Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2014, Article ID 679817, 13 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/679817 Research Article Analytical Method of Modelling the Geometric System of Communication Route Wladyslaw Koc Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233 Gdansk, Poland Correspondence should be addressed to Wladyslaw Koc;
[email protected] Received 10 October 2013; Accepted 14 April 2014; Published 11 May 2014 Academic Editor: Youqing Wang Copyright © 2014 Wladyslaw Koc. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The paper presents a new analytical approach to modelling thecurvature of a communication route by making use of differential equations. The method makes it possible to identify both linear and nonlinear curvature. It enables us to join curves of thesame or opposite signs of curvature. Solutions of problems for linear change of curvature and selected variants of nonlinear curvature in polynomial and trigonometric form were analyzed. A comparison of determined horizontal transition curves was made and examples of negotiating these curves into a geometric system were given. 1. Introduction railway routes. However, it is easy to note that there is a distinct disproportion in taking interest in this problem. A A rapid progress in computer calculation technique algo- search for new solutions is going on this sphere on vehicular rithmsbasedoncurrentknowledgeandinspiredbyfurther roads (e.g., [4–12]). As regards the railway lines, the situation prospecting is also taken into account in the field of geometri- is entirely different.