PT Journal AU Grencik, J Klinko, M TI Potential Reduction of Travel Times and Energy Consumption of Tilting Body Vehicles on ZSR SO Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina PY 2001 BP 88 EP 97 VL 3 IS 1 DI 10.26552/com.C.2001.1.88-97 WP https://komunikacie.uniza.sk/artkey/csl-200101-0010.php DE no keywords SN 13354205 AB Increasing the speed of passenger transport becomes an important task facing present-day railways. This task has risen both from the international agreements and from the necessity to keep competitiveness of the railway on the transport market. The paper presents a possibility to increase travel speed of passenger transport on ZSR (Slovak Railways) by use of tilting body vehicles. For the selected ZSR track sections accessible travel times were calculated for conventionaldesign vehicles and for tilting body vehicles. From comparison of the results a remarkable reduction of accessible travel times can be found. Further, the energy-consumption demands have been evaluated for similar train sets of conventional design compared with the Pendolino train set during run on the existing track under present-day speed limits and under the theoretical speed limits from curve negotiation by tilting body vehicles. ER