Infrastructure Design, Signalling and Security in Railway

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Research Council (CSIC), Bellaterra, Spain, where he worked in the clean room and, then until 2005, he began his research activity with the Power Devices and Systems Group, IMB-CNM. From 2005 to 2007, he was with Alstom Transport, where he developed studies on thermal management and power-converters reliability. He is currently a Contracted Researcher with IMB-CNM and his research deals with thermal investigations and reliability studies in power devices and packaging. He has authored and coauthored more than 60 research papers in international conferences and refereed journals. He also belongs to the scientific committee of EUROSIME conference and THERMINIC workshop. Contents Preface XIII Part Railway Systems in the World 1 Chapter The Role of Light Railway in Sugarcane Transport in Egypt 3 Hassan A. Abdel-Mawla Chapter Topological Analysis of Tokyo Metropolitan Railway System 25 X Prefaceknowledgeable electrical engineers to beginning or professional researchers. All interested readers can easily find noteworthy materials in much greater detail than in previous publications and in the references cited in these chapters. This book includes twenty chapters that were authored by world-wide well-known researchers. Each chapter was written in an introductory style beginning with the fundamentals, describing approaches to the hottest issues and concluding with a comprehensive discussion. The content in each chapter is taken from many publications in prestigious journals and conferences and followed by fruitful insights. The chapters in this book also provide many recent references for relevant topics, and interested readers will find these references helpful when exploring these topics in further detail.This book is divided into three parts. Part 1 consists of six chapters devoted to describe how the railway systems have been developed in several countries and their socioeconomical impact. Part 2 consists of seven chapters devoted to providing some ideas on safety and reliability issues. Finally, part 3 consists of seven chapters devoted to parameters monitoring in railway scenario for safety and reliability purposes.We hope that this book will fulfill the need for publication on infrastructure design, signalling, and security in railway, as well as being useful for engineers and scientists interested in learning about or developing any system related to this topic. Furthermore, this can be used as a text book for engineering advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning about the topics raised in this book.