Selection of technical and economic parameters of flat cars with a loading length of 60 feet, taking into account their pricing and freight train parameters
https://doi.org/10.46973/0201-727X_2025_3_41
Abstract
The technical and economic parameters of flat cars with a loading length of 60 feet are examined, taking into account their pricing and freight train parameters. An analysis of serial flat cars is performed based on the parameter of the car length along the coupling axes and the impact of this parameter on the current tariff coefficient during transportation, as well as the parameters of a container train formed from flat cars with different lengths along the coupling axes. Technical solutions allowing to reduce the length of a flat car along the coupling axes of automatic couplers without reducing the loading length are considered. Preliminary technical and economic parameters of a platform car with a loading length of 60 feet and a length along the coupling axes of automatic couplers have been determined, at which the length of a container train is guaranteed to increase to 71 conventional cars, which ensures the transportation of 153 ... 156 TEU units (20-foot container volumes) and increases the performance of such a train by 2...4 %. The proposed technical solutions can be applied in the development of new and modernized designs of platform cars.
About the Authors
D. G. Bein
Joint-Stock Company “Scientific and Implementation Center "Vagony"” (JSC “NVC "Vagony"”), Scientific Research Bureau (NIB)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Bein Dmitry Grigorievich, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Deputy Chief Designer of NIB, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Transport
L. V. Tsyganskaya
Joint-Stock Company “Scientific and Implementation Center "Vagony"” (JSC «NVC "Vagony"”), Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University (PGUPS)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tsyganskaya Lyudmila Valerievna, Chair “Wagons and Wagon Facilities”, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor, Deputy General Director – Chief Designer of NIB
N. A. Tanicheva
Joint-Stock Company "Scientific and Implementation Center "Vagony" (JSC "NVC "Vagony"", Emperor Alexander I St. Petersburg State Transport University (PGUPS)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tanicheva Natalia Andreevna, Chair “Wagons and Wagon Facilities”, Candidate of Engineering Sciences Associate Professor
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Bein D.G., Tsyganskaya L.V., Tanicheva N.A. Selection of technical and economic parameters of flat cars with a loading length of 60 feet, taking into account their pricing and freight train parameters. Vestnik Rostovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta Putej Soobshcheniya. 2025;(3):41-53. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.46973/0201-727X_2025_3_41
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