고속철의 디자인 동향에 관한 연구

Moving into the 21st century, the high speed Train designs has diversified greatly. The German ICE, French TGV, Japanese Shinkansen, and Canadian Bombardier, which led the competitive trend of diversification, pursued the same goal regardless of their different approaches. Rails until now was considered the secondary choice of transportation, even though it had a strength of carrying large number of people because it lacked the versatility of passenger car and the speed of airplane; it did not attract the attention of the public as much. The high speed rail development of Japan, as subsidiary project of Japanese Olympic preparation in 1964, began its service with operation speed of above 200km/h but now it achieves over 600km/h after 50 years of the initial implementation. The conventional high speed Train design efforts focused on finding the optimized aerodynamic body to run faster but time has reached a critical point to depart from the conventional focus. The technical limitations that the conventional design projects focused are now becoming resolved and the designers are finally starting to turn their attention to the application methodologies. Trains are running on rails and environmental variables limit the design choices of the Train. There are range of topography including mountainous, plain, and in-between regions. The conclusion from this research predicts that the design processes will evolve to analyse the topography, environmental air quality, and other constraining elements and optimize the solution to reflect on new Train designs for future rail lines. The conventional Train design process distinguished between the body and interior designs. We predict that the future design trends will pursue serious materials and environmental research, which include stronger and lighter materials, pleasant and comfortable environment creation for passengers, and noise, particulate and carbon emission problems.