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• Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, of Great Britain (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green; et al., 1831), by Joseph Priestley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of George Stephenson and of His Son Robert Stephenson; Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive (New York: Harper and Brothers, ca. 1868; with added illustrations), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)

• Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive; George and Robert Stephenson (new and revised edition; London: J. Murray, 1879), by Samuel Smiles (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Lives of the Engineers: Metcalfe-Telford; History of Roads (based on the J. Murray popular edition of 1904; with additional recent illustrations and notes), by Samuel Smiles, ed. by Ian Petticrew (illustrated HTML in the UK)

• Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913), by James A. Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust, may not be accessible outside the United States.

• The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham: Containing its Progress from the Commencement; To Which Are Added a Popular Description of the Locomotive Engine, and a Sketch of the Geological Features of the Line (London: Simkin, Marshall and Co.; et al., ca. 1838), by Peter Lecount (multiple formats at Google)

• The History of the Railway Connecting London and Birmingham: Containing its Progress from the Commencement; To Which Are Added a Popular Description of the Locomotive Engine, and a Sketch of the Geological Features of the Line (London: Simkin, Marshall and Co.; et al., ca. 1838), by Peter Lecount (multiple formats at Google)

• Mugby Junction (Dickens "main line" story only; from the 1894 Chapman and Hall "Christmas Stories" edition), by Charles Dickens (Gutenberg text)
• Mugby Junction (London: Chapman and Hall, 1898), by Charles Dickens, Andrew Halliday, Charles Allston Collins, Hesba Stretton, and Amelia B. Edwards, illust. by Arthur Jule Goodman (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Handling London's Underground Traffic (London: London's Underground, 1928), by John Pattinson Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Handling London's Underground Traffic (London: London's Underground, 1928), by John Pattinson Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Complete Collection of All the Marine Treaties Subsisting Between Great-Britain and France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Savoy, Holland, Morocco, Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, &c., Commencing in the Year 1546, and Including the Definitive Treaty of 1763 (London: Printed for D. Steel and J. Millan, 1779) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documents Relating to Law and Custom of the Sea (2 volumes; London: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1915), ed. by Reginald G. Marsden
  • Volume I (1205-1648): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1649-1767): multiple formats at archive.org
• Instructions for the Guidance of the Captains and Commanding Officers of Her Majesty's Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of the Slave Trade (2 volumes; London: Printed for HMSO by Harrison and Sons, 1892), by Great Britain Admiralty
  • Volume I: page images at Florida
  • Volume II: page images at Florida
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Reports of Cases Relating to Maritime Law (partial serial archives)

• Departmental Committee on Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles in Great Britain and Ireland: Interim Report (London: HMSO, 1920), by Great Britain Ministry of Transport (page images at HathiTrust)

• The London Hackney Cab Fares and Distances: Giving Nearly Thirteen Thousand Distances in Miles and Yards, Accurately Measured, and Calculated Under the Superintendence of the Commissioner of Police for the City of London (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1853) (multiple formats at Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Studies in the Economics of Transportation (1956), by Martin J. Beckmann, C. B. McGuire, and Christopher B. Winsten (PDF at Yale)
• Roadtown (New York: Roadtown Press, c1910), by Edgar Chambless
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Great American Industries (4 volumes; Chicago: A. Flanagan, c1896-1914), by W. F. Rocheleau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold (report of CSIS Europe program, 2013), by Heather A. Conley, contrib. by David L. Pumphrey, Terence M. Toland, and Mihaela David (PDF with commentary at csis.org)

• Ferrocarril de Cochabamba al Chimoré: Propuesta Presentada al Suprema Govierno por Simón I. Patiño; Artículos de Comentario y Propaganda del Diario "El Ferrocarril"; Juicios Sobre la Conveniencia de Comunicar Bolivia con el Atlántico (in Spanish; Cochabamba: El Ferrocarril, 1911), by Simón Iturri Patiño
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Essays in Canadian Surface Transportation (1995), ed. by K. Filip Palda (HTML at Fraser Institute)
• The Dominion of Canada (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1869), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Energy and Equity, by Ivan Illich (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Spatial Transportation Modeling (originally publised as Scientific Geography #5; c1985), by Christian Werner (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• Western Montana (1913), by Western Montana Association of Commercial Clubs (Javascript-dependent page images at umt.edu)

• Red River Carts Trek Historic Pembina Trail (second printing; Warren, MN: W. Sheaf, ca. 1958), by E. Neil Mattson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Energy and Equity, by Ivan Illich (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Flying Visits (electronic edition; contents differ slightly from print edition; 2011), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• The Wichert Truss (New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1932), by D. B. Steinman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Omnibuses and Cabs: Their Origin and History (London: Chapman and Hall, 1902), by Henry Charles Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sustainable Freight Transport (special issue of Sustainability; Basel et al.: MDPI, 2018), ed. by Lorant A. Tavasszy and Maja Piecyk (PDF with commentary at mdpi.com)
• Freight Transportation for Profit (New York: Cornell Maritime Press, 1946), by Henry B. Cooley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Impact of Advanced Group Rapid Transit Technology (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Bonadventure: A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday (London: R. Cobden-Sanderson, c1922), by Edmund Blunden
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Voyaging in Wild Seas: A Narrative of the Voyage of the "Snark" in the Years 1907-1908 (British edition of part of The Log of the Snark; London: Mills and Boon, n.d.), by Charmian London (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Amateur Emigrant: From the Clyde to Sandy Hook (Chicago: Stone and Kimball, 1895), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cruise of the Snark, by Jack London (Gutenberg text)

• Fifty Years on the Rail (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, c1912), by J. J. Thomas (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)
• Railway Economy, by Dionysius Lardner (page images at MOA)
• The Working of the Railroads (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1907), by Logan G. McPherson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Studies in the Economics of Transportation (1956), by Martin J. Beckmann, C. B. McGuire, and Christopher B. Winsten (PDF at Yale)

• Route Surveying (third edition; Scranton: International Textbook Co., c1962), by Carl F. Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Of Ships and Men (Netherlands Government information service booklet, second edition, 1962), by H. Rodriguez (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Globalization and Maritime Power, ed. by Sam J. Tangredi (HTML at fdlp.gov)

• Sustainable Freight Transport (special issue of Sustainability; Basel et al.: MDPI, 2018), ed. by Lorant A. Tavasszy and Maja Piecyk (PDF with commentary at mdpi.com)

• Stop and Go: Nodes of Transformation and Transition (Pub. series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, v23; Berlin: Sternberg Press, c2019), ed. by Michael Hieslmair and Michael Zinganel (PDF with commentary in Austria)

• Studies in the Economics of Transportation (1956), by Martin J. Beckmann, C. B. McGuire, and Christopher B. Winsten (PDF at Yale)

• Army-Navy General Specification for Packaging and Packing Overseas Shipment (US Army specification 100-14A and Navy specification 39P16a; Washington: GPO, 1943), by United States Container Coordinating Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

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