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In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the swe

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In addition to being up-to-date, the book is also a novelty in the sense that it describes the work of both national and international entities and explains how those organizations interrelate and coordinate their programs.

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Airline deregulation is a failure, conclude Dempsey and Goetz. They argue that the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, championed by a political movement which also advocated the deregulation of the bus, trucking, rail, and pipeline industries, failed to achieve the promises of its proponents.

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Focuses on entries from periodicals, books, government publications, dissertations and conference reports. The book aims to provide airline, legal, medical and security personnel, as well as the travelling public, with an overview of airline safety.

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Drawing on both the expertise of professionals in the field and a grounding in law and public policy, this book examines the laws governing airport development and addresses the complex regulatory and policy issues surrounding the construction, expansion and operation of airports.

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This work describes the activities of a handful of American companies and about eighty American captains who were trying to run ships on China's great river during the treacherous days between the two world wars.

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An introduction to the economics of US airline services, both domestic and international. This edition is revised to cover developments and changes in the industry. It includes self-testing questions for each chapter and an appendix covering portions of the basic transportation statute.

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A survey of the development of the automobile industry from its origins to the present in a perspective informed by current upheavals in markets, technology and work organization.

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This revised edition contains over 5,500 terms used by air traffic controllers, pilots, cabin crew, maintenance crews, ground staff and other airline personnel. Designed for those specialising in aviation and related industries, including trainee pilots, maintenance engineers and other professionals, this dictionary has all the words you need.

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Dogfight examines the intense rivalry of the past two decades between the European Airbus consortium and the major U.S. aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

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Collective ratemaking in the motor carrier industry is undoubtedly one of the most poorly understood issues in the literature on economic regulation. William Tye closes this gap in our knowledge with the most comprehensive study yet of the effects of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980 on competition on the trucking industry.

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Strohl examines the evolving network of high speed railway passenger trains in Western Europe.

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This is a story of hope in the face of widespread consternation over the global climate crisis. Can the UK expand Heathrow airport, bringing in 700 extra planes a day, and still stay within ambitious carbon budgets One legal case sought to answer this question.

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A comparison of major shifts in volume of freight traffic in the Soviet Union and in the United States. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve t

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The remarkable story behind the life of GO, the no-frills airline, by the businesswoman who created the company. Brilliantly readable, this is the definitive telling of the business story of the decade.

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Railroad branch-line abandonment, grain subterminals, and major changes in rural land use and transportation patterns are generating heavy truck traffic on low-volume collector and arterial highways.

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Former Director of Security of the International Air Transport Association Rodney Wallis suggests that the failure to maximize U.S. domestic air security, which left air travelers vulnerable to attack, lay largely with the carriers themselves.

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From the early days come tales of financial skulduggery and worries that sparks from locomotives might ignite sheep's fleeces. This volume includes stories of railway travel, from the palatial carriages of tsars and maharajahs to the open trucks of the 'lower orders', mishaps and faux pas.

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An analysis of the rapidly changing European transport industry and how it is developing into a crucial policy area for the European Union.