The Noise of Rail Transport

Rail Transport and Energy Consumption

This paper attempts to portray the present unstable situation of handling passengers and freight inside Iran as well as to represent a clear view of the rail transport features that have given this mode of transport a special place among the transport system. In this paper the rate of fuel consumption as a main pivotal item has been evaluated as well as the amount and cost of fuel economized th...

Rail roughness and rolling noise in tramways

Companies which manage railway networks have to cope continually with the problem of operating safety and maintenance intervention issues related to rail surface irregularities. A lot of experience has been gained in recent years in railway applications but the case of tramways is quite different; in this field there are no specific criteria to define any intervention on rail surface restoratio...

Rail System Noise and Vibration Control

Control of noise and vibration emitted by steel wheel and rail transportation systems has a long history of designs and techniques, some of which were dismal failures and some which worked very well. Many of the early efforts had a valid technical base for the design, however, there were also many based on intuition or ideas with great expectations, but which had no real technical basis. In the...

The Liberalization of Rail Transport in the European Union

ii " Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer... That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots. " – Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale (1983) iii Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my thesis adviser, Professor Monika Lopez-Anuarbe. Thanks to her excellent academic guidanc...

Discrete optimization in public rail transport