Making a city that works for children creates a city that better serves all of its residents, across ages and abilities. Yet we have created unsafe street conditions for children in cities around the world. Every day more than 500 children die in road crashes globally. The physical and mental health benefits of walking and biking are challenged by speeding traffic and unsafe pedestrian rights of way. Streets that are designed with the needs of children and their caregivers in mind have been shown to improve road safety, health, and quality of life. Building on the success of their Global Street Design Guide, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)-Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) Streets for Kids program has developed child-focused design guidance to inspire leaders, inform practitioners, and empower communities around the world to consider their city from the eyes of a child. The guidance in Designing Streets for Kids captures international best practices, strategies, programs, and policies that cities around the world have used to design streets and public spaces that are safe and appealing to children from their earliest days. The guidance also highlights tactics for engaging children in the design process, an often-overlooked approach that can dramatically transform how streets are designed and used. From addressing the lack of mobility options to noise and air pollution, this graphics-rich guide will help to design better streets, and thereby better cities, for kids of all ages and their caregivers. Designing Streets for Kids provides both inspiration and application. By focusing speci?cally on children and caregivers, this book fills a significant void in physical urban design guidance.

Maison V. Morel was founded in 1845 by Victor Jacques Morel (1814-1879) and became one of the most important Parisian coachbuilders during the second half of the 19th century at a time when France dominated the industry, replacing England as leaders in the field. Antoine-Joseph Grümmer (1834-1909) succeeded Jacques Morel in 1879 and the company became known as Société J. Grümmer, formerly Maison Morel. This book introduces the reader to many previously unpublished documents and illustrations of exceptional carriages and cars that were the pride of their owners both in France and overseas and describes their importance in the day-to-day life of Parisian high society. Mention is also made of the many high-quality suppliers who contributed to the manufacture of the carriages including Hermès, Louis Vuitton, and Boyriven.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die Auswirkungen des globalen Wettbewerbs auf Automobilhandel, -vertrieb und -produktion: Urbanisierung, weniger Fuhrerscheinpruflinge, hoehere Kosten fur Autonutzung, harte Konkurrenz unter den Herstellern und ein drastisch verandertes Konsumentenverhalten bestimmen die Markte. Ergo: Die Automobilbranche muss dringend umdenken! Anders Parment bietet die fundierte Grundlage dafur. Er analysiert, wie Kundenpraferenzen entstehen, welche Faktoren das komplexe Umfeld des Automobilvertriebs beeinflussen und welche Best-Practice-Beispiele aus anderen Branchen als Vorbild fur Vertriebsstrategien und nachhaltige Geschaftsmodelle dienen koennen. Die Ausfuhrungen basieren auf umfangreichem Datenmaterial aus Umfragen, aktuellen Studien und Beratungsprojekten. Ein zukunftsweisendes Buch fur samtliche Player in der Automobilbranche.

The firm ,John Fowler & Co, are synonamous with steam ploughing,their mighty ploughing engines dominated this form of mechanised agriculture throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century,and well into the first couple of decades of the twentieth century,before as with most steam the ubiquitous internal combustion engine in the shape of tractors took over. The founder, John Fowler, was a mechanical engineer specialising in agriculture,especially at first,land drainage.In 1857 he invented his first self-moving ploughing engine, built by Clayton & Shuttleworth.In 1862 however, John Fowler was in his own engineering premises,the Steam Plough Works in Leeds,Yorkshire.Tragedy struck two years later when John Fowler died in an accident,but his family and business partners,especially a Scottish farmer called David Greig, carried on the work. Almost immediately portables and agricultural traction engines were being built at the Works.From the 1880's onwards into the twentieth century in addition to their ploughing engines and dedicated ploughs,harrows and drainage equipment,which sold all over the world;steam road rollers; road locomotives and showmans engines;wagons(from mid-1920's) and light haulage tractors were added to the portfolio. The firm also diversified into the building of stationary engines,railway locomotives,colliery equipment, electricity generators and machinery for local authorities.The firm exported and established overseas subsidiaries where their products were built under licence.Fowlers managed the downturn in steam products better than most after the First World War,due in part to a loyal customer base and diversification into other forms of heavy engineering,and their last steam engine,a road roller was sold in 1937.Just prior to that six Super LionA" showmans road locomotives,considered by some to be the pinnacle of road steam engineering were built up to 1934. The firm was taken over in 1947 by the T.W.Ward Group,and Fowlers as an individual brand was no more.There are approximately 700 examples preserved,a quarter of which are ploughing engines.

The beautifully photographed CURVES driving guides encapsulate the joy of the open road. The latest in the series, aimed at all who drive, bike or cycle with passion, winds through the rainforest and the jungle roads of Thailand. The surroundings are exotic, ranging from wild, vibrant cities with chaotic traffic to the wild jungle, almost devoid of people, connected through miles and miles of winding roads. Beaches lead to soaring cliffs, the weather veers from torrential rain to sticky humidity. Breathtaking perspectives and beautiful photography will inspire your next driving adventure. Includes insider tips for the best routes and places to stay. Text in English and German.

United Counties started as a service in the 1920s, mainly in the Northamptonshire area. In the 1950s, it became larger as a result of amalgamation with the Western Division of Eastern National, in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Hertfordshire and Lincolnshire. In 1970, Luton Corporation services were amalgamated. In 1987, the company was split into three: Luton & District was formed from the Luton, Aylesbury and Hitchin areas, Milton Keynes was the second area, leaving Bedford, Biggleswade, Huntingdon, Northampton, Kettering and Corby as Stagecoach United Counties, which in 1999 became Stagecoach East. Part 1 looked at the headquarters, depots and bus stations in Northampton, while Part 2 travels around the regional depots and sub-depots, again using many fascinating interviews with engineers and fitters, inspectors and drivers, conductors and conductresses, union representatives, administrative staff and retired staff, families and friends, to paint a vivid picture of life with United Counties.

Aveling & Porter as a firm are justly famed for their steam road rollers,the basic design continuing in production for 50 years,and whilst other manufacturers made rollers,some in high numbers,it is the Aveling with which the public identify as the humble road making steam engine which came down every road and street,until superseded by modern technology. Thomas Aveling,a farmer interested in engineering, started an agricultural machinery repair shop in 1850 in Rochester,Kent. Aveling experimented with traction engine and agricultural machinery design throughout the 1850s,and set up an iron foundry and engineering firm also in Rochester.Aveling also had workshops at Strood,Kent,on which at a later date the famous Invicta Works were built.The emblem of Kent is the 'rampant' horse,and every engine from the factory had this emblem plus the word 'Invicta' below,which is the latin word for 'unconquered'. In 1862 Richard Porter brought capital and his name to the firm which from then on became Aveling & Porter Ltd. Aveling & Porter besides their famous steam rollers made ploughing engines,portables,agricultural traction engines,steam tractors,road locomotives and showmans engines,wagons,and a full range of agricultural equipment.It was the steam roller which dominated production however representing two thirds of total output.The firm expanded during the later years of Queen Victoria's reign,and by 1895 was employing a thousand workers. The firm sold its products around the world,Australia being an important market. After the First World War,like many steam engineering companies,falling orders due to the march of the internal combustion engine,compelled Aveling & Porter to join the Agricultural and General Engineers Ltd consortium,which failed in 1932.The road roller side of the business was bought by Barfords,and Aveling-Barford Ltd of Grantham continued to make steam rollers,and eventually internal combustion engined rollers to recent times.There are 600 examples preserved in this country,of which 75% are steam rollers.

Der Funktionsbereich Logistik ist seit dem Jahr 2000 im Produktentstehungsprozess der Automobilhersteller vertreten. Noch immer sind jedoch viele Herausforderungen bei der organisatorischen Einbindung zu loesen, insbesondere aufgrund permanenter Veranderungen im Aufgabengebiet der Logistik. Matthias D. Schulz erstellt auf der Basis von neun Haupttrends, die die Industrie aus Sicht der Logistik besonders pragen, ein Zukunftsszenario und gibt Empfehlungen fur eine Verbesserung der bestehenden Prozesse.

In "Ein Jahrhundert Automobiltechnik - Nutzfahrzeuge" beschreiben die Autoren die Entwicklung der Hauptbauelemente, zum Beispiel der Motoren und Getriebe, Fahrwerke, Aufbauten, Rader und Reifen. Dabei zeigen sie auch Irrwege auf und stellen bemerkenswerte Konstruktionen vor, denen trotz ihrer Vorzuge der Sprung in die Serienreife nicht gelang. Sonderfahrzeuge werden beschrieben, auch solche, die nur als Einzelstucke oder in sehr geringer Stuckzahl gebaut wurden. Die Probleme des Strassentransports und das Nutzfahrzeug der Zukunft sind weitere Themen. Zahlreiche Fotografien aus den "Kindertagen" des Nutzfahrzeugs und Farbbilder aus der jungeren Zeit illustrieren das Buch; Konstruktionszeichnungen und Grafiken veranschaulichen die technischen Details.

Der Anstieg des Verkehrs in den Verdichtungsriiumen der hochmotorisierten Liinder fUhrte trotz intensiver planerischer und baulicher MaBnahmen zu zahlreichen Stauungen und Unfiillen auf den innerortlichen und auBerortlichen StraBen. Die daraus resultierenden negativen Erscheinungen im Raumleben von Stadt und Land mit hohen volkswirtschaftlichen Verlusten sind der Grund fUr die weltweiten Bemiihungen, durch verkehrspolitische Programme nachhaltig auf eine Situationsver- besserung im Verkehrswesen hinzuwirken. Dies gilt nicht nur fUr das System StraBe, sondern auch fiir die iibrigen Verkehrssysteme. Die Bemiihungen werden gestiitzt durch die jeder Regierung obliegende Aufgabe, eine ausreichende Transportqualitiit fUr den Austausch von Personen und Giitern sicherzustellen. Die finanzielle und wirtschaftliche Situation, das stiirkere UmweltbewuBtsein und die Energiekrise haben in den letzten lahren bei den Fragen der Substanzerhaltung und der besseren Nutzung der vorhandenen StraBennetze neue Prioritiiten gesetzt. Die vielseitigen Anstrengungen, die fiir ein leistungsfiihiges und sicheres StraBensy- stem notwendige Qualitiit zu erhalten, sind daher zu einem groBen Teil auf die Verbesserung des Verkehrsablaufs und auf die optimale Nutzung der vorhandenen StraBenfliiche zur Bewiiltigung groBer Verkehrsmengen ausgerichtet. Aufgrund dieser Entwicklung hat die Verkehrsleittechnik, die die Planung, den Bau und den Betrieb von Mitteln und Einrichtungen zur Steuerung und Regelung des StraBenverkehrs umfaBt, zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Ais wichtiges Teilge- biet des Verkehrsingenieurwesens ziihlt sie heute zu jenen verkehrstechnischen Bereichen, ohne die der individuelle und Offentliche StraBenverkehr nicht mehr zu bewiiltigen sind.

Folgende Abschnitte wurden fur die 2. Auflage dieses bewahrten Praxis-Leitfadens aktualisiert oder erweitert bzw. vollstandig uberarbeitet: Abgastechnik; Gemischbildung (neu: Luftversorgung, Kraftstoffversorgung und Mono-Jetronic); Motronic; Zundkerzen; Bordnetz (neu: Bordnetzschaltungen); EMV Funkentstoerung; Generatoren; Startanlagen.

Fahrzeugingenieure in Praxis und Ausbildung benotigen den raschen und sicheren Zugriff auf Grundlagen und Details der Fahrzeugtechnik sowie wesentliche zugehorige industrielle Prozesse. Solche Informationen, die in ganz unterschiedlichen Quellen abgelegt sind, systematisch und bewertend zusammenzufuhren, hat sich dieses Handbuch zum Ziel gesetzt. Damit eroffnet das Buch dem Leser im Zusammenhang mit relevantem Schrifttum einen weitgehenden Einblick in den heutigen Stand und die Weiterentwicklung der Fahrzeugtechnik, den Einblick in alle Aggregate, Komponenten und Systeme moderner Fahrzeuge, Einblicke in den gesamten Lebenszyklus eines Automobils und einen Uberblick uber den gesamten Produktentstehungsprozess. Die Autoren sind bedeutende Fachleute der deutschen Automobil- und Zuliefererindustrie, sie stellen sicher, dass Theorie und Praxis vernetzt vermittelt werden.

The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930. Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as "jaywalkers." In Fighting Traffic, Peter Norton argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, he writes, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. Norton describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. He examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as "road hogs" or "speed demons" and cars as "juggernauts" or "death cars." He considers the perspectives of all users-pedestrians, police (who had to become "traffic cops"), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. He finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for "justice." Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of "efficiency." Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking "freedom"-a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States. Fighting Traffic offers a new look at both the origins of the automotive city in America and how social groups shape technological change.

Globalisierung und Unternehmensfusionen, gesattigte Markte sowie eine zunehmende technische und organisatorische Komplexitat charakterisieren die Automobilindustrie zu Beginn dieses 21. Jahrhunderts. Die Branche ist gekennzeichnet von einem Wettlauf um Innovationen, der die Konzentration auf den wahren Kundennutzen gefahrdet.

Das Buch analysiert die Konsequenzen aus den dynamischen Veranderungen im Markt und gibt konkrete Antworten darauf, wie Automobilzulieferer die aktuellen Herausforderungen meistern konnen. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei der vom Autor entwickelte Management-Navigator, ein Modell, das gezielt langjahriges Branchenwissen mit fundiertem Managementapproach verknupft. Praxisorientierte Losungen und authentische Fallstudien machen das Buch zur Pflichtlekture fur Brancheninsider und zur faszinierenden Lekture fur jeden Autofan.

"Das wichtigste vorweg: Die Zulieferer der Automobilindustrie und alle anderen branchennahen Unternehmen haben mit dem vorliegenden Buch von Rainer Kurek einen Managementleitfaden der anderen Art - unterlegt mit einer hervorragenden Branchenanalyse. Mit seiner punktgenauen Analyse aktueller Probleme legt Rainer Kurek den Finger in die Wunde."

Prof. Dr. h.c. Lothar Spath, Ministerprasident a.D.

"Erfolgsstrategien fur Automobilzulieferer ist nicht nur eine fundierte Bestandsaufnahme - treffsicher auf den Punkt gebracht;

Rainer Kurek nennt auch ganz konkret die wichtigsten Erfolgskriterien, um am Ende zu den Gewinnern zu zahlen."

Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Ziebart, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Continental AG

"Rainer Kurek liefert fundierte Handlungsempfehlungen, Werkzeuge und Ideen, die bei der erfolgreichen Bewaltigung der tagtaglichen Herausforderungen in der Automobilindustrie wirksam unterstutzen."

Siegfried Wolf, Executive Vice-Chairman von Magna International Inc.

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On 1 April 1974, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive was created by merging the municipal bus fleets of Bradford City Transport, Halifax Corporation with Calderdale Joint Omnibus Committee, Huddersfield Joint Omnibus Committee and Leeds City Transport. The new WYPTE was divided into four districts: Bradford, Calderdale (previously Halifax and Todmorden), Kirklees (previously Huddersfield) and Leeds. A new livery of cream and light green slowly but surely began to replace the blue and cream of Bradford, the orange, green and cream of Halifax, the red and cream of Huddersfield, and the two shades of green of Leeds. With over 1,500 vehicles and more than 6,000 staff along with the numerous garage and depot facilities, this was a huge operation. By 1976 changes were being made to the livery - while retaining the colour scheme much of the lining details were replaced and the district name under the Metro logo gave way to Metrobus. The photographs in the book illustrate this process of absorption of the bus fleets of Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Leeds from before 1974 up to the end of the decade.

33 Experten aus 12 europaischen Landern, darunter Professoren Technischer Hochschulen und bekannte Fachjournalisten, beschreiben in grossen Zugen die gesamte Technikentwicklung des Automobils. In 20 Einzeldarstellungen schildern sie den technischen Reifeprozess seiner Hauptkomponenten, nennen wichtige Daten und Fakten, und machen deutlich, welchen Einfluss Staat und Motorsport auf die Entwicklung hatten und haben.

Sicherheitssysteme wie z.B. ESP oder Airbag stehen in der Bedeutung fur den Autofahrer an oberster Stelle. Sie erkennen Gefahrensituationen eigenstandig und losen komplexe Ablaufe aus, um diese Gefahren im Rahmen der der physikalischen Moglichkeiten zu verhindern bzw. deren Auswirkungen fur die Kfz-Insassen zu mildern. Komfortsysteme erleichtern die Bedienung vieler Funktionen im Fahrzeuginnenraum und ermoglichen ein angenehmes und ermudungsfreies Fahren. Der Fahrzeuglenker kann sich vollstandig auf das eigentliche Verkehrsgeschehen konzentrieren. Viele dieser Systeme wurden von Bosch entwickelt und zur Serienreife gebracht. Mit dem vorliegenden Fachbuch erhalt der Leser somit aus erster Hand eine umfassende Beschreibung dieser bedeutenden Komponenten der Kfz-Technik. Zahlreiche detaillierte Zeichnungen und Abbildungen erganzen die Texte.
Die eModule der Bosch Fachinformation Automobil: Schnelle Bereitstellung passgenauer Informationen zu thematisch abgegrenzten Wissensgebieten sind das Kennzeichen des Online-Angebots, das als pdf-Download zur sofortigen Nutzung bereitsteht. Die individuelle Auswahl ermoglicht die Zusammenstellung nach eigenem Bedarf. Im Reiter Internetressourcen / E-Mails finden Sie den Link zum Downloadbereich der eModule."

The Top Gear Years brings together Jeremy Clarkson's collected magazine columns for the first time. Clarkson at his pithy, provocative, hilarious best We now know all about the world according to Clarkson. In a series of bestselling books Jeremy has revealed it to be a puzzling, frustrating place where all too often the lunatics seem to be running the asylum. But in The Top Gear Years, we get something rather different. Because ten years ago, at an ex-RAF aerodrome in Surrey, Jeremy and his friends built a world that was rather more to his liking: they called it Top Gear HQ. And Top Gear is for Jeremy what the jungle is for Tarzan: the perfect place to work and play. But they didn't stop there . . . With this corner of Surrey sorted out, Jeremy and the boys decided to have a crack at the rest of the world. With Top Gear Live charging through with the subtlety of a touring heavy rock band and far flung outposts across the globe from North America to China - an empire of petrol-headed upon which the sun never set. And all along Jeremy was writing about it in Top Gear magazine. Here, collected for the first time, are the fruits of his labours: the cars, the hijinx, the pleasure and the pain. Brilliantly written and laugh out loud funny. The Top Gear Years follows Jeremy Clarkson's many bestselling titles including Round the Bend and The World according to Clarkson series. Praise for Jeremy Clarkson: 'Jeremy Clarkson is very funny and his well-honed political incorrectness is a joy. .' - Daily Telegraph Jeremy Clarkson began his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser. Since then he has written for the Sun, the Sunday Times, the Rochdale Observer, the Wolverhampton Express & Star, all of the Associated Kent Newspapers and Lincolnshire Life. Today he is the tallest person working in British television.