CHAPTER 1 SPLENDID ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS AND DEFECTIVE WORKS IN CONTRAST

1.1 Typical Examples of World Famous Establishments and Things Undesirable

1.2 Splendid Chinese Railway Establishments

1.3 Lessons in Chinese Railway Engineering Decisions

1.4 The Importance of Praise and Crit00icism

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CHAPTER 2 RAILWAY SYSTEM AND OPTIMIZATION OF GOVERNING FACTORS

2.1 The Role of Planning Decision in Railway System

2.2 Evolution of Railway Location Theory

2.3 Synthetic Optimization Decision Defined

2.4 Analysis of Railway System and the Governing Factors in Technical Decisions

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CHAPTER 3 BASIC CONCEPTION OF ECONOMICAL CRI-TERION

3.1 Macro- and Microeconomy

3.2 Comparison of Economic Criterion Methods

3.3 Discussion and Suggestions to Criterion Methods

3.4 Prediction of Traffic Volume

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CHAPTER 4 MATHEMATIC MODELLING OF RAILWAY OPERATING EXPENSES

4.1 Comparison of Evaluation of Operating Expenses in Different Countries

4.3 Further Discussions Relating to Operating Expenses Evaluation

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CHAPTER 5 TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITION AND MATHE-MATICAL MODELLING OF INVESTMENTS

5.1 Topographic Classification

5.2 Mathematical Modelling of Railway Investment Costs

5.3 Special Considerations in Chinese Engineering Construction

Appendix: Data Processing Method Used in Operating and Investment Cost Modelling

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CHAPTER 6 SYNTHETIC OPTIMIZATION OF RAIL-WAY PROJECTS

6.1 Examples of Optimization Models

6.2 Selection of Optimization Method

6.3 Condition of Practising Synthetic Optimal Decision in Chinese Railway Design

6.4 Examinations and verification

4.2 Derivation of Models of Operating Expenses

6.5 Flexibility and Strictness of Synthetic Optimal Decision

6.6 Synthetic Improvement of Equipments in Engineering Project

CHAPTER 7 CO-ORDINATE PLANNING OF NEIGH-BOURING ENGINEERING PROJECTS

7.1 Water-Power and Railway Engineering

7.2 Harbour Construction and Railway Connection

7.3 Highway, Aviation, Oceanshipping and Railway

7.4 City Planning and Railway Layout

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7.5 Civil Engineering and Environmental Protection

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8.1 Revision of Railway Design Specifications

CHAPTER 8 TECHNICAL INNOVATION AND ENGI-NEERING POLICY

8.2 Heavy Freight Trains

8.3 Preparation of Climbing Big Mountains

8.4 Increasing the Train Speeds

8.5 Strict Implementing National Technical Policies and Philosophical Principles

8.6 Taking Resolute Measures of Breaking Away from the Vicious Cycle of Railway Development

8.7 The “Discard the Dross Select the Essential”Principle in Referring Past and Foreign Experiences

8.8 Meter Gauge Suggested in Tibet and West of Sichuan and Yunnan Railways

8.9 Railway Network and Local Railways

8.10 Engineering Education

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CHAPTER 9 CONCLUSION

9.1 Establishment of Strictly Principled Technical Decision

9.2 Engineering Review,Summary and Discussion

9.3 Ideological Education and Professional Ethic of Engineers

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INDEX