Overview
- Provides the necessary functional knowledge of the track behaviour, covering the function of the various track components, their interaction as elements of the track system, and the interaction of the systems track and railway vehicles
- Presents important tools and future challenges for infrastructure managers
- Supplemented with an historical analysis of railway
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic (STTT, volume 2)
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Table of contents (61 chapters)
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Front Matter
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PART A: The Past
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Front Matter
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PART B: The External Environment of the Infrastructure Manager
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Front Matter
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Part C: Functional Knowledge of The Railway Track System
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Part C: Functional Knowledge Of The Railway Track System
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About this book
A proper quality of a track and other infrastructure objects represents a basic requirement for train safety and punctuality. Most of the physical systems and their components deteriorate over time. This affects performance and may lead to failures. Albert Einstein said, “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” Only if we understand how the whole system works, taking into account its imperfections and how they influence its quality and performance will we be able to learn the rules of the game and “play better.” The book provides the readers with the necessary functional knowledge of track behaviour and comprehensively covers the function of the various track components, their interaction as elements of the track system, as well as the interaction of the track with railway vehicles. By presenting important tools for a deep understanding of track-behaviour this book aims to be a reference guide for infrastructure managers and to help them to find ways improving track quality for optimum long-term behaviour.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Railway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour
Book Subtitle: A Handbook for a Railway Track of High Quality
Authors: Konstantinos Tzanakakis
Series Title: Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36051-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-36050-3Published: 27 January 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44702-0Published: 26 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36051-0Published: 26 January 2013
Series ISSN: 2194-8119
Series E-ISSN: 2194-8127
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 414
Topics: Civil Engineering, Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Engineering Design