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Fonseka, Prashant L. "The Railway and Telegraph in India: Monuments of British Rule or Symbols of Indian Nationhood?" Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/378.
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This paper examines how the development of the railway-telegraph technological complex impacted the tenuous relationship between the rulers and those they ruled; the British and the Indians. Through the experience of building and operating the railway, Indians came to understand the railway and telegraph as their own technologies well before the eventual handover of control over the networks from the British. The reasons behind the British desire to retain their grasp over the networks included profit, power, and orientalist notions of socially advancing Indians, all at the expense of Indian taxpayers. This arrangement was problematic and ultimately facilitated the Raj's undoing, while revealing certain realities of British imperial rule.
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Choudhury, Sanghamitra. "Railway workers strike of 1974: impact in the eastern and north east frontier railway zones." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2019. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3654.
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Roy, Mukherjee Sanchari. "The Infrastructural linkages of transport policy: a study of the wagon economics of Indian railway freight operations." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2730.
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Lokre, Saanika Sameer. "Revitalizing Daily Travel - Mumbai, India." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74948.
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Cities are a way of life. They are an amalgamation of cultural background and urbanism, which determine the quality of life, environmental sustainability, social behavior and economic well-being. Since the ancient times, cities have been the way to define the growth and development. The development of the cities depended upon availability of resources for a better livelihood and the way humans utilize the resources. Even today as cities develop, people hope for better living conditions.
Urbanism plays a major role in the development of cities, being a combination of cultural and urban living. Urbanism has brought various downfalls along with progress. Has urbanism made development a monotonous concept?
These days, cities are urbanizing at a fast rate not considering their future consequences. Having lived in Mumbai, I have seen it grow into a megacity. The countless problems that urbanism has brought to accommodate the massive amount of people migrating into the city has affected the quality of life of people immensely. However, is it for the better or worse? People all over the country want to have a piece of Mumbai, the city of dreams. This growth in the population has overpowered the city.
Mumbai is famous for its railway system. It is the lifeline of the city. However, due to the amount of people using this system, the travel is more of a chaos. Every railway station has a main access road filled with hawkers and commercial storefronts. People in Mumbai are always in a rush, so these hawkers and commercial stores are a necessity to their daily life. People shop for their daily necessities while returning home to save time. However, these streets are extremely chaotic and crowded. My thesis focuses on how this space can be utilized by three consumers - the traveler, the shopper and the one who does both. It aims to decongest this main street and make travelling by local trains convenient. The site I have chosen is located in the heart of Mumbai city and is one of the most important railway station on the Western Suburban railway system. It is known as Dadar railway station. More than 500,000 people use this railway station daily. With the maximum number of incoming pedestrian traffic, my design can be used as an example for other railway stations throughout Mumbai.Master of Science
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Singh, Manoj. "Competition in intermodal rail transport : the case of Indian railways." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496204.
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Baker, Julian Charles Tiepolo. "India on the move : the palanquin, the elephant and the railway." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10485.
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This thesis examines how British travellers experienced the Indian climate and landscape in, from and through three vehicles: the palanquin, the elephant and the railway. Much historical study has approached Western experiences of tropical nature with what this thesis calls a 'sedentary perspective'; that is, by studying the individuals, the sites and the representational practices connected with observant travel. The most obvious aspect of such travel – the mobility of soldiers, merchants, administrators and tourists – has been comparatively neglected. Travel in India, rather than merely connecting events across the expanse of the journey, was a significant space of experience and the mode by which travellers encountered their surroundings. This thesis argues that specific mobilities engendered distinct relations between the perceiving subject and the environment perceived. Means of transport – the palanquin, elephant and railway – were also means of observation, shaping the experience of landscape, ideas of tropical nature and the traveller as subject.
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Das, Pallavi V. "Railway expansion and its impact on forests in colonial India, 1853-1884 /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402288261209.
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Mukhopadhyay, Aparajita. "Wheels of change? : impact of railways on colonial north Indian society, 1855-1920." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2013. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/17363/.
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Gunnarsson, Ingemar. "En skandinavisk järnvägskontraktörs karriär i Indien 1860–1867 : ackumulering av socialt och kulturellt kapital som framgångsstrategi i en kolonial kontext." Licentiate thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-99057.
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This study is about Joseph Samuel Frithiof Stephens (1841–1934) and how he as a Scandinavian contractor acquired an economic fortune in the colonial India. The fortune was used for the acquisition of the mill property Huseby Bruk in Småland and also contributed to the Stephens family's strategy of advancing in the then Danish bourgeois class establishment. The study aims to present an individual actor's opportunities to achieve financial success through access to non-financial capital forms. Social capital in the form of important social relations and cultural capital in the form of information, skills, etc., can be used for transformation into economic capital. The identification and analysis of the personal networks that occurred in Joseph's career determines the importance of family networks and professional networks for access to the various alternative forms of capital. Joseph's career in British India in the 1850s and 60s was surrounded by the colonial power context linked to global capitalist progression and characterized by civilization ambitions, technological transfer and dominance. The aftermath of the Revolt 1857–1858 opened the playing field for wealth-seeking risk-takers from Europe. The power structures previously maintained by the East India Company were gradually replaced by the British central power apparatus. The new power relations established a new administration and altered social institutions in the emerging crown colony. The Indian railways became a significant element in the colonial intervention and consisted of trunk lines that crossed the subcontinent. The used source material in the form of private letters, diaries, business correspondence and more, constitutes the research basis for the studies, and are included in the India-related material stored in the Huseby Archives at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. The results of the study show that network contacts and access to alternative forms of capital became crucial success factors for Joseph Stephen's career and wealth accumulation. The networks were linked to both the private and traditional spheres as well as to the professional and rational spheres and sometimes seemed cross-border. The study has further demonstrated the structures, colonial thought patterns and hierarchies that the individual actor was actively related to, and that affected the often-strained everyday life of the contractor.
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Sweeney, Stuart. "Financing Indian railways in the period of high imperialism 1875-1914 : war, famine and gentlemanly capitalism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496657.
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Derbyshire, I. D. "Opening up the interior : the impact of railways on the North Indian economy and society, 1860-1914." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.355008.
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Prabhune, Prajakta Vinayak. "Advanced Simulation Methodologies For Crashworthiness And Occupant Safety Assessment Of An Indian Railways Passenger Coach." Thesis, 2010. https://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/1998.
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Accidents involving passenger trains happen regularly in India. The reasons for such accidents could be many; such as weather and flooding, faulty tracks, bridge collapse, collisions caused by signaling errors, mechanical failures, driver error, sabotage etc. The annual accident-related deaths as a percentage of the total number of passengers carried by Indian Railway may seem to be negligible, but the aim should be to achieve zero fatality as every single person killed is an irreplaceable loss to his/her family. It needs to be mentioned that in addition to fatalities for which exact numbers are not available, serious injuries and permanent disabilities caused by train accidents in India at present stand completely unaccounted for. In the absence of a large scale renovation and crash avoidance measures coupled with the propensity to increase the number of trains every year, enhancing passive safety is crucial i.e. crashworthiness and occupant safety of passenger coaches of Indian trains. In the current work, crashworthiness and occupant safety of the existing typical three-tier cabin passenger coach of Indian Railway in an event of collision accident are assessed with the aid of a finite element analysis.
In the light of the published work on research in railroad equipment crashworthiness, the current work is intended to envisage the methodology to assess the Indian Railway passenger coach from the point of view of the crashworthiness and occupant safety using CAE (Computer aided engineering) based approach. It is involved with an extensive study of the structural crush behavior of an individual passenger coach car and its effect on the interaction between occupants and the coach interior. Here the structural crush behavior of a typical three-tier cabin passenger coach is evaluated for the head-on impact against a fixed and rigid barrier. The occupant response for the same scenario is also studied which can be viewed as a component of the actual occupant response due to the structural crush behavior of the passenger coach. This can give useful estimates of injury severity and fatalities that may occur in actual accidents.
An FE model of the passenger coach structure was built and validated using International Railway Union (UIC) specified code OR 567-design requirements in terms of static loads constituting structural proof cases. These proof cases specify the static load values the coach body structure should withstand without any permanent deformation or failure when applied at the specified locations on the structural ends across the longitudinal axis. In addition, a favorable correlation between the simulation and actual experiment for drop impact behavior of the open section specimens, namely C-section and I-section, was obtained to validate the simulation methodology. LS-DYNA a nonlinear dynamic explicit FE solver was used to carry out all the dynamic impact simulations involved in the current work. The material modeling takes into account the strain rate effect which is essential for the material impact behavior study. The contact modeling was done using penalty contact method. The degrading effect of the buffer on the structural crush patterns which induced the undesirable global bending and jackknifing of the whole coach structure was demonstrated with the help of dynamic impact simulations of the coach structure.
The quantification of occupant injury was done by occupant safety simulations using the Hybrid III 50th percentile male dummy FE model. The dummy having been designed for simulating automobile accident scenarios, its contacts had to be adapted to suit the excessive mobility conditions in the coach interior. The dummy was revalidated successfully for the head drop test, pendulum chest impact test, neck flexion and extension test and knee impact test. Impact simulations for three different speeds were performed by positioning the dummy close to the impact point. Injury criteria such as Head Injury Criterion, Chest Deceleration, Knee force level and Neck extension-flexion moments were used to estimate the injury severity level and fatality rate.
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Prabhune, Prajakta Vinayak. "Advanced Simulation Methodologies For Crashworthiness And Occupant Safety Assessment Of An Indian Railways Passenger Coach." Thesis, 2010. http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2005/1998.
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Accidents involving passenger trains happen regularly in India. The reasons for such accidents could be many; such as weather and flooding, faulty tracks, bridge collapse, collisions caused by signaling errors, mechanical failures, driver error, sabotage etc. The annual accident-related deaths as a percentage of the total number of passengers carried by Indian Railway may seem to be negligible, but the aim should be to achieve zero fatality as every single person killed is an irreplaceable loss to his/her family. It needs to be mentioned that in addition to fatalities for which exact numbers are not available, serious injuries and permanent disabilities caused by train accidents in India at present stand completely unaccounted for. In the absence of a large scale renovation and crash avoidance measures coupled with the propensity to increase the number of trains every year, enhancing passive safety is crucial i.e. crashworthiness and occupant safety of passenger coaches of Indian trains. In the current work, crashworthiness and occupant safety of the existing typical three-tier cabin passenger coach of Indian Railway in an event of collision accident are assessed with the aid of a finite element analysis.
In the light of the published work on research in railroad equipment crashworthiness, the current work is intended to envisage the methodology to assess the Indian Railway passenger coach from the point of view of the crashworthiness and occupant safety using CAE (Computer aided engineering) based approach. It is involved with an extensive study of the structural crush behavior of an individual passenger coach car and its effect on the interaction between occupants and the coach interior. Here the structural crush behavior of a typical three-tier cabin passenger coach is evaluated for the head-on impact against a fixed and rigid barrier. The occupant response for the same scenario is also studied which can be viewed as a component of the actual occupant response due to the structural crush behavior of the passenger coach. This can give useful estimates of injury severity and fatalities that may occur in actual accidents.
An FE model of the passenger coach structure was built and validated using International Railway Union (UIC) specified code OR 567-design requirements in terms of static loads constituting structural proof cases. These proof cases specify the static load values the coach body structure should withstand without any permanent deformation or failure when applied at the specified locations on the structural ends across the longitudinal axis. In addition, a favorable correlation between the simulation and actual experiment for drop impact behavior of the open section specimens, namely C-section and I-section, was obtained to validate the simulation methodology. LS-DYNA a nonlinear dynamic explicit FE solver was used to carry out all the dynamic impact simulations involved in the current work. The material modeling takes into account the strain rate effect which is essential for the material impact behavior study. The contact modeling was done using penalty contact method. The degrading effect of the buffer on the structural crush patterns which induced the undesirable global bending and jackknifing of the whole coach structure was demonstrated with the help of dynamic impact simulations of the coach structure.
The quantification of occupant injury was done by occupant safety simulations using the Hybrid III 50th percentile male dummy FE model. The dummy having been designed for simulating automobile accident scenarios, its contacts had to be adapted to suit the excessive mobility conditions in the coach interior. The dummy was revalidated successfully for the head drop test, pendulum chest impact test, neck flexion and extension test and knee impact test. Impact simulations for three different speeds were performed by positioning the dummy close to the impact point. Injury criteria such as Head Injury Criterion, Chest Deceleration, Knee force level and Neck extension-flexion moments were used to estimate the injury severity level and fatality rate.
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Ovasdi, J. M. "Divisional railway administration in India A case study of Northern Railway." Thesis, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/4500.
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SINGH, DEVENDRA. "COMPUTATIONAL STRESS ANALYSIS OF RAIL-WHEEL MODEL OF INDIAN RAILWAYS." Thesis, 2016. http://dspace.dtu.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/repository/14637.
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Wheel-rail contact analysis is one of the most standout problems in the modeling and analysis of
railway vehicles. The wheel-rail interaction is an exceptional part of rail-vehicle progress as it
accounts for the capacity of freight wagon and is being considered the most critical parameter for
the freight traffic wagons on the railway tracks. In this thesis, the static response of the wheel on
a rail is analyzed by modelling and analyzing the geometries of standard section of Rail and
wheel through the softwares Creo parametric 2.0 and Ansys 15.0 for calculating the stresses
between the Rail-wheel contact region. An analytical approach for calculating the tangent
modulus has been drafted during the selection of material and its properties using the Ramberg
Osgood Equation. The Hertzian contact theory gives the expression for the maximum contact
shear stress value at the point of contact between the rail and the wheel. To validate the value of
contact shear stresses founded in this thesis, responses of the assembled model using Ansys 15.0
are compared with the Hertzian approach as well as with the Hertzian stress calculator. Then it
has been found that all the three maximum contact shear stresses achieved by different methods
are less than the standard limiting values of maximum contact shear stresses in accordance to the
Indian Railway Standard. Finally the effects of the results have been studied for the essence of
analysis.
Maximum contact shear stress between Rail-wheel is found to be 25.5 kg/mm2, 24.63 kg/mm2,
23.55 kg/mm2 by Ansys 15.0, Hertzian theory and Hertzian stress calculator respectively for 90
UTS rail of UIC 60 kg section and all are less than the limiting value of contact stress which is
27.0 kg/mm2 for 90 UTS rails and it was the prime objective of thesis.
The thesis is divided into six chapters. The first chapter describes the introductory part of Indian
Railways and importance of Freight traffic, followed by the scope and domain of the freight
traffic. The next chapter gives an insight regarding the Railway track, rails and wheels, apart
from this the chapter also focuses on theory of contact stresses as well as bending stresses.
Chapter three, describes the processing of modelling of Rail UIC 60 kg (90 UTS) and wheel of
BOXN standard, followed by the fourth chapter which accounts for the computational static
analysis of the assembled model of rail and wheel. Chapter five, represents the result validation
of contact shear stress and compares it with the limiting values in accordance to Indian Railway
Standard. Chapter six delineates the conclusion.
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Sharma, Y. B. "Estimation of total factor productivity on Indian railways- a cost function approach." Thesis, 1995. http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/12345678/5757.
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JAIN, AKASH KUMAR. "AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE OF INDIAN RAILWAYS ZONES USING DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS." Thesis, 2023. http://dspace.dtu.ac.in:8080/jspui/handle/repository/20166.
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The Major Research Project is a vital part of the 2-year MBA course at Delhi School
of Management, DTU. The MRP is required to be submitted in the 4th semester of the
course. The topic for MRP is “AN ASSESSMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE OF
INDIAN RAILWAYS ZONES USING DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS”. The
topic is in relation with Supply Chain and Logistics. My mentor for the same was Dr.
Deepali Malhotra who provided necessary guidance, reviewed updates and suggested
necessary changes required till the completion.
In this Major Research Project, I have tried to analyse the performance of various
Indian Railways zones using Multi Criteria Decision Making tool called Data
Envelopment Analysis. This tool provides the efficiency of various Decision-Making
Units (DMU’s) i.e., Railway Zones by weighing various inputs and outputs, which
generally doesn’t have linear relationship. This technique helps in measuring
efficiency while acknowledging various inputs and outputs which have major impact
on the performance, rather than judging the performance on the basis of certain aspects
such as revenue or Net profit. In the case of latter method of judgement, the input
variables are completely ignored thus not taking complete picture into consideration.
The tool used for analysis is DEAP which was developed by Tim Coelli, and made
analysis really easy. It helped in conducting the analysis in very easy manner and
provided results which were pretty easy to interpret.
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Machogu, Clifford Getaro. "A critical study of budgeting in public sector undertakings;(Special reference to Indian railways)." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/3867.
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Sibal, Vinod Kumar. "Studies to improve the effectiveness of freight trains in the context of Indian Railways." Thesis, 1993. http://localhost:8080/iit/handle/2074/5008.
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(9804173), Lily Hirsch. "It's a jungle in here: Conceptualising the crowdedness experience of Mumbai's railway commuters." Thesis, 2016. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/It_s_a_jungle_in_here_Conceptualising_the_crowdedness_experience_of_Mumbai_s_railway_commuters/13387298.
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Crowded rail travel is a daily experience for millions of commuters worldwide. The implications of passenger crowding are well understood from economic, health, and policy perspectives. Whilst factors extrinsic to the crowded body are well recognised, the experience of the crowded body itself has been largely ignored. This renders passengers as passive components of the crowd. The aim of this research is to develop an experiential understanding of crowding that accommodates the perspectives and experiences of passengers as proactive parts of the crowd.
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Lin, Zhi-Hong, and 林志鴻. "A study on equivalent sound level prediction model and assessment indica tor for railway noise." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31883633662006757429.
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Srivastava, Om Prakash. "Safe driving behaviour as a function of Locus of control, Psychological differentiation and emotional stability in locomotive drivers of the Indian Railways." Thesis, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2009/5225.
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Mehrotra, Shagun. "Reinventing Infrastructure Economics: Theory and Empirics." Thesis, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8FX7HJD.
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My dissertation is a study of the conditions under which state-owned enterprises improve infrastructure services--transport, energy, and water--particularly in developing countries. This research is relevant because, despite successful privatization of infrastructure that yielded over trillion and a half dollars in investments since 1990, infrastructure provision remains dominated by state-owned enterprises (Estache & Fay, 2007; Gomez-Ibanez, 2003). The OECD estimates that over the next two decades, US $35 to 40 trillion will be required to meet the global infrastructure deficit. At least half of this investment will be made by governments, particularly in, but not limited to, developing countries (OECD, 2007). In contrast to conventional wisdom, my research identifies mechanisms for reforming public infrastructure utilities through a new recipe for an inclusive reform framework that, unlike the textbook approach, jointly optimizes equity and efficiency without privatization. This dissertation contrasts the world's largest public utility, the Indian Railways, with the ideal-type textbook privatization, illustrated with the case of the British Railways' privatization. I focus on the Indian Railways as a paradigmatic example of how to reform infrastructure-providing state-owned enterprises while balancing equity with efficiency concerns. I analyze primary data gathered through 100 in-depth interviews and on-site observations. The fieldwork was conducted over a period of two years, including half a year at the Office of the Minister for Indian Railways. In addition, I utilize secondary data through archival review of policy documents and analyze fifty years of the Railways' statistics. My dissertation shows how the Indian Railways was transformed, between 2005-2008, counter intuitively, without privatization, retrenchment, or fare-hikes for poor passengers, under the leadership of a populist politician, the then Minister of Railways. I explain how the Railways' was rescued from near bankruptcy in 2001 to realize US $6 billion annual surplus in 2008. An essential element of the Indian Railway's complex strategy was to leverage existing assets by operating faster, longer, and heavier trains on the supply-side, as opposed to investing in asset accumulation. On the demand-side, the Railways shed a monopoly mind-set in favor of customer centric, dynamic, and differential pricing and service provision. Based on the positive case of Indian Railways, I derive an equitable alternative to infrastructure reform: A tripartite inclusive reform framework--diagnostic, invention, and agency. First, crafting space for reform by diagnosis and navigation of conflicting and competing interest groups to isolate apolitical variables that jointly increase efficiency and equity outcomes. Second, reinventing reforms by focusing on all manipulable variables for supply optimization and demand responsiveness, because profit in public utilities is a function of several manipulable variables, not only fares and wages. Third, agency, through radical incrementalism, an approach to minimize the risk of catastrophic errors, and yet yield rapid transformations.
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Mathur, Venila. "Macro-economic analysis of Indian railways (with special reference to projections of traffic, rail road shares, dieselisation and electrification, fares and freight rates and investment)." Thesis, 1988. http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/12345678/5705.
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