Railway Management and Engineering
4th Edition, Ashgate-Publishing Group, Aldershot Brookfield USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, 2014
‘...an excellent reference work for anyone who is interested in finding out how a railway line is designed and constructed. By also including detailed analysis of aspects such as traffic forecasts, operating costs and infrastructure charging, it provides a very thorough view of railway management and engineering.’
Professor Andres Lopez Pita, Director of the Centre for Innovation in Transport, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (CENIT), Spain
In order to meet the challenge of increasing competition in all sectors of transportation, railways are restructuring their management and technology. New methods of organization are being introduced, commercial and tariff policies are changing radically, new high-speed tracks are being constructed and high-comfort rolling stock vehicles introduced. Awareness of environmental issues and the search for greater safety gives the railways a new role within the transportation system. Meanwhile, methods of analysis have significantly evolved, principally due to computer applications and new ways of approaching old problems.
In light of these changes, a new scientific approach is required. This revised and expanded edition of the classic text Railway Engineering meets such a need. The book is divided into three distinct parts dealing with the management of railways, the track, and rolling stock and environmental top-ics. Each chapter of the book contains the necessary theoretical analysis of the phenomena studied, the recommended solutions, applications, charts, and design of the specific railway component.
Railway managers, economists and engineers, consulting economists and engineers will find Rail-way Management and Engineering an essential read.
Some of the topics developed in the book are the following:
- Position of railways in the transport market worldwide,
- Liberalization and competition,
- Traffic and Productivity,
- High speeds,
- Policy and Legislation,
- European legislation,
- Separation of Infrastructure from Operation,
- Forecast and Models of demand,
- Cost of construction and operation of track and rolling stock,
- Pricing of Infrastructure,
- Pricing of Passenger and Freight,
- Planning, Management and Organization of Railways,
- Mechanical behaviour of track,
- Geotechnical and hydraulic analysis of subgrade,
- Seismic effects,
- Rail,
- Sleepers,
- Fastenings,
- Ballast,
- Track sections,
- Layout,
- Switches and Crossings,
- Laying and Maintenance of Track,
- Track defects
- Slab track,
- Train dynamics,
- Rolling stock,
- Tilting trains,
- Magnetic levitation,
- Diesel and electric traction,
- Signalling,
- Safety,
- Vibrations and noise from railways,
- Environmental effects.
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