Assessment of passenger comfort according to Eurocode in Dutch trains travelling over tied-arch railway bridges

With increasing velocities of trains, passenger comfort starts to play a larger role in the design of railway bridges. There is little experience with the Eurocode passenger comfort criterion in the Netherlands. It is relevant for the industry to have a way to fulfil this criterion, also in an early stage of railway bridge design. A sufficiently simple method to give a proper first estimation would be really useful. According to the Eurocode, the comfort experienced by passengers in a train passing a railway bridge must be sufficient. The comfort level is expressed as a maximum vertical accele... Mehr ...