Overview
- Recent developments and advances in the fields of railway track & transportation engineering
- Good overview of current challenges and best practice in applied research and development
- Presentation of solutions with technological relevance that give answer to the industry’s most recent needs
- Research on topics that contribute to improve the competitiveness of the rail and road transportation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Sustainable Civil Infrastructures (SUCI)
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Conference proceedings info: GeoMEast 2017.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
João Pombo is an Associate Professor in Railway Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, UK, with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering by the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is a specialist in railway engineering with 20 years’ experience and has been involved in Research and Development (R&D) activities involving train & track dynamics, vehicle-infrastructure interaction, condition monitoring, predictive maintenance, structural analysis, wear and optimization. He has led and participated in several projects in close collaboration with leading international research centres and industry players. He also has more than three years’ working experience at BOMBARDIER and ALSTOM. João Pombo’s R&D work has been awarded four innovation prizes and he is author of more than 100 papers in refereed journals and international conferences. He is the editor-in-chief of the “International Journal of Railway Technology” and chairman of the "International Conference on Railway Technology" series.
Dr. Jing is an Associate Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, China, and working as visiting scholar in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. Dr. Jing finished his PhD thesis on high speed ballast track from INSA de Rennes, France, 2009. Then he devotes to the railway engineering teaching and research, especially ballasted track. Dr. Jing has research interests and expertise in testing and modelling of ballasted track, innovative structure of ballasted track, and high speed railway ballast flight and counteracting methods. He has served as an investigator on over 12 research projects with major railroad grants received from National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Railway Engineering Cooperation. Dr. Jing is a member of China Railway Standard Committee, Reviewer on National Natural Science Foundation of China. Dr. Jing is invited as senior consultant for Iran and Russia HSR projects and worked as chief railway engineering consultant for Mexico HSR project.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recent Developments in Railway Track and Transportation Engineering
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Editors: João Pombo, Guoqing Jing
Series Title: Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61627-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61626-1Published: 12 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61627-8Published: 11 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2366-3405
Series E-ISSN: 2366-3413
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 169
Number of Illustrations: 103 b/w illustrations
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Building Construction and Design, Engineering Design