The experience of the development of high-speed train systems in Korea

초록

The construction plan for HSR is a solution to overcome economic crisis and traffic problems in many countries. In order to get good result of the plan, the choice of train is an important thing. The first HSR line was opened on April 2004 in Korea. The name of the train is KTX(Korean Train eXpress) which designed by Alstom, France. For the next phase, development of HSR 350x has been under way by our own technology from 1996 to 2006. It is designed to provide more operational flexibility and efficiency. After successful test run at 352.4km/h was made on December 2004 and the HSR 350x will be entering revenue service in the end of this year. The new R&D project for next generation high speed train was started in 2007. In the project, we tried to adopt the new systems required for the future. This presentation shows the development processes, test results and main characteristics of the HSR 350x train systems. It also will be introduced the technical characteristics of next generation high speed train.