TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pyrgidis,Christos N.
TI  - Railway transportation systems: design, construction and operation 
SN  - 9780367494230
U1  - 625.1 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Boca Raton, FL
PB  - CRC Press
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - Railroad engineering
KW  - Transportation engineering
KW  - Chemins de fer
KW  - Conception et construction
KW  - Transport
KW  - Technologie
KW  - Railroads (infrastructure)
KW  - aat
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The railway as a transport system -- Loads on track -- Behaviour of rolling stock on track -- Tramway -- Metro -- Monorail -- Automatic passenger transport railway systems of low- and medium- transport capacity -- Suburban railway -- Rack railway -- Cable railway systems for steep gradients -- Organisation and management of passenger intercity railway transport -- High-speed networks and trains -- Tilting trains -- Metric track gauge intercity railway networks -- Organisation and management of freight railway transport -- Heavy haul rail transport -- Operation of railway systems under specific weather conditions and natural phenomena -- Railway safety -- Railway and the natural environment -- The research in the railway domain : cutting-edge technologies in railways -- Applicability verification : a supporting tool for the conduction of feasibility studies of urban mass railway transportation systems
N2  - "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"--
ER  -