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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Railway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour
    sub title: A Handbook for a Railway Track of High Quality
  name:
    name part: Tzanakakis, Konstantinos.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXII, 414 p. online resource.
  abstract: A proper quality of a track and other infrastructure objects represents a basic requirement for train safety and punctuality. Most of the physical systems and their components deteriorate over time. This affects performance and may lead to failures. Albert Einstein said, “You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” Only if we understand how the whole system works, taking into account its imperfections and how they influence its quality and performance will we be able to learn the rules of the game and “play better.” The book provides the readers with the necessary functional knowledge of track behaviour and comprehensively covers the function of the various track components, their interaction as elements of the track system, as well as the interaction of the track with railway vehicles. By presenting important tools for a deep understanding of track-behaviour this book aims to be a reference guide for infrastructure managers and to help them to find ways improving track quality for optimum long-term behaviour. .
  table of contents: History of Railways – A Quick View -- The External Environment of the Infrastructure -- The Railway Track as a System -- The Track Degradation -- Track Quality -- Design – Construction – Maintenance Aiming at High Performance -- Tools for Rational Maintenance (RAMS and LCC) -- Outsourcing Track Maintenance.
  note: by Konstantinos Tzanakakis.
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering design
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering economy
  subject:
    topic: Civil engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Civil Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing
  subject:
    topic: Engineering Design
  classification: TA1-2040
  classification: 624
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Tracts on Transportation and Traffic, 2
  identifier: 9783642360510
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36051-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 130125
    record change date: 20151030061017.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-36051-0