This book is dedicated to the many people involved in the day to day planning and performance of track maintenance activities. Providing a practical approach to everyday challenges in mechanised track maintenance, it is not just intended as a theoretical approach to the track system. Railways aim at transporting people and freight safely,...

Railway infrastructure management involves a high degree of complexity. Economic, legal, political and, above all, technical interdependencies are required. The aim of the Best Practice Permanent Way Maintenance series is to describe these relationships in a structured way for all stakeholders. Infrastructure Management Volume 1 looks at aspects...

Published by Prof. Norbert Ostermann and Wolfgang Rollinger in September 2016, Public Transport - Austria, is a comprehensive reference book on public transport. Various guest authors present basic theories illustrated by practical examples from the German-speaking area, mainly from Austria. Alongside the "basic traffic" theme, Public Transport...

Once again, a collection of contributions on the theme of "Construction of the German railway" is presented under the title "Infrastructure Projects". This time, published by DB Netz AG, the focus is not on individual projects, but rather on innovations. With Building Information Modeling (BIM), investments are better prepared and implemented....

Sustainable Track Greening requires the integration of knowledge and experience from railway track engineering and vegetation science. Selection of systems (track structure- and vegetation system), location specific conditions as well as maintenance effort are closely related and should be considered at large. The Handbook Track Greening offers...

First published in 2010, Navigation 1 has become a standard navigation system textbook. The book has proved to be a practical handbook for on-board navigators; shipping company employees; shipping authorities and other shipping-related institutions; as well as a basic textbook for teachers, students and ship officers in maritime education and...

The Shipbuilding Glossary contains more than 2500 specialist terms commonly used in shipbuilding and related areas; over 500 illustrations; more than 650 abbreviations; translations of the terms from German-English and English-German plus a very detailed index. The book is designed to help beginners and career changers gain access to the...

This book gives practical examples of the basics of marine corrosion protection. It illustrates the various types of corrosion and their causes and describes the methods of surface preparation and coating. In addition, it provides pointers for the identification of colour film defects and for preventing fouling on the vessel, based on...

Marketing in Public Transport is an excellent textbook for university students and vocational training students. It provides "public transport knowledge" and market insights. For professionals it is a useful reference work on marketing in public transport and the current trends such as digitalisation. Marketing as a philosophy is the...

The Railways Act Compendium is now available- 16th edition. It contains a comprehensive collection of current national, European and international regulations of railway law from the AEG through the Interoperability Directive up to the COTIF. It serves as a guide for professionals and at the same time offers the necessary theoretical overview...

This book fills the gap in the market between the numerous theoretical works, which are limited to one topic or few specific topics on rail vehicle technology, and the books for professionals. The target group for this book is students of railways and rail vehicle technology as well as professionals from the industry who wish to refresh or...

This book deals with basic aspects, technology, operation and financing important aspects of the urban transport system. There is an insight into the current legal foundations at European and national level. All aspects are presented, taking into account the production of modern light rail vehicles as well as basic renovation. It also explains...