Comfort on railway vehicles has been proven to depend on the number of passengers on the car, on their seating arrangement, as well as on the position in which it is assessed. The number of possible seating arrangement combinations is so large that comfort at a given location becomes a random variable even if passengers are considered deterministic vibration absorbers. In this paper we determine probability density functions (PDF) of comfort using a Monte Carlo scheme in which the number of passengers, their seating locations and their vibration characteristics (derived from passenger mass) are all random parameters with their own PDFs. Two types of distributions are obtained: the expected comfort of a single passenger and the compound comfort of all passengers on a given railway car. The carbody is represented by a beam model in which the first bending mode frequency has been allowed to vary so that the scope of results widens slightly. This variation is within the range of human sensitivity because this is the case in current lightweight construction, making carbody flexibility a key contributor to passenger comfort (or discomfort). Results confirm that comfort is indeed a stochastic variable with sizeable variance, and this prompts questions about the relation between the stochastic distribution and the tests prescribed in standard EN–12299. It will be shown that, surprisingly, comfort PDFs may be inferred with a high degree of accuracy (errors lower than 2%) from the tests in standard EN–12299. This is a most fortunate finding that radically transforms the interpretation of said standard, and allows rolling stock manufacturers and rail transport operators to have a much richer assessment of comfort on their vehicles from the same tests they now conduct, without having to perform Monte Carlo tests or simulations.


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    Titel :

    Is the standard ride comfort index an actual estimation of railway passenger comfort?


    Beteiligte:
    Palomares, E. (Autor:in) / Morales, A. L. (Autor:in) / Nieto, A. J. (Autor:in) / Félix, M. (Autor:in) / Chicharro, J. M. (Autor:in) / Pintado, P. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 61 , 11 ; 2811-2824


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2023-11-02


    Format / Umfang :

    14 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Unbekannt




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