Railways are frequently promoted as one of the most sustainable modes of transport. However, their impact will in practice be significantly affected by the ways in which they are designed, constructed, and used. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in planning, engineering and operating sustainable railway systems.

This volume presents a collection of rail orientated research articles, covering a variety of topics on rail operations research and management of rail systems as well as innovation, particularly focusing on sustainability aspects. The material consists of the most recent research work of the authors. The authorship is international, which makes it an interesting read for rail academics and professionals around the world. Although the material has a rail research focus the material is also excellent for preparation and delivery of rail, transport and logistics orientated courses and programmes. The target audience primarily comprises research experts in transport research, but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students alike.

The White Paper, 'Delivering a sustainable railway' (Cm. 7176, ISBN 9780101717625) published on July 2007 and set the Government's general vision for the railways for the next thirty years. Network Rail's engineering overruns at New Year 2008 caused tremendous inconvenience to passengers across the country and inevitably shaped the Committee's oral evidence sessions. The Committee's investigation, along with analyses from the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) have led them to believe that the engineering overruns are symptonatic of crucial system flaws which have to be resolved if there is to be any hope of getting a sustainable railway, as promised in the White Paper. This report covers both subjects

These conference proceedings include a collection of articles presented at the RailExchange conference in October 2017 at Newcastle University, UK. They will be useful for researchers in developing countries looking for opportunities of knowledge exchange. The RailExchange project aimed to develop sustainable railway education in Thailand, via international partnerships and industry collaborations based around stakeholders' expertise and experiences. It involved staff exchange (academics and researchers) between Mahidol and Newcastle University for joint research and curriculum development and also organizing railway conferences and workshops in both Thailand and the UK. The papers published here focus on rail-related issues and present a perspective of a widely understood 'exchange' in academia and industry environments. 'Exchange' is perceived as rail knowledge exchange between partners, rail staff exchange between academia and/or industry, research exchange between teams, student-lecturer knowledge exchange, academia-industry collaboration, etc. In addition, more general rail-related papers are also included.

The Rail mode of transportation is the cheapest and fastest mode of transport when it is compared with other modes of transportation.It is also called as mass transportation system. Railroad engineering is an interdisciplinary engineering field dedicated to building better, faster, more efficient rail systems. The railroad industry uses these special engineers to care for and plan railway systems that can transport goods and people. The discipline combines a number of engineering disciplines—electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, and even computer engineering. They plan and deploy rail projects with specialized knowledge and help the transportation engineering world expand and maintain what's already built. Train control is part of a larger field of transportation engineering. The infrastructure of travel and transportation is a large part of creating a logical and practical civil infrastructure. Railway Engineering is a specialist domain in Transportation and Civil Engineering. Railway Engineering is a multi-specialty engineering discipline within the transportation sector and Civil Engineering. It is a specialist field with numerous functions or specialist areas which can be very specific and specialized or broad. However, the railway sector in one of the incredibly complex and challenging environments brings extremely rewarding fields along with it, which can bring the highest credibility. Railways are incredibly complicated and expensive systems that are exclusively designed for the efficient passage of trains to transport people, cargo, and equipment. The incredibly advanced trains which use rail networks are expensive vehicles, and so a Railway Engineer is all the time faced with different challenges. Railway Engineering is a branch of civil engineering in a broader sense. It deals with the construction, location, and maintenance of railways. Depending on the roles assigned within the Railway Engineering branch, an Engineer is supposed to be involved in the designing, maintaining, construction, and indulging in various operations of trains and rail systems that include monitoring and controlling the trains and the rail networks. Railway engineers can be found involved with the designing, construction procedure, maintenance works, operation of trains, and the train systems and also associated in the infrastructure that is must for railways, within the private sector or public sector. Railway engineers can be mechanical, electrical, civil engineers (structural or bridge), rolling stock engineers, plan engineers, architecture, specialist executives, and interfacing engineers. Each discipline has diverse different sectors and specializations. Railway Engineers hold mechanical design skills and knowledge of propulsion systems that allow them to design train vessels. Railway Engineers mostly found on-site supervising the rail system or performing any functions of the field.

Originating from presentations at the 17th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation, this volume contains selected research works on the topic. It is important to continue to update the use of advanced systems by promoting general awareness throughout the management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other emerging passenger, freight and transit systems. The included papers help to facilitate this goal and place a key focus on the applications of computer systems in advanced railway engineering. These research studies will be of interest to all those involved in the development of railways, including managers, consultants, railway engineers, designers of advanced train control systems and computer specialists.