本书论述了我国铁路工程项目风险管理的现状与发展展望，工程保险与工程担保的发展历程；系统地阐述了铁路工程项目风险管理的基本理论和实际操作内容；详细地介绍了目前工程保险所属多种险种的条款解释、承保、理赔和风险评估的全部内容；分析了工程担保制度的理论基础，并介绍了国内外工程担保实施现状。本书为英文教材，主要是针对来中南大学土木工程学院学习的留学生编写的英文教材。在“一带一路”倡议下，来我国学习铁路技术的留学生越来越多，本书为“一带一路”铁路国际人才教育丛书之一。本书也可以作为土木工程相关专业学生和老师阅读参考。

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Drivers,concepts and characteristics of international projects
1.2 Concepts and key features of construction megaprojects
1.3 International project delivery systems
1.4 Global railway construction markets
1.5 Introduction of risk management
1.6 Channel Tunnel Rail Link risk transfer and innovation in project delivery
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 2 Risk Management Principles, Frameworks and Processes
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Risk management principles
2.3 Risk management conceptual frameworks
2.4 Risk management process
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 3 Legal Systems,Contracts, and Legal Risks
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Governing law system
3.3 Different types of legal systems
3.4 Differences between common law system and civil law system
3.5 International engineering and construction contracts
3.6 Legal risks in international railway projects
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 4 Project Risk Formation Mechanisms
4.1 Construction accident formation mechanisms
4.2 PPP/BOT transportation project failure mechanisms
4.3 International railway project loss mechanisms
4.4 International railway project loss case
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 5 Risk Identification Techniques
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Assumptions and constraints analysis
5.3 Scenario analysis
5.4 Flow diagram
5.5 SWOT Analysis
5.6 Cause and effect diagrams
5.7 Checklists
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 6 Sensitivity Analysis, Bayesian Analysis and Decision Tree Analysis
6.1 Sensitivity analysis
6.2 Bayesian analysis
6.3 Decision tree analysis
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 7 Preliminary Hazard Analysis, Influence diagrams technique and Z-Matrix
7.1 Preliminary hazard analysis
7.2 Influence diagrams
7.3 Z-Matrix
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 8 Event Tree Analysis and Fault Tree Analysis
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Event tree analysis
8.3 Fault tree analysis
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 9 Monte Carlo Simulation
9.1 Commonly used probability distributions in engineering
9.2 Basics of Monte Carlo simulation
9.3 Generation of random numbers
9.4 CDF-inverse method (continuous case)
9.5 Acceptance-rejection method
9.6 Generation random variates from probability distributions
9.7 Variance-reduction techniques
9.8 Monte Carlo simulation case
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 10 System dynamics
10.1 Historical overview of the system dynamics approach
10.2 Causal loop diagrams and stock and flow diagrams
10.3 Procedures for using the system dynamics method
10.4 Application case of system dynamics
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 11 Project Risk Early Earning
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Earned-value-management-based project schedule and cost early warning
11.3 Earned-schedule-based project schedule early warning
11.4 Dynamic-control threshold-based project schedule early warning
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 12 Construction Insurance and Surety Bonds
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Insurance for international railway engineering projects
12.3 Surety bonds for international railway engineering projects
Exercises and Discussions
Chapter 13 Variations, Claims and Disputes
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Variations in construction
13.3 Claims in construction
13.4 Disputes in construction
Exercises and Discussions
References