The authors consider the relationship between kinematic parameters and energy properties of rolling wheel propulsor. The authors solve the problem of the existence of solutions for three-dimensional system "rolling wheel propulsor - bearing surface" when forming a bearing surface. The research also establishes the relationship between the speed of motion of the system and the nature of vibrations affecting ride comfort of a vehicle.

The authors considered first inventive period in the history of the domestic automotive industry, analyzed preserved to our days descriptions of the “horseless carriages” of Shamshurenkov and Kulibin. Relying on the presented material authors conclude that the main way to describe the new inventions became terminologization or specification of the existing term, as a rule, borrowed from related areas of technical knowledge. It is noted that over time, many Russian words have given way to the terms that came from French and German, and then English. This process was driven by the general internationalization of the automotive terminology as well as the superiority of the US automotive industry in the late XIX - the beginning of XX century, during the creation of the modern car. Analysis of inventions of Shamshurenkov and especially of Kulibin from a technical point of view (re-creation of models of self-propelled carriages, decoding surviving drawings), as well as their engineering judgment in a large number of special studies on the professional and amateur levels (model of Kulibin carriage is presented at the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, periodically in Internet appear materials on tries of self-taught inventors to repeat experiments of Shamshurenkov or Kulibin) is widespread. But there are no works devoted to first attempts to describe the terminology of invented self-propelled structures. In this paper, the authors have tried to fill this gap and, as far as possible, to show how do imagine their inventions the creators Shamshurenkov and Kulibin. Analyzing the experience of Shamshurenkov in the creation of the horseless carriage authors relied on a deep study of engineer and technology historian E. I. Gagarin, who worked in Lomonosov Moscow Automotive Institute (now Moscow Polytechnic University).

The evolution of conceptual developments in the field of transport is considered in the paper. It is possible to clearly trace the significance of these developments and the impact of various spheres of human life on their forming. Conceptual transport finds its application not only in the field of entertainment such as science-fiction films or computer games, but is crucial in the design of new industrial objects in the automotive industry and in the choice of strategic directions of development of industry and each brand in particular.

This article describes the historical analysis of design methods that allowed creating an original design model of creative process, consists of three different layers of factors that influence design- er’s work - environmental, basic and shaping factors.

The article presents the results of the study of the developed mathematical model of interaction of an elastic wheel with a deformable bearing surface under steady rectilinear rolling, which allows by certain vertical load on the wheel, speed of its longitudinal axis and angular velocity to determine the longitudinal component of the force transmitted by the wheel to the vehicle frame, and torque on the wheel implemented on interaction with supporting surface. Additionally simulation results determined the tractive and energy indicators of efficiency of the driving wheel under considered conditions.