Transport Revolutions

Author : Richard Gilbert
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849773459
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transport Revolutions written by Richard Gilbert and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production and profound climate change resulting in part from oil use. It 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 synthesizes engineering, economics, environment, organization, policy and technology, and draws extensively on current data to present important conclusions. The authors argue that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines. Another will involve powering many of these drives directly from the electric grid - as trains and trolley buses are powered today - rather than from on-board fuel. They go on to discuss marine transport, whose future is less clear, and aviation, which could see the most dramatic breaks from current practice.With its expert analysis of the politics and business of transport, Transport Revolutions is essential reading for professionals and students in transport, energy, town planning and public policy.

Author : Richard Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317705289
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transport Revolutions written by Richard Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First released in 2007, the bestselling Transport Revolutions argued that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines. Another will involve powering many of these drives directly from the electric grid - as trains and trolley buses are powered today - rather than from on-board fuel. Now available for the first time in paperback and updated with the most recent data, it sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production and profound climate change resulting in part from oil use. It 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. Synthesizing engineering, economics, environment, organization, policy and technology in a detailed yet highly readable style, Transport Revolutions is essential reading for anyone working, studying or interested in transport and the environment.

Author : Daniel Sperling
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 161091905X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Revolutions written by Daniel Sperling and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Will the Transportation Revolutions Improve Our Lives-- or Make Them Worse? -- 2. Electric Vehicles: Approaching the Tipping Point -- 3. Shared Mobility: The Potential of Ridehailing and Pooling -- 4. Vehicle Automation: Our Best Shot at a Transportation Do-Over? -- 5. Upgrading Transit for the Twenty-First Century -- 6. Bridging the Gap between Mobility Haves and Have-Nots -- 7. Remaking the Auto Industry -- 8. The Dark Horse: Will China Win the Electric, Automated, Shared Mobility Race? -- Epilogue -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index -- IP Board of Directors

Author : Richard Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136550917
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transport Revolutions written by Richard Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production and profound climate change resulting in part from oil use. It 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 synthesizes engineering, economics, environment, organization, policy and technology, and draws extensively on current data to present important conclusions. The authors argue that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines. Another will involve powering many of these drives directly from the electric grid - as trains and trolley buses are powered today - rather than from on-board fuel. They go on to discuss marine transport, whose future is less clear, and aviation, which could see the most dramatic breaks from current practice. With its expert analysis of the politics and business of transport, Transport Revolutions is essential reading for professionals and students in transport, energy, town planning and public policy.

Author : George R. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317454197
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transportation Revolution, 1815-60 written by George R. Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-05 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the USA in the mid-1800s.

Author : Philip Bagwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134985010
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transport Revolution 1770-1985 written by Philip Bagwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1988-09-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the new edition of this classic book Professor Bagwell has included an examination of transport developments since 1974 and particularly the radical changes in policy introduced by Thatcher governments since 1979. The inclusion of a large number of maps, tables and figures, and contemporary illustrations of principal modes of transport enhances the reader's understanding and enjoyment of the text. `The most comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date book on the subject.' -TLS `Full of apt and revealing examples which bring alive and make more readily intelligible the fundamental economic arguments.' - Agricultural History Review

Author : Dr Philip Bagwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134985002
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transport Revolution 1770-1985 written by Dr Philip Bagwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the new edition of this classic book Professor Bagwell has included an examination of transport developments since 1974 and particularly the radical changes in policy introduced by Thatcher governments since 1979. The inclusion of a large number of maps, tables and figures, and contemporary illustrations of principal modes of transport enhances the reader's understanding and enjoyment of the text. `The most comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date book on the subject.' -TLS `Full of apt and revealing examples which bring alive and make more readily intelligible the fundamental economic arguments.' - Agricultural History Review

Author : Derek Howard Aldcroft
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719008399
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transport in the Industrial Revolution written by Derek Howard Aldcroft and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Rogers Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 written by George Rogers Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Sidney Bagwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780064902885
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transport Revolution from 1770 written by Philip Sidney Bagwell and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: