TY - BOOK AU - Tzanakakis, Konstantinos TI - The railway track and its long term behaviour: a handbook for a railway track of high quality SN - 978-3-642-36050-3 PY - 2013/// CY - Berlin PB - Springer KW - TECNOLOGÍA FERROVIARIA KW - Tesauro SPINES KW - HISTORIA KW - ELECTRIFICACIÓN KW - EUROPA KW - INFRAESTRUCTURAS (TRANSPORTE) KW - MANUALES KW - Ingeniería ferroviaria N1 - Section I: History of railways. A quick view; Section II: The external environment of the infrastructure manager (IM); Section III: The railway track as a system; Section IV: The track degradation. Section V: Track quality. Section VI: Design-construction-maintenance aiming at high performance; Section VII: Tools for rational maintenance (RAMS and LCC); Section VIII: Outsourcing track maintenance; Section IX: Cost effectiveness of the railway track; Section X: Future challenges for the IM; Listas de figuras y de tablas en p. preliminares; Glosario, referencias e índice alfabético p. 393-414; Indice Alfabético ; Earliest traces; Early wagonways; Horse-drawn railway; Steam power introduced; Diesel and electric engines; High-speed railway; History of the track gauge; The "stakeholders" of the railway system; The changing external environment for the infrastructure manager; Multi-annual contracts; Forces on the track; The track subsystem; The vehicle subsystem; Modelling the track; The effect of track stiffness on track performance; The wheel-rail interface; The mechanism of track faults creation; The deterioration of the track components; Track settlements; Discrete track defects as cause of track deterioration; Track problems, causes, mechanisms, solutions; Track drainage; The track deterioration model; The system "railway infrastructure"; What is quality?; Factors affecting the track quality behaviour; Assessment of track geometry quality; Track design; The track construction (Aiming at high performance); Track condition monitoring; Track maintenance; Tools for rational maintenance (RAMS and LCC); Introducing to LCC and RAMS; The RAMS analysis; RAMS in operation and maintenance; The LCC concept; Maintenance planning using LCC KAI RAMS; Integration of RAMS and LCC in the project design process; A case of study of applications of RAMS and LCC in the design process; LCC and WLC (Whole Life Costing); Investment and budgeting decisions for high track quality; Outsourcing track maintenance. Introduction; From tactical to strategic outsourcing; Cost and benefit of outsourcing; Measuring contractor's performance; Types of contracts and its characteristics; What kind of contracting is suitable for track maintenance?; Common risks associated with contracting; Maintenance outsourcing scenarios; Modelling costs of service contract; Infrastructure data management in case of outsourcing of M&R activities; Cases of outsourcing applied; Lessons learned. Advices for outsourcing; Cost factors of track construction and maintenance; Guiding principles for an effective track; Measuring the performance; Benchmarking; Management of infrastructure data; Maintenance cost modeling; Technological developments and tendencies for the railways; The future railway as a system ER -