The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and DeploymentOxford University Press, 2014 M01 9 - 632 páginas The Transportation Experience explores the historical evolution of transportation modes and technologies. The book traces how systems are innovated, planned and adapted, deployed and expanded, and reach maturity, where they may either be maintained in a polished obsolesce often propped up by subsidies, be displaced by competitors, or be reorganized and renewed. An array of examples supports the idea that modern policies are built from past experiences. William Garrison and David Levinson assert that the planning (and control) of nonlinear, unstable processes is today's central transportation problem, and that this is universal and true of all modes. Modes are similar, in that they all have a triad structure of network, vehicles, and operations; but this framework counters conventional wisdom. Most think of each mode as having a unique history and status, and each is regarded as the private playground of experts and agencies holding unique knowledge, operating in isolated silos. However, this book argues that while modes have an appearance of uniqueness, the same patterns repeat: systems policies, structures, and behaviors are a generic design on varying modal cloth. In the end, the illusion of uniqueness proves to be myopic. While it is true that knowledge has accumulated from past experiences, the heavy hand of these experiences places boundaries on current knowledge; especially on the ways professionals define problems and think about processes. The Transportation Experience provides perspective for the collections of models and techniques that are the essence of transportation science, and also expands the boundaries of current knowledge of the field. |
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... Rivers ofSteam 3 1.1 Steam Boats and Stream Boats 3 1.2 The Steam Engine 5 1.3 Bridgewater 8 1.4 Erie and Emulation ... River 21 1.5.3 Tenn-Tom 22 1.6 Discussion 23 2. Design by Design: The Birth of the Railway 25 2.1 Plateways to ...
... Rivers ofSteam 3 1.1 Steam Boats and Stream Boats 3 1.2 The Steam Engine 5 1.3 Bridgewater 8 1.4 Erie and Emulation ... River 21 1.5.3 Tenn-Tom 22 1.6 Discussion 23 2. Design by Design: The Birth of the Railway 25 2.1 Plateways to ...
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... River Valley American Locomotive from Northern Pacific Railroad Railroad Route km in the United States, 1830–Present English Passenger Railroad Data Illustrative Organization Chart of Railroads Nine Leading US Railroad Groups and ...
... River Valley American Locomotive from Northern Pacific Railroad Railroad Route km in the United States, 1830–Present English Passenger Railroad Data Illustrative Organization Chart of Railroads Nine Leading US Railroad Groups and ...
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... Rivers. of. Steam. 1.1 Steam Boats and Stream Boats ... River beginning in 1787 using steam-powered oars. After a few years in Philadelphia, he decided to move to France ...
... Rivers. of. Steam. 1.1 Steam Boats and Stream Boats ... River beginning in 1787 using steam-powered oars. After a few years in Philadelphia, he decided to move to France ...
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... river and to modify the river to better accommodate the boats. He fell out with Washington over money and in December 1787 demonstrated his steamboat on the Potomac in Shepherdstown. His innovation was a form of jet propulsion. Rumsey ...
... river and to modify the river to better accommodate the boats. He fell out with Washington over money and in December 1787 demonstrated his steamboat on the Potomac in Shepherdstown. His innovation was a form of jet propulsion. Rumsey ...
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... River in 1807, and he and that date are associated with the beginning of the steamboat era. Fulton's application was not so advanced as Symington's. Fulton used a Watt-Bolton engine, side paddle wheels, and a rather complex arrangement ...
... River in 1807, and he and that date are associated with the beginning of the steamboat era. Fulton's application was not so advanced as Symington's. Fulton used a Watt-Bolton engine, side paddle wheels, and a rather complex arrangement ...
Contenido
2 Phase I of the Lifecycle | 57 |
18441896 | 69 |
4 Phase 2 of the Lifecycle | 139 |
18901950 | 153 |
6 Phase 3 of the Lifecycle | 233 |
19391991 | 249 |
8 LifeCycle Dynamics | 369 |
Modern Times | 401 |
10 Beyond the Lifecycle | 465 |
Reflections on Transportation Experiences | 495 |
12 End Matter | 525 |
Notes | 529 |
Bibliography | 553 |
Index | 581 |
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