Review of the Riding Comfort Evaluation Methods for Typical Transport Modes


Hiroaki SUZUKI
Recently, weight of research on passengers' amenity like the riding comfort is getting increasingly heavy in the railway field. But, there is not yet established any evaluation method, because of the term "riding comfort" being equivocal. The purpose of this paper is to collect useful materials for riding comfort evaluation of railway vehicle, by reviewing the relevant human scientific research of other transport modes such as car, ship and airplane. Main issues in this paper are: direction of vibration, track/road and vehicle dynamics factors, posture of passenger, measuring position of vibration, and various indices of riding comfort evaluation.