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Intelligent Tilting System Enhances Train Comfort and Speed
The Intelligent System for Integrated Tilting (ISIT), developed by rolling stock manufacturers CAF (Basque Country), is a tilting system which activates at the required moment and manages to reduce the centrifugal effect suffered by passengers when a train negotiates bends. Or, in other words:
- Cuts journey times (26% on the Santiago-A Coruña run in Galicia)
- Enhances passenger comfort
- Anticipates the curved sections of track and eliminates delays
- Always functions without distortions, in any circumstances, whatever the grade of track.
Thus, the Intelligent System for Integrated Tilting developed by CAF provides numerous advantages:
- Cuts in at the required moment, because it continuously detects the exact position of the train on the line and knows the features thereof (curves, etc.)
- Achieves maximum use of limits
- Achieves an optimum inclination of the train body, with tilting of up to 8 degrees, depending on the geometry of the track and on the rest of traffic conditions
- Takes up minimum space and is lighter in weight
- It is clean and silent, contributing to improving the environment
- Operates with both electric and diesel trains, making the ISIT system a versatile one
- Reduces track maintenance requirements
In short, ISIT manages to provide a vehicle that takes curves at greater speed, because these bends are anticipated, thanks to an additional inclination of the body of the vehicle with respect to the track.
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