TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pyrgidis,Christos N.
TI  - Railway transportation systems: design, construction and operation 
SN  - 9781482262155
AV  - TF200 .P97 2016
U1  - 625.1 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Boca Raton
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - Railroad engineering
KW  - Transportation engineering
KW  - fast
N1  - "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."; 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 mediumtransport 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
ER  -