Mass Transit Books


Transit Maps of the World Best Price: $13.40 Got this book last night, started reading it, and when I got to the description of NYC 1972 map...	Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (World As Home, The) Best Price: $8.85 This exploration followed McKibben's THE END OF NATURE (Random House, 1989) by five years, and...	The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro (Creating the North American Landscape) Best Price: $19.74 As evidenced by the numerous references, the author has been quite thorough in his research....	Subwayland: Adventures in the World Beneath New York Best Price: $3.79 A collection of short NY Times essays, these were fun to read and finally answered the question...	Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil Best Price: $70.40 This book is very readable and on target, also fully footnoted. Informed by Peak Oil in addition...



Paris by Metro: An Underground History Best Price: $7.37 I should have paid more attention to the product description and noted how many (or few) pages...	The City Beneath Us: Building the New York Subway Best Price: $27.78 This is a fresh and eye-opening narrative of the history of the subway --and the history of the...	Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab Best Price: $2.00 Melissa's book & blog are down to earth and honest. Her "voice" comes through the...	The New Transit Town: Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development Best Price: $28.80 Transit-oriented development (TOD) seeks to maximize access to mass transit and nonmotorized...	Transportation and Cargo Security: Threats and Solutions Best Price: $45.50 On any given day at America's airport terminals, grandmothers are asked to remove their shoes,...



Mass Motorization and Mass Transit: An American History and Policy Analysis Best Price: $39.95 Mass Motorization and Mass Transit examines how the United States became the world's most...	Subways of the World (Enthusiast Color) Best Price: $11.20 I bought this book expecting to find interesting, coffee-table-type pictures and chatter on 10...	Tunneling to the Future: The Story of the Great Subway Expansion That Saved New York Best Price: $18.50 Peter Derrick's book covers the "Dual Contracts" era of subway construction in New...	New York City Subway Trains: 12 Classic Punch and Build Trains Best Price: $6.89 The New York City Subway system celebrates its 100th anniversary on October 27, 2004, but you...	Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence Best Price: $40.47 This book presents a right track of understanding and solving the problems of today cities.

Atlantic Crossings: A Sailor's Guide to Europe and Beyond Best Price: $19.88 The main intent of this book is to prepare the North American sailor for his or her first...	The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry Best Price: $49.50 This book is insightful in detailing the relationship between land use and transit services --...	A Spy on the Bus Best Price: $10.50 An adventuresome eighteen-year-old college grad hires on with Greyhound Bus line in 1946 as a...	Baltimore's Streetcars and Buses (Images of America: Maryland) Best Price: $12.55 In the 1850s, Baltimore?s 170,000 residents had few options when it came to getting around town....	Built to Move Millions: Streetcar Building in Ohio (Railroads Past and Present) Best Price: $32.93 I have read about streetcar and interurban systems for several years and have been interested in...

Traffic Safety Best Price: $69.99 This wonderful book--always by my side-- is essential reading for those who want to know what to...	Aramis, or the Love of Technology Best Price: $24.26 Well, like it or not - you have to read it. Clear books are boring propaganda. Insightful...	Car Sick: Solutions for Our Car-addicted Culture Best Price: $11.99 There are a number of books out there that describe how bad it is that we have created a car...	Subway Lives: 24 Hours in the Life of the New York City Subway Best Price: $8.00 Wow! This book is fantastic. I had to do some research on the subway system, so I dragged...	Select and Convert Your Bus into a Motorhome on a Shoestring Best Price: $17.92 I bought this book with some prior knowledge and already owning a school bus. Books like this...

Dead Men Tapping Best Price: $3.84 I grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts - within a stone's throw from the mouth of the Merrimac...	Cincinnati Subway: History of Rapid Transit, The (OH) (Images of America) Best Price: $12.31 I had heard some information about the Cincinnati Subway; but I have all accurate information...	722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York Best Price: $66.24 In response to other reviewers: this book is not MEANT to be a tourist guide, it IS, however, an...	Practical Railway Engineering Best Price: $38.50 "Practical Railway Engineering" by Clifford Bonnett is an elementary, non-technical...	Under the Sidewalks of New York: The Story of the Greatest Subway System in the World Best Price: $13.25 I want to know the history of the subway system in New York. It has always fascinated me from an...

Handbooks in Operations Research & Management Science: Transportation, Volume 14 (Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science) (Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science) Best Price: $198.99 Preface Transportation sustains economic and social activity and is central to operations...	Welcome Aboard the GM New Look Bus (An Enthusiast's Reference) Best Price: $25.70 I am an avid American bus fan and model bus collector and have almost every book written on...	Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity Best Price: $10.75 The basic purpose of this book is to show how our transportation funding system makes the poor...	Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities Best Price: $22.47 This books describes the history and evolution of residential streets in the US and Britain. It...	A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways Best Price: $13.50 Cudahy has done a good job of outlining the hisstory of New York subway syastems. Good reading!

Better Public Transit Systems: Analyzing Investments and Performance Best Price: $108.00	Subway Guide to Tokyo: Take the Right Line, Get Off at the Right Station, And Find the Best Exit! Best Price: $0.29 See my review for TOKYO CITY ATLAS. It is much better than this albeit newer guide. The signage...	Applied Transport Economics: Policy, Management & Decision Making Best Price: $46.39 * Fully updated third edition of an established transport textbook	Paris: Michael Brein's Travel Guides To Sightseeing By Public Transportation Best Price: $6.00 Quite useful with a minimum of travel-guide blather.Will prevent a first-time visitor from...	New York: Michael Brein's Travel Guides To Sightseeing By Public Transportation Best Price: $10.00 Michael Brein's Travel Guide Series to Sightseeing by Public Transportation shows travelers how...

Rapid Transit Series Buses: General Motors and Beyond (An Enthusiast's Reference) Best Price: $21.73 The RTS is truly a landmark transportation vehicle. A common sight on the streets of North...	Public Transit Planning and Operation: Theory, Modeling and Practice Best Price: $53.52 Public transport operators are faced with ever-greater pressures. The need to monitor the...	Taking the High Road: A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform Best Price: $17.50 Pressing challenges face America's transportation networks, despite the passage of two key...	The Electric Interurban Railways in America Best Price: $27.32 George W. Hilton has written a comprehensive analysis of the rise and fall of the interurban...	Michael Brein's Guide to Honolulu & Oahu by The Bus (Michael Brein's Guides to Sightseeing by Public Transportation) (Michael Brein's Guides to Sightseeing ... to Sightseeing By Public Transportation) Best Price: $8.00 What a waste of money! I was expecting some information to help traverse the island by public...

Transportation and Sustainable Campus Communities: Issues, Examples, Solutions Best Price: $25.50 Of the many problems Americans frequently complain about, one has been lurking under the radar...	Tunnel Visions Best Price: $10.85 Christopher Ross is astute, perceptive and witty, without laying the latter on too thickly. He...	Platform for Art: Art on the Underground Best Price: $19.19 London Underground has long been a pioneer in the field of art and design, from the early...	Insight Guide Greece (Insight Guides Greece) Best Price: $11.00 "Insight Guides", the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with...	Chicago by the 'L' (Michael Brein's Travel Guides) (Michael Brein's Travel Guides) (Michael Brein's Travel Guides) Best Price: $10.00 #Michael Brein's Guide to Chicago by the L shows travelers how to go to Chicago s top 50 visitor...

Urban Mass Transit: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Technographies) Best Price: $45.00 This volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the...	Road and Rail Transportation (History of Invention) Best Price: $8.15	Computers in Railways X: Computer System Design And Operation in the Railway And Other Transit Systems Best Price: $495.00 Containing papers presented at COMPRAIL 2006, this book represents the latest research,...	Cincinnati On The Go: History of Mass Transit (OH) (Images of America) Best Price: $12.30 This book provided all I was looking for. I wanted information on the history of the Cincinnati...	Michael Brein's Guide to Madrid by the Metro (Michael Brein's Guides to Sightseeing By Public Transportation) (Michael Brein's Guides to Sightseeing By ... to Sightseeing By Public Transportation) Best Price: $6.00 There are good maps of the subway system in all Metro stations, this map is so big unfolded that...

Philadelphia Trolleys (PA) (Images of Rail) Best Price: $12.06 Streetcar service arrived in Philadelphia in the 1850s, shortly after the consolidation of the...	Car-Free in Boston: A Guide for Locals and Visitors, 10th Edition Best Price: $17.96 This is an excellent guide on how to go places in Boston and surrounding area if you don't have...	Developing Around Transit: Strategies And Solutions That Work Best Price: $56.21 For communities wrestling with growth and sprawl, traffic headaches, and low transit ridership,...	Labyrinths of Iron: Subways in History, Myth, Art, Technology, and War

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