DEVELOPMENT OF THE KOREAN TILTING-TRAIN AND RUNNING TIME ESTIMATION ON THE GYEONGBU LINE IN THE KOREAN RAIL NETWORK

초록

For attracting more traffic into the railway, it is important for railway to improve the competi-tiveness with other modes, especially as regards travel time or schedule speed. It was expected that the speed of trains could be enhanced on the existing railway network without a huge investment in infrastructure by using tilting trains. Running time for tilting train is one of the most important factors, with which will be done whether the commercialization of tilting train is needed or not. In this paper, we first describe the development of the Korean tilting train. And then the running time and time saving of tilt-ing train will be evaluated compared with today’s conventional trains and non-tilting trains, based on the Gyeongbu line between Seoul and Busan. So the time saving could be separated into two effects by enhanced dynamic capabilities of a train and tilting devices.