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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 254, 2019
XXIII Polish-Slovak Scientific Conference on Machine Modelling and Simulations (MMS 2018)
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Article Number | 03007 | |
Number of page(s) | 12 | |
Section | Machine Dynamics and Multibody Systems Simulations | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201925403007 | |
Published online | 15 January 2019 |
Road train motion stability in BRT system
1
National Transport University, Department of Automobiles, M. Omelianovycha-Pavlenka Str., 1, 01010, Kiev, Ukraine
2
University of Žilina, Department of Transport and Handling Machines, Univerzitná 1, 010 26 Žilina, Slovak Republic
3
Zhytomyr State Technological University, Department of Automobiles and Transport Technologies, Chudnivska 103, 10005, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
* Corresponding author: juraj.gerlici@fstroj.uniza.sk
The peculiarities of organization and perspectives of mass passenger transportation in the city and beyond are considered with the use of "Bus Rapid Transport" (BRT) or Metrobus. Different aspects of study of motor vehicles (MV) controllability and stability are analyzed. It is substantiated that it is sufficient to consider the potential stability of the MV itself, in order to guarantee the stability of the "driver MV" system with a large reserve. A mathematical model of a three-axle bus train consisting of a bus and two trains (metrobus) is developed and the factors influencing the critical speed as the main index of the stability of its movement are determined. It is established that the increase of the critical speed of the metrobus can be achieved by increasing the base of the bus, the first and the second trailer, as well as the mass of the bus and the coefficients of resistance of the drive wheels of the bus driving axle and the trailers axles. At the same time, increasing the distance from the mass center to the bus rear axle, increasing the distance from the mass center to the point of the coupling of the bus with the first trailer, increasing the mass of trailers and the resistance of the resistance of the wheel drive of the bus axis lead to a decrease in the critical speed of the metrobus. This must be taken into account both when designing metrobuses, and when operating them.
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