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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Pages
522
Publication Date
2018-07-24
Level
Advanced
Country/Region of Manufacture
Poland
ISBN
9781138544697

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
CRC Press LLC
ISBN-10
1138544698
ISBN-13
9781138544697
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242664460

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
522 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
High-Speed Rail in Poland : Advances and Perspectives
Subject
Construction / General, Railroads / General, Sociology / General, Civil / Transportation, Civil / General
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Transportation, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Author
Andrzej Zurkowski
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
42.5 Oz
Item Length
9.9 in
Item Width
7.2 in

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Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2018-015843
Table Of Content
1. Development of high-speed rail concept in Poland 2. Development of the high-speed rail infrastructure - Polish experience 3. The view on socioeconomic aspects of high-speed system 4. Operational effectiveness of high-speed rails 5. HSR in Poland: Demand, spatial accessibility and local spatial planning conditions 6. Adaptation of the lódz Agglomeration Railway node to a new role in the high-speed rail system 7. European and Polish requirements for a high-speed rail system 8. High-speed rail passenger services in Poland 9. Introduction of high-speed rolling stock into operation on the Polish railway network 10. High-speed rail power supply systems 11. Overhead contact line systems for high-speed rails 12. High-speed lines control command and signaling 13. Digital radio communication system for high-speed rail lines in Poland 14. Significance of rail track diagnostics to high-speed rails 15. Requirements relating to designed and modernized engineering structures at high-speed rail lines 16. Diagnostics of structural health of rapid rail transportation 17. High-speed rail versus environmental protection 18. Personnel education for the high-speed rails needs 19. From backwardness to modernity: High-speed rail - the strategic element of national program for development of rail transport - strategic and political considerations 20. The effectiveness and financing of the high-speed rail structure
Synopsis
The Railway Research Institute (Instytut Kolejnictwa) in Warsaw was established in 1951 and was, until 2000, part of the Polish State Railways (PKP). At present, it serves as an independent entity, it is subordinated to the minister responsible for transport. Since its inception, the Institute has been the centre of competence for technology, technique and organization of operation and services in rail transport, particularly in respect to innovation. One of its fundamental tasks also includes activities connected with safety which are carried out in close cooperation with the National Safety Authority, i.e. the Office of Rail Transport. At the same time the Institute participated in the process of upgrading and modernization of the rail network in Poland. Experience in high speed rail, gained as a result of international cooperation and basing on the effort to increase speed on railway lines in Poland (so far 200 km/h), is included in the monograph "Koleje Duzych Predkosci w Polsce" (High Speed Rail in Poland) published in 2015 for the benefit of the Polish reader. This monograph aims at reaching an international audience of experts so as to present Polish determinants of HSR implementation. In order to elaborate this monograph, apart from specialists from the Railway Research Institute, experts from other research and academic centres were invited. Not only presenting a wide range of problems connected with future construction of High Speed Lines in Polish conditions, but also a number of operational ones. The authors have created a reference work of universal character, solving problems in order to build and operate high speed rail systems in countries on a similar level of development as Poland. Features: providing requirements for design and upgrade of engineering works on High Speed Rail development information on restructuring and building railway lines for countries starting to develop a High Speed Rail system dealing with organizational, engineering, socioeconomic and economic demands for transport services and the formation of human resources for constructing and operting a High Speed Rails system. Presenting these problems on the international arena will facilitate future cooperation and application of world experience to create HSR in Poland and integrate the Polish HSR network into the international one., This monograph aims at reaching an international audience of experts presenting Polish determinants of HSR implementation. Specialists from the Railway Research Institute and other experts present a wide range of problems and solutions connected to the future construction of High Speed Lines in Poland.
LC Classification Number
HE3060.5.H54 2018

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