The paper shows and discusses the depths of the initial corrugations caused by the four wheels of the same bogie, at the entering transition curve, the circle curve and the exit transition curve of the curved track, respectively.
This is usually called the "forest transition curve".
The railway line plane consists of three elements: circular curve, transition curve, and straight line.
The minimum length of a transition curve is derived based on the criterion of driver comfort.
It proves that adding transition curve into HTS maglev system is favorable and necessary.
It precedes Meissner ejection and specifies details of the shape of the transition curve.
It specifies the details of an actually complicated shape of the N/S transition curve.
The mathematical properties of a new vertical curve that consists of a transition curve (cubic polynomial), a parabolic curve, and another transition curve have been presented in a companion paper.
However, the transition curve plays a key role in HTS maglev system, and related studies have not been carried out.
The clothoid is a spiral that is used as transition curve in highway and railway route design.
It was shown that a single cubic segment can be used as a transition curve with the guarantee that an S-shaped transition curve will have no curvature extrema, and a C-shaped transition curve will have a single curvature extremum.
