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Safety of High Speed Ground Transportation Systems - X2000 U.S. Demonstration Vehicle Dynamics Tests, Final Test Report

This report docunents the procedures, events, and results of vehicle dynamic tests carried out on the ASEA-Brown Boveri (ABB) X2000 tilt body trainset in the U.S. between October 1992 and May 1993. These tests, sponsored by Amtrak and supported by the FRA, were conducted to assess the suitability...

Preliminary Program Workshop on Safety Research Related to High-Speed Rail and Maglev Passenger Systems

In many areas of the country, potential U.S. applications for high-speed rail and maglev technologies are being considered. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation has statutory responsibility to assure the safe operations of intercity high-speed rail and...

National Maglev Initiative

This brochure describes the National Maglev Initiative.

Preliminary Intermodal Data Inventory

[From the Introduction] One of the duties of the Office of Intermodalism, specified in Title V of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), is the development of an intermodal transportation data base. Section 5001(c) of the ISTEA states: "(4) INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION DATA BASE...

One-Dimensional Problem of a Thick-Walled Cylinder Subjected to Internal Pressure and Combined Load Analysis of Plastic and Residual Strains

[From the Introduction] This report presents plastic and residual strains corresponding to residual stresses obtained for two one-dimensional test problems using a thick-walled cylinder. General formulation of the problems was the same as in the test of torsion of a cylinder, presented in the...

Noise from High Speed Maglev Systems

Noise levels from magnetically-levitated trains (maglev) at very high speed may be high enough to cause environmental noise impact in residential areas. Aeroacoustic sources dominate the sound at high speeds and guideway vibrations generate noticeable sound at low speed. In addition, to high noise...

Maglev-Rail Intermodal Equipment and Suspension Study: Final Report

The physical and operational characteristics of four existing and planned maglev systems were surveyed pertinent to the intermoda! interface for each system. The maglev systems investigated were: Grumman "New York State" (Configuration 002) Maglev; Transrapid Intercity (Transrapid 07) Maglev; HSST...

Locomotive Control Compartment Safety Program: Locomotive Heavy Axle Load Tests

The Federal Railroad Administration sponsored a program to evaluate the wheel on rail dynamic safety performance of locomotives with increased cab weight at the Transportation Test Center, Pueblo, Colorado. The increased weight represents the weight of a cab reinforced to protect the occupants in...

Linear Synchronous Motors for Maglev

This paper is based in large part on work done in the DOT sponsored study, "Low Cost Linear Synchronous Motor Propulsion for Maglev." The principal objectives are to create a methodology for designing a Linear Synchronous Motor (LSM) with emphasis on new ideas not embodied in existing maglev...

Lightweight Car Simuloader Test

Railcars experience fatigue damage from loads encountered during in-train revenue service operation. In 1984, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) acquired an electro-hydraulic shaker system that allowed railcar fatigue performance to be investigated at the Transportation Test Center, Pueblo,...

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