Demand-responsive pricing method for the product line of Taiwan high-speed rail / Chi-Kang Lee and Tsung-Hsien Tsai -- High-speed line airport connections in Europe : state-of-th-art study / Andrés Lópes-Pita and Francesc Robusté -- Comparing operating characteristics of high-speed rail and Maglev systems : case study of the Beijing-Shanghai Corridor / Rongfang (Rachel) Liu and Yi Deng -- Dynamic considerations in the design of high-speed railway bridges / Michael Willford, Kubilay Hicyilmaz, and Karl Pratt -- Behavior of railway bridges and other railway infrastructure in three strong to great earthquakes in 2001 / William G. Byers -- Direct fixation track design / Laurence E. Daniels -- Canadian National Railway experience with 136-lb. thick web rail switch points / Nigel Peters -- Increasing speeds through the diverging route of a turnout without increasing lead length / Clifford S. Bonaventura ... [et al.] -- Development and implementation of a continuous vertical track-support testing technique / Dingqing Li ... [et al.] -- Information requirements for railroad enterprise asset management : practical approach on Amtrack's high-speed Northeast Corridor line / Valerie Marcolongo, William Ebersöhn, and Michael J. Trosino -- Objective track quality indices / Magdy El-Sibaie and Yu-Jiang Zhang -- Railroad accident rates for use in transportation risk analysis / Robert T. Anderson and Christopher P.L. Barkan.