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Railway transportation systems : design, construction and operation / Christos N. Pyrgidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
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Pyrgidis, Christos N.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2016]
Description
xxxvi, 475 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
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Engineering Library - Stacks
TF200 .P97 2016
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Railroads
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Design and construction
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Railroad engineering
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Transportation engineering
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"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.
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 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.
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ISBN
9781482262155 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))
1482262150 ((hardcover ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
2015032938
OCLC
914225724
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