A Study on Riding Capacity of Railway Vehicles for Military Passengers

Oh, Sukmun

doi:2017.20.1.129

J. KIMS Technol > Volume 20(1); 2017 > Article

Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology 2017;20(1):129-136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.9766/KIMST.2017.20.1.129

A Study on Riding Capacity of Railway Vehicles for Military Passengers

Sukmun Oh

Korea Railroad Research Institute

철도 객차별 군 인원 탑승능력 판단 연구

오석문

한국철도기술연구원 철도시스템운영연구팀

Abstract

This paper aims to establish a guideline for ridership capacity of different rail vehicles for military passengers. Previous guideline is limited only to a Mungungwha(hauled by diesel locomotive) vehicle, but this paper expands the limitation to ITX- Saemaeul and urban rail vehicles classified to Electric Motivated Unit(EMU). The guideline considers both with and without personal armor conditions, and based on repetitive ridership experiments. The experiments are designed under considerations of the required number of soldiers for the sample spaces of the different rail vehicles. Moreover, the design tries to establish a concept of optimal capacity additionally to a traditional limiting ridership capacity. In order to do this, ridership comfort is questioned to participant soldiers repetitively over the experiments and all answers of them are surveyed as a results of it. The results of the experiments presented by this paper can be referenced to establish a new guideline on ridership capacity for Korean army.

Key Words: Railway, Vehicle, Ridership, Capacity