The Railway Track and Its Long Term Behaviour : A Handbook for a Railway Track of High Quality - Tzanakakis, Konstantinos; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
History of Railways - A Quick View -- The External Environment of the Infrastructure -- The Railway Track as a System -- The Track Degradation -- Track Quality -- Design - Construction - Maintenance Aiming at High Performance -- Tools for Rational Maintenance (RAMS and LCC) -- Outsourcing Track Maintenance.
Keywords: Civil engineering; Engineering economics; Engineering economy; Engineering design; Civil Engineering; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Engineering Design