The rail vehicle resistance (or train resistance or simply resistance) is the total force necessary to maintain a rail vehicle in motion. This force depends...
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underneath) and the vehicle itself, and by sliding of the wheel, road/rail contact. Railroad textbooks seem to cover all these resistance forces but do not...
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road–rail vehicle or a rail–road vehicle is a dual-mode vehicle which can operate both on rail tracks and roads. They are also known as two-way vehicles (German:...
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on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is...
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A locomotive is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is usually rather...
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The higher rolling resistance of rubber tires requires more energy for propulsion than the steel wheels of a light rail vehicle. A few abandoned proposals...
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include road and rail vehicles, electric boats and underwater vessels, electric aircraft and electric spacecraft. Early electric vehicles first came into...
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The US Standard Light Rail Vehicle (SLRV) was a light rail vehicle (LRV) built by Boeing Vertol in the 1970s. The Urban Mass Transportation Administration...
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has the potential to snag a vehicle, which may cause it to flip, roll, or cause the rail to fail entirely, allowing a vehicle to penetrate the guardrail...
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Some battery electric vehicles can be recharged while the user drives. Such a vehicle establishes contact with an electrified rail, plate, or overhead wires...
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metal tubing. By far the most common, the C-channel rail has been used on nearly every type of vehicle at one time or another.[citation needed] It is made...
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Train wheel (redirect from Rail wheel)
interaction between the wheel and the rail. Incorrectly profiled wheels and worn wheels can increase rolling resistance, reduce energy efficiency and may...
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Toe (automotive) (section Road–rail vehicles)
road-rail vehicles do not always have a common axle between the rail wheels and the toe-in angle prevents the vehicle from hunting when on-rail. When...
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Railway engineering (redirect from Rail engineering)
Train control systems Cab signalling Railway vehicle engineering Rolling resistance Curve resistance Wheel–rail interface Hunting oscillation Railway systems...
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a straight path due to the inertia of the rail vehicle, causing the wheelset to move towards the outer rail on the curve. The cone increases the effective...
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Aérotrain (redirect from Tracked Air Cushioned Vehicle)
The Aérotrain was an experimental Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle (TACV), or hovertrain, developed in France from 1965 to 1977 under the engineering leadership...
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exposed electric rail by implementing a segmented ground-level power supply, where each segment is electrified only while covered by a vehicle which is using...
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Victory, a Polish WWII resistance organization Budd SPV-2000 rail car Orange SPV, 2002 smartphone Irish Section 110 Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), type of company...
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Fuel efficiency (redirect from Vehicle effiency)
fuel and rolling resistance. There have been advances in all areas of vehicle design in recent decades. Fuel efficiency of vehicles can also be improved...
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In Poland, the resistance movement during World War II was led by the Home Army. The Polish resistance is notable among others for disrupting German supply...
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Manganese increases strength and resistance to abrasion. AREA and ASTM specified 0.6 to 0.9 percent manganese in 70 to 90 pound rail and 0.7 to 1 percent in heavier...
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MBTA Kinki Sharyo Type 7 (category Light rail vehicles)
light rail vehicle owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). Since 1986, the MBTA has used the Type 7 on its Green Line light rail network...
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Truck scale (redirect from Rail weighbridge)
weigh entire rail or road vehicles and their contents. By weighing the vehicle both empty and when loaded, the load carried by the vehicle can be calculated...
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that for empty rail cars (low wheel loads) the specific curve resistance is higher, similar to the phenomena of higher rolling resistance for empty cars...
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Tram (redirect from Trolley (rail))
commonly included in the wider term light rail, which also includes systems separated from other traffic. Tram vehicles are usually lighter and shorter than...
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Contact patch (section Railroad steel wheel on rail)
footprint Summary: Inflation Pressure Retention Effects on Tire Rolling Resistance, Vehicle Fuel Economy and CO2 Emissions presented to the California Air Resources...
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Armoured personnel carrier (redirect from Infantry Carrier Vehicle)
and the wear they cause on roads, tracked vehicles are typically transported over long distances by rail or trucks. Many APCs are amphibious, meaning...
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The vehicle features ZPT-99 30mm cannon turret with a HJ-73C ATGM rail launcher, capable of penetrating more than 800mm RHA after ERA. The vehicle can...
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Hovertrain (redirect from Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle)
"Glideair" vehicle, but quotes Kucher noting "We look upon Glideair as a new form of high-speed land transportation, probably in the field of rail surface...
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crashworthiness and resistance to end loading; as such, much of its intention lightweight 'bus on a wagon' look was lost, becoming a more substantial vehicle. Throughout...
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