Roller Coaster Design Brief
Situation
Queensland’s 2 largest amusement parks are located on the Gold Coast:
1. Warner Brothers Movie World
2. Dream World.
Next year Warner Brothers Movie World plans to open Australia’s newest roller coaster ride to attract more teenagers to their amusement park. The owners of Dream World are concerned that they will loose some of their customers to the Warner Brothers amusement park. They believe that if they open their own new roller coaster, then they remain Queensland’s most popular amusement park for teenagers.
You have been asked to design Dream Worlds new roller coaster.
Brief Design and create your own roller coaster ride using the computer program No Limits Coasters.
Design Guidelines You have 4 lessons to construct a Roller Coaster that meets the following design guidelines:
1. Track. The roller coaster is to include the use of Track, Station, Lift, Transport and Brake segments. It must not use more than 20 Vertex Points. The roller coaster can use any type of track.
2. Braking. The speed of the roller coaster before it enters the Station should not exceed 20 kilometres an hour.
3. Gravitational Forces. The Lateral and Vertical gravitational forces exerted on the roller coaster carriage must not go above +7.0 or below –7.0. In order to keep the gravitational force down avoid sharp corners at high speeds.
4. Supports. The roller coaster track is to be held in position with track supports. These supports should be positioned so that they do not cut across the track.
5. Scenery. The landscape surrounding the roller coaster must use at least 3 different types of trees. To prevent injury to passengers, trees or must be positioned away far enough from the track so that the passenger could not reach out and touch it.
6. Terraformer. The terrain where the roller coaster is built is not to be flat but to include at least one hill and one lake. The position of these features should suit the design of the roller coaster track.
Queensland’s 2 largest amusement parks are located on the Gold Coast:
1. Warner Brothers Movie World
2. Dream World.
Next year Warner Brothers Movie World plans to open Australia’s newest roller coaster ride to attract more teenagers to their amusement park. The owners of Dream World are concerned that they will loose some of their customers to the Warner Brothers amusement park. They believe that if they open their own new roller coaster, then they remain Queensland’s most popular amusement park for teenagers.
You have been asked to design Dream Worlds new roller coaster.
Brief Design and create your own roller coaster ride using the computer program No Limits Coasters.
Design Guidelines You have 4 lessons to construct a Roller Coaster that meets the following design guidelines:
1. Track. The roller coaster is to include the use of Track, Station, Lift, Transport and Brake segments. It must not use more than 20 Vertex Points. The roller coaster can use any type of track.
2. Braking. The speed of the roller coaster before it enters the Station should not exceed 20 kilometres an hour.
3. Gravitational Forces. The Lateral and Vertical gravitational forces exerted on the roller coaster carriage must not go above +7.0 or below –7.0. In order to keep the gravitational force down avoid sharp corners at high speeds.
4. Supports. The roller coaster track is to be held in position with track supports. These supports should be positioned so that they do not cut across the track.
5. Scenery. The landscape surrounding the roller coaster must use at least 3 different types of trees. To prevent injury to passengers, trees or must be positioned away far enough from the track so that the passenger could not reach out and touch it.
6. Terraformer. The terrain where the roller coaster is built is not to be flat but to include at least one hill and one lake. The position of these features should suit the design of the roller coaster track.