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ISBN 10:   1409464636
ISBN 13: 978-1409464631
Author:   Profillidis

In a rapidly changing world, with increasing competition in all sectors of transportation, railways are in a period of restructuring their management and technology. New methods of organization are introduced, commercial and tariff policies change radically, a more entrepreneurial spirit is required. At the same time, new high-speed tracks are being constructed and old tracks are renewed, high-comfort rolling stock vehicles are being introduced, logistics and combined transport are being developed. Awareness of environmental issues and the search for greater safety give a new role to the railways within the transportation system. Meanwhile, methods of analysis have significantly evolved, principally due to computer applications and new ways of thinking and approaching old problems. Thus, it becomes necessary to come up with a new scientific approach to tackle management and engineering aspects of railways, to understand in-depth the origins and inter-relationships of the various situations and phenomena and to suggest the appropriate methods and solutions to solve the various emerging problems.

This book aims to cover the need for a new scientific approach for railways. It is intended to be of use to railway managers, economists and engineers, consulting economists and engineers, students of schools of engineering, transportation, economics, and management. The book is divided into three parts, which deal successively with management, track, and rolling stock, environment and safety. 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. In this way, both the requirement for a theoretical analysis is met, and the need of the railway manager and engineer for tables, nomographs, regulations, etc. is satisfied. Railways in Europe have separated activities of infrastructure from those of operation. In other parts of the world, however, railways remain unified. The book addresses both situations (separated and unified railways). Railways present great differences in their technologies. Something may be valid for one such technology, but not for another. To overcome this problem, regulations of the International Union of Railways (UIC) as well as European Standardization (CEN) and European Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs) have been used to the greatest extent possible. Whenever a specific technology or method is presented, the limits of its application are clearly emphasized.

 

Railway Management and Engineering 4th Table of contents:

1. Railways and Transport

1.1. Evolution of railways

1.2. Characteristics of rail transport

1.3. Economic growth and railways

1.4. Increase of mobility and railways

1.5. Rail passenger traffic

1.6. Rail freight traffic

1.7. Railway traffic, length of lines, staff and productivity

1.8. Priority to passenger or freight traffic

1.9. Transportation services with good prospects for the railways

1.10. Rail and air transport: Competition or complementarity

1.11. International railway institutions

1.12. Rolling stock industries

1.13. Railway interoperability

1.14. Applications of GPS in railways

2. High Speeds and Magnetic Levitation

2.1. The evolution of high speeds on rails

2.2. High-speed trains and their impact on the rail market

2.3. Technical features of high-speed railway lines

2.4. The Channel Tunnel and high speeds between London and Paris

2.5. Tilting trains

2.6. Aerotrain

2.7. Magnetic levitation

3. Policy and Legislation

3.1. The competitive international environment and the evolution of the organization of railways

3.2. The dual nature of railways: business and technology

3.3. Globalization and liberalization of the rail market

3.4. Separation of infrastructure from operation and the new challenges for railways

3.5. A definition of railway infrastructure

3.6. European Union rail legislation

3.7. Some representative models of separation of infrastructure from operation in European railways

3.8. Rail legislation in the USA and Canada

3.9. Rail legislation in Japan

3.10. Rail legislation in China and India

3.11. Rail legislation in Australia and New Zealand

4. Forecast of Rail Demand

4.1. Purposes, needs and methods for the forecast of rail demand

4.2. Parameters affecting the various categories of rail demand

4.3. Qualitative methods

4.4. Statistical projections

4.5. Econometric models

4.6. Gravity models

4.7. Fuzzy models

4.8. Time-series models

4.9. Statistical evaluation of the forecasting ability of a model

4.10. A comparative analysis of performances of each method

4.11. Modelling of rail freight demand

5. Costs and Pricing

5.1. Definition of railway costs

5.2. Construction cost of a new railway line

5.3. Maintenance and operation costs of infrastructure

5.4. Cost of purchase of rolling stock

5.5. Economic life of the various components of the railway system

5.6. Cost of operation of a railway company

5.7. Quantification of external effects in monetary values

5.8. Pricing of infrastructure

5.9. Infrastructure pricing models in some countries

5.10.1. Targets of pricing of operation

5.12. Pricing of freight traffic

6. Planning and Management of Railways

6.1. Railways and the social and economic environment

6.2. Competition and impact on railway management

6.3. Feasibility studies and methods of financing

6.4. Planning the railway activity

6.5. Project management for railways

6.6. Management of infrastructure

6.7. Management and policy for rail passenger transport

6.8. Management and policy for rail freight transport

6.9. Human resources and their revalorization

6.10. Privatization of railways

6.11. Justification and calculation of public service obligations

7. The Track System

7.1. The traditional division of railway topics into track, traction and operation

7.2. The track system and its components

7.3. Track on ballast or on concrete slab

7.4. Track gauge

7.5. Axle load and traffic load

7.6. Sleeper spacing

7.7. The wheel-rail contact

7.8. Transverse wheel oscillations along the rail

7.9. Rail inclination on sleeper

7.10. Loading gauge

7.11. Forces generated by the movement of a rail vehicle – Static and dynamic analysis

7.12. Influence of forces on passenger comfort

8. Mechanical Behavior of Track

8.1. A variety of methods adjusted to the nature of the problem under study

8.2. Track coefficients and Bousinesq’s analysis

8.3. Approximate uni-directional elastic analysis of vertical effects

8.5. Dynamic analysis of the track-subgrade system

8.6. Track defects and additional dynamic loads

8.7. Dynamic impact factor coefficient

8.8. Design of the track-subgrade system

8.9. Vibrations and noise from rail traffic

8.10. Analysis of the accurate mechanical behavior of rail

8.11. Application of unilateral contact theories in railway problems

9. Subgrade – Geotechnical and Hydrogeological Analysis

9.1. The importance of the railway subgrade on track quality and its functions

9.2. Analytical geotechnical study

9.3. Geotechnical classifications of soils

9.4. Hydrogeological conditions

9.5. Classification of the railway subgrade

9.6. Mechanical characteristics of the subgrade

9.7. The formation layer

9.8. Impact of traffic load on the subgrade

9.9. Impact of maintenance conditions on the subgrade

9.10. Fatigue behavior of the subgrade

10. The Rail

10.1. Rail profiles

10.2. Manufacturing of rail steel

10.3. Mechanical strength and chemical composition of rail steel

10.4. Choice of rail profile

10.5. Transport of rails

10.6. Analysis of stresses in the rail

10.7. Analysis of the mechanical behavior of rail by the finite element and the photoelasticity methods

10.8. Rail fatigue

10.9. Rail defectsr

10.11. Optimum lifetime of rail

10.12. Fishplates

10.13. The continuous welded rail

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