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Apr 26, 2012

Prospect of China Railway Transportation Safety in 21st Century

Publication: Traffic and Transportation Studies (2000)

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This paper discusses the situation in transportation safety of China and difficulties that the railway faced. A series of measures, such as strengthen safety foundation, better interface management between operational and facilities departments, adoption of safety equipment, taken by the Ministry of Railway in the past a few years and safety problems appeared in the environment are well analyzed in this paper. At last, a general framework for China railway transportation safety security system towards 21st century is advanced and some practical suggestions related to railway safety management are put forward.

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Pages: 74 - 79

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Guiping Xiao [email protected].
Doctor, Associate Professor, School of Traffic and Transportation, Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, P. R. China. E-mail: [email protected].
Doctor, Professor, School of Traffic and Transportation, Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, P. R. China. E-mail: [email protected].
Fujun Hou

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