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Transportation geography. Trade routes

  • A Liner Shipping Network Designby Volker Windeck

    Springer 2012; US$ 64.99

    ?The liner shipping network design delivers schedules and routes for ships that continuously visit harbours on a closed round trip. Examples of such ships are container ships that in many cases maintain a weekly harbour visiting frequency. Volker Windeck elaborates a liner shipping network design approach which is not only considering the harbours... more...

  • Transport and Ethicsby Bert Van Wee

    Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 40.00

    This insightful book discusses the use of Cost - Benefit Analysis (CBA) for transport policy options from an ethical perspective. Each detailed chapter deals with issues such as; the use and ethical aspects of CBA in transport, social exclusion, the environment and long term sustainability, safety, ethics of research and modelling transport. It summarizes... more...

  • Rome and the Distant Eastby Raoul McLaughlin

    Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00

    In ancient times there were several major trade routes that connected the Roman Empire to exotic lands in the distant East. Ancient sources reveal that after the Augustan conquest of Egypt, valued commodities from India, Arabia and China became increasingly available to Roman society. These sources describe how Roman traders went far beyond the frontiers... more...

  • The Geography of Transport Systemsby Jean-Paul Rodrigue

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 54.95

    Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities, including commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geographical attributes. Transport systems composed of infrastructures, modes and terminals are so embedded in the... more...

  • Africa's Freedom Railwayby Jamie Monson

    Indiana University Press 2009; US$ 33.95

    The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority), or Freedom Railway, from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia, was instrumental in fostering one of the most sweeping development transitions in postcolonial Africa. Built during the height of the Cold War, the railway... more...

  • Global Supply Chain Management and International Logisticsby Alan E. Branch

    Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 69.95

    The development of international trade is driven by international logistics and management and the provision of the global supply chain. The ultimate objective of global supply chain management is to link the market place, distribution network, manufacturing/processing/assembly process, and procurement activity in such a way that customers are serviced... more...

  • Chinese Railwaysby Katrin Luger

    Springer 2008; US$ 109.99

    Although being huge by any measure, Chinese Railways are a bottleneck for economic growth in China. The state-owned enterprise returns a small profit but is severely capacity constrained and burdened with inefficiency. A comprehensive reform and efficiency improvement program needs to be developed in order to enable Chinese Railways to support further... more...

  • Moving Millionsby Rikkie Yeung

    Hong Kong University Press 2008; US$ 60.00

    MTRC and KCRC moved millions of passengers daily and generated millions of profits. Both government-owned corporations were commercially and financially successful, but not without public controversies as Hong Kong went through drastic socio-political changes in the last three decades. Upon a possible MTRC-KCRC merger, this book offers the first comprehensive... more...

  • Decoupling the Environmental Impacts of Transport from Economic Growthby OECD Publishing

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2006; US$ 49.00

    Economic growth requires an efficient transport system, and transport activity continues to cause large adverse impacts on the environment, human health and the economy. But is a negative impact of transport on the environment a necessary consequence of economic growth?  This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of recent research on the links... more...

  • The Geography of Transport Systemsby Jean-Paul Rodrigue; Claude Comtois; Brian Slack

    Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 64.95

    Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities, including commuting, manufacturing and supplying energy. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is key, and the main focus of this important book. Concerned with movements, infrastructures, institutions and the corporations supporting them, this key volume from Rodrigue,... more...