Potential of possible tilting body trains usage in Slovakia from the energy consumption and travel time point of view

An important role of the railways at the moment is to increase the speed of passenger traffic. This task is because of inter-national agreements as well as the need to keep the competitiveness of railways in the transport market. The paper presents the opportunity to increase travel speed of passenger transport with using tilting body vehicles. For the selected section of the ŽSR lines travel times for vehicles with classic designs and tilting body vehicles were calculated. From their comparison a remarkable reduction of driving times showed up. Energy consumption of classical design vehicles and Pendolino type trains on the existing section of Slovak railway, considering the current speed limits and the theoretical speed limits for trains with tilting technology was assessed.