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EM100VT – The future of track inspection starts today

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523 track kilometres, 224 turnouts, 80,000 sleepers and far more than 325,000 tonnes of ballast: These are the hard facts about the renewal of the high-speed line 1733 between Hanover and Würzburg.

Dynamic stabilization of new track types in the laboratory

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In her doctoral thesis Sophie Feurig focuses on a detailed analysis of dynamic track stabilisation in the laboratory. An in-depth understanding of the system behaviour of the ballasted track sparks…

Function test well before applying the first weld seam

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For testing the control system embedded in a machine, you need no longer wait for the machine to be built. Thanks to the Hardware in the Loop method, you can start with the first function tests…

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

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Does the Dynamic Track Stabiliser (DTS) have the potential to be more than a ballast compacting machine? Could it also be a measuring device for monitoring ballast compaction? An ongoing research…

Radar: the "eye" of the machine

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The word “radar” may make you think of air travel and parking assistants. But radars have also entered the field of railway, specifically in the form of ground penetrating radar (GPR), also known as…

Blockchain for increased safety

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Blockchain is known for being applied in the context of cryptocurrencies. Beyond that, “Distributed Ledger Technologies” that record transactions in a complete, correct, timely, and orderly manner…

Research developments for the urban rail

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Traffic in tram, light rail and metro networks causes a variety of damage to the rail head. Mechanical stress results in scoring, corrugations, waves, and much more. For decades, preventive, or at…

Artificial intelligence for more efficient ground-penetrating radar analysis

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Die Beschaffenheit des Gleisunterbaus kann mittels Bodenradar erfasst werden, doch die Auswertung der Messungen ist sehr aufwendig. Könnte der Einsatz von KI diesen Aufwand reduzieren? Das fragte…

Deep learning units for the automatic turnout tamping assistant

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Machines that attend school? What might sound like science fiction has become a reality at Plasser & Theurer. Our development team is working on a 3D scan based sensor system, training it to take…