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Railroad rail, track, regulation, operations management, and commuter issues.
- Title
- Railroad rail, track, regulation, operations management, and commuter issues.
- Author
- National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board.
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy of Sciences, 1982.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Herman, Scott C.
- National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
- National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Intermodal Freight Transport.
- National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Rail Transit Systems.
- National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee onTrack Structure System Design.
- National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Railroad Operations Management.
- National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Committee on Railway Maintenance.
- National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board. Task Force on Transportation and Logistics of Energy Materials.
- National Research Council (U.S.). Commission on Sociotechnical Systems.
- Description
- iv, 78 pages : illustrations, charts, map; 28 cm.
- Series Statement
- Transportation research record, 0361-1981 ; 838
- Uniform Title
- Transportation research record ; 838.
- Subject
- Note
- Reports prepared for the 61st annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Part 1, Rail and track. Production and properties of high-serviceability rail / H. Masumoto (and 4 others) -- Rail manufacture in Great Britain / John D. Young -- Rail technology and development in Federal Republic of Germany / W. Heller, E. Koerfer, H. Schmedders -- Analytical descriptions of track-geometry variations / A. Hamid, T.-L. Yang.
- Part 2, Regulation. Problems and opportunities in regulated market for railroad freight cars / G.C. Woodward, C.E. Philip -- Extraterritorial impact of U.S. deregulation of Canadian railways and shippers / R.J. Lande.
- Part 3, Operations management. Road and rail freight mode choice : application of an elimination-by-aspects model / W. Young (and 3 others) -- Externality issues and coal transportation / Philip R. Smith -- Model for management of empty freight cars / Veena B. Mendiratta, Mark A. Turnquist -- Where does the energy go? : a simplified perspective on fuel efficiency in rail freight transportation / John B. Hopkins.
- Part 4, Commuter rail. Determination of priorities for station improvements on commuter rail system / Jack M. Kanarek, Vincent J. Truncellito -- Econometric models for Long Island Railroad / Paul Devine, John Martin, William Simonsen -- Propulsion alternatives for suburban rail corridors : viable options to extending electrification / Richard A. Ablamsky, Charles M. King.
- ISBN
- 0309033152
- 9780309033152
- LCCN
- 82008048
- OCLC
- ocm08475047
- 8475047
- SCSB-9125249
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library