Benefits of dipped vertical alignments for rail transit routes

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 20-27

  Kim, Dong N ^b   Schonfeld, Paul M ^a,c  

^a ASCE ^*

^b Dankook University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 4644219515     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(1997)123:1(20)     Document Type: Article

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