Transit Maps of the World

Author: Mark Ovenden
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143128493
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
A completely updated and expanded edition of the cult bestseller, featuring subway, light rail, and streetcar maps from New York to Nizhny Novgorod. Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historical and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. In glorious, colorful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the cartographic history of mass transit—including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs, some available for the first time since their original publication. Now expanded with thirty-six more pages, 250 city maps revised from previous editions, and listings given from almost a thousand systems in total, this is the graphic designer’s new bible, the transport enthusiast’s dream collection, and a coffee-table essential for everyone who’s ever traveled in a city.

Urban Transportation Abstracts

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Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Tokyo in Transit

Author: Alisa Freedman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804771456
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description
This work discusses literary depictions of mass transit in 20th century Tokyo in the decades preceding WWII. It cuts across literary and historical/sociological analysis, and contributes to the growing body of work examining Japanese urbanism, gender, and modernism.

Urban Transportation Abstracts

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Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Global Road Warrior

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Publisher: World Trade Press
ISBN: 9781885073860
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 872

Book Description
The Global Road Warrior is the ultra-pragmatic reference for the international business communicator and traveler, containing critical information you need for survival and success while on the road internationally.

Jane's Urban Transport Systems

Author: Mary Webb
Publisher: Ihs Global Incorporated
ISBN: 9780710628169
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 946

Book Description
Surveys the systems, manufacturers and consultants within the global market. City by city, you can analyse and review both current operations and future plans. Provides traffic statistics, fleet lists and numbers in service. Provides contact details and background of approx. 1,500 manufacturers

Railway Directory 2008

Author: Railway Gazette International
Publisher: Nicholson
ISBN: 9780955774003
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 716

Book Description
Providing an overview of global railway networks and services, 'Railway Directory 2008' outlines current issues and provides accurate data on all of the world's major networks.

Japan Report

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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Railway Transportation Systems

Author: Christos N. Pyrgidis
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482262169
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
Incorporates More Than 25 Years of Research and ExperienceRailway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation presents a comprehensive overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems, from design through to construction and operation. It covers the range of railway passenger systems, from conventional and high speed inter

History of the World in 500 Railway Journeys

Author: Sarah Baxter
Publisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1781319383
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 403

Book Description
History is everywhere, and is never as complete as when it can be accessed on a part of history itself. The locomotive is one of the great steps in progress of civilisation that undoubtably connects us to land and history that was shaped by the machine itself. Although a basic form of railway, or rutway, did exist in Ancient Greek and Roman times – notably the ship trackway between Diolkos and the Isthmus of Corinth around 600 BC – it would take several thousand years before the first fare-paying passenger service was launched in the early nineteenth century. Some two hundred years on, it is possible to travel by train to some of the world's most remote and remarkable destinations, and track the many wonderful legacies of the Earth's extensive history – man-made and otherwise. From prehistoric rock formations to skyscraper cities, slow steam engines to high-speed bullet trains, let A History of the World in 500 Railway Journeys be your guide. Through its beautifully illustrated pages, and 500 awe-inspiring railway journeys, you can chart your own transcontinental itinerary through time. Chug through canyons, steam past ancient monuments, speed through cities, luxuriate in the railcars of presidents and queens, or make express connections between key historical moments or epic eras, A History of the World in 500 Railway Journeys has it all. A must-read for travellers, railfans and history buffs alike, offering inspiration and information in equal measure.