chapter 1 Steel and composite bridges for high speed railways the French know-how / chapter 2 The effects on the interoperability of the European Railway Traffic of European Standards / chapter 3 Railway bridges for high speed lines and Eurocodes / chapter 4 Dynamic loads in new engineering codes for railway bridges in Europe and Spain / chapter 5 The Italian high speed network: Design and construction of the reinforced concrete bridges / chapter 6 Bridges for the high speed railway lines in Spain. Design criteria and case studies / chapter 7 Prestressed concrete railway bridges / chapter 8 Dynamic behaviour of bridges due to high speed trains / chapter 9 Dynamic analysis of hyperestatic structures under high speed train loads / chapter 10 Bridge-vehicles dynamic interaction: numerical modelling and practical applications / chapter 11 Seismic design of structures in the French Mediterranean and Asian high speed railway lines / chapter 12 Closed and open joints for bridges on high speed lines / chapter 13 Structural bearings for high speed railway bridges / chapter 14 Serviceability limit states in relation to the track in railway bridges / chapter 15 Differences in designing high-speed railway bridges and highway bridges / chapter 16 The cable-stayed bridge over the Po river / chapter 17 Composite and prestressed concrete solutions for very long viaducts: analysis of different structural designs for the Spanish high speed lines / chapter 18 Engineering the bridge over the Hollandsch diep