ABSTRACT
Tilting trains (Pendolino, trains à caisse inclinable, Neigezug) are conventional railway trains equipped with special technology that allows the car body of all vehicles, when it negotiates a horizontal curve, to rotate with respect to its longitudinal axis by an angle φt (tilting angle). As a result, the total rotation angle of the car body with respect to the horizontal level is equal to the sum of the track’s cant angle δp plus the tilting angle φt (Figures 13.1 through 13.3).
