Overview
- Covers economic, operational, and technological aspects of sustainable rail transport
- Presents innovative solutions for energy saving, noise reduction and digitalization
- Reviews the potential of hyperloop as a future transport mod
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mobility (LNMOB)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Keywords
- Sustainable Freight Transport
- Sustainable Passenger Transport
- Urban-Rail Based Transport Systems
- Hydrogen-powered trains
- CO2 emissions of high-speed rails
- Accessible trains
- Automated ramps
- Dangerous Goods Transport
- Logistics infrastructure analysis
- Multi-objective resource allocation models
- Baggage Handling Systems
- Hyperloop technology
- Transport noise models
- Europe-Asia Railway Transport
- Freight Flows Modeling
About this book
This book offers a timely collection of articles on innovative research and developments in the vast field of rail transport, including rail operations, management, economics, vehicles interior design and sustainable infrastructure. It addresses academics and professionals specializing in railway transport analysis, innovation, systems design and new technology. Continuing on the tradition of the previous volumes, the book reports on innovative solutions for energy saving, noise reduction and baggage handling. It elaborates on the implementation of digital technologies and discusses sustainable rail operations along transport corridors. The concept of hyperloop is also discussed as a possible transport mode of the future. All the contributions were selected through an internal competition and a double-blinded peer review process organized by the RailUniNet members
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Rail Transport 4
Book Subtitle: Innovate Rail Research and Education
Editors: Marin Marinov, Janene Piip
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mobility
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82095-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82094-7Published: 17 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82097-8Published: 18 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82095-4Published: 16 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2196-5544
Series E-ISSN: 2196-5552
Edition Number: 4
Number of Pages: XII, 367
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour
Topics: Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Engineering Acoustics