The Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel

Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)

Publisher: Thomas Telford

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 0727720244

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The Channel Tunnel is a major civil engineering feat which is in effect the host for an equally impressive and complex transportation system. These proceedings from a conference held in October 1994, address the key strategies and issues specifically related to the design, installation, commissioning, control, operation and maintenance of the transport system from the national road network into the terminals and through the tunnels. It addresses in particular how the design of the rolling stock, control, communicatin, ventilation and power supply systems have developed into reality, and how transportation issues and the maintenance and operation have played such a prominent role in the execution of the project.


Engineering the Channel Tunnel

Engineering the Channel Tunnel

Author: Colin Kirkland

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1995-07-27

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780419179207

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The Channel Tunnel may be the greatest engineering project in Europe this century. This book describes the tremendous engineering achievement of the construction of the tunnel. Written by twenty of the key engineers involved, it provides a fascinating, informative and inspiring account of the project for both engineering professionals and general readers.


Engineering Geology of the Channel Tunnel

Engineering Geology of the Channel Tunnel

Author: Colin S. Harris

Publisher: Thomas Telford

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 9780727720450

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The Channel Tunnel has been called the greatest engineering project of the century, overcoming a unique set of financial, political and engineering challenges. This book provides a comprehensive insight into the events which culminated in the first dry link between Britain and France. It describes the relationship between the site investigation, data interpretation and construction of the works. It examines areas such as the difficulties inherent in predicting geology from a relatively small number of boreholes and revealing how the use of modern geophysical techniques.


Transport Systems, Policy and Planning

Transport Systems, Policy and Planning

Author: Rodney Tolley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 1317902033

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Provides a unique review of the major spatial aspects of transport systems, a detailed analysis of transport problems in urban and rural areas, an evaluation of social and environmental impacts, and a planning and policy overview. Divided into four parts, each considering a different aspect of transport geography. The first part outlines the basic geography of transport and examines transport and spatial structures, focusing upon the varying contributions made by transport to industrial, agricultural and urban development. Part two moves to consider specific transport systems at both national and international scales, drawing on studies from industrialised and developing nations and discussing the effects upon transport of the political changes in the former USSR and Eastern Europe. The third part examines some of the many problems of transport and urban and rural areas using specific examples to illustrate the contrasting difficulties and evaluate current urban transportation planning methods.


The Channel Tunnel Story

The Channel Tunnel Story

Author: G Anderson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 0203362292

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The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project, employing over 14,000 people at peak, and costing over 15611 billion of private money. It has succeeded in spite of great financial, political and techncial difficulties, and a fundamentally flawed contract. This book tells the story of the project, based on the coverage in Construction News and with commentary taken from recent interviews with key project sources.


Europe

Europe

Author: John Edwards

Publisher: Nelson Thornes

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780748729166

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Resulting from research into the needs of teachers arising from the revised syllabuses for GCSE Geography, and focusing on topical issues throughout Europe, this is one of a three-book series of supplementary topic books providing a range of detailed case studies, enquiries and decision-making exercises. The other two pupils' books cover the UK and the world, respectively, and there are teacher resource packs which correspond to all three.


Networks in Action

Networks in Action

Author: David Batten

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 3642578438

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fifteen countries in Scandinavia, Europe, Asia, Australia, and U.S.A. All of them came to Stockholm primarily because they recognize the growing im portance of networks as complex systems, and their home institutions do not offer any systematic lectures on this topic. The Networks Course was originally initiated jointly by the Summer University of Southern Stockholm Foundation and the County Council of Stockholm, the Swedish Aviation Administration, the Swedish National Road Administration, the Swedish Post, the Swedish State Railways, and Telia AB. They have all served as joint sponsors and hosts for the Course. In the year 1993 the Course also was sponsored by the Swedish Transport and Communications Research Board. All these organizations have supported the publication of a series of key lectures from the Course, to be released as a single volume entitled Networks in Action. It is the ambition of the Foundation to create continuity in its activities for the future. The board has proposed to its principals to take a decision in this direction. It is my expectation that this will be the case for the Networks Course from 1995. This book will then serve as a basic reference for use in an era when the topic of Communication-Networks will be included on a permanent basis in the Summer University's agenda.