Transportation category: 6808 books
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
“A History of the Horse Drawn Carriage” is a collection of classic articles on the subject of horse drawn carriages in England, exploring their origins and developments over the centuries with reference to notable events and figures. This fascinating and informative treatise is highly recommended...
The TTC Story
The First Seventy-five Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Looking back over the past 75 years, there is no doubt that public transportation has played a major role in the development and maturing of Toronto and its metropolitan area. Indeed , despite the fiscal challenges facing it, the TTC today remains a transit agency with an enviable reputation.
The...
Permanent Emergency
Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Since 2001 the TSA has accepted responsibility for protecting over two million people a day at U.S. airports and managing transportation operations around the world. But how effective is this beleaguered agency, and is it really keeping us safe from terrorism? In this riveting expose, former TSA administrator...
Driving the Future
Combating Climate Change with Cleaner, Smarter Cars
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
A distinguished expert offers a dazzling preview of the cars of the future, while exploring the science and politics behind climate change.
As the director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, engineer Margo Oge was the chief architect behind the Obama administration’s...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
The complete story of the amazing flight of US Airways 1549 is contained in this reproduction of the official National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) report on the incident, along with the transcript of a hearing before a House of Representatives committee. In addition to coverage of the ditching,...
by Norma J. Kraemer
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
The first aircraft heavier than air took to the skies in South Dakota in 1911. Since that time, pilots, mechanics, and dreamers have used aviation in innovative ways to shrink the large distances between the prairies and the mountains of the state. The start of the U.S. Space Program began at the Stratobowl...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The crash of the Alaska Airlines jet into Mount Fairweather on September 4, 1971 has never been explained definitively. A National Transportation Safety Board report hinted that the flight crew acted properly with the incorrect information they were given. However the same NTSB report stated that...
Safer Skies
An Accident Investigator on Why Planes Crash and the State of Aviation Safety
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
The past and future of airline safety—a memoir of successes, crashes, and near misses—by a former FAA accident inspector.
Boarding an airplane strikes at least a small sense of fear into most people. Even though we all have heard the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the...
British River Navigations
Inland Cuts, Fens, Dikes, Channels and Non-tidal Rivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Britain's rivers deserve to be better known. Teeming with wildlife, steeped in history, sporting bridges, docks and stunning architecture, not to mention supporting riverside pubs, waterways museums and a variety of places of interest, they are the country's essential arteries, connecting inland Britain...
by Shaquanda D Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
The Bus Chronicles 1 is a tough act to follow, but its sequal, TBC2 promises to entertain you just the same. It is designed to make you think first and laugh later on purpose. In this episode, Author Shaquanda D Stephenson decided to address the 800lb guerilla in the room. Peel back the cover and...
Bicycle
200 Years on Two Wheels
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Baron Karl Drais introduced the first two-wheeled self-propelled vehicle in the summer of 1817, calling it the "dandy horse." Two hundred years later, that same concept has democratized travel like no other means of transportation, granting women new-found freedoms and offering ordinary...
Bike Snob
Systematically & Mercilessly Realigning the World of Cycling
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Cycling is explodingin a good way. Urbanites everywhere, from ironic hipsters to earth-conscious commuters, are taking to the bike like aquatic mammals to water. BikeSnobNYC—cycling's most prolific, well-known, hilarious, and anonymous blogger—brings a fresh and humorous perspective to the most...
Drawn to Speed
The Automotive Art of John Lander
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
For automotive artist John Lander, cars are more than just transportation: “Some are beautiful examples of rolling sculpture. I try to do more than just draw pretty pictures of cars; I include interesting people, backgrounds, and try to set a mood or tell a story.” The work of years, this collection...
by Donald Bates-Brands
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2012
It's amazing if you think about it; the ways people's lives cross and yet you know very little about them. Pleasure boaters will frequently see tugs and ships and you may even have to take action to avoid them, but in the end were they anything other than a moving blip on the seascape? I have worked...