This book addresses the needs of researchers and practitioners in the
field of high-speed trains, especially those whose work involves safety
and reliability issues in traction systems. It will appeal to
researchers and graduate students at institutions of higher learning,
research labs, and in the industrial R&D sector, catering to a
readership from a broad range of disciplines including intelligent
transportation, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemical
engineering, the biological sciences and engineering, economics,
ecology, and the mathematical sciences.