The demand for safe, fast, and reliable rail services continues to be the reason for concern in all the countries across the globe. Lack of operational efficiency and reliability, safety and security issues, and aging railway systems and practices are haunting various countries to bring about a change in their existing rail infrastructure. The global rail industry struggles to meet the increasi...

Improving market competitiveness and economic efficiency was the objective behind demonopolisation liberalisation of railway sector in European Union. Achieving this remains important crucial to development a single rail transport market. The performance financial results under new, separative organisational structure railways EU is result action many different actors, private operators public ...

The study of various countries rail transportation indicators is an appropriate criterion for evaluating the existing performance of Iranian railways. The experiences of other countries can be used to improve the efficiency of Iran’s rail transportation. At the beginning of the study, in order to compare the Iranian railway performance with railways of other countries, various efficiency indica...

Cederlund H. 2006. The microbiology of railway tracks – towards a rational use of herbicides on Swedish railways. Doctoral thesis. Swedish railways are regularly treated with herbicides in order to keep the track beds free from weeds. However, finding appropriate preparations and dosages that provide a good weed control but that are still environmentally acceptable, has proven to be difficult. ...