Railway Chronicles 2

Gathered together over time, these chronicles reflect a common concern: to understand rail not only as a set of infrastructures and technical organizations, but also as a social, territorial, economic and political fact. The result is an overall reading of contemporary transformations in rail transport, in the continuity of an ongoing process of observation and questioning.This book offers a genuine cross-section of the issues structuring the rail sector. Its table of contents reveals its architecture: the health crisis and its effects on mobility, the energy transition and the imperatives of decarbonization, networks and territories, rail freight, and finally the prospects opened up by innovation, digital technology and changes in the business model. This organization reflects a desire to link issues that contribute to the same questioning of the future of railways in our society. Aimed at both students and professionals in the sector, as well as anyone with a curiosity or passion for information, this collection aims to be widely accessible to all readers.