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date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:21:33 +0200,    group: uk.railway        back       
Re: LA train crash due to push/pull?   
Stephen Sprunk  schrieb/wrote:

> I've never found any official stats on the deceleration rate for those  
> LRVs' track brakes, just 1.3m/s^2 for the regular ones.

I know that German law mandates an emergency deceleration rate for trams  
(which includes LRVs) of 2.73m/s^2, which requires the installation of  
track brakes. So I would think that a value in this neighborhood (perhaps  
3 m/s^2) would be realistic.

Val
date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:21:33 +0200   author:   Valentin Brueckel

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