Samenvatting
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1943 assesses diverse railway topics, including marginal cost pricing of railway infrastructure, operation, maintenance, and renewal in Sweden; the probability of exposure of various soil types to hazardous material spills from trains; the effects of high-speed rail service on shares of intercity passenger ridership in South Korea; earthquake early warning systems for railways; performance-based regulations for the development and use of microprocessor-based signal and train control systems; improvements in ballasted track design for high-speed rail; nondestructive testing methods for condition assessment of railway bridges; and more. (Author/publisher)