Rail Transport System
In this section you will learn more about the rail transport system and its different elements goods, trains, railways and railway stations. This topic follows the structure of the conceptual system model of transport and traffic.
1. Introduction
In this section, you will learn more about the rail transport system. After the activities, the goods, that are transported by rail are presented to you. Rail transport requires trains, railways and railway stations, so you will also learn more about those elements. To summarize the section of rail transport, some advantages and disadvantages of the rail transport system will be presented.
The figure "Rail system model" shows the structure of the content of this topic.
On the next page, the activities are presented to you.
Literature
Literature
Flämig, H., Sjöstedt, L., Hertel, C. (2002): Multimodal Transport: An Integrated Element for Last-Mile-Solutions? Proceedings, part 1; International Congress on Freight Transport Automation and Multimodality: Organisational and Technological Innovations. Delft, 23 & 24 May 2002. (modification of Sjöstedt 1996)