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2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the completion of the Lancaster Canal from Wigan to Kendal. Designed by the celebrated engineer John Rennie, it is notable for a large number of aqueducts, including the magnificent Lune Aqueduct at Lancaster. A large aqueduct across the Ribble Valley at Preston was never built, leaving the canal in two sections connected by a temporary horse tramroad which became permanent. Consequently the 57 miles from Preston to Kendal remained isolated until 2006, when it was connected to the main network via the Ribble estuary. Before the railways were built the canal was unique in running a highly efficient passenger service and for several years actually took over a main line railway company. In 1947 the final 15 miles to Kendal were closed and partly drained. The author was an early member of the Lancaster Canal Trust in 1963, which is now at the forefront of a campaign to re-open the closed section. This book examines the history of the waterway, its powerful effect on the 18-19th century economy of north Lancashire and south Cumbria, the canal as it is today and the efforts being made to restore it to navigation throughout.
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This pack contains data tables and 10 maps derived from a survey carried out in 37 UNECE member countries on road traffic and infrastructure topics, in accordance with Resolution No. 247 adopted by the UNECE Inland Transport Committee at its 61st session held in February 1999. A CD ROM publication is also available (ISBN 9211168538).
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• The Machine for Access. (D.M. Levinson, K.J. Krizek, D. Gillen). Part I: Overview. Congestion and Its Extent. (R.L. Bertini). Congestion and Its Discontents. (J.L. Gifford). Place-based versus People-based Accessibility. (H.J. Miller). The Transportation-Land Use Policy Connection. (G-J. Knaap). Perspectives on Accessibility and Travel. (K.J. Krizek). Planning for Accessibility, In Theory and In Practice. (S. Handy). Part II: Behavior and Measures. Current Determinants of Residential Location Choices: An Empirical Study in the Greater Columbus Metropolitan Area. (Moon Jeong Kim, H. Morrow-Jones). Evaluating Measures of Job-Housing Proximity. (J. Yang, J. Ferreira). Examining the Spatial and Social Variation in Employment Accessibility: A Case Study of Bus Transit in Austin, Texas. (M.W. Horner, J.N. Mefford). Parcel-level Measure of Public Transit Accessibility to Destinations. (B. Ho-Yin Lee). Paving New Ground: A Markov Cahin Model of the Change in Transportation Networks and Land Use - Exploring Spatial-Temporal Dimensions. (C. Woudsma, J.F. Jensen). Accessibility in the luci2 Urban Simulation Model and the Importance of Accessibility for Urban Development. (J.R. Ottensmann). Part III: Applications. An Accessibility Framework for Evaluating Transport Policies. (F. Primerano, M.A.P. Taylor). Modeling Accessibility in Urban Transportation Networks: A Graph-Based Hierarchical Approach. (A. Abdel-Rahim, A.M. Ismail). Accessibility and Spatial Development in Switzerland During the Last 50 Years. (M. Tschopp, P. Frohlich, K.W. Axhausen). Parking and Accessibility. (E. Ferguson).
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Much of land use and transportation planning today aims to reduce traffic congestion. However, the barometers typically used to measure congestion provide only a snapshot of a select dimension of a city's transportation system and fail to accurately reflect how easy it is to reach destinations. Comprehensive and policy relevant measures useful to land-use and transportation planning need to capture both land use and travel dimensions. This book focuses on the science and policy around the multi-modal concept of accessibility. If the goal is to create physical environments that are accessible, this work provides an up date account that can advance empirically grounded research and planning practice relating to accessibility.
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• Section headings: Introduction. Modelling Developments. Theories and Empirical Analyses. Data Needs and Data Representation. Policy Analysis. Future Directions.
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Societal trends have made the need for better travel demand forecasts more urgent, at the same time as making people's travel and activity patterns far more complex. Traditional traffic flow models are no longer sophisticated enough to cope. Activity analysis is seen by many as the solution. It has had a short but intense history in geography, urban planning, time use research and, more recently, transportation. Pioneering activity-based models have now been developed to the point where, some argue, it is time to abandon the traditional four-step model for transportation demand forecasting and to adopt activity-based approaches instead. Others claim that the complexity of such approaches, and their tremendous data requirements, prevent them from having a significant impact. This book explores these claims and the issues associated with them. An introductory section outlines the debate. The body of the work is organised in four sections: modelling developments; theories and empirical analyses; data needs and data representation; and policy analysis. The final section discusses future research directions.
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• Initial planning for urban transit systems
• S.C. WirasinghePublic transport timetabling and vehicle scheduling
• A. Ceder Designing public transport network and routes
• A. Ceder Transit path choice and assignment model approaches
• A. Nuzzolo Schedule-based transit assignment models
• A. Nuzzolo Frequency based transit route choice models
• M. Florian Capacity constrained transit assignment models and reliability analysis
• M.G.H. Bell Dynasmart-IP - dynamic traffic assignment meso-simulator for intermodal networks
• H.S. Mahmassani & K.F. Abdelghany Modeling competitive multi-modal services
• H.K. Lo et al. Modeling urban taxi services - a literature survey and an analytical example
• Hai Yang et al. The estimation of origin-destination matrices in transit networks
• S. C. Wong & C.O. Tong Models for optimizing transit fares
• Jing Zhou & W.H.K. Lam.
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In this title, experts in public transport address the current problem of improving public transit systems by taking advantage of new technologies and advanced modelling techniques. The key areas open to improvement are service planning and operations management.
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• Dynamic Traffic Assignment: A Survey of Mathematical Models and Techniques / Pushkin Kachroo, Neveen Shlayan
• The Max-Pressure Controller for Arbitrary Networks of Signalized Intersections / Pravin Varaiya
• Coordinated Feedback-Based Freeway Ramp Metering Control Strategies "C-MIXCROS and D-MIXCROS" that Take Ramp Queues into Account / Ilgin Gokasar, Kaan Ozbay, Pushkin Kachroo
• Solving the Integrated Corridor Control Problem Using Simultaneous Perturbation Stochastic Approximation / Jingtao Ma, Yu (Marco) Nie, H. Michael Zhang
• Analyses of Arterial Travel Times Based on Probe Data / Isaac Kumar Isukapati, George F. List
• A Multibuffer Model for LWR Road Networks / Mauro Garavello, Benedetto Piccoli
• Cell-Based Dynamic Equilibrium Models / W.Y. Szeto
• Information Impacts on Traveler Behavior and Network Performance: State of Knowledge and Future Directions / Ramachandran Balakrishna, Moshe Ben-Akiva
• Modeling Within-Day Activity Rescheduling Decisions under Time-Varying Network Conditions / Yunemi Jang, Yi-Chang Chiu, Hong Zheng
• Dynamic Navigation in Direction-Dependent Environments / Irina S. Dolinskaya
• An Approach to Assess the Impact of Dynamic Congestion in Vehicle Routing Problems / H.M. Abdul Aziz, Satish V. Ukkusuri
• Incident Duration Prediction with Hybrid Tree-based Quantile Regression / Qing He, Yiannis Kamarianakis.

"This edited book focuses on recent developments in Dynamic Network Modeling, including aspects of route guidance and traffic control as they relate to transportation systems and other complex infrastructure networks. Dynamic Network Modeling is generally understood to be the mathematical modeling of time-varying vehicular flows on networks in a fashion that is consistent with established traffic flow theory and travel demand theory. Dynamic Network Modeling as a field has grown over the last thirty years, with contributions from various scholars all over the field. The basic problem which many scholars in this area have focused on is related to the analysis and prediction of traffic flows satisfying notions of equilibrium when flows are changing over time. In addition, recent research has also focused on integrating dynamic equilibrium with traffic control and other mechanism designs such as congestion pricing and network design. Recently, advances in sensor deployment, availability of GPS-enabled vehicular data and social media data have rapidly contributed to better understanding and estimating the traffic network states and have contributed to new research problems which advance previous models in dynamic modeling. A recent National Science Foundation workshop on 'Dynamic Route Guidance and Traffic Control' was organized in June 2010 at Rutgers University by Prof. Kaan Ozbay, Prof. Satish Ukkusuri, Prof. Hani Nassif, and Professor Pushkin Kachroo. This workshop brought together experts in this area from universities, industry and federal/state agencies to present recent findings in this area. Various topics were presented at the workshop including dynamic traffic assignment, traffic flow modeling, network control, complex systems, mobile sensor deployment, intelligent traffic systems and data collection issues. This book is motivated by the research presented at this workshop and the discussions that followed"--Provided by publisher

• Port Development: Maritime Trade Evolutions and Port City Developments in Asia
• Scenario Simulation Analysis for the Port Development of Hong Kong Under Changing Business Environment
• Evaluation on Ports and Maritime Logistic Systems: A Framework for Modeling Benchmarking Maritime Clusters
• Port Competitiveness and Benchmarking Studies
• Is Port Throughput a Port Output
• The Challenges of Today's Maritime Logistics: A Proposed Systems Approach to the Understanding of a Complex System
• A Novel Performance Evaluation Strategy Towards Dealers in the Automotive Supply Chain
• OR Studies on Maritime Logistics: A Linearized Approach for the Liner Containership Fleet Planning with Demand Uncertainty
• A Yard Allocation Strategy for Export Containers via Simulation and Optimization
• Exploring Tanker Market Elasticity with Respect to Oil Production Using FORESIM
• Studies on Container Ships: On the Ongoing Increase of Containership Size
• Green Maritime Logistics.
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This timely book discusses the recent developments in maritime logistics, an important specialized area for the global economy. It includes issues such as the recent economic crisis, port competition and development, and provides insights and trends relating to these issues. Consisting of renowned researchers worldwide, the primary objective of the book identifies some of the new problems and challenges faced and innovative solutions to address these problems.
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• Preface
• Government and politics
• Aviation and politics
• Significant aeropolitical issues
• Politics and emergent trends in air law
• Issues in the carriage of passengers and cargo
• The international civil aviation organisation
• Index.
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This book is about the intrinsic link between aviation and politics. It addresses the manner in which the world deals with aviation issues and the legal and diplomatic nuances associated with them. From the inception of regulated civil aviation in 1944, politics and diplomacy have been inextricable from policy making and dispute settlement in affairs of aviation. Varied and chronologically sequential instances where the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was requested by its Contracting States to address contentious issues relating to civil aviation are reflective of the importance of political considerations that underlie such disputes. Additionally, with some regularity, individual issues have emerged, which this book will address, that reflect the responses of a dynamic aviation political community. This book also addresses the role of ICAO, which is dedicated to issues of international civil aviation under the auspices of the United Nations. However, it must be stated at the outset that, although political contentions may exist between States, which is a natural corollary of Statecraft and international politics, it is not the purview of an international organisation to address political motivations of individual States when considering issues referred to it or adjudicating disputes between States. In this regard, ICAO, and the rest of the world have tread a delicate line between diplomacy and objectivity.
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• Roadmapping development and poverty alleviation : transport and the Millennium Development goals in Africa / Deborah Fahy Bryceson
• Financing regional infrastructure projects in Africa : issues and options / Robert M. Okello
• Transportation costs and spatial integration of agricultural commodity markets in Africa / Edward Mabaya
• Exploring the components of "accessibility" from a transport and health perspective in rural South Africa / Talia McCray
• Transport and the MDGs : perspectives from a Nairobi slum / Rachel Reichenbach
• Progress and challenges of meeting the MDGs in Uganda : the role of transport / Betty Babirye-Ddungu
• Linking transport to employment : pursuing the Millennium Development goals / Ronald W. McQuaid
• The significance of local-level rural infrastructure provision in poverty alleviation : evidence from the horse's mouth / T.C. Mbara
• Introduction of the roadside station as a pro-poor infrastructure : its potential contribution to attaining the MDGs in Africa / Yoichi Sakurada
• Port infrastructure and development in South Africa / Michael G.H. Bell
• Sustainable transport technologies for developing environments : towards appropriate investment strategies / John D. Nelson
• Access vs. Accessibility : transport, MDGs, youth and health / Deladem Kusi-Appouh
• Mobility, maternal mortality and mainstreaming gender : a need for action / Jeff Turner
• Children, (im)mobility and transport in sub-Saharan Africa : implications for meeting the MDGs / Gina Porter.

Transport is an essential service that must contribute to national development objectives in health, education, agriculture and other sectors in guiding sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty. Developing policies aimed at providing safe, reliable and affordable transport infrastructure and services can and will make a substantial and sustainable contribution to eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, improving health care and reducing HIV/AIDS. Although transport is identified as a priority in poverty reduction strategies, it has not generally been adequately addressed. Global responses tend to focus on rural transport infrastructure-principally roads-with little attention given to sub-sectors such as rivers, lakes, and railroads; and important geographical and econological differences are ignored. The needs of the urban poor have been weakly addressed, as have the access and mobility needs of women, the disabled and other disadvantaged groups, while strategies for adapting transport to agricultural production/distribution or social services (e.g. health and education) have not been adequately developed. A systematic approach to the development of sound, comprehensive transport sector programs that provide clear guidance on what is to be done is much needed. This volume-the product of an expert workshop held at Cornell University's Institute for African Development in May, 2007-provides accounts of an array of African operational spaces in which transport is relevant to the Millennium Development Goals. It addresses many heretofore ignored dimesions of transport-mobility issues of the urban poor, of women and children, and issues of access to employment, education and health services. It provides an alignment of transport with the MDGs in what proves to be fertile ground for research with important messages for policy makers and consequences for policy.
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• Acknowledgments1. IntroductionPart 1. Freedom Railway2. Railway Visions
• 3. Building the People's Railway
• 4. Living along the RailwayPart 2. Ordinary Train5. The Ordinary Train
• 6. Landscape Visions
• 7. ConclusionAppendix 1. Eight Principles Governing China's Economic and Technical Aid to Other Countries
• Appendix 2. Parcel Shipments to and from Selected Rail Stations
• Appendix 3. Land Cover Change, Kilombero Valley Study AreaNotes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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The TAZARA (Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority) or Freedom Railway stretches from Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast to the Copperbelt region of Zambia. The railway, built during the height of the Cold War, was intended to redirect the mineral wealth of the interior away from routes through South Africa and Rhodesia. After being rebuffed by Western donors, newly independent Tanzania and Zambia accepted help from communist China to construct what would become one of Africa's most vital transportation corridors. Drawing on first-hand experiences of engineers and labourers together with life histories of traders who used the railway, Jamie Monson tracks the railroad from its design and construction to its daily use as a passenger train that provided an important means for moving people and goods from one village to another. This engaging history reveals how transnational interests contributed to environmental change, population movements, the rise of local and regional economic enterprise, and one of the most sweeping development transitions in post-colonial Africa.
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• Introduction
• Chapter One The Railway Presidents
• Chapter Two Gordon McGregor and the Adolescence of the Airline
• Chapter Three Yves Pratte and the Augean Stables
• Chapter Four Claude Taylor and the Summer Afternoon
• Chapter Five Pierre Jeanniot and the Serpent's Tooth
• Chapter Six Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity
• Chapter Seven Robert Milton: Paradise Won
• Epilogue The Dream Continues.

Begun as a social experiment in 1937, Air Canada has evolved into one of the world's greatest airlines, an integral part of this country's social fabric. During the course of its 75-year history, the airline was privatized, fought off a hostile takeover, merged with arch-rival Canadian Airlines, and touched countless lives. This is its story.

• Contents
• PREFACE
• ONE BELOVED MONSTER
• TWO SKY-HIGH GROWTH
• THREE CLIMATE CONCERN
• FOUR DECIBEL DIN
• FIVE CROWDED SKIES, VANISHED ACRES
• SIX THE SCOURGE TO COME
• SEVEN THE WAY AHEAD
• EIGHT BEYOND BALANCE
• INDEX

Annotation. Campaigning book that spells out the environmental downsides of aviation growth including climate change, noise pollution, safety and land loss. Compares UK aviation policy with the historically unregulated growth of motor traffic, hence the same mistakes are being repeated in the air as have been made on the roads.

• Title page; Contents; Redesigning Maintenance Processes to Increase Delivery Performance of the A-Check for Wide-Body Aircraft at KLM E & M; Leaning the Material Management Process of KLM Engineering & Maintenance
• Supply Base Rationalization Using Essentiality; A Model to Forecast Non-Routine Work for the Wide Body Base Maintenance at KLM E & M; Control Space Analysis of Continuous Descent Operations at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol; The Use of a Dynamic Solution Space to Predict Air Traffic Controller Workload; Bayesian Estimation of Accident Rate, Trend and Uncertainty.

This book presents the proceedings of the Second International Air Transport and Operations Symposium, ATOS 2011, held at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The focus of ATOS 2011 and this proceedings is on how air transport can evolve in order to continue to add value in the 21st Century, given its incredible impact in the 20th Century. The book covers a whole range of topics: Aircraft Design and Future Concepts; Air Transport Economics; Air Transport, Environment and Safety; Aircraft Lifecycle Value Engineering; Personal Air Transport System (PATS); Airports and Air Traffic.

• Title page; Contents; Session 1.1. Aircraft Design & Future Concepts; Can We Still Dream?
• Thinking Out of the Box; The Quest for Unmanned Aerial Transportation and Role of Governments; Strategic Jet Engine System Design in Light of Uncertain Fuel and Carbon Prices; Session 1.2. Air Transport Economics; Development of a Customer Value Forecasting Tool for Commercial Aircraft Wing Movables; Air Cargo Information Platform; Session 1.3. Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul
• 1; Forecasting Maintenance by Monitoring Usage, Loads or Condition.

• Title Page; Preface; Original Words of Invite from IMAPP, ComplexWorld and ASDA; Contents; Part I. ATOS; Validating Value-Driven Design; Value Driven Design in Automotive Transport Systems; How to Improve Operational Availability and Cost Effectiveness Using a Pragmatic RAMS Value Driven Design Effort
• A Military Helicopter Case Study; Method-Driven Test Case Generation for Functional System Verification; Aviation Security in a Digital Age: Can Security Benefit from Wireless Communication Technologies in Passenger Air Transport?

• Stall Shield Devices, an Innovative Approach to Stall Prevention?Flyover Noise Synthesis for the Virtual Community Noise Simulator; Noise-Minimal Landing and Take-off Trajectories Under Procedural and Safety Regulations; Traveler Expectation and Airport Service Improvement: Kaohsiung International Airport, Taiwan; Air Traffic Control Complexity, Fatigue & Service Expectation: Results from a Preliminary Study; A Value Operations-Based Methodology for Airport Concept Development for the Year 2050; Simulation of Taxiway System Maintenance to Optimize Airport Operational Value.

• Scheduling a Hybrid Flowshop with Parallel Machines for Aircraft Assembly ProductionSurplus Value Sensitivity and Subsystem Analysis; Subliminal Control on CDA Final Descent Operations; Adaptive Automation Support for Time-Based Operations in ATC; Optimizing Nightly Schiphol Traffic Through Time Based Operations; Concept of Operations for Air Traffic Management by Managing Uncertainty Through Multiple Metering Points; The Turkish Aviation System and the Strategy of Turkish Airlines; Safety Management as an Aspect of Business Management.

• Applying Proven Methods in a New Environment: The Case of LEAN in Business Aviation MROMoonshine: Employee-Involved Workplace Innovation
• An Exploratory Study; New Similarity Metric for Mixed Production of Aircraft Assembly; Predicting Foreseeable Uncertainty Using a Value Driven Design Methodology; Value Driven Design in the Presence of Fuzzy Requirements; Development of a Surplus Value Parameter for Use in Initial Aircraft Conceptual Design; Part II. IMAPP; A Maintenance Packaging and Scheduling Optimization Method for Future Aircraft.

• NFF
• Who Is to Be Blamed? Unravelling the Mysteries of NFFAn Attempt to Quantitatively Underpin the Rationality of Maintenance Support; Cost-Benefit Evaluation of Aircraft Maintenance Base-Check Downtime and Cost; Development of a Maintenance Decision Model to Optimize for Technical Reliability
• A Component Based Approach; Modification and Certification of Research Aircraft; Upgrading a Multi-Mission Research Aircraft; Part III. ComplexWorld; Modelling of Human Performance-Related Hazards in ATM; From Uncertainty to Robustness and System's Resilience in ATM: A Case-Study.

• Contents: Preface
• Part I Practitioners Pieces: Volatility in the global airline industry is shaping its future evolution, Alan Joyce
• The future of air navigation, Ashley Smout
• Aviation safety concern, Bill Voss
• A beneficial industry but one with elusive profitability, Brian Pearce
• The challenges faced by independent ground handlers and in-flight caterers, Clement Woon
• Growth opportunities in Brazil, Constantino de Oliveira Jr
• Can Gulf carriers sustain their current growth rate?, Fariba Alamdari
• Forecasting the fate of the airline industry, Gary Kelly
• Changing global air transport, James Hogan
• The inevitable evolution of aviation, Kenneth Button
• Longer-term prospects for air transport, Laurent Rouaud
• Airline consolidation in China and the prospects for China Eastern, Liu Shaoyong
• Overcoming the constraints of aeropolitics, Maurice Flanagan
• In search of sustained profitability 30 years after deregulation, Peter P.Belobaba
• IT, airlines and the recession: what is a Chief Information Officer to do?, Paul Coby
• An inherently unstable industry: airlines have themselves to blame, Rigas Doganis
• Engine makers can help airlines thrive, even in a difficult environment, Robert J. Keady
• The future of airline sales distribution, Scott D. Nason
• Dynamic air transport industry, Tewolde GebreMariam
• The dilemma facing airport management: taking control of the airport environment, William deCota
• Surviving the crisis, Willie Walsh. Part II Academic Section: Airlines: an inherently turbulent industry, John F. O'Connell
• State of US aviation: clinging to the old ways in a new century, Dawna L. Rhoades
• Ryanair and the low-cost revolution, Sean D. Barrett
• Airline strategy: keeping the legacy carrier competitive. How can mature airlines stay ahead in the low-fare airline era?, Alan Gogbashian and Thomas Lawton
• Ancillary revenues: the new trend in strategic airline marketing, John F. O'Connell
• Multilateral airline alliances: the fallacy of the alliances to mergers proposition, Sveinn Vidar Gudmundson and Christian Lechner
• Comparing the economic and operating characteristics of charter and low-cost scheduled airlines, George Williams
• Airlines and tourism: interrelations and trends, Andreas Papatheodorou
• The economics of 7th freedom, Peter Forsyth
• The air cargo industry, Peter S. Morrell
• Key issues facing the airport industry, Anne Graham
• Challenges to growth: environmental issues and the development of the air transport industry, Ben Daley and Callum Thomas
• Advances in transport aircraft and engines, John Snow
• Safety management systems in aviation, Graham Braithwaite
• Cooperation in air navigation services: is globalization arriving in the world of ANS?, Manjit Singh
• IT innovations in passenger services, John F. O'Connell
• Aviation security in the United States, Robert Raffel and Jim Ramsay
• An examination of the world's most profitable airline in 2009/10: the Emirates business model, John F. O'Connell
• Index.
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Airlines are buffeted by fluctuating political and economic landscapes, ever-changing competition, technology developments, globalization, increasing deregulation and evolving customer requirements. As a consequence all sectors of the air transport industry are in a constant state of flux. The principle aim of this book is to review current trends in the airline industry and its related suppliers, thereby providing an insight into the forces that are changing its dynamics. The factors that are reshaping the structure of the industry are examined with a view to identifying the key issues whose impact will be critical in the future. The book features two very distinct sections. The first contains short contributions from industry executives at CEO/VP level from airlines, aircraft/engine manufacturers, safety and navigational provider organisations, who have set out their take of where the airline industry is heading. This commercial input sets the scene for the book and provides the bridge to the second section, which is composed of 18 chapters written by distinguished academic authors. Each chapter presents a valuable insight into a specific area of the air transport industry, including: airlines, airports, cargo, deregulation, the environment, navigation, strategy, information technology, security and tourism. The shared objective of the authors is to describe and explain the core competencies that are determining the current shape of the industry and to examine the forces that will change its direction going forward. The book is written in a management style and will appeal to all levels of personnel who work for airlines across the world. It is also written for airport authorities, aerospace manufacturers, regulatory and government transportation agencies, researchers and students of aviation management, transport studies, tourism and the wider air transport industry.
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• The air transport system..- Historical development of air transport.- Market aspects.- The regulatory framework of the air transportation System.- Aircraft characteristics.- Aircraft manufacturer.- Airlines.- Airport and Infrastructure.- Air Navigation Services.- Environmental aspects of air Transport.- Challenges and competition of air Transport.
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The book addresses all major aspects to be considered for the design and operation of aircrafts within the entire transportation chain. It provides the basic information about the legal environment, which defines the basic requirements for aircraft design and aircraft operation. The interactions between airport, air traffic management and the airlines are described. The market forecast methods and the aircraft development process are explained to understand the very complex and risky business of an aircraft manufacturer. The principles of flight physics as basis for aircraft design are presented and linked to the operational and legal aspects of air transport including all environmental impacts. The book is written for graduate students as well as for engineers and experts, who are working in aerospace industry, at airports or in the domain of transport and logistics.
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• Contents: Foreword, Jack J. Pelton
• Foreword, Michael Magnusson
• Preface
• Part 1 An Introduction to Air Transportation: The airline industry: trends, challenges and strategies
• Aviation: an overview
• Historical perspective
• Air transportation: regulators and associations
• The general aviation industry. Part 2 Structure and Economics of the Airlines: The airline industry
• Economic characteristics of the airlines. Part 3 Managerial Aspects of Airlines: Airline management and organization
• Forecasting methods
• Airline passenger marketing
• Airline pricing, demand, and output determination
• Air cargo
• Principles of airline scheduling
• Fleet planning: the aircraft selection process
• Airline labor relations
• Airline financing. Part 4 The International Scene: International aviation
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Index.
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Now in its Seventh Edition, Air Transportation: A Management Perspective by John Wensveen is a proven textbook that offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of air transportation management. In addition to explaining the fundamentals, this book now takes the reader to the leading edge of the discipline, using past and present trends to forecast future challenges the industry may face and encouraging the reader to really think about the decisions a manager implements. The Seventh Edition brings the text right up to date with a new opening chapter, titled 'The Airline Industry: Trends, Challenges and Strategies', setting the context for all that follows within the book, and a new section within 'International Aviation' that explores the new airline business models. New and updated material has been added throughout the text and overall presents a more international perspective. Arranged in sharply focused parts and accessible sections, the exposition is clear and reader-friendly. Air Transportation: A Management Perspective is suitable for almost all aviation programs that feature business and management. Its student-friendly structure and style make it highly suitable for modular courses and distance-learning programmes, or for self-directed study and continuing personal professional development.
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Now in its Seventh Edition, Air Transportation: A Management Perspective by John Wensveen is a proven textbook that offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of air transportation management.
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• Preface
• Aviation: an overview
• Historical perspective
• Air transportation: regulators and associations
• The general aviation industry
• The airline industry
• Economic characteristics of the airlines
• Airline management and organization
• Forecasting methods
• Airline passenger marketing
• Airline pricing, demand, and output determination
• Air cargo
• Principles of airline scheduling
• Fleet planning: the aircraft selection process
• Airline labor relations
• Airline financing
• International aviation
• Appendices
• Index.
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Now in its Sixth Edition, "Air Transportation" by John Wensveen is a proven textbook that offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of air transportation management.In addition to explaining the fundamentals, this book now takes the reader to the leading edge of the discipline, using past and present trends to forecast future challenges the industry may face and encouraging the reader to really think about the decisions a manager implements. The Sixth Edition contains updated material on airline passenger marketing, labor relations, financing and heightened security precautions.Arranged in sharply focused parts and accessible sections, the exposition is clear and reader-friendly. "Air Transportation" is suitable for almost all aviation programs that feature business and management. Its accessible structure and style make it highly suitable for modular courses and distance learning programmes, or for self-directed study and continuing personal professional development.
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• 1. Beyond the Crisis: Trends and Challenges
• 2. Towards "Open Skies"
• 3. Beyond "Open Skies"
• 4. Alliances: A response to uncertainty or an economic necessity?
• 5. Labour is the Key
• 6. The Low-Cost Revolution
• 7. e-commerce@airlines.co
• 8. State-owned Airlines: A dying species or a suitable case for treatment?
• 9. Strategies for Survival in the Twenty-First Century Appendices.
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The airline industry is currently faced with its longest and deepest crisis to date: many airlines are losing hundred of millions of US dollars, several have collapsed entirely and others have been rescued by their governments. This crisis has been precipitated by external shocks such as the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the invasion of Iraq and the SARS epidemic. In addition, the effect of these events has been exacerbated by dynamic and potentially destabilizing internal developments. Comprehensive and thorough, this revealing book gives a detailed analysis of the crucial events and key developments which have impacted, and will continue to impact on the dynamics of the airline industry. Special attention is paid to: the key challenges faced by the airlines such as continued liberalization and `open skies' the impacts of global alliances new low-cost and no-frills carriers on-line selling and distribution privatization the impact of disasters. Leading industry authority Rigas Doganis examines the future prospects for the changing airline business and assesses alternative policies which could help the sector adapt to the shifting marketplace. Ideal for students, researchers and professionals in the fields of economics and business, industry and transportation studies, this second edition of his definitive book brings the story right up to date.
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