Discover the future of track construction and maintenance

Plasser & Theurer’s Research and Development Department is building the future of track construction and maintenance already today.

We invite you to browse through P&T Research to get insight into current research projects and to discover our latest research findings. Witness how we develop leading-edge technologies and get to know our research and development experts who are passionate about their work. Find out more about our global collaboration partners for the railway system. Are you interested in the track construction and maintenance technologies of tomorrow? Visit P&T Research and learn more about our latest developments.

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Machine

Forward-looking work­space design

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Smart technologies

Event-based cameras as the key to precise sleeper de­tec­tion

Smart technologies

Step by step to an auto­mated tamping process

Machine

Machine data treasure hunt

Infrastructure

Instant ballast-con­di­tion analysis

Infrastructure

Rail grinding reduces noise emis­sions caused by trams

Machine

End-to-end process presented in Sweden

Measuring

Complete turnout in­spec­tion in four minutes

Machine

Research on syn­thetic fuels in track main­ten­ance

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Machine

The tamping unit that un­der­stands the ballast

Infrastructure

The highly ver­satile machine for pre­dictive main­ten­ance

Infrastructure

Pre­dict­iv­eTrack­View

Measuring

Mul­tichannel GPR tech­no­logy detects munition remnants and other obstacles

Smart technologies

Block­chain for in­creased safety

Measuring

Radar: the "eye" of the machine

Measuring

GPR brings tech­no­lo­gical leap in track in­spec­tion ​

Infrastructure

Research de­vel­op­ments for the urban rail

Machine

Quiet rails thanks to ATMO

Machine

How do the Dynamic Track Sta­bil­iser and ballast interact with one another?

Measuring

Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence for more ef­fi­cient ground-pen­et­rating radar analysis

Measuring

Absolute track meas­ure­ment

Smart technologies

Deep learning units for the auto­matic turnout tamping as­sistant

Machine

Function test well before applying the first weld seam

Machine

Dynamic sta­bil­iz­a­tion of new track types in the labor­atory

Smart technologies

How does a track main­ten­ance machine think?

Infrastructure

Tracking ballast

Machine

It started with the vision of an autonomous tamping machine

Infrastructure

EM100VT – The future of track in­spec­tion starts today

Smart technologies

Smart Main­ten­ance – More than virtual reality

Infrastructure

Digital Twin – The new world of track con­struc­tion

Machine

The Shift2Rail Joint Un­der­taking

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