Abstract: Light rail transit (LRT) offers the widest range of opportunities to the design community in “applications engineering.” There are certainly more varied possibilities in the design and configuration of LRT than in that of ...

Abstract: Railroads have long faced the problem of formulating an objective measure of track quality, termed a Track Quality Index (TQI). However, the industry has yet to formulate a standardized TQI. The Federal Railroad Administration ...

Abstract: The problems encountered in the major reconstruction of an active passenger railway are examined. The requirements of the transportation department are for highly controlled construction operations; however, construction ...