IS:kinematicProfile

Introduction

<kinematicProfile> takes into account all possible lateral horizontal displacements specified for the static gauge and, additionally, occurring due to the tilting of the Rollingstock.

According to ISO/DIS 9324 Railway applications – General guidelines for rolling stock gauges in international railway service, kinematic gauge of railway rolling stock - the gauge for which a method of сalculation of construction dimensions of the designed railway rolling stock is specified with regard to all possible lateral horizontal displacements of this part of railway rolling stock specified for the static gauge and, additionally, occurring due to the tilting of the body on its springs under the effect of the centrifugal force and the horizontal component of the gravity force in superelevated curves.

For the example at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lichtraumprofil.svg <kinematicProfile>/@widths and <kinematicProfile>/@heights shall have values 5000 and 5200 correspondingly. 5000 = 2500 x 2 .

🗒️ This article uses the unit label meter. As the reference for this Wiki is British English, the correct label is metre. Wherever the label meter occurs, it is meant equivalently to metre.

Documentation

Syntax

Autoexport from the XML-Schema for element IS:kinematicProfile of railML® version 3.3      UML-visualization of IS
Documentation	kinematic loading gauge profile defined by maximum height and width
Subschema	infrastructure
Parents*	loadingGauge
Children	None
Attributes: height: maximum height of the gauge profile in meters (optional; xs:decimal), width: maximum width of the gauge profile in meters (optional; xs:decimal)
*Notice: Elements may have different parent elements. As a consequence they may be used in different contexts. Please, consider this as well as a user of this Wiki as when developing this documentation further. Aspects that are only relevant with respect to one of several parents should be explained exclusively in the documentation of the respective parent element.

Autoexport from the XML-Schema for element IS:kinematicProfile of railML® version 3.2      UML-visualization of IS
Documentation	kinematic loading gauge profile defined by maximum height and width
Subschema	infrastructure
Parents*	loadingGauge
Children	None
Attributes: height: maximum height of the gauge profile in meters (optional; xs:decimal), width: maximum width of the gauge profile in meters (optional; xs:decimal)
*Notice: Elements may have different parent elements. As a consequence they may be used in different contexts. Please, consider this as well as a user of this Wiki as when developing this documentation further. Aspects that are only relevant with respect to one of several parents should be explained exclusively in the documentation of the respective parent element.

This element does not appear in railML^® 3.1 within the IS subschema. It is available only in railML^® 3.2, 3.3. Do not hesitate to contact railML.org e.V. for further questions.

Changes 3.1→3.2

There exists an overview of all changes between railML^® 3.1 and railML^® 3.2 on page Dev:Changes/3.2.
Introduced with version 3.2.

Additional Information

Notes

Introduction was reviewed by the coordinator (link to the railML^® website) of the Infrastructure subschema on 2025-11-11.