Rail Infrastructure Resilience

"Economic growth, security, and sustainability across Europe are at risk due to aging railway infrastructure systems, some have even reached their initial design lives. These issues align with a major challenge in civil engineering: how to restore and improve urban infrastructure and built environments. Policy and environmental and physical barriers must be addressed and overcome. The complex and interconnected nature of the problem means that there is a need for academia, industry, communities and governments to work collaboratively. The challenges posed by extreme events from natural and man-made disasters are urgent. Rail Infrastructure Resilience: A Best-Practices Handbook presents well-developed improvement methods for rail infrastructure systems toward resilience to extreme conditions. It shows how best to use new information in the engineering design, maintenance, construction, and renewal of rail infrastructure resilience, through knowledge exchange and capability development. This book presents the outcome of a major European research project, known as the RISEN project. RISEN aimed to enhance knowledge creation and transfer of expertise using both international and intersectoral secondment mechanisms among European Advanced Rail Research Universities.small- and medium-sized enterprises or SMEs and Non-EU, leading rail universities, thus providing methodological approaches and practical tools for restoring and improving railway infrastructure systems for extreme events. Edited and written by members of this project, this book will be essential reading for researchers and practitioners hoping to find practical solutions to the challenges of rail infrastructure resilience."--