Safe Rail Transport via Nondestructive Testing Inspection ◾ 63
16. Resor, R. R., M. E. Smith, and P. K. Patel. Positive train control (PTC): Calculating
benets and costs of a new railroad control technology. Journal of the Transportation
Research Forum, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2005, pp. 77–98.
17. Martland, C. D., and M. E. Smith. Estimating the impact of advanced dispatch-
ing systems on terminal performance. Journal of the Transportation Research Forum,
Vol. 30, No. 2, 1990, pp. 286–300.
18. FRA, U.S. Department of Transportation. Positive train control systems economic
analysis. Docket FRA-2006-0132, Notice No. 1 RIN 2130-AC03. FRA, U.S.
Department of Transportation, Washington, DC, 2009.
19. Ditmeyer, S. R. Network-centric railroading: Utilizing intelligent railroad systems.
Proceedings of the AREMA C&S Technical Conference, Louisville, KY, 2006.
20. Daniels, L. E. Track maintenance costs on rail transit properties. TCRP Document
43. TRB, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2008.
21. Esveld, C. Modern Railway Track, Delft: MRT-Productions, 2nd edition, Germany, 2001.
22. International Heavy Haul Association. Guidelines to best practices for heavy haul
railway operations: Wheel and rail interface issues. International Heavy Haul
Association, Virginia, 2001.
23. Orringer, O., J. Orkisz, and S. Zdzislaw. Residual stress in rails: Eects on rail integ-
rity and railroad economics. Volume II: eoretical and numerical analyses, Springer,
the Netherlands, 1992.
24. Cannon, D. F., K.-O. Edel, S. L. Grassie, and K. Sawle. Rail defects: An overview.
Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol. 26, 2003, pp.
865 –887.
25. Grassie, S. L., and J. Kalousek. Rolling contact fatigue of rails: Characteristics, causes
and treatments. Proceedings of the 6th International Heavy Haul Conference, Cape
Town, South Africa, 1997.
26. Murav’ev, V. V., and E. V. Boyarkin. Nondestructive testing of the structural-
mechanical state of currently produced rails on the basis of the ultrasonic wave veloc-
ity. Russian Journal of Nondestructive Testing, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2003, pp. 24–33.
27. Vadillo, E. G., J. A. Tarrago, G. G. Zubiaurre, and C. A. Duque. Eect of sleeper
distance on rail corrugation. Wear, Vol. 217, 1998, pp. 140–146.
28. Eadie, D.T., J. Kalousek, and K. C. Chiddick. e role of high positive friction (HPF)
modier in the control of short pitch corrugation and related phenomena. Contact
Mechanics Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2000.
29. Jeong, D.Y., Progress in rail integrity research. Report DOT/FRA/ORD-01/18, Federal
Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation, Washington, DC, 2001.
30. Cannon, D. F., and H. Pradier. Rail rolling contact fatigue research by the European
Rail Research Institute. Wear, Vol. 191, 1996, pp. 1–13.
31. Grassie, S., P. Nilsson, K. Bjurstrom, A. Frick, and L. G. Hansson. Alleviation of roll-
ing contact fatigue on Sweden’s heavy haul railway. Wear, Vol. 253, 2002, pp. 42–53.
32. Pandrol. e future of rail fastenings, www.pandrol.com.
33. Campos-Castellanos, C., D1.1 Project requirements and specications preparation
of materials, Long range inspection and condition monitoring of rails using guided
waves, MonitoRail, Grant agreement no: 262194, Cambridge, UK, 2011.
34. Sustainable bridges, http://www.sustainablebridges.net/, 2014.
35. Economic Commission for Europe, Inland Transport Committee, Railway Tunnels
in Europe and North America, Informal document no. 7, United Nations Economic
and Social Council (UNECE), May 2002.