Vehicle dynamics simulation on running safety of Shinkansen

Abstract

Development of practical and effective rail track-structure countermeasure is advanced as antiearthquake-measures recently. It's necessary to make sure of its effect beforehand in case of practical use of these track countermeasures. Authors have developed a vehicle-track-structure interaction simulation model that can analyze the effects on running safety by track countermaeasures. The outline of this analysis model is described and several analysis results related to these track countermeasures are shown in this paper.