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Sustainable Railway: Designing the Freight Vehicle Track System for Higher Delivered Tonnage with Improved Availabilit

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Sustainable Railway: Designing the Freight Vehicle Track System for Higher Delivered Tonnage with Improved Availabilit

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    1. Sustainable Railway: Designing the Freight Vehicle – Track System for Higher Delivered Tonnage with Improved Availability at Reduced Cost

    2. Sustainable Freight Railway Aim:– To improve sustainability & competitiveness of railway freight, taking a whole system approach to vehicle and track degradation to allow freight to run at near line speed, with less impact on the infrastructure

    3. Sustainable Freight Railway whole system approach

    4. Endurance Gap

    5. Current Progress 1st Consortia building meeting 9th July 2009 2nd meeting planned 3rd September 2009 Estimated Resource/Project size - ~€6m EC contribution, total ~€12m …i.e.: significant resource required!

    6. Interested parties Network Rail Banverket Deutsche Bahn CAF Mer Mec Ansaldo Knor Bremse Corus University of Loughborough Brunel University Marlo Consultants MMU University of Huddersfield University of Birmingham Lloyds Register APT nv RSSB Luleå Railway Research Center ARUP UNIFE UIC

    7. Expected Activities The specific objectives of the project include: Benchmarking to establish existing state of the art for comparison activities, including correlation of track damage levels with vehicle design parameters. Duty requirements for current and future freight traffic flows. The business case for the freight vehicle-track system for higher delivered tonnage. Track design requirements for reduced maintenance time and whole life cost based on optimised vehicle characteristics. Wheelset design requirements, including consideration of unsprung mass and fatigue life.

    8. Expected Activities The specific objectives of the project include cont…: Suspension design requirements, including the need for acceptable dynamic performance in tare (empty) and fully laden conditions. Novel design and materials for lightweight high performance freight vehicles, bogies and brake systems. Recommendations for whole-system implementation, including strategies for the equitable redistribution of whole-system savings via the track access charging regime. A practical demonstration of potential technological solutions.

    9. Project structure

    10. Topics to be addressed in each sub-project SP0 Co-ordination Group SP1 Benchmarking and logistics Review of past logistics projects Co-ordination with other current logistics projects Multimodal freight Cross-modal interfaces

    11. Topics to be addressed in each sub-project SP2 Duty Requirements Increased axle loads/traffic Train and track monitoring technologies Operational logistics SP3 Track of the Future Maintenance logistics Wheel/Rail interface

    12. Topics to be addressed in each sub-project Suspension Brakes Body shell aerodynamics Traction Increased axle load/traffic Multimodal freight Multi-purpose vehicles for freight Composite material Flexible steering bogies Wheel/Rail interface Wheel sets Whole train dynamics Maintenance logistics Ultra lightweight vehicles Train and track monitoring technologies

    13. Topics to be addressed in each sub-project SP5 Migration and whole system implementation SP6 Marketing and Life Cycle Costs analysis

    14. Questions

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