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Transport revolutions : moving people and freight without oil / Richard Gilbert & Anthony Perl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gilbert, Richard, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation--Environmental aspects.
- Transportation.
- Transportation--Energy conservation.
- Transportation--Forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (555 p.)
- Edition:
- Rev. and updated ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : New Society, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines the worldwide state of transport today, especially its energy use and its impacts, positive and negative. The authors then show, focusing on the US and China, how ample movement of people and freight could be sustained beyond 2025 with much reduced dependence on oil.
- Contents:
- Learning from Past Transport Revolutions
- Transport Today
- Transport and Energy
- Transport's Adverse Impacts
- The Next Transport Revolutions
- Leading the Way Forward
- Appendix A List of Acronyms and Abbreviations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612748219
- 9781282748217
- 1282748211
- 9781550924534
- 1550924532
- OCLC:
- 733084799
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