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The paper describes trends in individual wheelset drive and drives of independently rotating wheels of modern low-floor trams and rail vehicles. It documents the way of constructive design of individual wheelset drive (without gear box) and wheelset drive with gear boxes.
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The paper was created with the financial support of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, project No TE01020038 “Competence Centre of Railway Vehicles”.
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Kolar, J. (2016). Modern Trends in the Drive Wheelsets of Rail Vehicles. In: Dynybyl, V., Berka, O., Petr, K., Lopot, F., Dub, M. (eds) The Latest Methods of Construction Design. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22762-7_5
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