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Transport: Strategy and Policy


Transport: Strategy and Policy

Paperback by Shaw, Paul; Shaw, Stephen J. (University of North London)

Transport: Strategy and Policy

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ISBN:
9780631186397
Publication Date:
30 Jun 1993
Language:
English
Publisher:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:
Wiley-Blackwell
Pages:
288 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 8 - 16 May 2024
Transport: Strategy and Policy

Description

This book examines the business strategies of passenger and freight carriers in road, rali, sea and air transport. It assesses their responses to an increasingly competitive and commercially ariented market as Governments throughout the world encourage a liberalized approach to the transport sector. Transport: Strategy and Policy provides a comprehensive text for transport professionals and students on courses concerned with leisure and tourism, business logistics, economic development and town and country planning. It will be particularly useful for those taking Chartered Institute of Transport examinations. It focuses on the special characteristics that distinguish transport from other service industries, as well as the similarities and differences between the various modes. The text is illustrated by a wide range of detailed case studies and examples from airlines ferries deep sea shipping railways and Light Rapid Transit buses and coaches community transport express parcel services and retail distribution

Contents

Part 1 Structure: owners and entrepreneurs; managers and professionals; understanding the market; relating to the public. Part 2 Systems: the systems concept; transport and tourism; transport and logistics. Part 3 Regulations: quantity licensing; quality licensing; international regulation - air transport, sea transport. Part 4 Government: central government; Europe and the single market; local government; grants and subsidies. Part 5 Influence: user bodies; trade associations. Part 6 Futures: environmental issues; responses to congestion.

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