Railroad Transportation Research, Issue 1489This issue contains 9 papers concerned with railroad transportation. Specific topics addressed include: trip times and reliability of rail freight services; single-line train operations; railway subgrades; nonconventional tie and track structure inspection systems; precast concrete crossing insulation; high-speed passenger/freight train corridors; crashworthiness strategies for passenger trains; environmental assessment of the European high-speed train network; Baltimore-Washington corridor magnetic levitation feasibility. |
Contents
Effects on Accidents of Automatic Speed Enforcement in Norway | 14 |
Incidence of Large TruckPassenger Vehicle Underride Crashes in Fatal | 27 |
Making Space for Safety | 46 |
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