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If there were no Shinkansen : High-speed rail experience from its birth to today in Japan / by Shuichiro Yamanouchi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yamanouchi, Shuichiro, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transportation engineering.
- Traffic engineering.
- Railroad engineering.
- Vehicles.
- Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering.
- Rail Vehicles.
- Vehicle Engineering.
- Local Subjects:
- Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering.
- Rail Vehicles.
- Vehicle Engineering.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
- Summary:
- This book is the first book written in English about the secret story of the birth of the Shinkansen in Japan and its subsequent developments. The author, Mr. Shuichiro Yamanouchi, a former chairman of East Japan Railway (JR East), addresses what the essence of Shinkansen technology is and how it could be achieved in such a short time. And the book, written based on his long experience in railway engineering and management, gives readers a bird's-eye view of the Japanese railway as a whole, and the technical philosophy of his great career behind it. In this book, its whole picture is clarified, that is, the world's first 200 km/h running, dealing with troubles after the opening, and development of the 300 km/h commercial operation after that, including the failure stories encountered in the process. These gave a big stimulation to the development of other high-speed railways, and this book helps readers to learn about the accumulated experiences of Japanese high-speed railways that have not been revealed so far, such as railway safety, noise against the environment, railway privatization, harmonization of management and engineering, and so forth." .
- Contents:
- The Great Railroading Nation of Japan
- Trying for 200 Km/h
- The Curtain Goes Up on the Era of the Express Trains
- The Struggle of the Technicians
- Computers Appear on the Scene
- Safety and a Comfortable Ride
- Competition with Europe Over Speed
- Toward the World’s Best Railroad
- Privatization was a “Cultural Revolution”
- The Next Generation of Railroads.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 981-9988-90-X
- OCLC:
- 1455347935
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