The service rate is low, usually 35km/h, and the highest can reach 80 km/h. Compared with steel wheel-rail system, rubber wheel-rail system has the following advantages:
Low driving noise
Higher acceleration and deceleration rates
Because of the friction of the tire itself, the train can easily climb the steep slope.
It can be seen that the tire track system is more suitable for light rail transportation or medium-sized railway system, but it also has some obvious shortcomings:
Because of the friction of tires, most of the energy will be consumed by the heat generated during driving.
Although the price of tire is cheaper than that of steel ring, the relative substitution rate of the former is much higher, which increases the maintenance cost of rubber tire system in disguise.
Rubber tires will soon lose the advantage of high traction in harsh winter climate such as snow and ice.
The low popularization rate of rubber-tyred track technology leads to high installation and maintenance costs.
Unlike the steel wheel system, the rubber-tyred track system has been established. For example, the standard track has international specifications, and different heavy industries that develop rubber-tyred systems have their own incompatible patent specifications, which leads customers to completely reset the equipment of the whole system, especially the track, when deciding to replace the supplier of rubber-tyred systems.