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AutoScan – Rail inspection by autonomous systems (AutoScan)
Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,
There are 215,720km of rail track in Europe, of which 4,300 broken rails are found every year. Broken tracks are the biggest cause of derailments, leading to loss of life and major disruption to services. Maintenance costs for member states of repairing broken rails are around €2bn every year. With the rapid increase in train traffic, train speeds and load carried, there is an urgent need to optim ...
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Quiet Tracks for Sustainable Railway Infrastructures (QUIET-TRACK)
Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,
The objective is to provide step changing track based noise mitigation systems and maintenance schemes, to provide reliable improved TSI based rolling noise calculation procedures with harmonized monitoring of the required input parameters and to provide track noise management tools, for use in noise mapping and hot spot action plans according to the END, for use as engineering tools and solutions ...
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Rail inspection by Flexible Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer (RIFLEX)
Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2016,
"Railway maintenance is a costly activity that can be improved by faster inspection of assets. If the speed of inspection of the railhead can be increased the potential cost savings are significant. Current NDT solutions implement hand held devices that effectively scan at walking pace. EMAT devices have been utilised to demonstrate that a non-contact solution that can be mounted to a vehicle is f ...
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INTEROPERABLE MONITORING, DIAGNOSIS AND MAINTENANCE STRATEGIES FOR AXLE BEARINGS (MAXBE)
Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,
The axle bearing damage process has safety and economic implications on the exploitation of railways systems, as proved by the selection of this topic for inclusion in the present call for research proposals of the FP7 of the EU. Axle bearing damage has been the object of intense attention by railway operators and transportation authorities, leading to a variety of approaches and systems currently ...
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An Intelligent On-line High-Speed Rail Condition Monitoring System Deployed Via Passenger and Freight Trains (I-RAIL)
Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Oct 31, 2012,
"Greener and more comfortable trains making rail transport a more attractive option for passengers in comparison to other means of transportation. The ever growing need for the society to employ more environmentally friendly transportation policies is expected to further underline the economic and societal role of rail transport in achieving sustainable mobility across Europe in the years to follo ...
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