Transportation Engineering

Railways

Transportation Engineers plan and design many different types of railways:

Many countries use rapid rail systems to transport passengers from city to city.

Bullet train in Kobe, Japan.

"France's Train à Grande Vitesse has enabled long distance train travel to offer the first serious competition to short haul flights" The TGV: 08/07/1999 issue of the New Civil Engineer Scanned with permission of NCE

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Trains like the monorail at Disney World in Florida, are used to transport people within a specific confined area.

The Vancouver Skytrain

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Light Rail Transit has proven to be a safe and economical method of transporting passengers within large cities with little impact on the environment

LRT station with pedestrian walkways.

Interesting Fact:

In the Northern Hemisphere, the east-side rail of the track requires more maintenance and more frequent replacement than the west-side rail. This is due to the Coriolis effect (phenomenon resulting from the rotation of the Earth) which causes a train to veer to the east producing more wear on the east-side rail.