Barrier vehicle information

A barrier vehicle (BV), barrier wagon, match wagon or translator coach is used to convert between non-matching railway coupler types. This allows locomotives...

minimize vehicle damage in cases of incidental contact while still preventing vehicle crossovers resulting in a likely head-on collision. Jersey barriers are...

Traffic barriers (known in North America as guardrails or guard rails, in Britain as crash barriers, and in auto racing as Armco barriers) keep vehicles within...

Overlap tests: in which only part of the front of the car impacts with a barrier (vehicle). These are important, as impact forces (approximately) remain the...

The sound barrier or sonic barrier is the large increase in aerodynamic drag and other undesirable effects experienced by an aircraft or other object when...

on weak posts. As is the case with any roadside barrier, its primary purpose is to prevent a vehicle from leaving the traveled way and striking a fixed...

electric vehicles, improving automobile aerodynamics and tire design, and choosing low-noise paving material. Extensive use of noise barriers began in...

A boom barrier, also known as a boom gate, is a bar, or pole pivoted to allow the boom to block vehicular or pedestrian access through a controlled point...

A barrier transfer machine, also known as zipper machine or road zipper, is a type of heavy vehicle that is used to transfer concrete lane dividers, such...

out-of control vehicle, and have properties which redirect an out-of-control vehicle back on to the road away from the work area. Hard barriers are fixed or...

barriers can be divided into three basic categories: rigid barrier systems, semi-rigid barrier systems, and flexible barrier systems. Rigid barrier systems...

stickers, fences, vehicle barriers, vehicle height-restrictors, restricted access points, security lighting and trenches. Physical barriers such as fences...

lift trucks. The guardrail provides a safety barrier preventing lift trucks or other in-plant vehicles from traveling into equipment, building walls...

M50P1 (ASTM F2656: medium truck at 50 mph, less than 1 m penetration) vehicle barrier. LOPS (lightweight overhead protection system), a lightweight roof...

belts. A deformable barrier is mounted on a trolley and is driven at 60 km/h (37 mph) into the side of the stationary test vehicle at a right angle. This...

A cargo barrier is a vehicle accessory installed into motor vehicles to aid occupancy safety when carrying loads or domestic pets, (usually dogs) in the...

attenuators arrest the motion of vehicles that impact head-on, whilst deflecting vehicles that impact the side of the barrier. They are anchored and more expensive...

couplers. Challenges and complications arise when coupling vehicles with different couplers. Barrier cars, also called match cars, cars with dual couplers...

various vehicle security barriers and landscape treatments came about as security authorities across the globe sought to mitigate the effects of vehicle borne...

wall) also known as tire barrier, is a type of traffic barrier commonly used at racing circuits to prevent racing vehicles from leaving or crossing into...

mounted in or on a customer's vehicle to deduct toll fares from a pre-paid account as the vehicle passes through the toll barrier. This reduces manpower at...

228 km/h (763 mph) and it became the first and only land vehicle to officially break the sound barrier. Both Thrust SSC and Thrust2 were displayed at the Coventry...

An electric vehicle (EV) is a vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion. The vehicle can be powered by a collector system, with electricity...

a traffic barrier, the barrier should either be close to or well behind the curb, to reduce the chances of a vehicle going over the barrier. Depending...

income for the railroad. They include: ballast regulator ballast tamper barrier vehicle or match wagon, with a different coupler at each end caboose (US) or...

on the other end (dual coupling). This is called a match wagon or a barrier vehicle. CN flatcar with newly built Road-Graders. A string of flatcars carries...