Railway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation

This book presents an overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems. The book focuses on issues related to safety, interface with the environment, cutting-edge technologies, and techniques that govern the stability and guidance of railway vehicles on track. The chapters of the book include: The Railway as a Transport System; Loads on Track; Behavior of Rolling Stock on Track; Tramway; Monorail; Automatic Passenger Transport Railway Systems of Low and Medium Transport Capacity; Suburban Railway; Rack Railway; Cable Railway Systems for Steep Gradients; Organization and Management of Passenger Interurban Railway Transport; High-Speed Trains; Tilting Trains; Metric Track Gauge Interurban Railway Networks; Organization and Management of Freight Railway Transport; Heavy Haul Rail Transport; Impact of Traffic Composition on the Economic Profitability of a Railway System; Railway Safety; Railway and the Natural Environment; and Cutting-Edge Technologies in Railways.