Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Industries - Transportation

Dempsey and Thoms provide an authoritative overview of the development of transportation law in the America in the last century. They trace the development of American transportation (including railroads, pipelines, water transport, motor carriers, and airlines), the origins of economic regulation, the changing role of regulators, and the effects of deregulation. Economic regulations are separated into three areas: policing entry and exit from transportation, efforts to keep rates just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory, and mergers, consolidations, antitrust, and other issues. The...

The dramatic rise in air traffic, together with rapid residential and commercial development around our metropolitan areas, has strained the capacity of airports to serve the public safely and efficiently. Hardaway's book explores this problem in depth. Drawing on both the hands-on expertise of professionals in the field and a thorough grounding in law and public policy, it looks at the laws governing airport development and addresses the complex regulatory and policy issues surrounding the construction, expansion, and operation of airports.

Beginning with a review of airport regulation...

This extensively illustrated,
240-page volume documents the long and colorful history of streetcar
transportation in the city of New Orleans.

This reprint of a 1965 volume,
written by the two leading authorities on the subject, represents the complete
work on the subject of New Orleans traction and urban railways. Featured are
sections on early city transportation, and the golden era of electric traction
(1893-1926), along with technical aspects, trackage, and mileage routes.

A series of maps pinpoints, for
traction enthusiasts, the...

We live in a chaotic world. Some of the chaos results from poor decision-making (e.g., Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom). Yet other aspects of chaos (war, terrorist attacks, etc.) are beyond a firm's control. This book demonstrates that firm growth is more dependent on how a firm develops its resource base over time. Examining actual firm growth in several industries, with a focus on trucking, the airline industry, and the North American railroad industry, Pettus shows that a specific resource sequencing leads to higher firm growth than other sequencing patterns. This sequencing pattern is...

"That this story is still unfolding makes it especially exciting to read. These men are still in their workshops, tinkering their way into orbit." --David Gelles, FORBES

On June 21, 2004, SpaceShipOne, built by aircraft designer Burt Rutan, entered space and ushered in the commercial space age. Investment capital began to pour into the new commercial spaceflight industry. Richard Branson's VirginGalactic plans to ferry space tourists out of the atmosphere. Las Vegas hotelier Robert Bigelow is developing the world's first commercial space station (i.e.,...

Das Werk gibt eine strukturierte Einfuhrung in alle wesentlichen Aspekte des Luft-, Schiffs-, Bahn- und Straenverkehr. Hierbei werden die wichtigsten operativen Bereiche und Managementaufgaben der Verkehrsbetriebe vorgestellt, so dass der Verkehr in der Luft, auf der Strae, auf der Schiene und auf dem Wasser aus touristischer Perspektive in einem Werk hinreichend behandelt wird.

The world's greatest haulier - a rags-to-riches tale of British entrepreneurialsim.

If you've never seen an Eddie Stobart truck, you've never driven down a British motorway.

This is the extraordinary story of a multi-million pound business that spawned a middle-class motorway game. Of dynastic struggles that ended in a merchandising shop opposite Carlisle cathedral.

A quintessentially British tale - written by the inimitable bestselling writer Hunter Davies, and with the full promotional support of Eddie Stobart himself.