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The total amount of transport is growing fast in the global economy and one unavoidable effect of this is the adverse environmental impact. An eco-efficient transport system is therefore a prerequisite for the development towards a sustainable society.
Railways and the train industry have an important role to play in this context and one of the core components here is the rolling stock. The developments of eco-efficient trains and train components is a complex task, requiring an immense amount of information and effective support tools. Addressing these issues is the aim of the RAVEL methodolgy and the underlying theme of this book.
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Introduction to Transportation Systems is a complete, up-to-date survey of modern transportation systems. Written by an architect of the U.S. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) program, the book explains the 30-point framework underlying most major transport systems, and closely examines current and emergent activity to improve both freight and passenger transportation. Using the 30-point framework as a guide, transportation professionals can more effectively analyze existing and proposed systems. Plus, the book clearly explains ITS concepts along the same 30-point frame.
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Jane's World Railways continues to be the foremost information source on the
railway industry, giving you a truly global perspective on the development of
more than 450 railway systems in over 120 countries worldwide.
Each system entry details that railway system's development history, political
background and financial status.
Plus, information on passenger, freight and intermodal operations, new and
improved lines, traction and rolling stock and much more, giving you up-to-date
insight into the industry. You will also find contact details for more than
1,500 manufacturers, suppliers and service companies, each with descriptions of
the services and equipment they offer.
Key contents include: * Over 450 railway systems
* Organisational structures
* Rail traffic and revenue statistics
* Fare collection and reservation systems
* Station equipment
* Workshop, repair and maintenance equipment
* Catering and onboard services and equipment
* Information technology systems for rail applications
* Cables and cable accessories
* Leasing companies
Intended for:
Railway operators, rolling stock manufacturers, transport ministries, government
departments, equipment manufacturers, systems manufacturers, rail service
companies and consultants.
This manual is aimed to introduce civil engineering students into the various fields of Transportation Engineering. Based on a sound theoretical and practical experience, gained with various road and bridge projects, in road laboratories or in significant research centers from this country and abroad, the author intends through this course, to familiarize the student with the basic concepts, criteria and technical recommendations related with the highway, railway, airfield and bridge engineering. In order to cover a minimum necessary curriculum, correlated with the relative reduced number of hours allocated for this course, the main subjects are concentrated on ten independent lectures, dedicated to the general aspects of transport engineering activities, treating the criteria for route location and survey, route geometric design in horizontal and vertical alignment, the design and construction of earthworks, principles for the design and construction of railways, airports, roads and bridges.
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Mapping the West, a stunning collection of the finest maps ever made of the American West, chronicles the cartographic history of the western United States from 1524 to 1890. The sixty-five maps come from collections throughout the world and many are being shown for the first time, most for the first time in color.
The book begins with European efforts to comprehend their far-flung colonies. Also considered are maps by Lewis and Clark, of the California gold rush, the transcontinental railroad, and the Civil War, to mention only a few of the areas discussed in the book's eleven chapters, which chart the heart and history of the American migration west.
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The most urgent problem facing the newly independent United States was how to pay for the war that won the country its freedom; America's debt was enormous. Its greatest asset was the land west of the Ohio River, but for this huge territory to be sold, it had first to be surveyed-that is, measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic. English, Scottish, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, and other settlers had all brought their own systems with them (more than 100,000 different units are reckoned to have been in daily use), and in his first address to Congress, George Washington put the establishment of a single system of weights and measures immediately after a national defense and a currency as the United States' most urgent priority.
The debate on this vital measure took place at a critical moment in the history of ideas, when the traditional, subjective view of the world was being increasingly challenged by objective, scientific reasoning. Thomas Jefferson-supported by Washington, Adams, Madison, Monroe, even Hamilton-championed the new idea of a scientific 10-based system derived from some universal constant such as time or the size of the earth. Such an alliance should have ensured a decimal America, but ranged against them was the invisible genius of Edmund Gunter, the seventeenth-century English mathematician whose twenty-two-yard surveying chain, introduced in 1607, had revolutionized land ownership in Britain and was still used by every surveyor in America-including Thomas Hutchins and his successors in charge of the land survey on the Ohio frontier.
How we ultimately gained the American Customary System-the last traditional system in the world-and how Gunter's chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast is both an exciting human and intellectual drama and one of the great untold stories in American history. At a time when the metric system may finally be unstoppable, Andro Linklater has captured the essential nature of measurement just as the Founding Fathers understood it. Sagely argued and beautifully written, Measuring America offers readers nothing less than the opportunity to see America's history-and our democracy-in a brilliant new light.
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