The failure to deliver a fault-free infrastructure can have a major impact upon service delivery and effect the business plans and passenger perception of franchise. Reducing infrastructure faults is essential in delivering the passenger or commodity from A-B on time with respect to improving safety, reliability, and quality. This text focuses, explores and discusses how the infrastructures of railway systems in the UK and internationally endeavour to become or remain fault-free. This selection of papers presented in this volume are grouped into five sections. These are: towards a fault-free infrastructure; performance and its role in the efficient infrastructure; reliability - above and below; staying on track; trains on track - their role in the performance matrix. This book covers the key issues and highlights the developments and challenges that await the profession in this initial high-cost sector of the rail industry.

The latest advances in turbomachinery design and technology Turbocharging and Air Management Systems features a collection of papers presented at the 1998 Imeche Conference. Contributions by global industry-leading centers of excellence, this book examines the latest advances and details the goals of current projects. Topics include computer-aided turbomachinery system design, meanline prediction of traditional turbine efficiency, turbocharger design challenges, and more, bringing readers up to date on the state of the field and directions for future work.

This volume covers new research and development in vehicle safety, it looks at the outcome of new design solutions and their application in this field. It provides an environment for the constructive dissemination and discussion of new knowledge and its timely application. Vehicle manufacturers, researchers, and policy makers from around the world exchange information and views about future improvements in vehicle safety. The book includes topics such as accidents analysis, side impact, compatibility, active safety, rear impact and pedestrian safety. It is aimed at those related to the vehicle industy who are responsible for maintaining and improving safety standards, which include vehicle and component designers, manufacturers and suppliers, researchers, legislators, and road user groups.

"Healthcare Engineering - Latest Developments and Applications" focuses on building design and management, environmental issues including energy consumption and emission, plus air quality and infection control in patient areas.

Providing an insight into the solutions offered by new technologies and systems to building management challenges "Healthcare Engineering - Latest Developments and Applications" identifies ideas for improved design and layout of hospitals and equipment. As well as practical advice on how to control energy consumption, and updates on the latest research into hospital acquired infection, this volume gives detailed analysis of hygiene control in operating theatres.

An up-to-date text essential for the study of Healthcare Engineering.

This IMechE conference, held in London, 2001, is concerned with the decommissioning of nuclear plants. The contributors provide experience of real projects and their safe conclusions. All aspects of this costly, highly sensitive and potentially hazardous operation are discussed and presented. Topics include: finance and policy; regulation, compliance and international co-operation; liabilities management; public perception, innovation; learning from other industries; contract mangement; implementation; technical visits; monitoring; benchmarking and waste management.

Transport policy and bus services in Switzerland; zero emission vehicles - an engineer's view point; taking radical route - a very low floor urban bus design concept; new cost-effective concept for automatic vehicle location (AVL) offers more features and benefits for passengers, operators and authorities; noise and vibration transfer path analysis; route adpation of control strategies for a hybrid bus system; a comparison of buses using alternative fuel and drive systems; vehicle design and composites; designing the bus into the market; product development methodology for Bus 2000.

Child passenger safety will remain an important public health issue for years ahead as the research community strives to find solutions to persistent problems such as out-of-position child occupants and complex paediatric injuries. fundamental to this quest is a better understanding of the biochemical responses and tolerance limits of children. However, the overall effectiveness of child restraint systems can only be evaluated from real-world field dat, and not from laboratory test devices. Until such time as injuries can be mitigated or prevented, the traffic safety community must persist in keeping child occupant protection as a priority in public policy decisions and in educating parents and other adults responsible for children. This book is a collection of papers which adds to the body of knowledge on the effectiveness of child restraint systems. Data from observational surveys, insurance files, hospital records, and field studies - including in-depth crash investigations are included. The following topics are addressed: injuries to children in accidents; the use of CARS and protection; test procedure, tools, and biomechanics. The knowledge presented in this volume is another building block towards reducing casualties to child occupants in motor vehicles, It should be of interest to all those involved in this field.

The success and continued growth of business for the rail industry is vital to infrastructure development. Railtech is one of the major European events that brings together representatives form many of the industry's main innovating companies. By providing an ideal forum for engineers from all disciplines to meet and discuss today's projects and those of the future, it addresses the need for information and technology transfer. The need for railway technology to support and lead the industry in new areas of reliability, comfort, and customer satisfaction is greater than ever. A wide range of topics across the whole field of railway engineering and business development are tackled. One of even proceedings texts from this conference, this volume covers the future of the rail industry.

A collection of papers from an IMechE seminar held at The Boots Company, Nottingham, in June 1998. This volume gives an insight into the methods that can be used to develop a strong case to invest in renewable energy within the contest of a developing competitive electricity market.