Развитие исследований в области взаимодействия пути и подвижного состава

Abstract

Russia’s first research unit - department “Integrated tests of railway rolling stock and track” was created in VNIIZhT in 1962 on the initiative of Professor Michael Feliksovich Verigo to establish the permissible speeds of new rolling stock. Modern promising conditions in rail transport, characterized by the ever-increasing force influence of train on the infrastructure, require greater attention of the experts to the one of the fundamental and multi-sided problems - interaction between track and rolling stock. The article presents a retrospective analysis of formation of VNIIZhT research activities in this field. Author considers fruitful combination of theoretical and experimental studies aimed at solving urgent problems of increasing traffic safety and development of the increasing volumes of traffic. Priority tasks that will reduce the existing gap in the development of traffic on the busiest domestic and foreign lines was formulated. It was concluded that the improvement of the conditions of interaction between track and rolling stock, combined with the ongoing JSC “Russian Railways” activity on specialization of lines will significantly increase the volume of traffic on the existing congested lines with shift of investment costs to the construction of additional main tracks.