Marco Guerrieri is associate professor of Highway and Railway Engineering at DICAM, University of Trento, Italy, and he is qualified to full professorship. He serves as a member of the editorial board of several international scientific journals. He has authored 3 books and more than 110 scientific papers published in national and international scientific journals or conference proceedings. His research interests include microscopic traffic simulation, highway design and control, alternative Intersection design and railway design.

Explores the fundamentals of railway engineering

Provides criteria for designing railways

Serves as a useful practical and educational tool

Train resistance and braking distance.- The alignment design of ordinary and high-speed railways.- The railway track.- Wheel-rail interaction and derailment analysis.- Introduction to railway track design.- Railway track deterioration and monitoring.- Basics of switches and crossings.- Railway lines and stations.- The railway bridges.- Railway tunnels.- Traffic management systems and railway capacity.- High-speed railways, maglev and hyperloop systems.- Metro rail systems.- Tramway systems.- People movers, monorails and rack railways.