This teaching material is the revised editionbased on Train Operation Calculation and Design (1^st Edition, 2008)compiled by Beijing Jiaotong University in collaboration with Central SouthUniversity, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Shijiazhuang Railway University andother colleges. The book systematically introduces about principles, methodsand application technologies involved in train operating process, in 12chapters, including: train haulage, train operating resistance, train brakingforce, resultant curve, motion equation and time resolving, train brake problemresolving, determination of haulage quality, train operation energy consumptioncalculation and energy-saving technology, signal arrangement method forautomatic blocking sections, multi-train operation calculation and analysis, urbanrail transit train operation calculation, high-speed train operationcalculation and train operation computing software.

The book can be usedas teaching material or teaching reference for undergraduate and postgraduatestudents of communications and transport as well as reference for governmentaldecision-making and administration personnel of relevant professions, anddesigning and consulting personnel. 

Professor Mao Baohua, male, born in Qiyang,Hunan, in May 1963, CPC member, Han nationality, B.E. 1983, Changsha RailwayCollege, M.E., 1986, Northern Jiaotong University, D.E., 1993, NorthernJiaotong University; now as professor, doctoral supervisor, executive directorof China Comprehensive Transportation Research Center, Beijing JiaotongUniversity; director of Urban Rail Transit Department, School of Communicationsand Transport, Beijing Jiaotong University;visited the Hong Kong PolytechnicUniversity in1999 and the University of Leeds, UK, in 2000, 2002, 2007. Since 2000,he has chaired and participated in more than 40 scientific research projects,published more than 100 theses, of which more than 40 are included in SCI andEI;as the principal of the national elaborate course“Urban Rail Transit Planningand Design”; offering more than 10 postgraduate and undergraduate courses.