Ultra Light Rail Smart Transport Innovations – Project STEAM Ultra

该项目的目的是重新设计现有的低碳/零颗粒排放Parry People Mover Class 139轻轨车的传动系统和动力系统，使其通过零碳、超低噪音排放、零颗粒材料排放的混合动力系统提供动力，该混合动力系统将甲烷发动机与飞轮结合在传统的转向架框架内。这种智能交通，下一代传动系统和动力系统将建立在目前的混合动力技术的基础上，利用丙烷发动机和飞轮，如下所述。该项目将着眼于将现有的甲烷发动机在公共汽车运输中的发展转化为智能交通、轻轨车，通过在塞文谷铁路轨道上的现场环境中测量这种混合动力系统的安全性、效率、噪音、碳/颗粒排放和功率容量，为铁路行业生产“首创”的零碳、超低噪音排放动力系统。该项目旨在通过现场轨道测试来展示智能交通对铁路工作人员、轨道和车站附近居民以及轨道车辆用户的好处，超低噪音、零排放的轨道车辆。该项目将由资助申请人Ultra Light Rail Partners Ltd （ULRPartners）和Parry People Movers Ltd（在西米德兰兹黑郡Stourbridge运营的现有轻轨车辆的设计师和制造商）管理和监督，并利用研究工程专业知识来管理和监督本投标中描述的测试阶段和工作包。

Ultra Light Rail Smart Transport Innovations The aim of this project is to redesign the existing driveline and powertrain within an operational low carbon /zero particulate emissions Parry People Mover Class 139 Light Railcar to become powered through a zero carbon, ultra low noise emission, zero particulate material emissions hybrid powertrain combining methane engine with a flywheel within a conventionally laid out bogie frame. This smart transport, next generation driveline and powertrain will build on the current hybrid technology which draws on a propane engine and flywheel as described below. The project will look to transfer existing methane engine developments within bus transport into a smart transport, light railcar to produce a 'first of a kind' zero carbon, ultra low noise emissions powertrain for the rail industry by measuring safety, efficiency, noise and carbon / particulate emissions and power capacity of this hybrid powertrain within a live environment on track at Severn Valley Railway. The project will aim to demonstrate through live on track testing the benefits to rail crew, track and station-side residents and railcar users from the option of smart transport ultra low noise, zero emission railcars. The project will be managed and overseen by Ultra Light Rail Partners Ltd (ULRPartners), the funding applicants, with Parry People Movers Ltd, designers and manufacturers of the existing light railcars operating at Stourbridge, Black Country, West Midlands, and drawing on the expertise of research engineering expertise working to manage and oversee the testing phases and work packages described in this bid.