Routledge Library Editions: Transport Economics
Economics and Transport Policy
1st Edition
By K.M. Gwilliam, P.J. Mackie
November 13, 2018
This book, first published in 1975, discusses the development of transport policy in the UK against a background of economic theory. It comprises a comprehensive review of transport policy both in urban and inter-urban situations from an economic standpoint. It provides the tools for analysis of ...
Marine Transportation Management
1st Edition
By Henry S. Marcus
November 13, 2018
Changing vessel technology presents a major challenge to shipping management. Vessels cost tens of millions of dollars and have a long physical life. A change in vessel design for a company may also require a change in port facilities, information systems, and marketing techniques. This book, first...
Airline Management: Business Management in Transport 3
1st Edition
By W.S. Barry
November 09, 2018
This book, first published in 1965, illustrates the world of management in the airline industry. It examines the external relations with customers, government, investors, suppliers and competitors, as well as internal relations within the business such as organization and industrial relations....
The American Merchant Seaman and His Industry: Struggle and Stigma
1st Edition
By Craig J. Forsyth
November 09, 2018
The descriptive data in this book, first published in 1989, were obtained from participant observation and interviews with merchant seaman current and retired. In addition there is reprinted a complete set of the laws relating to American seaman between 1918-1970. Together they provide a ...
The Economics of Transport Appraisal
1st Edition
By A.J. Harrison
November 09, 2018
This book, first published in 1974, provides a comprehensive review of the application of economic concepts to the appraisal of transport systems. It presents the basic economic ideas underlying their application to transport appraisal. The exposition of these concepts links recent advances in ...
The Fundamentals of Management: Business Management in Transport 1
1st Edition
By W.S. Barry
November 09, 2018
This book, first published in 1963, examines the various aspects, roles and necessary skills of management in the transport industry. It looks at both the internal and external relations of the management....
Transport Carrier Costing
1st Edition
By Wayne Kenneth Talley
November 09, 2018
Covering cost structures and cost problems as well as costing methodologies, this book, first published in 1988, aims to enhance understanding of the economics of all types of transportation: freight and passenger, by truck, rail, bus and air. beginning with an overview of transportation costing ...
Transport Economics
1st Edition
By P.C. Stubbs, W.J. Tyson, M.Q. Dalvi
November 09, 2018
Practically everybody in the community uses the transport system, and an eighth of personal consumption expenditure in Britain is spent on transport. This book, first published in 1980 and revised in 1984, presents a synthesis of theoretical and empirical material to explain the elements of ...
Transportation Costs and Costing, 1917-1973: A Selected Annotated Chronological Bibliography
1st Edition
By Emanuel Benjamin Ocran, Jr.
November 09, 2018
As an important industry, transportation costs account for a considerable percentage of the gross national product of countries. It is therefore key to have at the disposal of those concerned with transportation activities, a bibliographical literature on costs and costing. The bibliography lists ...
Work and Wealth in a Modern Port: An Economic Survey of Southampton
1st Edition
By P. Ford
November 09, 2018
This survey, first published in 1934, was designed as a contribution to our knowledge of poverty, its incidence and causes. Poverty is a product of many variables, and it needs to be understood as an expression of a complex of economic and other social forces. This study therefore goes beyond the ...
Airline Deregulation: International Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth Button
November 08, 2018
The end of the twentieth century saw remarkable changes in the way that economic regulation was viewed. There occurred a liberalization of attitude and something of a withdrawal of the state from its interventionist role. These changes were particularly pronounced in the context of transport, where...
Airline Operations Research
1st Edition
By Dusan Teodorovic
November 08, 2018
The increase in practical problems generated by the intensive growth in air transport has necessitated the development of specialised operations research methods and modern computer technology. By combining operational research data from both scientific publications and airline companies, this book...