Transport Structures Books

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1. Sustainability and the Design of Transport Interchanges

   By Brian Edwards

   The interchange is a new form of transport building which integrates into a single whole various modes of public transport, putting the passenger first (rather than the infrastructure). This book presents design principles for transport interchanges and offers analysis of best practice in the UK...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-46449-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Transport Matters: Integrated Approaches to Planning City-Regions

   By Angela Hull

   Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low energy transport systems which serve the needs of everybody. It explores many of the new arguments, ideas and...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-45818-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Transport Policy and Planning in Great Britain

   By Peter Headicar

   Transport in the twenty-first century represents a significant challenge at the global and the local scale. Aided by over sixty clear illustrations, Peter Headicar disentangles this complex, modern issue in five parts, offering critical insights into: the nature of transport the...

   April 2009 | 978-0-415-46987-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Public Transport: Its Planning, Management and Operation, 5th Edition

   By Peter White

   Public Transport is a comprehensive textbook covering the planning of all public transport systems (bus, coach, rail, taxi and domestic air travel) in Britain and other countries with similar systems. The term ‘planning’ is used both in the context of local authority and central government roles...

   2008 | 978-0-415-44530-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City

   By Julia Solis

   Did alligators ever really live in New York's sewers? What's it like to explore the old aqueducts beneath the city? How many levels are beneath Grand Central Station? And how exactly did the pneumatic tube system that New York's post offices used to employ work? In this richly illustrated...

   2007 | 978-0-415-96310-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Modern Airport Terminal: New Approaches to Airport Architecture, 2nd Edition

   By Brian Edwards

   This comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities covers all types of airport terminal found around the world and highlights the environmental and technical issues that the designer has to address. Contemporary examples are critically reviewed through a...

   2005 | 978-0-415-24812-9 | Hardback (Taylor & Francis)
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   Public Transport: Its Planning, Management and Operation, 4th Edition

   Widened in scope and completely updated, this new edtiion of a well-established textbook provides an authoritative introduction to all modes of public transport; from taxis and local buses to intercity rail, domestic air and express coaches....

   2001 | 978-0-415-25772-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. The Modern Terminal: New Approaches to Airport Architecture

   By Brian Edwards

   A comprehensive guide to the planning and design of airport terminals and their facilities. The book covers all types of airport terminals found around the world and highlights the environmental and technical issues that the design teams have to address. Contemporary examples are critically...

   1998 | 978-0-419-21750-3 | Hardback (Taylor & Francis)
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   The Modern Station: New Approaches to Railway Architecture

   By Brian Edwards

   An exciting new generation of railway architecture has emerged in Europe and elsewhere over the past decade. This book explains the reasons for the renaissance of the station as a building type and the current changes it is undergoing. The functional, social and technical factors which shape...

   1996 | 978-0-419-19680-8 | Hardback (Taylor & Francis)