Great Temple of Travel

Great Temple of Travel

Author: Marvin Clemons

Publisher:

Published: 2016-01-04

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780692537350

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An illustrated history of Birmingham (AL) Terminal Station, from 1909 to 1969


Transport and the economy

Transport and the economy

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Transport Committee

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2011-03-02

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780215556578

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In this report the Transport Committee calls on the Government to publish a White Paper on its transport strategy, explaining in particular how spending on transport will deliver economic growth and development. Such a strategy must set objectives for all transport spending and explain the criteria Ministers will use to decide between different claims on limited financial resources. The report welcomes the commitment to undertake transport investment that will deliver sustainable growth and enterprise, including 'green' industries, balanced across all sectors and in a manner that will reduce regional disparities. Ministers must however ensure that this vision for transport investment is backed up by a pro-active and fully integrated economic development strategy. This is so far absent. The current Government has swept away the regional tier of planning and many institutions that played a key role in the development of strategic priorities for transport spending in support of economic development. This has created a vacuum that has left regions without the institutions and arrangements they need to plan and prioritise sub-national transport schemes and other significant transport infrastructure. The Coalition also needs a much stronger strategy for developing the UK's major ports and airports. The Government must also do more to correct regional disparities in transport investment. The Department for Transport's 'New Approach To Appraisal' process, which plays such a major role in deciding which transport schemes get Government funding, is highly controversial. Small schemes, including sustainable transport projects, may be cut disproportionately under new transport funding arrangements.


Transport Terminals and Modal Interchanges

Transport Terminals and Modal Interchanges

Author: Christopher Blow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1136352295

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This is the first book to review a trend in transport systems which has only recently come of age: the multi-modal interchange. Separate modes of transport are being linked through 'joined-up thinking', and transport designers and authorities are only now able to exploit interchange opportunities. This book presents examples of how these new opportunities have been planned and designed, and outlines how transfer and mobility can be improved in the future. Blow takes the airport as the focal point of true multi-modal passenger terminals and presents the development of these buildings as representing a new experience in travel. The book shows that the success of the experience of transferring from one mode of transport to another depends on the many factors, including congestion in an already overloaded system, and the way that designers and managers have addressed contingency planning. International examples are drawn from areas where mobility is most concentrated and the demands on design are at their highest. The book also addresses important issues of rebuilding and redevelopment, where once separate modes of transport are being linked to each other, and where short-term inconveniences rectify past wrongs in the long term. It is a compendium of architectural and engineering achievement.


Birmingham's Crossley Buses

Birmingham's Crossley Buses

Author: David Harvey

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2022-02-15

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1398106801

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With previously unpublished photographs, the author documents the history of Birmingham's Crossley buses.


It's a World Thing

It's a World Thing

Author: Bob Digby

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780199134281

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Topics needed for GSCE Geography (Edexcel specification B).