CRITERIA FOR RIDE COMFORT IN BUSES AND COACHES

KRITERIER FOER AAKKOMFORT I BUSS

The report is a literature review of criteria for ride comfort in buses and coaches. The initial chapters give an introduction to the subjects: Sound and vibration, physiology and vehicle dynamics focused on buses. Other relevant subjects such as psychology and economics are also briefly discussed. These introductory chapters are aimed to give a better understanding of the existing comfort evaluation methods, which are presented and discussed in the latter part of the report. The methods are those included in the standards ISO 2631 (1985), BS 6841 (1987), CEN prENV (1996) and ISO 2631 (1997). The conclusion of the literature review is that there is no evaluating method specifically developed for comfort criteria in buses and coaches. ISO and BS describe general methods for safety and comfort evaluation. Several of the pre-studies of these methods were developed for industrial equipment and the result of such studies is not always entirely applicable to passenger transportation. CEN is a pre-standard, which means that it is not yet approved by the CEN board. Its application is restricted to comfort evaluation on trains, and it is for the moment not entirely applicable to other transportation situations. The conclusion of the study is that a good approximation could be reached by combining the different evaluation methods in an appropriate way, depending on kind of vehicle and transport situation. (A)

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  Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan

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  Stockholm,   Sweden 
• Authors:
  • HEINZ, W
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 61p+a p.
• Serial:
  • TRITA-IEO-EX
  • Issue Number: 1999:07
  • Publisher: Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan
  • ISSN: 1403-7777

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Comfort; Diseases and medical conditions; Dynamics; Evaluation and assessment; Forecasting; Physiology; Psychology; Smoothness; Sound; Vibration
• ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 1271: Coach; 9138: Comfort; 5473: Dynamics; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 3071: Evenness; 132: Forecast; 2134: Illness; 2062: Physiology; 2255: Psychology; 6748: Sound; 5558: Vibration
• Subject Areas: Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00779018
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 7 1999 12:00AM