Contemporary Transport Trends Book

	The Institute of Transport Administration
	Acknowledgements and Notes
	Biographical Notes
	Preface
	Transport Trends: An Overview	1
Sect. 1	Road Transport	9
1	Bus Operation	11
2	Trends in the Bus Industry	25
3	Changing to Contract Distribution	33
4	The Liberalization of Road Haulage in the European Community	47
5	Environmental Costs of Road Goods Vehicles	55
6	The Economic Costs of Smoke Emission Control	63
7	Motorways: Safe or Sorry?	75
8	Computers in Transport: Routing and Scheduling of Road Transport Vehicles	81
Sect. 2	Rail Transport	93
9	British Railways and the Modernization Plan	95
10	Productivity in British Railways	103
11	British Rail in the 1970s	109
12	The Beeching Report in Retrospect	117
13	The Great Rail Sale	127
14	The Orient Express	133
15	Eurotunnel: The Advantages	139
16	Underground Railway Planning in London	145
Sect. 3	Sea Transport	151
17	Ships and the Carriage of Goods by Sea	153
18	Continental Ferry Services	163
19	World Containerization: A Progress Report	169
20	Containerization: Some Facts and Figures	179
21	British Shipping in Decline	189
22	The Role of East Anglian Ports	199
23	World-wide from the Humber	203
24	Deep-Sea Freight Trans-shipment and the Channel Tunnel	211
Sect. 4	Air Transport	221
25	Britain's Domestic Air Services	223
26	Air Freight	233
27	How Airfreight can cut Distribution Costs	237
28	Our Purpose Civil Aviation: A Manufacturer's Viewpoint	241
29	The Jungle of International Air Fares	249
30	The Deregulation of Civil Aviation in Europe	259
31	Airline Competition and Capacity Constraints at Hub Airports	269
32	Third London Airport	275
	Index	279