The Rail mode of transportation is the cheapest and fastest mode of transport when it is compared with other modes of transportation.It is also called as mass transportation system. Railroad engineering is an interdisciplinary engineering field dedicated to building better, faster, more efficient rail systems. The railroad industry uses these special engineers to care for and plan railway systems that can transport goods and people. The discipline combines a number of engineering disciplines—electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, and even computer engineering. They plan and deploy rail projects with specialized knowledge and help the transportation engineering world expand and maintain what's already built. Train control is part of a larger field of transportation engineering. The infrastructure of travel and transportation is a large part of creating a logical and practical civil infrastructure. Railway Engineering is a specialist domain in Transportation and Civil Engineering. Railway Engineering is a multi-specialty engineering discipline within the transportation sector and Civil Engineering. It is a specialist field with numerous functions or specialist areas which can be very specific and specialized or broad. However, the railway sector in one of the incredibly complex and challenging environments brings extremely rewarding fields along with it, which can bring the highest credibility. Railways are incredibly complicated and expensive systems that are exclusively designed for the efficient passage of trains to transport people, cargo, and equipment. The incredibly advanced trains which use rail networks are expensive vehicles, and so a Railway Engineer is all the time faced with different challenges. Railway Engineering is a branch of civil engineering in a broader sense. It deals with the construction, location, and maintenance of railways. Depending on the roles assigned within the Railway Engineering branch, an Engineer is supposed to be involved in the designing, maintaining, construction, and indulging in various operations of trains and rail systems that include monitoring and controlling the trains and the rail networks. Railway engineers can be found involved with the designing, construction procedure, maintenance works, operation of trains, and the train systems and also associated in the infrastructure that is must for railways, within the private sector or public sector. Railway engineers can be mechanical, electrical, civil engineers (structural or bridge), rolling stock engineers, plan engineers, architecture, specialist executives, and interfacing engineers. Each discipline has diverse different sectors and specializations. Railway Engineers hold mechanical design skills and knowledge of propulsion systems that allow them to design train vessels. Railway Engineers mostly found on-site supervising the rail system or performing any functions of the field.

Since the advent of steam engines and higher throughput railways during the early nineteenth century, the rate of development has been rather steady and incremental. The development of advanced electronic control and command systems, increasing levels of automation, and electrified high-speed railways over the past few decades have transformed the rail transportation posing it as a competitor to aviation. Modern railways are no longer the sole forte of civil and mechanical engineering and involve a broad multidisciplinary engineering disciplines from advanced computing, telecommunications, and networking to big data analytics and even AI. This volume addresses the diverse, evolving, and advanced engineering disciplines including enabling practices and processes involved in shaping modern railways.

Modern railways are no longer the sole forte of civil and mechanical engineering. They now involve a broad range of multidisciplinary engineering domains from advanced computing, digital telecommunications, and networking to big data analytics and even artificial intelligence. Among the emerging technologies and innovations in railways, hyperloop transportation systems employing magnetic propulsion, hydrogen-powered trains, and autonomous intelligent systems in the control and command subsystems of railways have significant potential to improve the performance of railways in terms of speed, service availability, comfort, sustainability, and potentially safety. These innovations will also help mitigate carbon emissions. This volume presents the latest research on railway engineering and transportation and discusses the practices and processes involved in shaping modern railways.

A revision of the classic text on railroad engineering, considered the ``bible'' of the field for three decades. Presents railroad engineering principles quantitatively but without excessive resort to mathematics, and applies these principles to day-by-day design, construction, operation, and maintenance. Relates practice to principles in an orderly, sequential pattern (subgrade, ballast, ties, rails). Applicable to both conventional railroads and rapid transit systems.

Railway Transportation Systems 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. It also examines in depth freight railway systems transporting conventional loads, heavy loads, and dangerous goods. For each system, the text provides a definition; an overview of its evolution and examples of good practice; the main design, construction, and operational characteristics; and the preconditions for its selection. Additionally, it offers a general overview of safety, interfaces with the environment, forces acting on the track, and techniques that govern the stability and guidance of railway vehicles. This new edition brings two new chapters. One concerns pre-feasibility studies of urban rail projects, and the other analyses the operation of railway systems under specific weather conditions and natural phenomena. New material examines dilemmas, trends and innovations in rail freight transportation; a new definition for high-speed rail; a number of case studies; and an update of cutting-edge technologies. It is ideal for graduate students, engineers, consultants, manufacturers, and transport company executives who need a reference and guide.

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