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

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• Sustainable Railway Designing the Freight
  Vehicle Track System for Higher Delivered
  Tonnage with Improved Availability at Reduced
  Cost

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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

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Sustainable Freight Railwaywhole system approach
Novel design materials for lightweight high
performance freight vehicles, bogies and brake
systems
Business case for higher delivered tonnage
Demonstration of technological solutions
LCC RAMS analysis over whole system
Optimised track design from Innotrack and other
projects coupled with low impact vehicle
Wheelset and suspension design unsprung mass
and fatigue lift
Strategies for equitable redistribution of
whole-system savings
Vehicle dynamics for a low impact freight
vehicle -identify speed critical aspects
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Endurance Gap
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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!

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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

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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.

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Expected Activities

• The specific objectives of the project include
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• 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.

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Project structure
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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

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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

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Topics to be addressed in each sub-project

• SP4 Train of the future

• 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

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Topics to be addressed in each sub-project

• SP5 Migration and whole system implementation
• SP6 Marketing and Life Cycle Costs analysis

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Questions