High-Speed Rail in Poland: Advances and Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367571283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 522 str.

Andrzej Zurkowski

Opis

This monograph aims at reaching an international audience of experts presenting Polish determinants of HSR implementation. Specialists from the Railway Research Institute and other experts present a wide range of problems  and solutions connected to the future construction of High Speed Lines in Poland.

Spis treści

1. Development of high-speed rail concept in Poland
2. Development of the high-speed rail infrastructure - Polish experience  
3. The view on socioeconomic aspects of high-speed system
4. Operational effectiveness of high-speed rails
5. HSR in Poland: Demand, spatial accessibility and local spatial planning conditions
6. Adaptation of the Łódź Agglomeration Railway node to a new role in the high-speed rail system
7. European and Polish requirements for a high-speed rail system 
8. High-speed rail passenger services in Poland
9. Introduction of high-speed rolling stock into operation on the Polish railway network 
10. High-speed rail power supply systems 
11. Overhead contact line systems for high-speed rails
12. High-speed lines control command and signaling
13. Digital radio communication system for high-speed rail lines in Poland
14. Significance of rail track diagnostics to high-speed rails
15. Requirements relating to designed and modernized engineering structures at high-speed rail lines
16. Diagnostics of structural health of rapid rail transportation
17. High-speed rail  versus environmental protection
18. Personnel education for the high-speed rails needs
19. From backwardness to modernity: High-speed rail  - the strategic element of national program for development of rail transport - strategic and political considerations
20. The effectiveness and financing of the high-speed rail structure

O autorze

Andrzej Żurkowski, Ph.D. Eng. Managing Director of the Railway Research Institute since 2006. Andrzej is a graduate of the Warsaw University of Technology (1980), where he obtained a doctoral degree in Technical Sciences (2008), and is Lecturer at the Military University of Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, and the Warsaw School of Economics. Specialist of railway traffic and organization of passenger services, he started his professional career in 1980 in COBiRTK (currently the Railway Research Institute). In 1989–2000 he headed a department in the General Directorate of PKP; and in 2001 created the PKP Intercity Ltd.; and became President of the Board in this company (2001–2004).

Andrzej represented the Ministry of Transport in working group EKTM at OECD and PKP and in many other working groups of the UIC. In 2003–2006, he held the position of Vice-Chairman of the Passenger Commission of UIC. Since 2006, he has been a member of the HS Steering Committee of UIC and a member of Scientific Committee of HS World Congresses. He was the President of Polish Association of Transport Engineers and Technicians in 2012–2014, and since 2009 is a member of the Transport Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences and has been the Vice-President of the International Railway Research Board (UIC) since 2016.

He is the author of 130 technical and scientific articles and over 100 lectures at various conferences. He is also a co-author of the Railway Traffic and Traffic Control handbook and the author of a few chapters in the monographs on railways (including HSR in Poland).