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2. RTRI’s Commemorative Lecture on the Possibility of High-Speed Railways

Author : Tetsuo Shimomae

Published in: Birth of the Shinkansen

Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore

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Abstract

In 1957, RTRI celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding. One of the commemorative events was a lecture that played a major role in realizing the Shinkansen.

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Footnotes
1
Takeshi Shinohara joined the Ministry of Railway in 1930, later became Chairman of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, and later became President of the Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation.
 
2
Scheduled speed is calculated by dividing the travel distance by the travel time, including stops along the way.
 
3
Miki [4].
 
4
Shinji Sogo joined the Railway Bureau in1909. He became the fourth JNR president in 1955.
 
Literature
1.
Tadashi Matsudaira, “A Retrospective of Research and Development on the Tokaido Shinkansen (in Japanese)”, Journal of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, no. 646, 1972, p. 101.
2.
Takeshi Shinohara, Hideshige Takaguchi, The Soliloquy of the Shinkansen Inventor (in Japanese), Pan Research Institute, Japan, 1992, p. 82.
3.
Takeshi Shinohara, “Greetings on the RTRI commemorative lecture (in Japanese)”, Research on the Tokaido Shinkansen, vol. 1, RTRI, 1960, p. 6.
4.
Miki, T., “Problems Related to High-Speed Railway,” Journal of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, no. 480, 1959.
Metadata
Title
RTRI’s Commemorative Lecture on the Possibility of High-Speed Railways
Author
Tetsuo Shimomae
Copyright Year
2022
Publisher
Springer Nature Singapore
Book
Birth of the Shinkansen

Print ISBN: 978-981-16-6537-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-16-6538-7

Copyright Year: 2022

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6538-7_2

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