The Vehicle Research Group, RTRI, is now promoting researches on various subjects to improve the performance of railway vehicles in service. This paper introduces the status and several points of the development activities at RTRI, such as those on the crashworthiness of intermediate vehicle end structures for side collision, slip control of diesel railway vehicles, suppression of flexural vibration of carbody by using piezoelectric elements, reuse of kinetic energy of railway vehicles and development of a fuel cell railway vehicle.

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