transportation engineering

"People have traveled through history all the way from bipedalism to autonomous vehicles, super-fast trains, and rockets that can visit other planets. Discover the inventors and engineers who defined the transportation needs of their time and designed whatever it took to meet the challenge"--Provided by publisher.

Explores transportation technology and discusses such topics as motor vehicles, safe travel, public transportation, and spacecraft.

Since humans first stood upright, we've been on the move. This lively history of transportation follows the fascinating route from primitive technology, like sandals to driverless cars and beyond.

A fantastic introduction to a world many young people—and people in general—seldom consider: how transportation engineers help to ensure people and materials move smoothly throughout our complex world. Readers are introduced to real-world problems and their engineering solutions. Lively, informative, and age-accessible language is augmented with highlighted vocabulary terms, important points to think about, items to compare and contrast, and a final, interactive exercise that brings home important concepts to the reader. This book is great for students with an interest in how trains, bikes, roads, and even natural resource pipelines work.

Text and photographs look at various topics related to transportation.

"Describes new technologies that are helping make road transportation, railroads, ships, airplanes, and space travel more efficient and discusses how transportation will change in the future"--Provided by publisher.

Presents an overview of transportation history featuring illustrations and several hands-on projects. Covers inventions such as planes, cars, and trains.

Explains how children can use charts and graphs to organize and study data related to transportation.

An illustrated timeline of transportation history that highlights important developments in the field from prehistoric times to the early twenty-first century.