Social science / Transportation

Safety Cases and Safety Reports: Meaning, Motivation and Management

by Richard Maguire

The safety case and its associated reports are becoming a mechanism for achieving safety goals, a valuable decision-support asset and a vital industrial liability management tool. This book provides a concentrated...

Improving Air Safety through Organizational Learning: Consequences of a Technology-led Model

by José|| Sánchez-Alarcos Ballesteros

The key theme of this book is organizational learning and its consequences for the field of air safety. Air safety rates have been improving for a long time, demonstrating the effects of a good learning model...

The Limits of Expertise: Rethinking Pilot Error and the Causes of Airline Accidents

by R. Key Dismukes & Benjamin A. Berman

The Limits of Expertise reports a study of the 19 major U.S. airline accidents from 1991-2000 in which the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) found crew error to be a causal factor. Each accident is...

Airline Finance

by Peter S. Morrell

Revised and updated in its third edition, this internationally renowned and respected book provides the essentials to understanding all areas of airline finance. Designed to address each of the distinct areas...

Buying the Big Jets: Fleet Planning for Airlines

by Paul Clark

Selecting the right aircraft for an airline operation is a vastly complex process, involving a multitude of skills and considerable knowledge of the business. Buying The Big Jets was first published in 2001...

Critical Incident Stress Management in Aviation

by Jörg Leonhardt & Joachim Vogt

People working in high-risk environments need to be sensitive to others' reactions to critical stress. Critical incident stress management (CISM) is now a well-established method in crisis intervention and one...

Aviation Mental Health: Psychological Implications for Air Transportation

by Robert Bor & Todd Hubbard

This book provides an authoritative and practical guide to the assessment, management, treatment and care of pilots and other professional groups within aviation, covering a range of relevant topics, for health...

Developing Strategies for the Modern International Airport: East Asia and Beyond

by Alan Williams

This book identifies and analyzes some of the primary issues facing the modern international airport, with specific reference to their role in a global economy. It is based on the initial premise that the aviation...

Driver Behaviour and Training: Volume V

by Lisa Dorn

Research on driver behaviour over the past two decades has clearly demonstrated that the goals and motivations a driver brings to the driving task are important determinants for driver behaviour. The objective...

Resilience Engineering: Concepts and Precepts

by Erik Hollnagel & David D. Woods

For Resilience Engineering, "failure" is the result of the adaptations necessary to cope with the complexity of the real world, rather than a malfunction. Human performance must continually adjust to current...

Designing and Executing Strategy in Aviation Management

by Triant G. Flouris & Sharon L. Oswald

Designing and Executing Strategy in Aviation Management is designed to provide an intensely practical guide to this critically important topic. Comprehensive in coverage and easy-to-read in style, it allows...

Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design

by Neville A. Stanton & Paul M. Salmon

Human Factors Methods offers a 'how-to' text on a substantial range of ergonomics methods that can be used in the design and evaluation of products and systems, it is a comprehensive point of reference for all...

A Human Error Approach to Aviation Accident Analysis: The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System

by Douglas A. Wiegmann & Scott A. Shappell

This comprehensive book provides the knowledge and tools required to conduct a human error analysis of accidents. Serving as an excellent reference guide for many safety professionals and investigators already...

Territorial Implications of High Speed Rail: A Spanish Perspective

by José|| M. de Ureña

This book presents the experience of 20 years of HSR in Spain including some explicit information, arguments and conclusions derived from HSR in other European Countries. It debates the HSR territorial implications...

Coming Back Alive

by Spike Walker

When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life...

Nights of Ice

by Spike Walker

Spike Walker has spent more than a decade fishing in the subzero hell of Alaska's coastal waters. This collection--coming on the heels of his classic memoir Working on the Edge--is a testament to the courage...

Straphanger

by Taras Grescoe

Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution

"I am proud to call myself a straphanger,"...

Atlantic Fever

by Joe Jackson

For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic...

Permanent Emergency

by Kip Hawley & Nathan Means

Since 2001 the TSA has accepted responsibility for protecting over two million people a day at U.S. airports and managing transportation operations around the world. But how effective is this beleaguered agency,...

The Great American Railroad War

by Dennis Drabelle

How two of America’s greatest authors took on the Central Railroad monopoly  The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In...