• Rail Vehicles, Semester 3, position 4

1. Understanding the specifics of urban rail vehicles 2. Understanding the various types of special rail vehicles 3. Qualification for the application of acquired knowledge in the design, development, repair and maintenance of urban rail vehicles and special vehicles

After completion of the course, the student should be able to: 1. Explain the functional and design specificity of various types of urban rail vehicles 2. Explain the tasks and functionality of various types of special rail vehicles 3. Explain the specific technologies and technical requirements in combined transport 4. Apply appropriate regulations and standards in the design and maintenance of urban rail vehicles and special rail vehicles

Railway multi-modal transport. Transport unit types. Wagons for combined transport of containers and swap bodies. Wagons for the transportation of semi-trailers with vertical handling. Rolling stock and systems for the transport of complete road vehicles by rail. Semitrailers on bogies. Gauges for combined transport. Special wagons: tank-wagons, refrigerating wagons, hopper wagons, articulated multiple wagon units... - technical requirements and technical solutions. The forms of urban and suburban public transport: tram, light rail, metro, regional trains - requirements and specifications. Specific requirements: loads, acceleration, braking, line geometry, platform heights. Low floor design. Doors, staircases, vestibules. Articulation designs. Crashworthy design. Specifics of bogie design for low floor and articulated vehicles. Tyred running gear. Automated metro system requirements. Monorails. Vehicles on the principle of magnetic levitation: basic principles of magnetic suspension, propulsion and guidance. Systems: Transrapid, MLX, Linimo... - technical solutions.

Division and classification of units for transport by multi-modal transport: pallets, containers, mobile crates. Stability when loading or unloading wagons with horizontal loading. Procedure for determining the code of semi-trailers for transport in multi-modal rail transport. Analysis of design parameters of wagons for multi-modal transport. Dimensioning of tanks according to RID regulation. Variants of valve systems for tanks for dangerous goods transport. City rail vehicles. Geometry of the basic train unit. Vehicle-platform relationship. Examples of designs of the running assembly of city rail vehicles. Specifics of guiding through curves of a small radius. Design examples of non-conventional rail systems. Magnetic levitation vehicle design.

Previously passed exam: Rail vehicles 1 or Theory of traction.

Simić, G., Milković, D., Urban and special rail vehicles (hand-out for students), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, 2021.

Total assigned hours: 75

New material: 20
Elaboration and examples (recapitulation): 10

Auditory exercises: 12
Laboratory exercises: 0
Calculation tasks: 6
Seminar paper: 6
Project: 0
Consultations: 0
Discussion/workshop: 6
Research study work: 0

Review and grading of calculation tasks: 4
Review and grading of lab reports: 0
Review and grading of seminar papers: 2
Review and grading of the project: 0
Test: 4
Test: 0
Final exam: 5

Activity during lectures: 10
Test/test: 40
Laboratory practice: 0
Calculation tasks: 10
Seminar paper: 10
Project: 0
Final exam: 30
Requirement for taking the exam (required number of points): 40

Simić, G., Milković, D., Urban and special rail vehicles (hand-out for students), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Belgrade, 2021.