Transportation category: 6808 books
The Self-Propelled Voyager
How the Cycle Revolutionized Travel
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Before the last quarter of the nineteenth century, people who wanted to travel independently either walked or rode horses. Then a newly invented machine changed forever the nature of personal transportation. The cycle—self-propelled bicycles, tricycles, and tandems—allowed almost anyone to travel...
Communicating Mobility and Technology
A Material Rhetoric for Persuasive Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Winner of the 2018 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication
Responding to the effects of human mobility and crises such as depleting oil supplies, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder turns specifically to automobility, a term...
Missed Approach to Death
A Missed Approach Aborted, and Where It Leads
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2004
The aviation public is fascinated by accidents such as American 570, TWA, Egypt Air, and now the Columbia shuttle disaster, as well as the hundreds of private airplane accidents throughout the United States annually, including the pathos of the John F. Kennedy, Jr. flight to Marthas Vineyard. This...
Emerging Paradigms in Urban Mobility
Planning, Financing and Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Emerging Paradigms in Urban Mobility: Planning, Finance and Implementation explains the types of new urban mobility planning paradigms that are emerging throughout the world, along with their potential to transform the transportation landscape. As half of the world’s 7 billion people now live in...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
In 2008 U.S. domestic airlines carried nearly 750 million passengers domestically and internationally. The growth of commercial air transportation and the number of passengers flying today can be laid at the feet of one of the great aviation pioneers, Juan Trippe, who began a crusade to create an air...
by Michael E. Burrill Sr., Michael E. Burrill Jr., Pirkko Terao
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Mercy Flights--America's first not-for-profit air ambulance service--was created in 1949 in direct response to the polio epidemic and medical transportation problems in Southern Oregon and Northern California. At that time, two small general hospitals provided basic medical care for the community...
The Men Who Loved Trains
The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2006
An award-winning account of a crisis in railroad history: “This absorbing book takes you on an entertaining ride.” —Chicago Tribune
A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land—America’s railroads—The Men Who Loved Trains introduces the chieftains who...
No One at the Wheel
Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe.
Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than...
The Complete History of Railroads
Trade, Transport, and Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Traversing landscapes and expediting travel, railroads have allowed us to conquer once elusive frontiers to improve both transportation and commerce. Railroad design has changed remarkably little in the years since the invention of the steam engine, yet trains remain a prevalent form of transport...
Let's play with words… On the road
The essential vocabulary
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
From 4 years oldDiscover all the vocabulary related to travel and memorise it thanks to thorough descriptions and detailed pictures!The “Let's play with words” collection gathers illustrated ebooks for children, which aim to make them learn essential words on varied topics.EXTRACT A car is a vehicle...
Trains Can Float
and other fun facts (with audio recording)
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Rev your engines for this book of fun facts about trains, planes, bridges, tunnels, and more!
Did you know that some trains can actually float? Magnets make the train rise above the tracks!
How about that the longest suspension bridge in the world is a mile and a quarter long?
Or that tunnels...
About Trains: Train History, Train Travel, Types of Trains, Railroad Jobs & More Fascinating Train Facts
A "Quick Start Guide" for Learning All About Trains
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
"***UPDATED FOR 2019***
Today you see trains carrying cargo and people all over the world. They are also used as efficient ways for people to commute to and from work instead of using the roadways. Looking at the efficiency of trains today, it is sometimes hard to imagine how different...
Crossing on Time
Steam Engines, Fast Ships, and a Journey to the New World
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
David Macaulay, co-creator of the international bestseller The Way Things Work, brings his signature curiosity and detailing to the story of the steamship in this meticulously researched and stunningly illustrated book.**
Prior to the 1800s, ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean relied on the wind...
by Karen de Seve
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This charming reference book takes a closer look at the different ways people move from place to place, whether it is in a car, subway, hang glider, or submarine. More than 100 colorful photos are paired with age-appropriate text that explains how racecars, bicycles, rockets, and so many other modes...