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Sultana, Selima, 1965- editor.
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388.03 23
Publication Date
2016
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This book explores the most up-to-date surface transport modes; transportation technologies; and some of the most famous streets, rail systems, and highways in use on every continent-which blend transportation geography with culture, politics, economics, and the environment of a place. It also covers future innovations in the world of transportation.
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Garrison, William L., 1924-
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388
Publication Date
2014
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The Transportation Experience explores the historical evolution of transportation modes and technologies. The book traces how systems are innovated, planned and adapted, deployed and expanded, and reach maturity, where they may either be maintained in a polished obsolesce often propped up by subsidies, be displaced by competitors, or be reorganized and renewed. An array of examples supports the idea that modern policies are built from past experiences. William Garrison and David Levinson assert that the planning (and control) of nonlinear, unstable processes is today's central transportation p.
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