UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

Economic and Social	GENERAL

Council	TRANS/WP.29/696
9 December 1999
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and FRENCH

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

INLAND TRANSPORT COMMITTEE

Working Party on the Construction of Vehicles

DRAFT SUPPLEMENT 3 TO THE 03 SERIES OF AMENDMENTS

TO REGULATION No. 36

(Public service vehicles)

Note: The text reproduced below was adopted by the Administrative Committee (AC.1) of the amended 1958 Agreement at its thirteenth session, following the recommendation by the Working Party at its one-hundred-and-nineteenth session. It is based on document TRANS/WP.29/1999/36, not amended (TRANS/WP.29/689, para. 147).

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Paragraph 5.6.1.7., amend to read:

"5.6.1.7	If the driver's or a separate crew compartment does not communicate with the inside of the vehicle it shall have two exits, which shall not both be in the same lateral walls; where one of the exits is a window it shall comply with the requirements set out in paragraph 5.6.8 for emergency windows."

Paragraph 5.6.3.1., amend to read:

"5.6.3.1.	The several kinds of exit shall have the following minimum dimensions of free access:

Paragraph 5.6.3.1., the table, service door width, remarks, add at the end the following text:

"... The required width of free access shall be ensured in the height of 70 to 160 cm related to the level of the first step (see annex 3, figure 12)."

Insert a new paragraph 5.6.4.9., to read:

"5.6.4.9.	The service door in any open position shall not obstruct the use of or required access to any exit."

Paragraph 5.7.3.3., amend the words "radiused by 30 cm" to read "radiused

by 20 cm".

Paragraphs 5.7.5.2 to 5.7.5.2.3., amend to read:

"5.7.5.2.	On vehicles of Class I, the diameter of the lower cylinder may be reduced from 45 cm to 40 cm in any part of the gangway which is located to the rear of the most forward of the following two planes:

5.7.5.2.1.	a transverse vertical plane situated 1.5 m forward of the centreline of the driven axle(s);

5.7.5.2.2.	a transverse vertical plane situated at the rear edge of the rearmost service door in between the axles.

5.7.5.2.3.	For the purpose of the application of paragraphs 5.7.5.2.1. and 5.7.5.2.2. above, each rigid section of an articulated vehicle shall be considered separately."

Paragraphs 5.7.5.4. to 5.7.5.4.3., amend to read:

"5.7.5.4.	The height of the upper cylinder may be reduced by 10 cm in any part of the gangway which is located to the rear of the most forward of the following two planes:

5.7.5.4.1.	a transverse vertical plane situated 1.5 m forward of the centreline of the driven axle(s);

5.7.5.4.2.	a transverse vertical plane situated at the rear edge of the rearmost service door.

5.7.5.4.3.	For the purpose of the application of paragraphs 5.7.5.4.1 and 5.7.5.4.2. above, each rigid section of an articulated vehicle shall be considered separately."

Paragraph 5.7.7.1., amend to read:

"5.7.7.1.	the maximum and minimum height, and the minimum depth, of steps for passengers at service and emergency doors and within the vehicle are specified in annex 3, figure 4."

Paragraph 5.9.1., delete the second sentence reading "This axis shall intersect .... of travel of the vehicle."

Paragraph 5.12.2.3., amend to read:

"...... the floor at that position. Exception may be given in the middle of large platforms, but the sum of these exceptions shall not exceed 20 per cent of the total standing area."

Annex 3, figure 1, correct the table so that in the first column "Class I" is on the first line and "Class II" and "Class III" on the second and third lines respectively.

Annex 3, figure 4, the table and the notes below the table, amend to read:

"
D (cm) 1/ 3/	E (cm) 1/ 2/
max.	min.	max.
Class I	36	12	25 4/
Class II; Class III	40

12

35
mechanical suspension solely	43

Notes:

1/	At a double doorway the steps in each half of the access passage shall be treated separately.

2/	E need not be the same for each step.

3/	70 cm in the case of an emergency door.

4/	30 cm in the case of steps at a door behind the rearmost axle."

Annex 3, figure 11, replace by the following figure:

"

Annex 3, insert a new figure 12, to read:

"Figure 12

SERVICE DOOR FREE ACCESS (see paragraph 5.6.3.1)

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