The total weight of the vehicle is one of the most important paramenters necessary to understand vehicle dynamics. A measurement system was developed to measure the vehicle weight in a short period of time with a minimal number of people, with high accuracy. In order to minimize the time required for measurement, the weight is measured when the vehicle begins to move out of the train depot at the beginning of the day of vehicle running tests. The effect of the overshoot in the wave shape of the measurement caused by monitoring while the vehicle is in motion is compensated for by specially developed software.

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