This book on the dynamics of rail vehicles is developed from the manuscripts for a class with
the same name at TU Berlin. It is directed mainly to master students with pre-knowledge in
mathematics and mechanics and engineers that want to learn more. The important phenomena of the
running behaviour of rail vehicles are derived and explained. Also recent research results and
experience from the operation of rail vehicles are included. One focus is the description of
the complex wheel-rail contact phenomena that are essential to understand the concept of
running stability and curving. A reader should in the end be able to understand the background
of simulation tools that are used by the railway industry and universities today.
