United States-Federal Republic of Germany cooperative study of advanced ground vehicle ride quality

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• Creators:
  Sussman, E. Donald ; Dumas, Joseph S. ; Wichansky, Anna M. ; Abernethy, Charles N., III
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ; Langley Research Center
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Ground transportation
  • Vehicle design
  • Ride quality
  • Magnetic levitation vehicles
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RS006-PM-79-31
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Federal Republic of Germany ; United States
• Edition:
  Project memorandum; Revised
• Corporate Publisher:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-SAFETY AND SECURITY ; NTL-SAFETY AND SECURITY-Human Factors
• Abstract:
  In the first phase of this study, the relative comfort ; assoiciated with various speed-guideway configurations for a proposed ; magnetically levitated vehicle (Figure 1) and for a currently ; operating Bundesbahn rail-coach were determined. The rideenvironment ; of the two vehicle types was simulated using the NASA ; Langley Research Center's (NASA/LRC) Passenger Ride Quality ; Apparatus (PRQA). The simulation was based on vehicle and guideway ; dynamics models which depict the motion environments in terms ; of "bounce" or motions along the Z-axis, "sway" or motions along ; the X-axis, and "roll" or rotational motions about the Y-axis. ; Paid subjects, chosen to achieve a balance between sex & age, were ; exposed to brief samples of the motion environments accompanied ; by appropriate levels of acoustic noise. The subjects were asked ; to rate the comfort level of each motion sample and, in cases ; where the ride was perceived to be uncomfortable, were asked to ; identify the motions which were most disturbing. ; 1
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/8589/dot_8589_DS1.pdf
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• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
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