The 13 papers in this report deal with the following areas: track-quality indices and track-quality indices and track-degradation models for maintenance-of-way planning; use of stabilized layers in track structure; better track at lower cost: advantages, benefits, and limitations of track renewal; performance-based track-quality measures and their application to maintenance-of-way planning; economics of electric traction to transport coal on Richards Bay Line; railroad electrification: an alternative for petroleum savings; energy considerations for railroad electrification in the United States; research on railroad petroleum conservation; conflict: railroad classification yard trim-end simulation model; capacity: model for estimating rail yard capacity and resource requirements; possibilities for local public and cooperative ownership of short-line railroads; mode alternatives for serving rail freight users; and, new perspectives on closure of railroad-highway grade crossings as a system improvement.


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    Title :

    Railroad Track Structure, Electrification, and Operations Management


    Contributors:
    A. Hamid (author) / A. Gross (author) / M. R. Thompson (author) / G. R. Cataldi (author) / J. C. Corbin (author)

    Publication date :

    1981


    Size :

    93 pages



    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Railroad track structure, electrification, and operations management

    National Research Council, Transportation Research Board, USA | TIBKAT | 1981


    Track design and railroad electrification

    National Research Council, Transportation Research Board, USA | TIBKAT | 1983


    Railroad track and electrification studies

    National Research Council, Transportation Research Board, USA | TIBKAT | 1978


    Railroad Track and Electrification Studies

    D. Broek / R. C. Rice / R. K. Steele et al. | NTIS | 1978


    Railroad electrification

    Parodi, H. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1931