Transportation category: 6808 books
Three Revolutions
Steering Automated, Shared, and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
For the first timein half a century, real transformative innovations are coming to our world of passenger transportation. The convergence of new shared mobility services with automated and electric vehicles promises to significantly reshape our lives and communities for the better—or for the worse.
The...
by Tony Akaki
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2005
Before the coming of the dot com era it was by no accident that the richest individuals in the world were involved with tankers. Probably the most famous ship owner in the world was Aristotle Socrates Onassis. But before one looks at tanker freights of which Onassis among others managed to secure...
Intelligent Transportation and Planning
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
From driverless cars to vehicular networks, recent technological advances are being employed to increase road safety and improve driver satisfaction. As with any newly developed technology, researchers must take care to address all concerns, limitations, and dangers before widespread public adoption....
by Selby Coxon, Robbie Napper, Mark Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Focusing from the perspective of the user, Urban Mobility Design investigates how designed mobility and design processes can respond to and drive the emerging social and technological disruptions in the passenger transport sector.
Profound technological advances are changing the mobility expectations...
Urban Transportation Innovations Worldwide
A Handbook of Best Practices Outside the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This handbook of urban transportation planning presents case studies detailing 40 best practices from 33 states in the U.S. and 19 countries on six continents. Cities around the world have improved transportation options for their citizens. Roadways have seen the addition of walkways and bicycle lanes,...
by Akula Venkatram, Nico Schulte
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Urban Transportation and Air Pollution synthesizes state-of-the-art methods on estimating near-road concentrations of roadway emissions. The book provides the information needed to make estimates using methods based on a minimal set of model inputs that can be applied by a wide range of users in many...
Transportation Engineering
Volume II: Railways, Airports, Docks and Harbours, Bridges and Tunnels
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Transportation Engineering, Volume II deals at length, in five distinct parts, with the engineering aspects of Railways, Airports, Docks and Harbours and Bridges and Tunnels that form part of the undergraduate curriculum in Transportation Engineering and caters to the needs of civil engineering courses...
Public Transportation Quality of Service
Factors, Models, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Public Transportation Quality of Service: Factors, Models, and Applications is the first book to help researchers better understand the contributing factors that can improve public transportation perception among users. The book compiles in one place metrics currently dispersed in journal articles,...
Concepts in Urban Transportation Planning
The Quest for Mobility, Sustainability and Quality of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This book offers solutions for creating sustainable urban transportation. Topics include historical developments, planning, policy and legislative initiatives, nonmotorized and public transportation, environmental and social justice issues, and safety. The author discusses social, health and economic...
by Dominik Breitkreutz
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Economy - Transport Economics, grade: 1,5, University of applied sciences Dortmund, language: English, abstract: Since January 2013, the long-distance transportation market in Germany has been deregulated due to the amendment of the Passenger Transport...
Bicycling for Transportation
An Evidence-Base for Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Bicycling for Transportation examines the individual and societal factors of active transportation and biking behavior. The book uses an Interdisciplinary approach to provide a comprehensive overview of bicycling for transportation research. It examines the variability in biking participation among...
Minicars, Maglevs, and Mopeds: Modern Modes of Transportation Around the World
Modern Modes of Transportation around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This book provides a fascinating look at the amazing diversity of forms of travel and transport around the world today in the context of cultures, politics, economics, and environment of a place.
• Provides readers with an understanding of the world's current major forms of transportation...
The Complete History of Wheeled Transportation
From Cars and Trucks to Buses and Bikes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
While the wheel itself has changed little over time, it has immeasurably altered the nature of transportation. This insightful volume examines the various wheeled conveyances that have been instrumental in agriculture and commerce—carts and wagons, for instance—as well as those that have facilitated...
Descubrámoslo (Let’s Find Out) Transporte
Transportation
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2019
We use transportation to get from here to there. Some transportation takes us to nearby places. Some transportation is better for faraway places. Let's learn about the different types!
The Descubrámoslo (Let’s Find Out) series is perfect for young learners in prekindergarten through grade...