Download or read book Low Floor Double Deckers written by Gavin Booth and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just under 25 years, double-deck buses in the UK have undergone a transformation. Every double-decker in service today is a low-floor bus offering easy access to everyone. It covers all the operators that run them. The story is told for the first time, on a model-by-model basis, with many images, which show the buses throughout the UK.
Download or read book London s Low floor Buses written by David Beddall and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 180 wonderful photographs, this is a stunning photographic tribute to London's low-floor buses.
Download or read book AEC Double Deckers written by Howard Berry and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Berry of the AEC Society offers a lavishly illustrated look at the company's double-decker output.
Download or read book Scania Double Deckers written by David Barrow and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a wonderful array of previously unpublished photographs celebrating Scania's double-deckers.
Download or read book Ground Level Power Supply written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Is Ground Level Power Supply In the concept and group of technologies known as ground-level power supply (also known as surface current collection or, in French, alimentation par le sol), electric vehicles collect electric power at ground level from individually powered segments as opposed to the more common overhead power lines. The usage of a power supply located at ground level has been done largely for aesthetic reasons. In the latter part of the 2010s, it began to compete well with the overhead lines in terms of cost. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Ground-level power supply Chapter 2: Tram Chapter 3: Light rail Chapter 4: Overhead line Chapter 5: Third rail Chapter 6: Alstom Citadis Chapter 7: Pantograph (transport) Chapter 8: Conduit current collection Chapter 9: Bombardier Guided Light Transit Chapter 10: Tramway track Chapter 11: History of trams Chapter 12: Stud contact system Chapter 13: Reims tramway Chapter 14: Current collector Chapter 15: Rubber-tyred tram Chapter 16: Trams in France Chapter 17: Road-powered electric vehicle Chapter 18: Torquay Tramways Chapter 19: Rio de Janeiro Light Rail Chapter 20: Acumulador de Carga R-pida Chapter 21: Alstom APS (II) Answering the public top questions about ground level power supply. (III) Real world examples for the usage of ground level power supply in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of ground level power supply' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of ground level power supply.
Download or read book Leyland Double Decker Buses written by Howard Berry and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the third in a series of books showcasing the products of the passenger division of Leyland since 1960 with previously unpublished images of iconic double-decker buses.
Download or read book The London Dennis Trident written by Matthew Wharmby and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Propelled towards the end of the 1990s by accessibility imperative requiring low floor buses both in London and the rest of Britain, Dennis developed a tri axle Trident double decker for Hong Kong and then adapted the design as a two axle version for Britain. Orders came thick and fast between 1999, when the first Tridents for London entered service with Stagecoach and 2006, when the Enviro 400, a combination of its unified body builders, replaced it. In those years over two thousand of the type appeared in London, ordered by Stagecoach, First London, United, Metroline, Metrobus, London General, Blue Triangle, Connex, Armchair, and Hackney Community Transport. The body work was by Alexander ALX400, Plaxton, (Precedent) and East Lancs, to two available lengths, while badging itself progressed although Trans Bus, until this troubled organisation was suspended in 2004 by todays Alexander Dennis. Versatile and personable, the Trident in all its forms lasted two decades in London, the last examples being withdrawn from service in 2020.
Download or read book Dennis Buses and Other Vehicles written by Andy Goundry and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dennis company has been building vehicles since 1895, making it the oldest continuously producing British manufacturer. From its origins in a small Guildford shop, the company has grown to become a major bus manufacturer with its products selling around the world. This book discusses the company's highs and lows, through two world wars, challenging markets and ownership changes. It documents the vehicles produced and their innovative design features, from early cars and street-cleaning machines to vans, buses, trucks, fire engines and ambulances. First-hand descriptions of how, and why, some of the company's most successful products such as the Dart, Trident and Enviro buses evolved. It explains why their once market-leading fire engines are no longer made. It also analyses the reasons why some products were less successful and explores what happened to parts of the company that were sold over the years. Finally, the company's future opportunities and challenges are considered. The author, Andy Goundry, has not only drawn on his own personal experience of almost twenty years of employment with the company but he has drawn on what is left of the company archives, private collections and first-hand accounts, to produce this book as a salutation of over 125 years of continuous manufacturing.
Download or read book Hong Kong Buses written by Gary Seamarks and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating images, with some in full colour, of buses in the former British colony. Some redundant buses exported worldwide also feature.
Download or read book Social Town Planning written by Clara Greed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many issues such as access for the disabled, childcare facilities, environmental matters, and ethnic minority issues are excluded from town planning considerations by planning authorities. This book introduces the concept of `social town planning' to integrate planning policy and practices with the cultural and social issues of the people they are planning for. Part 1 provides background on the development of a social dimension to the predominantly physical, land use based, British town planning system. Part 2 investigates a representative selection of minority planning topics, in respect of gender, race, age and disability, cross-linked to the implications for mainstream policy areas such as housing, rural planning and transport. Part 3 discusses the likely influence of a range of global and European policy initiatives and organisations in changing the agenda of British town planning. Planning for healthy cities, sustainability, social cohesion, and equity are discussed. Part 4 looks at `the problem' from a cultural perspective, arguing that a great weakness in the British system, resulting in ugly and impractical urban design, has been the lack of concern among planners with social activities and cultural diversity. Alternative, more culturally inclusive approaches to planning are presented which might transcend the social/spatial dichotomy, such as urban time planning. Concluding that the process of planning must change, the authors ague that the culture and composition of the planning profession must particularly change to be more representative and reflective of the people they are `planning for', in terms of gender, race and minority composition.
Download or read book Bus Transportation written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Luton District to Arriva the Shires 1986 2000 written by Gary Seamarks and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With previously unpublished images of buses around Luton between deregulation and the new millennium.
Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1919-07 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
Download or read book Public Transport written by Peter R. White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Transport provides an accessible introductory text to the field of public transport systems, covering bus, coach, rail, metro, domestic air and taxi modes. The market structure is set out, together with data collection methods. The technology of bus and rail systems is introduced with particular reference to peak capacity and energy consumption. An analysis of cost structures and costing methods leads into a review of pricing concepts and their application. In addition to issues related to urban systems, specific chapters cover rural public transport and the long-distance sector. A concluding chapter examines long-run policy issues, such as likely population changes and scope for substitution of travel. The primary context taken is that of the British Isles, drawing extensively on data such as the National Travel Survey in England. However, the principles and findings are also broadly applicable to countries of similar per capita income and population density. This sixth edition introduces a new chapter on data collection and survey methods for public transport systems in addition to a general update of the text to reflect the latest statistical evidence, research findings and policy changes. Public Transport is an essential textbook for both students in transport and those in related fields. This is an invaluable resource for transport planners in local authorities and consultancies.
Download or read book The Journal of the Society of Automotive Engineers written by Society of Automotive Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Border Towns Buses of London Country Transport North of the Thames 1969 2019 written by Malcolm Batten and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Transport was created in 1933 with monopoly powers. Not only did it have exclusive rights to run bus (and tram and trolleybus) services in the Greater London area, it also ran services in a Country Area all around London. Green Line express services linked the country towns to London and in most cases across to other country towns the other side of the metropolis. This country area extended north as far as Hitchin, east to Brentwood, south to Crawley and west to Windsor. But what of the towns at the edge of the country area? Here the green London Transport buses would meet the bus companies whose operations extended across the rest of the counties of Essex, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire etc. In some cases the town was at a node where more than one company worked in. At Luton there was a municipal fleet. Elsewhere, such as at Aylesbury there were local independent operators who had a share in the town services. It would all change from 1970 when the London Transport Country Area was transferred to the National Bus Company to form a new company named London Country Bus Services. This would later be split into four separate companies. Deregulation in 1985 and privatization in the 1990s led to further changes in the names and ownership of bus companies. Consolidation since then has seen the emergence of national bus groups Stagecoach, First Group, Arriva and Go-Ahead replacing the old names and liveries. But retrenchment by these companies has given an opportunity for new independent companies to fill the gaps. This book takes the form of an anti-clockwise tour around the perimeter of the London Country area, north of the Thames featuring a number of key towns starting at Tilbury and ending at High Wycombe, illustrating some of the many changes to bus companies that have occurred.
