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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