Design and construction of pavements and railways for high speed trains ismoving from merely empirical procedures towards a more mechanistic approachbased on a ... » 

Design and construction of pavements and railways for high speed trains ismoving from merely empirical procedures towards a more mechanistic approachbased on a better constructed theoretical basis. This will facilitate the useof new materials in transportation infrastructure under various climatic andtraffic load and speed conditions. In addition this will lead to a futurechallenge to implement a common framework between road railway andgeotechnical engineers. These contributions represent an excellent source ofrecent developments related to the design and construction of pavements railtracks and earth structures with emphasis placed on geotechnical background. «