Mr. Votolato's latest book is a delightful example of research in an emerging field, served up in a conversational style that makes even the most exhaustively detailed sentences, saturated with densely packed

information, go down like strawberries and champagne. He makes it all look so easy to understand: boats, cars, planes, trains, how they got there, who designed them and why, how style often won out over safety, and what's likely to happen to all our modes of transport in the wake of our belated realization that the our planet's

resources are limited.

If you have ever wondered about bucket seats, the Orient Express, hubcaps, the grand ballrooms of luxury liners, or the tacky designs of motor coaches, you will find all about them and more in Mr. Votolato's breezy but authoritative tome. It is the very best study of its kind around, suited for both dabblers and scholars, the next best thing, I suspect, to sharing a few bottles of bubbly with Mr. Votolato himself.

Edward Terrell, Art Historian

Transport Design is a delightful read. Whether a historian, design student, or an arm chair traveler, you will be taken by land, water, and air through a 200 year evolution of travel. From a horse drawn carriage to luxury airship, Votolato paints well researched images of our finest technological and design efforts. The well written text is supplemented with strong graphics.

He understands and describes the challenges of mass transit and the well remembered joys of the family auto. And, he takes the reader to the challenges of travel and design in the resource constrained 21st century.