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Travel Behaviour Reconsidered in an Era of Decarbonisation

David Metz

University College London, 2024

Makes the case for investment in transport systems in an age of great climate change concern.

Transport systems are central to daily life, but simultaneously have a salient impact on our environment. However, this perspective has little influence on conventional economic analysis and transport investments, creating dissonance between traditional investment goals and the need to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050. For fifty years, public road and railway expenditures were justified by claims to improve travel time. On the contrary, the average time of travel never changed. Travel Behaviour Reconsidered in an Era of Decarbonisation argues that this outdated economic analysis is misconceived and that fresh perspectives on transport networks are imperative.

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Travel Technologies for All

Social and business opportunities in the creation of inclusive mobility

Simon Edwards

The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2026

Information technology and ITS are endemic to transport service provision and key to the user experience. These technologies have great potential to create better, more user-friendly and inclusive transportation systems. However, there are accompanying risks; if technological innovations do not account for the needs of all users, people will be excluded. Gaps remain in uptake by some older adults and people with disabilities, who may face various challenges in engaging with travel technologies. This book focuses on approaches to developing transport technologies and systems that everyone can use, and the resulting social and business benefits.

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Traveling with Service Animals

By Air, Road, Rail, and Ship across North America

Henry Kisor and Christine Goodier

University of Illinois Press, 2019

The boom in trained service animal use and access has transformed the lives of travelers with disabilities. As a result, tens of thousands of people in the United States and Canada enjoy travel options that were difficult or impossible just a few years ago.Henry Kisor and Christine Goodier provide a narrative guidebook full of essential information and salted with personal, hands-on stories of life on the road with service dogs and miniature horses. As the travel-savvy human companions of Trooper (Kisor's miniature schnauzer/poodle cross) and Raylene (Goodier's black Labrador), the authors share experiences from packing for your animal partner to widely varying legal protections to the animal-friendly rides at Disneyland. Chapters cover the specifics of air, rail, road, and cruise ship travel, while appendixes offer checklists, primers on import regulations and corporate policies, advice for emergencies, and a route-by-route guide to finding relief walks during North American train trips. Practical and long overdue, Traveling with Service Animals provides any human-animal partnership with a horizon-to-horizon handbook for exploring the world.

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Tripartite minehunter Haarlem

Bob Roetering

Amsterdam University Press, 2023

In the eighties, the Royal Netherlands Navy acquired 15 minehunters of the Alkmaar-class. They were deployed worldwide in conflicts (the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Libyan Sea). In all European waters they exercised and cleared historical ordnance. HNLMS Haarlem represents the rich history of the tripartite minehunters of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

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Trucks

Recent Works by John Himmelfarb

John Himmelfarb

The Artist Book Foundation, 2014

With sculpture, paintings, prints, and drawings, award-winning artist John Himmelfarb explores the iconic American truck. An in-depth consideration of the vehicles that are intrinsically and culturally significant to the American landscape, Trucks: Recent Works by John Himmelfarb showcases the artist's diverse and lighthearted approach, adeptly shifting between mediums, style, and message during his decade-long contemplation of trucks and their specific functions. Under his skillful hands, the utilitarian vehicles of commerce and construction become unique and provocative art forms.

In 2005 and 2006, the truck as narrative becomes center stage for Himmelfarb's work. With his seamless, animated traverse of multiple mediums, viewers cannot help but smile as they appreciate the common truck through unique perspectives. In 2007, another tectonic change occurs in Himmelfarb's pursuit of his theme: as a result of a three-month residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center's Arts/Industry program, he begins his first meaningful foray into three-dimensional works.

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