摘要: |
The Extended Market Wagon (EMW) is a design concept for an advanced lightweight freight wagon and has been developed as part of the Fr8Rail 4 project in the Shift-2Rail IP-5 programme, now subsumed into the Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking. Fr8Rail 4 is focused on improving the efficiency and capacity of rail freight through the use of modern technologies, design strategies and operational concepts. For the Extended Market Wagon, developed in concert with Partners in the Competitive Freight Wagon (CFW) consortium, this means lightweight wagon frame and bogie structures, aerody-namic cladding, advanced onboard telemat-ics, and a modern operating strategy designed to compete with road freight transportation [1]. Train and freight han-dling are designed to be highly automated, with the Status of the train and its Systems being electronically monitored and the securing and release of the transported con-tainers being fully remotely operable. The EMW, as the concept was developed in the course of the previous Fr8Rail project phases, is planned to be operated as a block train of permanently coupled wagon pairs offering rapid transportation of swap bodies and Containers on closed loop or point-to-point routes between intermodal terminals and other customers. The vehicle concept itself consists of a two-axle wagon with a specific Container configuration, as shown in Figure 1. According to the requirements set out in the Fr8Rail project, the wagons are compatiblc with the G2 profile, resulting in a loading height under 1,000 mm in order to transport 2.9 m tall high cube swap bodies. The selection of the loading level influ-ences the design of the concept significantly, since the wheelset dimension and also cou- pling height are also affected by this param-eter. |