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Railway transportation systems : design, construction and operation / Christos N. Pyrgidis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2016Description: xxxvi, 475 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780367027971
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 625.1 PY.R 2018 23
LOC classification:
  • TF200 .P97 2016
Contents:
1. The railway as a transport system -- 2. Loads on track -- 3. Behaviour of rolling stock on track -- 4. Tramway -- 5. Metro -- 6. Monorail -- 7. Automatic passenger transport railway systems of low- and medium-transport capacity -- 8. Suburban railway -- 9. Rack railway -- 10. Cable railway systems for steep gradients -- 11. Organisation and management of passenger interurban railway transport -- 12. High-speed trains -- 13. Tilting trains -- 14. Metric track gauge interurban railway networks -- 15. Organisation and management of freight railway transport -- 16. Heavy haul rail transport -- 17. Impact of traffic composition on the economic profitability of a railway system -- 18. Railway safety -- 19. Railway and the natural environment -- 20. Cutting-edge technologies in railways
Summary: "This book presents a comprehensive overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems, from design through to construction and operation. It covers the range of railway systems, from conventional and high-speed inter-urban passenger systems, through suburban and regional and urban, specialist and freight. For each, it provides a definition, a brief overview of its evolution, the main design, construction and operational characteristics, the preconditions for the selection and the steps required to check the feasibility of its implementation."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The railway as a transport system -- 2. Loads on track -- 3. Behaviour of rolling stock on track -- 4. Tramway -- 5. Metro -- 6. Monorail -- 7. Automatic passenger transport railway systems of low- and medium-transport capacity -- 8. Suburban railway -- 9. Rack railway -- 10. Cable railway systems for steep gradients -- 11. Organisation and management of passenger interurban railway transport -- 12. High-speed trains -- 13. Tilting trains -- 14. Metric track gauge interurban railway networks -- 15. Organisation and management of freight railway transport -- 16. Heavy haul rail transport -- 17. Impact of traffic composition on the economic profitability of a railway system -- 18. Railway safety -- 19. Railway and the natural environment -- 20. Cutting-edge technologies in railways

"This book presents a comprehensive overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems, from design through to construction and operation. It covers the range of railway systems, from conventional and high-speed inter-urban passenger systems, through suburban and regional and urban, specialist and freight. For each, it provides a definition, a brief overview of its evolution, the main design, construction and operational characteristics, the preconditions for the selection and the steps required to check the feasibility of its implementation."

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