How to Reduce the Cross Wind Sensitivity of Trains

Although trains may be considered the safest existing ground vehicles, there has always been the occasional derailment due to strong side winds, mostly on islands such as Japan or the British Isles [1]. According to meteorologists, the current global warming leads to ever stronger winds meaning such accidents are more likely to happen not only in coastal areas but even in the very heart of larger continents. This is how a commuter train was blown over in Austria recently (Figure 1), only 5 years after a similar accident happened in Belgium.