TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yamanouchi,Shuichiro
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - If there were no Shinkansen: High-speed rail experience from its birth to today in Japan 
SN  - 9789819988907
AV  - TA1001-1280 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Singapore
PB  - Springer Nature Singapore, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Transportation engineering
KW  - Traffic engineering
KW  - Railroad engineering
KW  - Vehicles
KW  - Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering
KW  - Rail Vehicles
KW  - Vehicle Engineering
N1  - 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
N2  - 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."
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8890-7
ER  -