Download or read book Railway Management and Engineering written by Professor V A Profillidis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to cover the need for a new scientific approach for railways and is useful for railway managers, economists and engineers, consulting economists and engineers, students of schools of engineering, transportation, economics, and management. The book is divided into three parts, which deal successively with management, track, rolling stock, and environment and safety. Each chapter contains the necessary theoretical analysis of the phenomena studied, the recommended solutions, applications, charts and design of the specific railway component. In this way, both the requirement for a theoretical analysis is met, and the need of the railway manager and engineer for tables, nomographs, regulations, etc. is satisfied.