"Governments, companies, and private investors spend billions on astronaut-dependent space travel, but the work is dangerous and unhealthy to human bodies-so that executing missions may simply not be worth the cost. The future will be one of robots, heirs to the Perseverance rov…
"A symbol of the "new Japan" displayed at World's Fairs, depicted in travel posters, and celebrated as the product of a national spirit of innovation, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen--the first bullet train, dubbed the "dream super-express"--represents the bold aspirations of a nation re…
Be prepared to soar! Whether you are an aviation enthusiast, history buff, or air traveller, don't miss the third in a series of photo essays on aviation in Canada, covering almost 100 years of flight by Canadians. Dramatic visuals accompany each step of aviation's advances, fro…
While the early modern period has long been recognised as witnessing a growth in trade and consumerism, the majority of studies to date have tended to focus upon London and southern England. In order to provide a more balanced understanding of the dynamics at work on a national …
Since 2000, there has been an exponential amount of research completed in the field of transport modelling thereby creating a need for an expanded and revised edition of this book. National transport models have taken on the new modelling methods and there have been theoretical …
"In Steamboat Connections Frank Mackey gives us a narrative account of the first twenty-five years of steam navigation along the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. Relying on a wealth of primary archival sources, Mackey focuses on the development of steamer traffic from 1816 - when…
"Hurricane Katrina: Performance of Transportation Systems is a comprehensive evaluation of the Gulf coast's bridge, railroad, and roadway performance following Hurricane Katrina." "Although the failure of the levees in New Orleans attracted the most media attention, other infras…
"There was no looking back after the wheel was invented. It allowed people to build carts to transport their goods and, eventually, those carts turned into means of transportation for people. But there were also horses, and donkeys, and bullocks for transporting goods and people…
"Sharing Mobilities focuses on the emergence of future sustainable and collaborative mobility cultures. At the intersection of physical and virtual capacity and access to people, goods, ideas and services, this book poses fundamental challenges and opportunities for governance, …
"Email and the Everyday : Stories of Disclosure, Trust, and Digital Labor focuses on email in its own right as a standalone media form in order to examine its technical and material infrastructure, its iconography and GUI, its affordances, and its languages"--
"Over 1.2 million people die each year on the world's roads, and between 20 and 50 million suffer non-fatal injuries. In most regions of the world this epidemic of road traffic injuries is still increasing. In the past five years most countries have endorsed the recommendations …