An important role of the railways at the moment is to increase the speed of passenger traffic. This task is because of inter-national agreements as well as the need to keep the competitiveness of railways in the transport market. The paper presents the opportunity to increase travel speed of passenger transport with using tilting body vehicles. For the selected section of the ŽSR lines travel times for vehicles with classic designs and tilting body vehicles were calculated. From their comparison a remarkable reduction of driving times showed up. Energy consumption of classical design vehicles and Pendolino type trains on the existing section of Slovak railway, considering the current speed limits and the theoretical speed limits for trains with tilting technology was assessed.
Railway transport is one of processes controlled with a certain level of risk. It is apparent that due to a limited level of our knowledge, the technical level and limited funds we cannot count on absolute safety (zero risk) but we must admit that in a real technical system some error or fault may occur and its occurrence may mean a certain risk for the controlled process. The authors focus on proposing and presenting potentially usable measures that could increase the safety of traffic operation at the level crossings operated by the ŽSR (Slovak Railways). Technical and organizational measures are discussed separately. Some of proposed measures are specific for Slovak conditions only, however, to a certain extent some findings can be generalized and possibly applied in other countries, too.
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