This report introduces the study results of a Citroen Berlingo converted into an electric car. It presents the energy properties of road and laboratory tests. Initially the structure of the converted car is described, and characteristics of the main car elements are given. Then, the power and energy characteristics of the converted car are obtained and analyzed. On the road...
The railway transport of goods was in past the most used type of transport. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the performance of this mode of transport was reduced. At present, international trade is expanding in the direction of Asia–Europe. For economic and, above all, ecological reasons, it is appropriate to move the transport operations back to rail transport. The...
The article presents the research carried out on the experimental construction of a crane, where a hoist with an AC motor without a motor control system was used as an excitation signal for the girder. The purpose of the described research is to determine the relationship between the values of the dynamic surplus factor when lifting the load with the loose rope in the initial...
The purpose of this work is to increase the service life of milling cutters for wheel-milling machines KJ20, and to improve the processing quality of the working surface of wheelsets of railway vehicles. Questions of operation of cylindrical cutting tools are considered, force characteristics are determined, and also analyzed their stressed
One of the quality indicators of the transport service in passenger transport is the regularity of the movement of vehicles. Apart from the planned traffic intervals, it depends on a number of factors related to the traffic conditions of the public transport in the locality (intensity and composition of the traffic flow, passenger traffic structure, traffic lights regime...
This work presents some aspects related to the designing of a roller for stands that are intended to determine the parameters of the transmission of a vehicle, such as braking force, wheel revolutions, etc. The computational scheme of simply supported beam is used to create an analytical mechanical-mathematical model through which a multicriteria optimization problem has been...
The aim of the study is related to obtain real data for the LEDs’ thermal load and characteristics of several LED lamps types H4 and H7 for automotive headlights with different cooling system. Power consumption, temperature regimes of the LEDs’ operation, lamps’ radiation spectral distribution, and luminous flux of lamps for automobile headlights with active and passive cooling...
We developed a concept and calculated an efficiency of the electrochemical cycle of converting low-grade heat (temperature difference 10-80°C) into electricity. The cycle could be divided into two stages: creating a concentration difference by a solution distilled in a temperature gradient and electricity generation in concentration galvanic cell. The calculation shows that the...
The paper dwells on developing the measures required for the effective functioning of urban bus routes, which are of great practical importance. As the analysis shows that in order to effectively organize urban passenger traffic and determine their optimal number on the routes, it is necessary to determine the pattern of changes in passenger flows, and on this basis, to...
This paper explores and summarizes the experience of financing water transport infrastructure of a number of countries with developed network of inland waterways, namely the USA, Russia and Germany. The purpose of the work is to generalize current situation and find ways of optimization of inland waterway transport infrastructure financing. The first part of the paper analyses...
The factor of the aircraft load or sometimes simply called the load factor is the rate of capacity of the airline. It is also known as the efficiency measure and is therefore the most commonly used estimate to describe the performance of the airline. Achieving high load factor is considerably important for the profitability of the airline, and it is interesting to identify...
The paper considers the problems related with the thermodynamic analysis of the conrod-free engine. A mathematical model of the intake system of the conrod-free engine is proposed, which takes into account the kinematics of the slider-crank mechanism. The computational model of the intake system of the engine with the slidercrank mechanism is presented. The model allowed...
As part of this research, a computer model of the existing bidirectional single-track railway line section between Zagreb Glavni and Turopolje railway stations has been developed, and it has been modified with the aim of developing a new model of the double-track line on this line section, and which in relation to the existing conditions also includes additionally the new stop...
The model of service maintenance and repair of passenger rolling stock is considered as a multi-channel system. The presented model is implemented on the queuing model basis. The service maintenance and passenger rolling stock system stipulates not only for the transition to a new level of the maintenance system as a type of activity but as a means boosting up the economic growth...
In the automation systems of sorting process the use of computer networks of Ethernet technology is possible. But its traditional drawback is a probabilistic nature of the network access, which does not guarantee the information transmission in specified time intervals. However, there are other technologies that are free from this defect, for example, the Token Ring technology. A...
In this paper, the problem related to transformation of ac voltage into DC voltage used in tram supply is considered. A variable component is always present in rectified voltage. Pulsation of rectified voltage is influenced by different factors. In a 12-pulse system, where two secondary transformer windings are used (one delta-connected and the other star-connected), an...
This article presents the concept of transportation demand management (TDM) in the EU transport policy context. Authors present the source of transport intensity problems and also show good practices that effectively reduce the transport demand. To identify the major transportation demand problems that cities are faced with, primary and secondary research was carried out. Primary...
In this work, we presented the influence of the anodizing method and parameters, as well as the chemical composition of the used aluminium alloys on the properties and microstructure of the anodic layer produced on aluminium alloys, in particular on the size and morphology of the primary silicon precipitates and the homogeneity of the resulting oxide coating. Aluminium alloys...
At the beginning of the paper, the analysis of energy efficiency indicators for freight electric locomotive with asynchronous traction drive feeding from AC network under various operating conditions including when working with trains of various masses is made. The movement on different railway sections is considered. The graphs of locomotive’s speed, traction force, consumed...
The aerodynamic noise of high-speed train power car was investigated in this article. The full-scale power car was first modeled, and the external steady flow field was computed by a realizable k-ε turbulence model. The aerodynamic noise sources of the power car surface and the external transient flow field were then calculated by broadband noise source model and large eddy...
This article presents results of tests of the effect exerted by technical condition of shock absorbers on the braking efficiency of an automotive vehicle. The tests were conducted using Fiat Seicento featuring front shock absorbers which enabled shock-absorbing fluid-level adjustment. The tests comprised measurements conducted on the shock absorbers in four states, i.e. the...
In the most developed countries, intensive studies are being carried out to utilize various types of electric machines such as synchronous motors with permanent magnets and traction motors with non-traditional magnetic systems on traction electric drives. Switched Reluctance Motors (SRM) are one of the most simple, reliable, and cost-efficient technology used in manufacture and...
The use of internal combustion engines increase environmental pollution and dependence on fossil fuels. The biodiesel fuel, which is renewable, more environment friendly, and cheaper, is a good alternative for diesel engines. The use of biodiesel fuel leads to a drop in diesel power and an increase in fuel consumption. To prevent these shortcomings, it is proposed to use dynamic...
The use of electrically powered vehicles is becoming more and more established in practice and represents a promising solution in future ensuring quality mobility and reducing the pollution in the environment. Since these vehicles are high-priced, and there is still a low awareness among consumers in terms of energy consumption and pollution, vehicles with an internal combustion...
The problem of effective management of the railway freight flows in the conditions of the multiplicity of operators requires the rationalization of the transportation process. The further development of the authors’ research on creating the mathematical model of the railway freight flows in the region transportation and technological system is presented. For the first time, the...