Overview
- Demonstrates how the systems approach is employed by scientists in various countries to solve specific problems concerning railway transport
- Provides a systematic analysis of individual means of providing and maintaining rail transport
- Discusses infrastructure and management development, with particular attention to security issues
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (SSDC, volume 87)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Means of Transport and Maintenance
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Infrastructure and Management in Rail Transport
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About this book
This book shows how the systems approach is employed by scientists in various countries to solve specific problems concerning railway transport. In particular, the book describes the experiences of scientists from Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania and Poland. For many of these countries there is a problem with the historical differences between the railways. In particular, there are railways with different rail gauges, with different signaling and communication systems, with different energy supplies and, finally, with different political systems, which are reflected in the different approaches to the management of railway economies. The book’s content is divided into two main parts, the first of which provides a systematic analysis of individual means of providing and maintaining rail transport. In turn, the second part addresses infrastructure and management development, with particular attention to security issues. Though primarily written for professionals involved in various problems concerning railway transport, the book will also benefit manufacturers, railway technical staff, managers, and students with transport specialties, as well as a wide range of readers interested in learning more about the current state of transport in different countries.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rail Transport—Systems Approach
Editors: Aleksander Sładkowski
Series Title: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51502-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51501-4Published: 17 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84668-2Published: 04 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51502-1Published: 08 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2198-4182
Series E-ISSN: 2198-4190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 456
Number of Illustrations: 169 b/w illustrations, 174 illustrations in colour
Topics: Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Logistics