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Author: William L. Garrison (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley) ,
David M. Levinson (Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 23.40cm
, Height: 3.60cm
, Length: 15.50cm
Weight: 0.907kg
ISBN: 9780199862719
ISBN 10: 0199862710
Pages: 632
Publication Date: 27 February 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive survey of transportation history than The Transportation Experience. The book guides readers from the days of steam engines and turnpikes to those of high-speed trains and robot-driven cars-blending top academic insight with colorful biographical bites. Whether your interest is infrastructure, public policy, transport theory, or just travel in general, you'll grow wiser from the journey. -- Eric Jaffe, author of The King's Best Highway Everything you wanted to know about transportation is in this book. It is not only a comprehensive look back at the transit methods that built the nation, but a look forward based on how the lessons from the past can be applied to the modern metropolitan economies. This book could not come at a better time. -- Robert Puentes, Director, Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative, Brookings Institution
It's hard to imagine a more comprehensive survey of transportation history than The Transportation Experience. The book guides readers from the days of steam engines and turnpikes to those of high-speed trains and robot-driven cars-blending top academic insight with colorful biographical bites. Whether your interest is infrastructure, public policy, transport theory, or just travel in general, you'll grow wiser from the journey. -- Eric Jaffe, author of The King's Best Highway Everything you wanted to know about transportation is in this book. It is not only a comprehensive look back at the transit methods that built the nation, but a look forward based on how the lessons from the past can be applied to the modern metropolitan economies. This book could not come at a better time. -- Robert Puentes, Director, Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative, Brookings Institution The book by Garrison and Levinson can be warmly recommended as a mine of information on US and early UK transportation development in a broadly based historical framework. --Journal of Planning Education and Research
Author Information
William L. Garrison is Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. David M. Levinson is Professor of Civil Engineering and RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation at the University of Minnesota.
