Optimising Train Speed

The importance of the train speed is considered relative to activity of railways, presenting a wide panorama of influence, on the one hand of speed on the process of transportation of goods and passengers, and, on the other hand, of rolling stock, infrastructure, and organisation of transportation on speed.

The objective of the article is to extend the ideas about the speed on railways with the help of analysis of Russian and international history of development and results of the study of the train speed.

Despite, it would seem, all the certainty of speed of movement, the history of its development testifies to a wide range of opinions and non-obviousness of estimates. The historical review contains opinion on the development of the problem and interaction between the speed and other parameters.

The interaction of train speed with all components of the transportation process is described by various dependencies. Therefore, the economic efficiency from increasing speed of trains can be obtained only with a system approach.

Analysis of modern research shows the potential capacity to increase the speed. The results of the author’s research reveal the in-depth possibilities and expediency of increasing train speed.

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