Starting with the legal and technical bases and extending to design solutions, noise and vibration protection, equipment engineering, track maintenance, occupational safety and health aspects, infrastructure management, and economic aspects and financing, the idea was to compile a book that covers the entire, broad spectrum of this key domain....

Comprehensive trilingual ( German, English , French) standard book dealing with basic principles of public transport. From dispatch to administration, the book names and explains around 800 economic and legal basic concepts in public transport. It also includes terms that have stemmed from the privatization of transport and labour in the...

The book looks at fire protection and fire-fighting measures in public transport systems and vehicles as a whole. The many suggestions in this book can be used as building blocks for any new project or for the refurbishment of already existing installtions.