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The possibilities that tracked vehicle transportation of both people and goods could be more economic, less environmentally destructive, and even more convenient than that by other road vehicles or aircraft, seems to have been considered seriously in recent years only by a relatively small group of enthusiasts. Possibly this is because, despite their profitability in their early years, so many railways and municipal rapid transit lines became neglected loss-making public enterprises. Whatever the reasons were why this happened, it is now clear that their successors, publicly and/or privately owned airlines and roads for private vehicles, can be equally or more costly, both financially and environmentally. As Editor-in-Chief, I am pleased to provide for readers these proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Railway and Tracked Transit System Noise, at which an increased number of rail transport enthusiasts presented their most recent findings, and views on how rail transport systems could be made less environmentally damaging in respect to the noise and vibration that they produce. Readers will find that the engineers concerned are well on the way to finding means of making pass-bys of their tracked vehicles both quicker and at least as quiet as those of the automobiles on your roads and the aircraft overhead. Not only that, but the structural innovations that they are investigating have some implications for both road and air vehicles.
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