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Examines the diverse privatization experiences of transportation services and facilities. Cases are drawn from the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Since almost every country has experimented to some degree with highway and bus privatization, the authors focus particularly on these services, although they also discuss urban rail transit and airports.

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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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In Last Exit Clifford Winston reminds us that transportation services and infrastructure in the United States were originally introduced by private firms.

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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.

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Marketing Public Transit provides managers with a decision-making framework for planning, designing, and promoting public transportation--particularly in a time of limited resources.

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In this first comparative look at China and Zimbabwe, Gao explores the interplay between technological advance and social change in a colonial context.

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Dunbaugh here provides a readable narrative history based on solid research.

The book's approach is chronological, discussing the early steamboat era, 1815-1835, in the first chapter and the feeder lines developing with the advent of the railroad in chapter 2.

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This book covers the most important events in the emergence of the Latin American shipping industry.

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This volume investigates how Britain and Germany regulated their railways at three different points in time over the past century. Its central focus is the design of regulatory regimes and the impact of institutional factors on the selection of design ideas and on processes of isomorphism.

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Paratransit challenges the conventional approach to public transport in the United States, which depends on fixed-route, fixed-schedule, publicly owned or regulated systems such as buses and trains. Case studies describe paratransit systems in the U.S. and other places, and the interaction of paratransit with more traditional systems.

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Managing Global Supply Chains addresses the challenges and trends that the global supply chain industry has encountered in recent decades. The books emphasis is on emerging and developed economies in Asia, North America and Latin America.

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Privatization can be implemented in the financing, construction, operation, and maintenance of the transportation system. These essays focus on ideas and innovations for expanding the private role in transportation, for airports, waterports, roads and mass transit.

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When it comes to airline security, there is nothing more important than getting people to their destinations safely. Transportation security is also a key component in the overall mission of protecting the nation against terrorist attacks. This book analyzes the research on air passenger security and shows how technology can solve problems.

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Between 1970 and 1997, the nation's railroads engaged in corporate mergers in an effort to stem the decline of the industry's market base, increase low return on investments, and counter the deterioration of trackage and equipment.

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This study traces the reconstruction of West Germany's shipbuilding industry through Cold War diplomacy, foreign aid programmes and West German politics.

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America's interstate highway system is deteriorating, and traffic congestion in most urban centres is worsening. Because of the many strong and conflicting interests, policy discussions about the road system are also in gridlock. Road Work proposes a comprehensive highway pricing and investment policy to meet the goals of efficiency, equity, and financial stability.

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Since the early 1990s, federal transportation laws have slowly started to level the playing field between highway and alternative transportation strategies, as well as between older and newer communities.

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