Running Dynamics of Rail Vehicles

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your research achievements to a Special Issue of Energies, titled “Running Dynamics of Rail Vehicles”.

The importance of simulation calculations in developing railway vehicles and their subsystems is consistently growing compared to physical experiments and track tests. Computer simulations of vehicle running dynamics are gaining an increasingly important role in the railway vehicle acceptance process, in the development of innovative running gears, development of active controlled suspension systems, prediction of wear of wheels and rails, prediction of noise emissions, and many other aspects in the field of railway engineering. The purpose of this Special Issue is to publish the latest achievements and new results of theoretical and experimental research and to show the current problems and the ways to solve them in the simulation and testing of running dynamics of railway vehicles. Topics of interest for publication include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Innovative running gear designs;
• Utilisation of active controlled systems in running gears;
• Wheel–rail force interaction;
• Wear of wheels and rails;
• Testing and simulation for the acceptance of running characteristics of railway vehicles;
• Verification and validation of simulation models;
• Vehicle dynamics modelling and simulation;
• Co-simulation and model coupling;
• Reduction of noise in railway transport;
• Reduction of energy consumption in railway transport;
• Alternative energy sources;
• Rail transport safety.

Dr. Larysa Neduzha
Dr. Jan Kalivoda
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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