[PDF] Piggyback And Containers eBook

Author : Jeff Wilson
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781627003834

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A comprehensive prototype guide to railroad intermodal equipment and operations tracing the development of piggyback and container traffic from the steam era to today.

Author : Jean-Paul Rodrigue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1136777326

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Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as 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 socio-economic life of individuals, institutions and corporations that they are often invisible to the consumer. This is paradoxical as the perceived invisibility of transportation is derived from its efficiency. Understanding how mobility is linked with geography is main the purpose of this book. The third edition of The Geography of Transport Systems has been revised and updated to provide an overview of the spatial aspects of transportation. This text provides greater discussion of security, energy, green logistics, as well as new and updated case studies, a revised content structure, and new figures. Each chapter covers a specific conceptual dimension including networks, modes, terminals, freight transportation, urban transportation and environmental impacts. A final chapter contains core methodologies linked with transport geography such as accessibility, spatial interactions, graph theory and Geographic Information Systems for transportation (GIS-T). This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field, with a broad overview of its concepts, methods, and areas of application. The accompanying website for this text contains a useful additional material, including digital maps, PowerPoint slides, databases, and links to further reading and websites. The website can be accessed at: http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans This text is an essential resource for undergraduates studying transport geography, as well as those interest in economic and urban geography, transport planning and engineering.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Container ships
ISBN :

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Committee Serial No. 90-31. Considers whether the Government should set standard sizes for containers used in shipping.