Going Trans-European: Planning and Financing Transport Networks for Europe
ISBN: 9780080430591 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is directed at a wide range of readers interested in transport and/or European policies. It gives an overview of the current problems and challenges facing the European transport system and explains how a new European policy on transport infrastructure is emerging. The author argues that strong action at the EU level is needed to prevent the collapse of long distance transport. Without adequate measures in the transport sector to cope with the increase of trade and mobility associated with the development of the Single Market, European integration will stagnate.The book includes an...
This book is directed at a wide range of readers interested in transport and/or European policies. It gives an overview of the current problems and ch...
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1081,62 zł |
Travel Behaviour Research: Updating the State of Play
ISBN: 9780080433608 / Angielski / Twarda / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. This collection of papers, presented by the leading researchers in the field, addresses the fundamental topics within travel behaviour research and serves both to define the state of the art and to stimulate future research. The work presented in this book is pivotal to an understanding of the current and future role of the private motor vehicle in society and helps us to understand how our future society will be shaped by the nature of personal travel.It is divided into five sections: underpinnings of travel behaviour; stated preference; travel patterns; dynamics of route choice;...
Hardbound. This collection of papers, presented by the leading researchers in the field, addresses the fundamental topics within travel behaviour rese...
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Transport Economic Theory
ISBN: 9780080450285 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of transport is the study of movements, of displacements of individuals and things in both space and time. The objective of this book is to provide the basic concepts and tools for the economic analysis of transport systems, with emphasis on the behaviour of users and operators. Distinctive features will be introduced and treated as the natural consequence of processes that deal with displacements in space-time. Emphasis will be given to the operation of transportation systems, i.e. to the actual form of combining vehicles, terminals and rights-of-way in order to produce certain...
The study of transport is the study of movements, of displacements of individuals and things in both space and time. The objective of this book is to ...
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487,76 zł |
Shipping and Ports in the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: 9780415283441 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shipping and port systems are vital to societies and lifestyles around the world. In the late twentieth-century, however, assumptions concerning the robustness of these systems were severely shaken by economic shocks triggered by oil crises. This volume explores how many of the consequent uncertainties have been resolved, and how adapted systems have been shaped to meet the challenges of the new millennium. To explore these issues, contributors focus on issues such as: * Economic integration of emerging economies - in particular China * Sectors as diverse as the high-speed ferry and offshore...
Shipping and port systems are vital to societies and lifestyles around the world. In the late twentieth-century, however, assumptions concerning the r...
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963,29 zł |
The Airline Business
ISBN: 9780415346146 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Airline Industry is currently faced with its longest and deepest crisis to date: many of them are losing hundred of millions of US dollars, several have collapsed entirely, whilst others have had to be rescued by their governments. This crisis has been precipitated by external shocks such as the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the invasion of Iraq and the SARs epidemic. However, in addition to this, the effect of these events has been exacerbated by dynamic and potentially destabilising internal developments. The Airline Industry is currently faced with its longest and deepest crisis to date: many of them are losing hundred of millions of US dollars, sev... |
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755,01 zł |
The Airline Business
ISBN: 9780415346153 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The airline industry is currently faced with its longest and deepest crisis to date: many airlines are losing hundred of millions of US dollars, several have collapsed entirely and others have been rescued by their governments. This crisis has been precipitated by external shocks such as the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the invasion of Iraq and the SARS epidemic. In addition, the effect of these events has been exacerbated by dynamic and potentially destabilizing internal developments. Comprehensive and thorough, this revealing book gives a detailed analysis of... The airline industry is currently faced with its longest and deepest crisis to date: many airlines are losing hundred of millions of US dollars, se... |
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The Economics of Airline Institutions, Operations and Marketing
ISBN: 9780444530271 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second in a new series of books on the economics of the airline industry. The series is comprised of a collection of original, cutting-edge, research papers from an international panel of distinguished contributors. Volume 2 focuses on topics related to the economics of airline institutions (i.e., airports, air traffic control, labor), operations and marketing. It provides an up-to-date collection of articles covering recent developments in the airline industry. It is written by an international panel of distinguished contributors.
This is the second in a new series of books on the economics of the airline industry. The series is comprised of a collection of original, cutting-edg...
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1242,72 zł |
Flying High: How Jetblue Founder and CEO David Neeleman Beats the Competition... Even in the World's Most Turbulent Industry
ISBN: 9780471655442 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Flying High traces the incredible career of the founder and chairman of JetBlue, David Neeleman, from his teenage ventures and beginnings in the travel industry., to his short stint at Southwest Airlines and the ultimate launch of JetBlue. In a series of interviews with Neeleman's friends, associates, and high-ranking officials in both business and aviation, this books tells the store of Neeleman and explores the rules of success he both lives and builds his companies by.
Flying High traces the incredible career of the founder and chairman of JetBlue, David Neeleman, from his teenage ventures and beginnings in th...
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136,97 zł |
Flying High: How Jetblue Founder and CEO David Neeleman Beats the Competition... Even in the World's Most Turbulent Industry
ISBN: 9780471756989 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Flying High traces the incredible career of the founder and chairman of JetBlue, David Neeleman, from his teenage ventures and beginnings in the travel industry., to his short stint at Southwest Airlines and the ultimate launch of JetBlue. In a series of interviews with Neeleman's friends, associates, and high-ranking officials in both business and aviation, this books tells the store of Neeleman and explores the rules of success he both lives and builds his companies by.
Flying High traces the incredible career of the founder and chairman of JetBlue, David Neeleman, from his teenage ventures and beginnings in th...
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109,57 zł |
Are We Safer Now?: Airline Security in a Post-9/11 Society
ISBN: 9780595363988 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a doctoral student, author Byron Cherry researched and studied the airline industry for two years. His case study outlines his findings and how passengers' perceptions of airline safety and airline security have changed since September 11, 2001. Cherry interviews many subjects who provide such varied answers to his question about fear of another terrorist attack as 'I am more afraid of thunderstorms and microburst than I am of terrorism," to 'I fear another attack someday will occur due to human error or a daring attack not unlike 9/11." Cherry brings to the forefront the major issues that...
As a doctoral student, author Byron Cherry researched and studied the airline industry for two years. His case study outlines his findings and how pas...
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64,67 zł |
No Frills : The truth behind the low-cost revolution in the skies
ISBN: 9780753510445 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the tremendous success of the earlier editions of No Frills, leading TV presenter and top travel journalist Simon Calder now gives the low down on how these cheap ticket airlines have spread all round the world, enabling the eager traveller to plan economical and exciting long haul trips as well as taking advantage of the ever growing routes and destinations across Europe.
Not a day goes by without there being a headline (or a TV programme!) about one or other of the highly successful low cost airlines like Easyjet and Ryanair. They have truly revolutionised air travel from... Following the tremendous success of the earlier editions of No Frills, leading TV presenter and top travel journalist Simon Calder now gives the low d...
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87,64 zł |
Transit Talk: New Yorks Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories
ISBN: 9780813525778 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Robert Snyder has compiled the tales and the war stories, sketches of the varied jobs and those who work on the buses and trains of the New York city mass transit system. These are the engrossing stories of the invisible workers-those who labor day and night to ensure a safe trip for the five million who ride the subways and buses of the city. Ever present, the workers have seen it all, and regale us with their experiences. It is an enjoyable read renewing our appreciation and respect for those who tend the transit systems."-New York History New York City may seem to be a place where...
"Robert Snyder has compiled the tales and the war stories, sketches of the varied jobs and those who work on the buses and trains of the New York city...
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156,16 zł |
Boeing Versus Airbus: The Inside Story of the Greatest International Competition in Business
ISBN: 9781400078721 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe s Airbus overtook America s Boeing as the preeminent aircraft manufacturer. However, Airbus quickly succumbed to the same complacency it once challenged, and Boeing regained its precarious place on top. Now, after years of heated battle and mismanagement, both companies face the challenge of serving burgeoning Asian markets and stiff competition from China and Japan. Combining insider knowledge with vivid prose and insight, John Newhouse delivers a riveting story... The commercial airline industry is one of the most volatile, dog-eat-dog enterprises in the world, and in the late 1990s, Europe s Airbus overtook ... |
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Work Identity at the End of the Line?: Privatisation and Culture Change in the UK Rail Industry
ISBN: 9781403939807 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatization in the mid-1990s. It combines rich interview material from workers and managers involved in the privatisation process with a fascinating background detail of nationalization. The book will be of interest to sociologists, cultural and economic historians as well as those studying culture change in business. Work Identity at the End of the Line? has been shortlisted for the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2005. It...
Work Identity at the End of the Line? tells the story of workplace culture and identity in the railway industry before during and after privatization ...
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387,30 zł |
The Other Car Workers: Work, Organisation and Technology in the Maritime Car Carrier Industry
ISBN: 9781403941916 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists. This book examines globalization changes in cost structure and dynamics; in ownership, freight, labour and other markets; in technological innovation and ship design; and in relation to car manufacturers, ship management companies and crewing agents.
The maritime car carrier industry has been entirely neglected by social scientists. This book examines globalization changes in cost structure and dyn...
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387,30 zł |
Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil
ISBN: 9781844072484 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Transport Revolutions' sets out the challenges to our dependence on transport fuelled by low-price oil. The book proposes responses to ensure effective, secure movement of people and goods in ways that make the best use of renewable sources of energy while minimizing environmental impacts.
'Transport Revolutions' sets out the challenges to our dependence on transport fuelled by low-price oil. The book proposes responses to ensure effecti...
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807,08 zł |
Real Time Vehicle Routing in Large Networks- Introducing Global Optimization
ISBN: 9783836421713 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The problems treated in this book are very simple in nature: how to route n
vehicles in real time in a fast varying environment to pickup and deliver m passengers when both n and m are large? These problems are very relevant to future transportation options involving large scale real-time routing of shared-ride fleet transit vehicles. But, even if the nature of these problems looks so simple, solving them is not so straight forward, specially finding fast and reliable solutions. Traditionally, dynamic routing solutions were found as static approximations for smaller-scale problems or using... The problems treated in this book are very simple in nature: how to route n
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308,73 zł |
Management in the Airline Industry
ISBN: 9780415390781 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining contemporary HRM theory and practice with debates in critical management and in industrial relations, this book examines the peculiar challenge that civil aviation pilots present for management. As a highly educated, highly trained, and non-substitutable professional employee, the airline pilot wields considerable industrial power. Based on original research, this book examines the impact of human resource management on airline pilots in recent years as well as drawing out wider conclusions on the management of human resources, union-management relationship and the... Combining contemporary HRM theory and practice with debates in critical management and in industrial relations, this book examines the peculiar cha... |
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755,01 zł |
Transportation and Traffic Theory: Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory
ISBN: 9780080434483 / Angielski / Twarda / 820 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardbound. 1999 marks the 40th anniversary of the inception of the ISTTT symposia. It is clear that much has changed in the field of transportation in the last 40 years but in this time the ISTTT triennial symposia have remained the premier series of conferences in transportation science.Presented here are over 30 papers exploring innovative solutions to the analysis of traffic and transportation problems through use of the models, methods and analyses both existent and under development. Issues of safety, mobility, efficiency, productivity, planning and the environment are of increasing...
Hardbound. 1999 marks the 40th anniversary of the inception of the ISTTT symposia. It is clear that much has changed in the field of transportation in...
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1381,16 zł |
A Seaman's Guide to Basic Chartwork
ISBN: 9780948254017 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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74,79 zł |