CHAPTER 1 SPLENDID ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS AND DEFECTIVE WORKS IN CONTRAST 1
1.1 Typical Examples of World Famous Establishments and Things Undesirable 1
1.2 Splendid Chinese Railway Establishments 8
1.3 Lessons in Chinese Railway Engineering Decisions 18
1.4 The Importance of Praise and Crit00icism 27
Bibliography 28
CHAPTER 2 RAILWAY SYSTEM AND OPTIMIZATION OF GOVERNING FACTORS 30
2.1 The Role of Planning Decision in Railway System 30
2.2 Evolution of Railway Location Theory 34
2.3 Synthetic Optimization Decision Defined 42
2.4 Analysis of Railway System and the Governing Factors in Technical Decisions 47
Bibliography 58
CHAPTER 3 BASIC CONCEPTION OF ECONOMICAL CRI-TERION 60
3.1 Macro- and Microeconomy 60
3.2 Comparison of Economic Criterion Methods 61
3.3 Discussion and Suggestions to Criterion Methods 73
3.4 Prediction of Traffic Volume 82
Bibliography 85
CHAPTER 4 MATHEMATIC MODELLING OF RAILWAY OPERATING EXPENSES 87
4.1 Comparison of Evaluation of Operating Expenses in Different Countries 87
4.3 Further Discussions Relating to Operating Expenses Evaluation 107
Bibliography 118
CHAPTER 5 TOPOGRAPHIC CONDITION AND MATHE-MATICAL MODELLING OF INVESTMENTS 120
5.1 Topographic Classification 120
5.2 Mathematical Modelling of Railway Investment Costs 136
5.3 Special Considerations in Chinese Engineering Construction 147
Appendix: Data Processing Method Used in Operating and Investment Cost Modelling 151
Bibliography 161
CHAPTER 6 SYNTHETIC OPTIMIZATION OF RAIL-WAY PROJECTS 165
6.1 Examples of Optimization Models 165
6.2 Selection of Optimization Method 174
6.3 Condition of Practising Synthetic Optimal Decision in Chinese Railway Design 186
6.4 Examinations and verification 190
4.2 Derivation of Models of Operating Expenses 195
6.5 Flexibility and Strictness of Synthetic Optimal Decision 201
6.6 Synthetic Improvement of Equipments in Engineering Project 206
CHAPTER 7 CO-ORDINATE PLANNING OF NEIGH-BOURING ENGINEERING PROJECTS 209
7.1 Water-Power and Railway Engineering 209
7.2 Harbour Construction and Railway Connection 217
7.3 Highway, Aviation, Oceanshipping and Railway 221
7.4 City Planning and Railway Layout 223
Bibliography 232
7.5 Civil Engineering and Environmental Protection 233
Bibliography 241
8.1 Revision of Railway Design Specifications 243
CHAPTER 8 TECHNICAL INNOVATION AND ENGI-NEERING POLICY 243
8.2 Heavy Freight Trains 257
8.3 Preparation of Climbing Big Mountains 261
8.4 Increasing the Train Speeds 269
8.5 Strict Implementing National Technical Policies and Philosophical Principles 272
8.6 Taking Resolute Measures of Breaking Away from the Vicious Cycle of Railway Development 278
8.7 The “Discard the Dross Select the Essential”Principle in Referring Past and Foreign Experiences 280
8.8 Meter Gauge Suggested in Tibet and West of Sichuan and Yunnan Railways 285
8.9 Railway Network and Local Railways 291
8.10 Engineering Education 292
Bibliography 298
CHAPTER 9 CONCLUSION 302
9.1 Establishment of Strictly Principled Technical Decision 302
9.2 Engineering Review,Summary and Discussion 304
9.3 Ideological Education and Professional Ethic of Engineers 307
Bibliography 315
INDEX 317