Comfort has traditionally been assessed as a single deterministic index that can be assigned to each railway vehicle type (at a given speed on a given track quality level). However, it is now well established that passengers influence vibration and, as a consequence, occupancy level and seating arrangement influence comfort, thus turning it into a stochastic variable. The concept of Compound Comfort, presented in Palomares et al. [Is the standard ride comfort index an actual estimation of railway passenger comfort? Veh Syst Dyn. 2022;1–14. doi: 10.1080/00423114.2022.2148543], is used in this paper to evaluate several train types. Simplified models are used as a first approximation for vibration analysis. Despite model simplicity, since the number of possible seating arrangements is intractable, a Monte Carlo procedure is used to obtain compound comfort probability density distributions from a randomised subset of cases. The results from the work presented here will show that the information provided by stochastic distributions is much richer than a single deterministic index. Nevertheless, obtaining distributions from Monte Carlo tests (numerical or experimental) is impractical for any commercial assessment of comfort. Therefore, an inference procedure is called for and has been devised in order to obtain probability density function parameters from just one tare test, along with ten runs of a half laden test. This recipe has been adapted from one presented previously to be able to accommodate the skewed distributions that emerge when a wide range of train configurations is considered.


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    Title :

    Probability distributions for stochastic comfort in railway vehicles


    Additional title:

    VEHICLE SYSTEM DYNAMICS
    A.L. MORALES ET AL.


    Contributors:
    Morales, A.L. (author) / Palomares, E. (author) / Nieto, A.J. (author) / Pintado, P. (author)

    Published in:

    Vehicle System Dynamics ; 62 , 8 ; 2098-2111


    Publication date :

    2024-08-02


    Size :

    14 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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