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Author: Curley Bowman
Publisher: Carter Bowman
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1599754894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBowman provides clear explanations of how easily a fledgling American tourist may drive the streets of Europe, get the best deals on rental cars and airfare, and find some of the most romantic destinations on the continent.
Author: Frank Schipper
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9052603081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday we can hardly imagine life in Europe without roads and theautomobiles that move people and goods around. In fact, the vastmajority of movement in Europe takes place on the road. Travelersuse the car to explore parts of the continent on their holidays,and goods travel large distances to reach consumers. Indeed, thetwentieth century has deservedly been characteried as the centuryof the car. The situation looked very different around 1900.People crossing national borders by car encountered multiplehurdles on their way. Technically, they imported their vehicleinto a neighboring country and had to pay astronomic importduties. Often they needed to pass a driving test in each countrythey visited. Early on, automobile and touring clubs sought tomake life easier for traveling motorists.International negotiations tackled the problems arising fromdiffering regulations. The resulting volume describes everythingfrom the standardied traffic signs that saved human lives on theroad to the Europabus taking tourists from Stockholm to Romein the 1950s. Driving Europe offers a highly original portrait of aEurope built on roads in the course of the twentieth century.
Author: Gereon Meyer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-06-13
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 3031347579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the tenth volume of a sub-series on Road Vehicle Automation, published as part of the Lecture Notes in Mobility. It gathers contributions to the Automated Road Transportation Symposium (ARTS 2022), held on July 18-21, 2022, in Garden Grove, USA, CA. Written by researchers, engineers and analysts from around the globe, this book offers a multidisciplinary perspectives on the opportunities and challenges associated with automating road transportation. It highlights innovative strategies, including public policies, infrastructure planning and automated technologies, which are expected to foster sustainable and automated mobility in the near future, thus addressing industry, government and research communities alike.
Author: Ann-Christina L. Knudsen
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9789052015606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers from the Second International RICHIE Conference held in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2006.
Author: Mathias Mitteregger
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-10-07
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 3662641402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access publication examines the impact of connected and automated vehicles on the European city and the conditions that can enable this technology to make a positive contribution to urban development. The authors argue for two theses that have thus far received little attention in scientific discourse: as connected and automated vehicles will not be ready for use in all parts of the city for a long time, previously assumed effects – from traffic safety to traffic performance as well as spatial effects – will need to be re-evaluated. To ensure this technology has a positive impact on the mobility of the future, transport and settlement policy regulations must be adapted and further developed. Established territorial, institutional and organizational boundaries must be investigated and challenged quickly. Despite – or, indeed, because of – the many uncertainties, we find ourselves at the beginning of a new design phase, not only in terms of technology development, but also regarding politics, urban planning, administration and civil society.
Author: Julie Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-02-13
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 1351742310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Routledge Focus aims to investigate and analyse the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Communities (EC) and the European Union (EU). While the UK’s voters opted to remain in the EC in a 1975 referendum, by June 2016 a majority favoured leaving the EU. This volume examines the UK’s journey into the Union, how voters came to decide on Brexit, and where the UK’s departure from the EU may lead it.
Author: Francesco Zambon
Publisher: WHO Regional Office Europe
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9289041765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report presents the status of road safety in the WHO European Region and provides a baseline assessment of how far 49 countries have come in implementing the recommendations of the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention. In the Region, road crashes result annually in 120,000 deaths, 2.4 million injuries and a great economic burden, which may be up to 3% of a country's gross domestic product. Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among people 5-29 years old. Vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, cyclists and users of motorized two-wheelers constitute 39% of all road traffic injury fatalities, with pedestrians being more at risk in the eastern part of the Region. Countries differ greatly in mortality rates for road traffic injuries; the average in low- and middle-income countries is twice that in high-income countries. Countries policy responses in providing road safety for their citizens have differed. This report proposes the following areas of action: narrow the gap between countries with the lowest and highest mortality rates; provide better protection for vulnerable road users; develop a well-resourced multisectoral road safety strategy in each country; design and enforce comprehensive legislation; and develop and implement healthier transport policies. In addition, country profiles on the current status of road safety are presented for the 49 participating countries.
Author: A. Badenoch
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-10-27
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0230292313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and fragmentation in a truly transnational perspective.
Author: Colin Divall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 131713186X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe coming of the railways signalled the transformation of European society, allowing the quick and cheap mass transportation of people and goods on a previously unimaginable scale. By the early decades of the twentieth century, however, the domination of rail transport was threatened by increased motorised road transport which would quickly surpass and eclipse the trains, only itself to be challenged in the twenty-first century by a renewal of interest in railways. Yet, as the studies in this volume make clear, to view the relationship between road and rail as a simple competition between two rival forms of transportation, is a mistake. Rail transport did not vanish in the twentieth century any more than road transport vanished in the nineteenth with the appearance of the railways. Instead a mutual interdependence has always existed, balancing the strengths and weaknesses of each system. It is that interdependence that forms the major theme of this collection. Divided into two main sections, the first part of the book offers a series of chapters examining how railway companies reacted to increasing competition from road transport, and exploring the degree to which railways depended on road transportation at different times and places. Part two focuses on road mobility, interpreting it as the innovative success story of the twentieth century. Taken together, these essays provide a fascinating reappraisal of the complex and shifting nature of European transportation over the last one hundred years.
Author: Xinchun Rong
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2020-04-04
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9811206333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an important developmental measure that started from September 2013 when Chinese President Xi Jinping initiated the strategic concept of building a new Silk Road Economic Belt, as a model for global economic development and growth.This book focuses on the BRI's influence on the interregional cooperation between Asia and Europe. It discusses a variety of topics including financial security — featuring how financial institutions, such as Asian Infrastructural Investment Bank, World Bank and Asian Development Bank provide feasible financial support for the economic development of countries along the BRI route; China's Economy and the 'New Normal' transformation; the integration of high-speed railways, equipment manufacturing into the Initiative; the China Dream and many more.
