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(★)(Japan´s railway network now totals about 27,500km, including both the JR Group and private railways. Over the last 10 years, passenger trains handled 400 billion passenger-km annually, accounting for about 30% of the transport market... ／ ... The opening of the shinkansen not only encouraged economnic growth in Japan but also triggered a worldwide boom in high-speed rail to reinvigorate the so-called ´declining railways.´ In 1964, the shinkansen´s top speed was 210km/h but subsequent engineering improvements to rolling stock and track, as well as advances in noise and vibration reduction have raised the maximum speed to 300 km/h on the San´yo Shinkansen. Today, the shinkansen network totals about 2000km and carries 280 million passengers each year without a fatal accident --a record that it has maintained since 1964.／ These achievements have been made possible by developments in various supporting technologies, such as rolling stock design, track maintenance, operation management systems, signalling and communications, etc. As a result of these successes, Japan is transferring its advanced railway technologies worldwide through various international projects to develop the world´s railways. [from Dr Yoshiji Matsumoto´s foreword]／ ... this book is a compact and easy-to-understand guide to railway technologies now used widely in Japan. It is a good primer on Railway engineering for general readers without technical knowledge and it can serve as a handbook for experts too. [from Editor´s preface] ▼CONTENTS／ CHAPTER 1 : What Drives Electric Multiple Units?／ CHAPTER 2 : How Bogies Work ／ CHAPTER 3 : Shinkansen Bogies／ CHAPTER 4 : Braking System／ CHAPTER 5 : Railway Electric Power Feeding Systems／ CHAPTER 6 : The Mechanism of Railway Tracks／ CHAPTER 7 : Signalling and Telecommunications Systems for Safe Railway Transport／ CHAPTER 8 : Railway Construction in Japan／ CHAPTER 9 : Protecting the Trackside Environment／ CHAPTER 10 : Minimizing the Effect of Natural Disasters／ CHAPTER 11 : Passenger Service Technologies／ CHAPTER 12 : Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) Technologies／ CHAPTER 13 : New Types of Guided Transport／ CHAPTER 14 : Information Technology in Railways／ CHAPTER 15 : When Train Stations Become CyberRail Stations／) |
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