Railway vehicle provided with LIDAR devices

A railway vehicle comprising:

• a roof;
• a passenger compartment for the transportation of passengers;
• two side walls facing each other and defining said passenger compartment;
• a front end portion comprising
• a) a lower front wall carrying a bumper to ensure safety in the event of a front impact against obstacles;
• b) two LIDAR devices, which are arranged at the upper side corners of the front end portion and have respective axes, each extending upwards from a base surface of the respective LIDAR device;
• each of said LIDAR devices being configured to have a field of view of 360° about the respective axis;
• wherein each of said axes has:
• a lateral outward inclination so as to monitor the sides of the railway vehicle, and
• a forward inclination so as to remove possible blind spots at the side ends of the bumper and in front of the bumper
• wherein:
• for each of said axes, the forward inclination has an angle between 0° and 45° measured about a vertical axis and with respect to a vertical plane that is orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle;
• for each of said axes, the lateral outward inclination has an angle between 40° and 50° measured with respect to the vertical axis in a plane where said axis and said vertical axis lie;
• each LIDAR device is configured to scan the field of view between an upper boundary and a lower boundary, which form a given scanning angle between each other.