Mass Transit Literature

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Mass Transit Literature

Books

Public Transit Planning and Operation

Public transport operators are faced with ever-greater pressures. The need to monitor the performance of individual services, as well as the system as a whole, has increased. Operators are constantly looking for methods which can improve both the service ...

Hardcover: $90.32

CRC Press; 1 edition
Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals

From the railway's beginnings, the station building, itself, had civic importance greater than ordinary structures. Let historian Brian Solomon show you how beautifully it filled that role. Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals is a unique book about ...

Hardcover: $25.21

Voyageur Press
My Kind of Transit: Rethinking Public Transportation

In My Kind of Transit, Darrin Nordahl argues that like life itself, transportation isn't only about the destination, but the journey. Public transit reduces traffic and pollution, yet few of us are willing to get out of our cars and onto subways and ...

Hardcover: $5.74 | Kindle: $33.09

Island Press; 2 edition
Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities

As transportations-related disciplines of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban economics, and social policy have undergone major internal reform efforts in recent decades Written in clear, easy-to-follow language, this book ...

Hardcover: $84.65 | Kindle: $70.11

Wiley; 1 edition
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic development as well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that ...

Hardcover: $70,- | Paperback: $32.26 | Kindle: $24.79

Island Press; 1St Edition edition
Contact Lines for Electrical Railways: Planning - Design - Implementation

From both ecological and economical perspectives, electric traction is the most favorable type of power supply for railways. Its reliability depends to a large degree on the contact lines, which have to operate safely under all relevant climatic ...

Hardcover: $1,004.40

Publicis; 1 edition
Mass transit effects on urban land changes: The influence of accessibility and proximity over densities, land uses and land values

Mass transit is probably the most influencing force shaping cities. As straightforward measures between transport and urban land, accessibility and proximity (distance) have direct impact on how land values, land uses and densities thrive or decline in ...

Paperback | $89,-

LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
High Speed Rail: Background and Issues

While Congress has been interested in high speed rail (HSR) since the 1960s, the provision of $8 billion for intercity passenger rail projects in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, enacted in February 2009, under the Obama administration, has ...

Hardcover: $165,-

Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
Composites for Automotive, Truck and Mass Transit: Materials, Design, Manufacturing

This technical book provides a comprehensive explanation of how advanced composite materials, including FRPs, reinforced thermoplastics, carbon-based composites and many others are designed, processed and utilized in exterior, interior, under-the-hood, ...

Hardcover: $199.50

DEStech Publications, Inc
Policy and Planning As Public Choice: Mass Transit in the United States

Under a public choice analytical framework, this book applies formal economic measures to the passenger and taxpayer benefits of public transit service in the United States. Approximately 400 local transit budgets have been renewed annually for more than ...

Hardcover: $140,-

Ashgate Pub Ltd
Optimalization of Mass Rapid Transit System

Paris Metropolitan is the major transporting system that serves millions of commuters everyday in metropolitan areas. The networks are high frequency service established mainly in underground tunnels or on elevated tracks, separated from other traffic.

Kindle Edition: $19.99

Danny Tandela
Cash, Tokens, & Transfers: A History of Urban Mass Transit in North America

This colorful history will appeal to borth the interested reader and transportation historian. Brian Cudahy's skillful narrative is combined with a wealth of period photographs. The first comprehensive history of public transportation in North America to ...

Hardcover: $12.97 | Paperback: $45,-

Fordham University Press; 1 edition
Urban Mass Transit: The Life Story of a Technology

Technological choices depend on, and are part of, contests over political power, as the history of mass transit vividly illustrates. From horse-drawn omnibuses to subways to light rail, this volume highlights the technological and social struggles that ...

Hardcover: $50,00 | Paperback: $30,00

Johns Hopkins University Press
Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis

Mass Motorization and Mass Transit examines how the United States became the world's most thoroughly motorized nation and why mass transit has been more displaced in the United States than in any other advanced industrial nation.

Hardcover: $11.99 | Paperback: $24.95

Indiana University Press

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