High-speed rail aerodynamic assessment and mitigation report : final report.

Details

• Creators:
  Derkowski, Paul ; Clark, Steve ; Sturt, Richard ; Keylin, Alexander ; Baker, Chris ; Vardy, Alan ; Wilson, Nicholas
• Corporate Creators:
  Arup ; Transportation Technology Center, Inc. ; Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education ; Dundee Tunnel Research
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Aerodynamics
  • Evaluation and assessment
  • High speed rail
  • Impact
  • Literature reviews
  • Railroad safety
  • Standards High-speed rail
  • train aerodynamics
  • train slipstream
  • pressure pulse
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT/FRA/ORD-15/40
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report
• Contracting Officer:
  Stuart, Cameron
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
• Abstract:
  This report advances the current state of knowledge, as well as shared understanding and evaluation of present procedures used to ; mitigate the impacts effects from high-speed trains (HST) operating at speeds between 110 mph and 250 mph. This work gathers ; and summarizes existing international knowledge and standards and forms the basis for a future design and mitigation guidance ; manual.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTFR53-13-C-00050
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/31176/dot_31176_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.11 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Railroad Administration ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4e83d45e2f53c57c446affde450d1dc9c21abe72c06af760a8dd556face616822d31c4362f07a82c7b7aa7a73bc7e8a8346043d72549977a0a4b029d3a837c52