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NEW DEPENDABLE ROLLING STOCK FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE, INTELLIGENT AND COMFORTABLE RAIL TRANSPORT IN EUROPE (ROLL2RAIL)
Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
The ROLL2RAIL project aims to develop key technologies and to remove already identified blocking points for radical innovation in the field of railway vehicles, as part of a longer term strategy to revolutionise the rolling stock for the future.The high level objectives of the work are to pave the way to:• Increase the capacity of the railway system and bring flexibility to adapt capacity to deman ...
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Make Rail The Hope for protecting Nature (MARATHON)
Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,
MARATHON aims at extracting the maximum productivity from the existing rail infrastructure for producing efficiency, reducing operating costs and attracting new traffic to rail.This represents a market requirement for producing efficiency, reducing operating costs and attracting new traffic to rail. In fact, due to its fragmentation, the railway system efficiency is created through harmonisation a ...
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Conception and qualification by UIC of a LL composite material to substitute cast iron brake shoes on existing wagons, to decrease noise (potential of 600000 wagons impacted) (DECIBELL)
Start date: Jan 5, 2009, End date: Dec 14, 2012,
...ts LL sintered brake block material to substitute the cast iron brake blocks on existing freight wagons the project sought to reduce the noise associated with braking. Associated beneficiary Faiveley Transport Gennevilliers obtained the International Union of Railways (UIC) certification for the testing. Technical assessment of the novel brake shoe was carried out by the UIC on railway locomotives ...
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