
@article{ref1,
title="Rail vehicles, environment, safety and security",
journal="Research in transportation economics",
year="2013",
author="Matsika, Emmanuel and Ricci, Stefano and Mortimer, Philip and Georgiev, Nikolay and O'Neill, Conor",
volume="41",
number="1",
pages="43-58",
abstract="This paper starts with a discussion on typical vehicles. The concepts and the usual practice for rail wagon design, both freight and passengers are presented. A discussion on rail and the environment comes next followed by Truck-Trains. Accident theories, metaphors and investigation methods are widely discussed; Hazard - Barrier - Target Model, Swiss Cheese Model, Bow-Tie Model, Fault Tree Analysis and Event Tree Analysis are explained. This paper concludes with a technical discussion on safety and security of rail vehicles, standards for safety and measures against terrorist attacks.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0739-8859",
doi="10.1016/j.retrec.2012.11.011",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2012.11.011"
}