In our proposal to the AAR and to prospective customers, New York Air Brake claimed weight savings of 1000 tons on a 100 trailor capacity train compared with a conventional train of equivalent capacity. Other advantages, cycle time, automatic control and reduced fuel, labor and maintenance costs will be verified only when Phase One of a two-phase develpment program has been completed. This first phase of development includes testing of the driver's ability to park and tie down a trailer on a simulated deck, construction of an 84 ft. long, full-scale section of platform and suspension for testing over rough track and curves on the AAR's roller rig at Pueblo, Colorado, and full-scale tests of the microcomputer control and diesel-ac-hydramatic propulsion systems. Rather, it will test the economic and technological viability of each of them and advise each proposer what the strong and weak pointsof his proposal are. The response to the project, to date, certainly justifies the AAR program. The AAR expects that the first Integral Train prototypes will be rolling within 18 months and that by 1995 some 30 percent of all rolling stock will be in Intgral Train configurations. Given the potential savings and performance improvements possible with this type equipment, this does not seem unreasonable.


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    Title :

    Productivity, marketability and the integral train


    Additional title:

    Produktivitaet und marktwirtschaftliches Verhalten durch kombinierten LKW/Bahnbetrieb


    Contributors:
    Engle, T.H. (author)


    Publication date :

    1986


    Size :

    14 Seiten, 14 Bilder


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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