SOAC. STATE-OF-THE-ART CAR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. VOLUME 2. REPAIR, RE-TEST AND OPERATIONAL EVALUATION

The two-volume report documented the design, fabrication and test of two new State-of-the-Art Cars (SOAC) whose objective was to demonstrate the best available (1971-72) rail rapid transit vehicle technology. The SOAC features a DC-DC chopper in the propulsion system, separately excited DC traction motors, all-steel construction (with molded fiberglass ends), and vandal-resistant and fire-retardant materials in the interior. This volume, Volume 2, of a two-volume report covers the repair of the damage sustained by the No. 2 car in an accident at the Transportation Test Center (TTC) in August 1973, the post-repair testing at the TTC, and the operational evaluation of the SOAC in revenue service in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago and Philadelphia.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also report dated April 74, PB-235703.
• Corporate Authors:

  Boeing Vertol Company

  Surface Transportation Systems Department, P.O. Box 16858
  Philadelphia, PA  United States  19142

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Dunton, W H
• Publication Date: 1975-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 249 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acceptance tests; Braking; Chopper circuits; Crashes; Design; Fire resistant materials; Light rail vehicles; Maintenance; Motors; Passenger cars; Railroad cars; Rapid transit; Rapid transit cars; Repairing; Solid state devices; Systems engineering; Tests; Urban transportation; Vehicle design
• Identifier Terms: State of the Art Car (Rapid transit car)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Propulsion systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Car repair; Choppers; Passenger car design; Rapid transit railways; Solid state
• Subject Areas: Design; Maintenance and Preservation; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00137327
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: D174-10031-2 Final Rpt., UMTA-IT-06-0026-75-2
• Contract Numbers: DOT-UT-10007
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Sep 16 1982 12:00AM