

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