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 What to abruptly do when you don’t have (the rule of) Virtual Transition?

I have discussed here the principle of Virtual Transition, used in the UK and in other countries with British inspired track design principles, to evaluate the changes of the cant parameters at the points where the curvature changes suddenly, without the use of an actual, real transition curve. This method of calculation is not however…

02/08/2023 in Track geometry, virtual transition.

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