The report provides a methodology for creating an initial rough design of a rail rapid transit car, or for evaluating an existing design. It is based on optimizing the design features by minimizing the sum of the annual costs of purchasing, power consumption, maintenance, and on-board operating labor for a fleet of such vehicles. Linear programming is used to arrive at a solution based on the interaction of several hundred equations which describe the complex inter-relationships amongst the elements of car design, dimensions, and performance, and the various components and sub-assemblies which comprise the vehicle, and the associated costs.


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    Title :

    A Procedure for Optimizing Rapid Transit Car Design


    Contributors:
    M. F. Huss (author)

    Publication date :

    1975


    Size :

    248 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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