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Re-Engineering Super elevation by Dr Jude O Igwemezie PE and Daniel Marks of Applied Rail
Research Technologies Inc - July 2006 issue of Railway Track & Structures

Worked out from limiting values permitted by various countries (UIC working group first report on
Design of High speed trains Oct01)

Modern Railway Track Second Edition - 2001 by Coenraad Esveld Prof/Delft University of
Technology (page 37)

UIC Code 705 RI para 4.1.1, 4.2 and 3.3.3

Operating at High Cant Deficiency by Peter Klauser October 2005 issue of interface the
journal of Wheel/Rail Interaction

CEN : Railway Application Track alignment design parameters Track gauges 1435 and wider
Part 1 : Plain line, prENV 13803-1:2001, CEN/TC256/WG15.

UIC Code 705 RI para 4.3 states that tilt trains create more jerks at entry point of curves; Therefore,
specifying this limit has no point

UIC leaflet 703 R : Design of alignment for tracks run by fast passenger trains

Design of new lines for speeds of 300-350 kmph : State of the Art First Report of UIC Oct2001

Track Geometry for high-speed railways : A literature survey and simulation of dynamic vehicle
response by Martin Lindahl (Railway Technology, Department of Vehicle Engineering, Royal Institute
of Technology/Stockholm) - 2001

Producing and securing exact geometry of high speed track by Dr B W Lichtberger Head of R&D,
Plasser & Theaurer, Austria (Volume 32, Number 2, Edition 2003 Rail Engineering International)

Introduction of fixed point based track geometry maintenance in UK by Richard Spoors President,
Permanent Way Institution, London (Volume 33, Number 4, Edition 2004 Rail Engineering
International)

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