Development of the Korean Tilting-Train and its Running Time Estimation on Korean Railway

초록

The development of the tilting train in KOREA was started in 2001 as research & development project. The 6-car prototype test tilting train, called TTX (Tilting Train eXpress), was built in December, 2006 and launched on experimental trials from 2007. TTX has distributed power, a design speed of 200km/h and a planned service speed of 180km/h. It is expected that the 1st commercial service of tilting-train will be launched on the 194km Jungang-line between Cheongnyangni (East-seoul) and Youngju at the end of 2013. In this paper, competition with express bus is evaluated as regards travelling time. Travelling times for train will be reduced 47% from 3:33 (in 2009) to 1:53 (in 2016). It should be pointed out that competitive power for tilting-train will be increased mainly due to the following factors