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"Congested city streets are noisy and thick with cars and trucks, while pedestrians and cyclists are squeezed to the dangerous edges--but does it have to be this way? Imagine a city where we aren't stuck in cars, where clean air makes it easier to breathe, and where transit is easy to access--and on time. Imagine a city where streets are for people! This fun, accessible and ultimately hopeful book explores sustainable transportation around the globe,...
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Tom Standage's fleet-footed and surprising global histories have delighted readers and cemented his reputation as one of our leading interpreters of technologies past and present. Now, he returns with a provocative account of a sometimes-overlooked form of technology--personal transportation--and explores how it has shaped societies and cultures over millennia. Beginning around 3,500 BCE with the wheel--a device that didn't catch on until a couple...
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This text offers a thoughtful critique of existing methodology and policy, raising issues, providing facts, explaining linkages and stimulating debate. Transport choices must be changed if we are to cope with sustainability and climate change but that may only be done if we understand how the whole transport system works.
10) Things that go!
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Learn about things that go, including cars, boats, bicycles, spaceships, and more.
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How did a volcanic eruption lead us to a robot spaceplane? Follow the link to find out ... Want to know how a simple clock helped sailors find their way? Or how sand was used to make the toughest spacecraft ever? A Journey Through Transportation reveals the amazing and often surprising links that have shaped science. Discover the inspiration behind great inventions and find out what lies ahead for the future of transportation.
12) Transportation!
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"Transportation! Incredible computer-generated illustrations reveal transportation as you've never seen it before. Discover how goods and people travel above, across, and even under the ground, while rockets journey deep into space. Encounter the biggest and smallest vehicles of the land, sea, and sky--from huge oceangoing aircraft carriers to agile drones. Find out what is inside a car engine and how top-of-the-line turbochangers help make the speedies...
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The Intelligent Systems Series encompasses theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications. It publishes titles in three core sub-topic areas: Intelligent Automation, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Intelligent Computing. Titles focus on professional and academic reference works and handbooks. This volume, Advances in Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation, covers hot topics including driver assistance...
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"Buckle in the kids for a wild ride through this vehicle-themed seek-and-find title. Hundreds of hidden objects are tucked inside vehicles that roll, rumble, float, and fly across each full-color puzzle. To-find lists include both pictographs and word labels to engage pre-readers and early readers alike."--
15) Here to there
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"Information for beginner readers about all forms of transportation."--Provided by publisher
16) Transportation
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Presents a history of transportation from ancient humans using muscle to traveling in space and discusses different modes of transportation.
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"Around the world, kids wake up and go to school every day, just like you! Some students go to school by train, while others go by boat. There are schools in the middle of busy cities and there are schools that float on water. Learn all about what schools are like across the globe. Let's go to school!"--
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Overview: The Role of Statistics in Transportation Engineering What Is Engineering? What Is Transportation Engineering? Goal of the Textbook Overview of the Textbook Who Is the Audience for This Textbook? Relax-Everything Is FineGraphical Methods for Displaying DataIntroduction Histogram Box and Whisker Plot Quantile Plot Scatter Plot Parallel Plot Time Series Plot Quality Control PlotsConcluding RemarksNumerical Summary MeasuresIntroduction Measures...
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