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Total Pages : 96 pages
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Book Synopsis Intercity Passenger Rail; Freight Rail; and Track Design and Maintenance by :
Download or read book Intercity Passenger Rail; Freight Rail; and Track Design and Maintenance written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transportation Research Record contains the following papers: Franchising and refranchising of passenger rail services in Britain (Preston, J); Application of benefit-cost analysis to the proposed California high-speed rail system (Brand, D, Kiefer, MR, Parody, TE and Mehndiratta, SR); Compatibility and constraints between high-speed passenger trains and traditional freight trains (Lopez-Pita, A, Robuste, F); Risk and train control : a framework for analysis (Martland, CD, Zhu, Y, Lahrech, Y and Sussman, JM); Railroads in Greece : history, characteristics, and forecasts (Paravantis, JA and Prevedouros, PD); Impact of new railway technology on grain transportation in Western Canada (Dick, CT and Clayton, AM); Estimation of investment in track and structures needed to handle 129 844-kg (286,000-ib)railcars on short-line railroads (Resor, RR, Zarembski, AM and Patel, PK); Fundamental nonlinear track load-deflection behavior for condition evaluation (Sussman, TR, Ebersohn, W and Selig, ET); Track degradation assessment using gage restraint measurements (Alfelor, RM, Carr, GA and Fateh, M); Evaluation of uniaxial strain transducer for railroad infrastructure (Yun, HB, Lee, H and Maclean, B); Concrete slab track state of the practice (Tayabji, SD and Bilow, D).