Christos N. Pyrgidis

Railway Transportation Systems (eBook, ePUB)

Design, Construction and Operation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive overview covers the entire range of railway passenger systems, from conventional and high-speed intercity systems to suburban, regional, operating on steep gradients, and urban ones. New material provides innovations in rail freight transportation, case studies, and an update of cutting-edge technologies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 594
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000462876
• Artikelnr.: 62583630

Autorenporträt

Christos N. Pyrgidis is a professor in railway engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece. He earned a diploma in civil engineering (AUTh, 1981). He specialised for five years at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France, in transportation infrastructure (CES), transport economics (DEA), and railway engineering (PhD). From 2004 - 2007, he served as the Greek representative to the Administrative Board of the European Railway Agency. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of SHIFT2RAIL.

Inhaltsangabe

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 medium-transport capacity.
8. Suburban railway. 9. Rack railway. 10. Cable railway systems for steep
gradients. 11. Organisation and management of passenger intercity railway
transport. 12. High-speed networks and trains. 13. Tilting trains. 14.
Metric track gauge intercity railway networks. 15. Organisation and
management of freight railway transport. 16. Heavy haul rail transport. 17.
Operation of railway systems under specific weather conditions and natural
phenomena. 18. Railway safety. 19. Railway and the natural environment. 20.
The research in the railway domain - Cutting-edge technologies in railways.
21. Applicability verification - A supporting tool for the conduction of
feasibility studies of urban mass railway transportation systems.