- Car body shell
The work to be carried out in the car body shell design will ensure weight reductions, through new structures and concepts. The main objective is to develop the detail designs of key elements such as High Speed (HS) car body, headstock car body section and short couple element defined in PIVOT. These designs will be carried out assuring the fulfilment of the structural and non-structural requirements identified in the technical specifications and according to the assessment methodology. The design will be completed with a weight analysis that will be used to calculate the weight reduction. The HS car body will achieve a TRL of 6/7.
- Running gear
Within PIVOT high performance running gears were designed taking into account the analysis to select new materials for light weight running gear components, including calculations and manufacturing processes. Vibroacoustic characterization of these new materials was conducted to obtain guidelines for noise reduction and an analysis of the regulatory framework and certification requirements took place including analysis of virtual certification processes. In PIVOT2 technical demonstrators of these systems will be manufactured and tested against the criteria of reduced infrastructure / wheel wear and damage and providing higher reliability.
- Brakes
Within IP1 of Shift2Rail several projects (CONNECTA, PINTA, PINTA2, PIVOT) have dealt with the development of hardware and methodologies for future brake system solutions and these will be brought together in PIVOT2 for the design, implementation and testing of an overall brakes system that complies with the full scope of the call.
- Doors
Following the work carried out in PIVOT, PIVOT2 will be the continuation with the building, manufacturing and testing of the entrance systems designed in PIVOT. This system will include the developments from PIVOT including platform detection technologies, adaptive gap fillers, passenger information system, sensor technologies and door entry surveillance technologies. Innovative new composite materials will be used where necessary and passenger comfort and weight and energy efficient will be paramount.
- Modular interiors
The Modular Interiors is split into three main parts: one for the common view, another one for interiors design and the last one for driver’s cabin. This will use the state-of-art and knowledges from PIVOT and M4R to develop a preproject. And will be organised in two groups: one focused on interiors and the other one focused on driver cabin. The group “driver cabin” will follow the road map from PIVOT and realize the pre-feasibility studies for new concepts. The group “interiors” will define the concepts to develop and realize the pre-studies of these concepts.
- HVAC
Within this new area of HVAC, the aim of PIVOT2 is to design concepts providing;
~ Specification of HVACs with natural refrigerants;
~ Simulation results of the technical behaviour of HVACs with natural refrigerants;
~ Development of HVAC-prototypes with CO2 refrigerant.
