2025-26

The course aims to provide students with a sound understanding of key project management skills for railway engineering projects. The course covers the roles of project managers, project life cycle, project financial accounting and its key subjects, contract administration, tender preparation and engineering design, NEC contracts and project risk management, quality management and railway business management.

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

1. understand the concepts and principles of railway project management for administering metro, high-speed and railway projects,  
2. acquire the skillsets to undertake project planning, project financial cost management, tendering and contract administration and
3. analyse and understand the railway project management skills, the roles of the project managers for construction of railway lines.

The module aims to provide students with a sound understanding of the rail accident investigation processes and derailment engineering mechanism and technologies. The course covers 5 main areas – the rail accident investigation practices worldwide and its processes, wheel-rail interaction, derailment engineering, asset management and case studies of well-known Hong Kong and international rail accidents. Students enrolled in the module are expected to have knowledge and understanding of basic mechanical engineering principles.

By the completion of this module, students will be able to:

1. Understand and apply the concepts and principles of rail accident investigation which include the international rail accident investigation practices, investigation approach, evidence collection, preservation of evidence, assessment of damages, rescue and recovery, investigative interviews, causal analysis, human factors and investigation simulation;
2. Analyse and understand the main causes of a rail accident involving wheel-rail interaction, derailment engineering mechanisms, engineering failures and human errors, and ways to alleviate the risks through asset management and safety management; and
3. Analyse and understand, through case studies of major well-known rail accidents, the usual and common causal factors that lead to disastrous rail accidents and formulate strategies to prevent recurrence.

This course aims to provide students with an understanding of railway engineering including railway services, metro trains and high speed trains, wheel-rail interaction and traction drives, metro and high speed train traction and control, signalling systems for metro and high speed rail, track works, overhead line and railway infrastructures, high-speed rail and metro station and platform design and railway risk assessment and safety management.  

By the end of this module, students will be able to:

1. understand the concepts and operating principles of railway systems for metro and high speed rail and the operations of railway services (passenger carrying capacity, headway, safety management, risk assessment and fail safe design),
2. understand the latest design of the metro trains and high-speed trains, signalling systems (ETCS, European Train Control System for high-speed rail; CTCS, China Train Control Systems; CTBC, Communication-based Train Control System for metro; ATO, Automatic Train Operation; ATP; Automatic Train Protection etc.), regenerative braking, traction and braking characteristics, etc and
3. analyse the design of different types of metro and high-speed rolling stocks, traction controls, signalling systems and railway stations and platforms to meet the community needs.

This course aims to provide students with an understanding of railway engineering including railway services, metro trains and high speed trains, wheel-rail interaction and traction drives, metro and high speed train traction and control, signalling systems for metro and high speed rail, track works, overhead line and railway infrastructures, high-speed rail and metro station and platform design and railway risk assessment and safety management.  

By the end of this module, students will be able to:

1. understand the concepts and operating principles of railway systems for metro and high speed rail and the operations of railway services (passenger carrying capacity, headway, safety management, risk assessment and fail safe design),
2. understand the latest design of the metro trains and high-speed trains, signalling systems (ETCS, European Train Control System for high-speed rail; CTCS, China Train Control Systems; CTBC, Communication-based Train Control System for metro; ATO, Automatic Train Operation; ATP; Automatic Train Protection etc.), regenerative braking, traction and braking characteristics, etc and
3. analyse the design of different types of metro and high-speed rolling stocks, traction controls, signalling systems and railway stations and platforms to meet the community needs.