High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport that runs significantly faster than traditional rail traffic, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks. While there is no single standard that applies worldwide, new lines in excess of 250 kilometres per hour (160 mph) and existing lines in excess of 200 kilometres per hour (120 mph) are widely considered to be high-speed. The first high-speed rail system, the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, began operations in Japan in 1964 and was widely known as the bullet train. High-speed trains normally operate on standard gauge tracks of continuously welded rail on grade-separated right-of-way that incorporates a large turning radius in its design.
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Supervisory and coworker support for safety: Buffers between job insecurity and safety performance of high-speed railway drivers in China
- Chapter 2
Influence of local deck vibrations on the evaluation of the maximum acceleration of a steel-concrete composite bridge for a high-speed railway
- Chapter 3
Deformation characteristics and safety assessment of a high-speed railway induced by undercutting metro tunnel excavation
- Chapter 4
Development and Application of Mechanized Matching Equipment for High-Speed Railway Tunnel Construction
- Chapter 5
Field study on swelling-shrinkage response of an expansive soil foundation under high-speed railway embankment loads
- Chapter 6
Numerical Investigation on the Effect of Mobile Smoke Ventilator on Fire-induced Smoke Extraction for Underground Platform in a High-speed Railway Station
- Chapter 7
Developments and Prospects of Long-Span High-Speed Railway Bridge Technologies in China
- Chapter 8
Improved backward fatigue statistical inference to the high-speed railway vehicle components
- Chapter 9
Comparing China's urban systems in high-speed railway and airline networks
- Chapter 10
The implications of high-speed railways on air passenger flows in China
- Chapter 11
Engineering Test Research of XPS Insulation Structure Applied in High Speed Railway of Seasonal Frozen Soil Roadbed
- Chapter 12
Preliminary Testing on High-speed Railway Substructure Due to Water Level Changes
- Chapter 13
Effectiveness of CFG pile-slab structure on soft soil for supporting high-speed railway embankment
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in High Speed Railway
Masamichi Sogabe, Railway Technical Research Institute, Administration Division, Tokyo, Japan
Wangping Qian, Key Laboratory of Transportation Tunnel Engineering, Ministry of Education, Southwest Jiaotong University, School of Civil Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University,?Chengdu, China
Shengyang Yuan, Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical and Materials Modelling, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan,Australia
Zongyu Gao, China Railway Major Bridge Reconnaissance and Design Institute Co., Ltd., Wuhan,China
Haoran Yang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jiaoe Wang, College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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