Title: Sustainable Railway: Designing the Freight Vehicle Track System for Higher Delivered Tonnage with Im
1- Sustainable Railway Designing the Freight
Vehicle Track System for Higher Delivered
Tonnage with Improved Availability at Reduced
Cost
2Sustainable 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
3Sustainable 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
4Endurance Gap
5Current 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!
6Interested 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
7Expected 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.
8Expected 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.
9Project structure
10Topics 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
11Topics 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
12Topics 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
13Topics to be addressed in each sub-project
- SP5 Migration and whole system implementation
- SP6 Marketing and Life Cycle Costs analysis
14Questions