United States-Federal Republic of Germany cooperative study of planned magnetically levitated vehicle ride quality

Details

• 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:
  • Magnetic levitation vehicles
  • Ride quality
  • High speed ground transportation
  • Guideways
• Publication/ Report Number:
  RS006-PM-79-31
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Federal Republic of Germany ; United States
• Edition:
  Project memorandum
• 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:
  The major goal of the second phase was to estimate the absolute comfort levels which would be associated with actual travel on highspeed, interurban, fixed-guideway, transportation systems. To accomplish this goal, the study design incorporated many of the features to e found in such travel including realistic trip durations, simulations of the visual aspects of the countryside, control of subject expectation through descriptions of the characteristics of the vehicles simulated, and subject performance of activities analogous to those actually caried out during travel. Forty-five minute trip lengths (approximately the duration planned for the mag-lev systems) were used and during these trips, apssengers were exposed to five eight-minute trip segments which represented different speed-guideway configurations.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/8588/dot_8588_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.60 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:38ce083d5bac90011437d7515a3d79a3e4fb6457278fb48e531ea3b3ac5eb78b