Transport Nodal System provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of transport nodes and nodal systems, focusing on economic, operational, management, planning, policy, regulation and sustainability perspectives. Through a deep analysis on different types of transport nodes from diverse perspectives, this book shows the major issues and challenges that transport node planners, managers, and policymakers face, and how to address them. The book provides a clear framework for id...

Transportation is the world's largest invisible industry. Modern society is completely dependent on transportation to sustain its way of life, and it is all around us constantly. Yet the economics of transportation is a mystery to most people. Why do air fares rise and fall? Why do urban transit systems struggle to survive and require such large public subsidies? Why does freight transport cost more to move in one direction than an equal distance in another? Why is the government so heavil...

Given its geographical expanse, Canada has always faced long-term transport policy issues and challenges. Canadian Multimodal Transport Policy and Governance explains how and why Canadian transportation policy and related governance changed from the Pierre Trudeau era through the Chrétien, Martin, Mulroney, Harper, and Justin Trudeau eras.With particular attention paid to the diversity and ongoing evolution of transportation policy since the 1960s, the broad distribution o...

Given its geographical expanse, Canada has always faced long-term transport policy issues and challenges. Canadian Multimodal Transport Policy and Governance explains how and why Canadian transportation policy and related governance changed from the Pierre Trudeau era through the Chrétien, Martin, Mulroney, Harper, and Justin Trudeau eras.With particular attention paid to the diversity and ongoing evolution of transportation policy since the 1960s, the broad distribution o...

The call is being answered.Women all around the world are rising and stepping into their power that for so long was suppressed.What does it mean to be an empowered woman?It goes beyond having the perfect – relationship, family, successful job/career or business, a healthy bank account, and social status. Instead, it is a woman who is willing to re-discover who she is, to let go of the need to be the “good girl” and the “people pleaser,” and to be accepted. She embra...