Transportation 64

Fasten your seatbelts and get ready to soar with an insider view of a pilot's life. Captain Frank Donohue knew from an early age that he was meant to fly. Now, in his behind-the-scenes memoir, reade……続きを見る

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“A Trajetória de um Piloto” retrata com leveza e bom humor a história de vida do autor, Cmte Souza Pinto, onde eventos profissionais e familiares se entrelaçam, sendo possível vivenciar não apenas o……続きを見る

“Grant has once again hit a home run . . . a detailed but readable history of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, a major Midwestern railroad.” ーCarlos A. Schwantes, St. Louis Mercantile Library ……続きを見る

An insider’s “indispensible” behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties (Houston Chronicle). In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency……続きを見る

Know where to get off with****the mass transit rider’s guide to the Washington area’s most notable historic sitesーincludes photos! Whether you’re a local or a visitor, you can explore every museum,……続きを見る

“Guroff has broken new ground with this masterful account of the bicycle revolution set in the broad context of American social and cultural history.” ーTom Crouch, author of The Bishop’s Boys With ……続きを見る

In 1979, fresh from its general election victory, the Conservative government began formulating plans to deregulate bus services and privatise the companies operating them in England, Scotland and W……続きを見る

The doyen of bike etiquette leaves NYC behind to experience a strange new world of cyclingーthrough London, Amsterdam, and beyond. What does it really mean to be a bike-friendly country? BikeSnobNYC……続きを見る

Passengers on the early railways took their lives in their hands every time they got on board a train. It was so dangerous that they could buy an insurance policy with their ticket. There seemed to ……続きを見る

A fascinating micro-history of NYC’s subway system from LaGuardia’s public works achievements in 1940 to the creation of the MTA in 1968. In 1940, New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia realized an ambit……続きを見る

“A well-written social history of the shortest-lived major US transportation mode” from the railway historian and author of A Mighty Fine Road (Choice). One of the most intriguing yet neglected piec……続きを見る

“[This] biography of the ‘Father of Electric Traction’ details the life and times of an exceptional engineer, maverick innovator, [and] entrepreneur.” ーNMRA Magazine Frank Julian Sprague invented a……続きを見る

“Readers will find in his biography an extraordinary tale of the travails of twentieth-century railroading through the career of this one man.” ーThe Annals of Iowa After graduating from the Massach……続きを見る

The author of Bike Snob helps bike commuters transcend common obstacles and handle cars, pedestrians, and other cyclists with grace. The joys of commuting by bike attract scores of new converts ever……続きを見る

A transportation expert shares how you can cut carbon emissions in your city, improve health and safety, and promote sustainability. Tiny Transit is a how-to guide for cities, mayors, and local gove……続きを見る

“An astute account of [Tokyo’s] commuter train network . . . and an intellectually stimulating invitation to rethink the interaction between humans and machines.” ーJapan Forum With its infamously p……続きを見る

This prize-winning study “takes a unique ethnographic approach to reconstructing the history of Nairobi’s privately owned urban transport” (Martin A. Klein Prize Committee, American Historical Assoc……続きを見る

“Equal parts critical manifesto and tender mini-memoir about a boy and his bikes” from Eben Weiss, blogger and author of The Enlightened Cyclist (GQ). Cycling is exploding in a good way. Urbanites e……続きを見る

**This wide-ranging study of urban infrastructure “**offers a series of fascinating arguments” in favor of market-oriented approaches to regulation (Times Higher Education Supplement). In the 1980s ……続きを見る

A fascinating journey into the pastーand under the groundーthat offers “an insightful look at the what-might-have-beens of urban mass transit” (The New York Times). From the day it broke ground by C……続きを見る

The story of the spectacular and much-lamented train terminal whose destruction inspired a new passion for historic preservation. Includes photos. In early twentieth-century New York, few could have……続きを見る

“Succeeds admirably as an introductory survey of the early American travel experience”ーfrom the National Book Award-nominated author (Journal of Transport History). What was travel like in the 1880……続きを見る

This is a colour album of London Buses concentrating mainly on the 1970s which was the first decade since London Transport's inception in 1933 to feature a large number of buses on London streets wh……続きを見る

British railways are one of the safest ways of travelling. That they are so is the result of painful lessons learnt over many decades, for there have been many hundreds of railway disasters.This boo……続きを見る

Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with fa……続きを見る

A journey through the history of this railway that brought passengers to the English seaside for fifty years. Includes maps and photos. The Southwold Railway was a delightful example of one of East ……続きを見る

A photographic overview of the little-known cars and engineers that kept British tramways running smoothly and safely. While generally unfamiliar to the passengers that used tramways, works trams we……続きを見る

Between 2002 and 2006 six of Londons bus companies put into service 390 articulated bendy buses on twelve routes for transport in London.rnrnDuring what turned out to be a foreshortened nine years i……続きを見る

This book looks at an important turning point in the history of the bus industry in Britain. 1967 was the penultimate year to the end of an era, when private and semi-nationalized company's operated……続きを見る