Taxi! Urban Economies and the Social and Transport Impacts by James Cooper

By James Cooper

The taxicab makes an important contribution to the accessibility of a urban, and gives quite a lot of companies throughout many various social teams and concrete environments. This learn considers the jobs and capabilities of the taxi from its origins because the first authorized type of public shipping, to the present diversifications of auto sort and operation, to predictions for its destiny improvement. additionally addressed here's the influence which this ubiquitous kind of delivery has on modern city lifestyles, and the analytical instruments getting used and built for its licensing and regulate.

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The Road to Renewal: Private Investment in the U.S. by Richard R. Geddes

By Richard R. Geddes

Regardless of checklist degrees of presidency spending, America's transportation approach is affected by traffic jam, decaying infrastructure, and politicization of transportation funding-leading to calamities similar to the 2007 cave in an interstate road bridge over the Mississippi River and political fiascos like Alaska's notorious "Bridge to Nowhere." In The highway to Renewal, R. Richard Geddes surveys the present country of U.S. flooring transportation and unearths that, just like the roads themselves, transportation coverage is in determined want of fix. A shift towards elevated use of public-private partnerships (PPPs)-contractual agreements that let deepest participation within the layout, development, operation, and supply of transportation facilities-could considerably enhance the standard of U.S. roadways.

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Classic Ships of Islam: From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean by Dionysius A Agius

By Dionysius A Agius

This booklet charts the advance of Islamic ships and boats within the Western Indian Ocean from the 7th to the early 16th century near to previous sessions. It makes use of more often than not Classical and Medieval Arabic literary resources with iconographical facts and archaeological unearths. The interdependence of assorted buying and selling actions within the quarter led to a go fertilization, not just of products but in addition of principles and tradition which gave an underlying harmony to the Arabian, Persian and Indian maritime peoples. This examine has resulted in a re-examination of that maritime tradition, displaying that it used to be predominantly Persian and Indian, with chinese language effect, during the Islamic interval until eventually the arrival of the Portuguese, as mirrored in nautical terminology and know-how.

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High Voltage Engineering by Farouk A. M. Rizk, Giao N. Trinh

By Farouk A. M. Rizk, Giao N. Trinh

Encouraged by way of a brand new revival of globally curiosity in extra-high-voltage (EHV) and ultra-high-voltage (UHV) transmission, excessive Voltage Engineering merges the most recent study with the broad event of the easiest within the box to convey a finished therapy of electric insulation platforms for the following new release of application engineers and electrical strength execs. The ebook bargains broad insurance of the actual foundation of high-voltage engineering, from insulation pressure and energy to lightning attachment and security and beyond.

Presenting info severe to the layout, choice, trying out, upkeep, and operation of a myriad of high-voltage strength gear, this must-have text:

Discusses energy procedure overvoltages, electrical box calculation, and statistical research of ionization and breakdown phenomena crucial for correct making plans and interpretation of high-voltage exams Considers the breakdown of gases (SF6), drinks (insulating oil), solids, and composite fabrics, in addition to the breakdown features of lengthy air gaps Describes insulation structures at present utilized in high-voltage engineering, together with air insulation and insulators in overhead energy transmission strains, gas-insulated substation (GIS) and cables, oil-paper insulation in energy transformers, paper-oil insulation in high-voltage cables, and polymer insulation in cables Examines modern practices in insulation coordination in organization with the foreign Electrotechnical fee (IEC) definition and the newest criteria Explores high-voltage checking out and measuring ideas, from new release of try out voltages to electronic measuring methods

With an emphasis on dealing with useful events encountered within the operation of high-voltage energy apparatus, excessive Voltage Engineering presents readers with a close, real-world figuring out of electric insulation platforms, together with many of the components affecting and the particular technique of comparing insulation functionality and their software within the institution of technical requisites. "

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Feedback Ramp Metering in Intelligent Transportation Systems by Pushkin Kachroo; Kaan Ozbay

By Pushkin Kachroo; Kaan Ozbay

Feedback Ramp Metering in clever Transportation Systems is the 1st booklet concerning utilizing suggestions keep watch over (also known as real-time site visitors keep an eye on or adaptive keep watch over by way of a few site visitors engineers) in ramp metering. It presents site visitors idea basics after which the layout of suggestions controllers for remoted and coordinated ramp metering difficulties. software program simulation code in Matlab and Paramics is equipped within the e-book in order that the reader can get a hands-on think for a few of the algorithms. With lots of examples, illustrations, and unique difficulties, this publication is superb as a textbook or reference ebook for a senior or graduate point direction at the topic, in addition to a reference for researchers in similar fields.

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Competition and Ownership in Land Passenger Transport: by Rosario Macario, Jose Manuel Viegas, David A Hensher

By Rosario Macario, Jose Manuel Viegas, David A Hensher

In a single quantity, this publication brings jointly a variety of the simplest papers awarded on the ninth foreign convention sequence on pageant and possession of Land Passenger shipping (known because the Thredbo Series). Thredbo is a greatest foreign occasion that brings jointly lecturers, executive coverage makers, politicians, specialists and public shipping operators to check the overseas advancements within the topic quarter. because the most vital foreign convention during this box of workmanship, the sequence has greater than a hundred and twenty papers of popular authors and practitioners of Land shipping. most sensible papers from past meetings have been released in "T& F magazine" and "Transport Reviews". Papers are reviewed and revised thoroughly to make sure prime quality. This publication takes a realistic strategy by means of concentrating on genuine international examples.

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Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the by Taras Grescoe

By Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe rides the rails around the world and makes a sublime and impassioned case for the approaching finish of vehicle tradition and the arriving transportation revolution"I am proud to name myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe. The notion of public transportation in the USA is frequently unflattering—a squalid final hotel for people with one too many drunk-driving fees, too bad to find the money for coverage, or too decrepit to get in the back of the wheel of a automobile. certainly, a century of auto-centric tradition and town making plans has left many of the nation with public transportation that's underfunded, ailing maintained, and sick conceived. yet because the call for for petroleum is speedy outpacing the world's offer, a revolution in transportation is lower than manner. Grescoe explores the ascendance of the straphangers—the turning out to be variety of those who depend upon public transportation to head in regards to the company in their day-by-day lives. On a trip that takes him round the world—from manhattan to Moscow, Paris, Copenhagen, Tokyo, Bogotá, Phoenix, Portland, Vancouver, and Philadelphia—Grescoe profiles public transportation right here and out of the country, highlighting the folk and concepts which could support undo the wear and tear that car-centric making plans has performed to our towns and create handy, reasonable, and sustainable city transportation—and higher urban living—for all.

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Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail by James McCommons

By James McCommons

Throughout the tumultuous 12 months of 2008--when gasoline costs reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership documents, and a commuter educate collided with a freight educate in California--journalist James McCommons spent a 12 months on America's trains, chatting with the folk who experience and paintings the rails all through a lot of the Amtrak method. prepared round those rail trips, ready on a teach is equivalent elements commute narrative, own memoir, and investigative journalism.

Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officers, politicians, govt regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who're rallying round an easy query: Why has the best railroad state on the earth became its again at the very type of transportation that made smooth existence and mobility possible?

Distrust of railroads within the 19th century, overregulation within the 20th, and heavy govt subsidies for airports and roads have left the rustic with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail procedure. Amtrak has persevered for many years, and but did not prosper due to an absence of political and fiscal help and an uneasy courting with the large, ultimate railroads.

While driving the rails, McCommons explores how the rustic may well stream passenger rail ahead in America--and what position govt should still play in growing and investment mass-transportation structures. opposed to the backdrop of the nation's stimulus application, he explores what it is going to take to construct high-speed trains and transportation networks, and whilst the promise of rail might be discovered in the US.

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