A expanded version of this series with more details, photographs, tables, and reference materials was published as JAPANESE RAILWAY TECHNOLOGY TODAY (230 pp.) by Railway Technical Research Institute and EJRCF on 1 December 2001. JRTR No. Title PDF 14 1. Railway Construction in Japan Yukinori Koyama 1,073KB 15 2. The Mechanism of Railway Tracks Shigeru Miura, Hideyuki Takai, Masao Uchida, and Yasuto Fukada 1,672KB 16 3. Railway Electric Power Feeding Systems Yasu Oura, Yoshifumi Mochinaga, and Hiroki Nagasawa 1,103KB 17 4. What Drives Electric Multiple Units? Hiroshi Hata 683KB 18 5. How Bogies Work Isao Okamoto 892KB 19 6. Shinkansen Bogies Isao Okamoto 669KB 20 7. Braking Systems Izumi Hasegawa and Seigo Uchida 309KB 21 8. Signalling Systems for Safe Railway Transport Tetsuo Takashige 320KB 22 9. Protecting the Trackside Environment Tatsuo Maeda 740KB 23 10. Minimizing the Effect of Natural Disasters Tatsuo Noguchi and Toshishige Fujii 1,690KB 24 11. Passenger Service Technologies Koichi Goto 1,510KB 25 12. Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) Technologies   1. Superconducting Maglev Developed by RTRI and JR Central Kazuo Sawada 1,349KB   2. Normal-conducting HSST Maglev Munenobu Murai and Masao Tanaka 26 13. New Types of Guided Transport Akira Nehashi 1,032KB