TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ranade, Prabha Shastri Ed.
TI  - Technology in rail transport management
SN  - 8131407853
U1  - 388.42 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Hyderabad
PB  - ICFAI Press  
KW  - United States
KW  - Railroads--Technological innovations
KW  - Railroads--Technological innovations--India
KW  - Railroads, Elevated--Technological innovations--India
KW  - Frauenarbeit
KW  - Landarbeiterin
KW  - Landwirtschaft
KW  - Entwicklungsländer
N1  - CONTENTS Overview  I SECTION I GLOBAL OVERVIEW 1.Japan Celebrates the Birth of Highspeed Rail Forty Years ago this Month, Japan Opened the World's First Dedicated High-Speed Railway, Signalling a New Start for Railways Worldwide (Shinkansen Anniversary) 3 Mike Knutton 2.Recent Experience of and Prospects for High-Speed Rail in Korea: Implications of a Transport System and Regional Development from a Global Perspective  12 Dong-Chun Shin 3.Fire Safety Design for Rapid Transit Systems  42 Siew Yee Cheong 4. On-Line High-Speed Rail Defect Detection - Phase III  55 Francesco Lanza di Scaled, Piervincenzo Rizzo, Stefano Coccia, Ivan Bartoli and Mahmood Fateh 5.Protecting Passenger Transport Systems from the Threat of Terrorism 66 GeoffDunmore 6.Railroaded to Death: The China-Tibet Train  75 Vinm Lal SECTION II INDIAN SCENARIO 7.Railway India 85 siadipp.nic.in 8. Integrated Railways Modernisation Plan 103 R K Singh 9.Indian Railways: IT Innovations in Passenger Services 113 Chinmoy Kumar 10.Safety as Key Business Theme! -Indian Railways Perspective 125 P C Sharma and Amitabh 11.Radio Frequency ID in Railways (A Feasibility Study) 142 R Senthil Kumar, IJeyakumar,} S Bindra, D Sunil, Siddharth Kati and Rajesh Kumar 12.Technology in Construction and Management of Konkan Railway 152 Prabha Shastri Ranade SECTION III METRO RAILS IN INDIAN CITIES 13.Urban Mass Rapid Transit System: Current Status 167 Projects Today, com 14.Interview with M D/ Delhi Metro Rail Corporation 178 (Interview with Dr. E Sreedharan by the Editor, Indian Railways Magazine) 15.Understanding the Metro Rail Demand  184 Mukti Advani and Geetam Tiwari 6.Mumbai Urban Transport Project: Development and Challenges 194 P Nair and Deepak Kumar 17.Technology in Indian Metro Rail - A Boon to Commuters 206 Ajab Gandhi 18.Sky Bus: A Technological Innovation of India216 Ajab Gandhi Index 227
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