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A lavishly illustrated engineering history of American railroads--bridges, mountain passes, tunnels, freight yards, docks and terminals--from pioneer times to the present. American civil engineers were unsurpassed in their ability to build railroads over great distances and across high mountain passes, to erect great bridges, or to bore tunnels of prodigious length. There is a remarkable story of the application of engineering to the building of a transportation system that civilized and settled America, and then supported an industrial revolution and created a world power.
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Today, in a world in which news flashes around the globe in an instant, time lags are inconceivable. In the mid-nineteenth century, communication between the United States and Europe -- the center of world affairs -- was only as quick as the fastest ship could cross the Atlantic, making the United States isolated and vulnerable.
But in 1866, the Old and New Worlds were united by the successful laying of a cable across the Atlantic. John Steele Gordon's book chronicles this extraordinary achievement -- the brainchild of American businessman Cyrus Field and one of the greatest engineering feats of the nineteenth century. An epic struggle, it required a decade of effort, numerous failed attempts, millions of dollars in capital, a near disaster at sea, the overcoming of seemingly insurmountable technological problems, and uncommon physical, financial, and intellectual courage. Bringing to life an overlooked story in the annals of technology, John Steele Gordon sheds fascinating new light on this American saga that literally changed the world.
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From both ecological and economical perspectives, electric traction is the most favorable type of power supply for railways. Its reliability depends to a large degree on the contact lines, which have to operate safely under all relevant climatic conditions, needing as little maintenance as possible. Particularly extreme demands are made if overhead contact lines are expected to ensure safe power transmission to electric traction vehicles travelling at speeds over 300 km/h.
The authors have used their world-wide experience to provide a clear and comprehensive description of the configuration, mechanical and electrical design, installation and operation of contact lines for electric railways on local and long-distance transportation systems.
The book provides students and those embarking on a career in this field with a detailed description of the subject, including the electromechanical and structural requirements. Railway company professionals and manufacturers of contact line systems will find practical guidance in the planning and implementation of systems, as well as appropriate specifications and the technical data they will need, including standards and regulations. Since large sections of the book are dedicated to the system aspects, consultant engineers can also use it as a basis for designing systems and interfaces to other subsystems of electric railway engineering.
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This doctoral dissertation investigates the consequences of multimodal traveling for designing multimodal transport networks. It describes the characteristics of multimodal travel today and assesses its future potential. The analysis focuses on the way transport networks are organized in hierarchical network structures and determines the main mechanisms leading to these hierarchical network structures. Furthermore, an analysis is made of the role in a multimodal transport system of transport services other than private transport or public transport. The results provide new insights into the mechanisms determining hierarchical transport network structures. They show the potential impact of multimodal transport especially on the capacity requirements for public transport, and they show the possible roles of the various transport services that may be a part of a multimodal transport system.
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This is a Doctoral Dissertation. New developments related to railbound transportation put forward new requirements for railway track structures. In the past, the performance of track structures was monitored by means of techniques focusing on the track geometry and the number of incidents. Improvements of both the monitoring techniques and the track performance were mostly made using trial-and-error methods and were largely based on engineer's experience. In an increasing number of railway projects, the requirements put before the track managing companies are so high, that more insight is needed into the performance of tracks, both in present and future situations. In addition to this, new synthetic materials are developed which replace the well-known wooden sleepers and the ballast. The trial-and-error methods and the experience are thus less acceptable to rely on. The vibration behavior of a railway track in the mid- and high-frequency range is one of the indicators of its technical performance. From this vibration behavior, various track and component properties can be derived, like wheel-rail contact stiffness, sound radiation and several others. All of them can serve as quality indicators. Beside this, the vibration behavior can be tuned to operational conditions in such a way to reduce e.g. different types of wear, maintenance needs and noise nuisance. The Dynatrack research project was carried out at Delft University of Technology under supervision of the coordination Committee on Railway Engineering of CROW. The project has delivered several track assessment methods for evaluating actual track condition and typical design properties. Many field and laboratory recordings have contributed to a better understanding of component properties and their sensitivities, but also to a better insight into the consequences of choices of materials, rails, support spacing and other track dimensions.
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