M/W Planning the Automated Way

This article reviews some of the software packages developed to aid in automating maintenance of way procedures. One information system for railway corridor infrastructure management provides a library of analysis, logical and data alignment functions built specifically to process corridor information such as track measurements, events and asset data. Another package has crossed over from a research and development project to an automated maintenance-of-way tool. It features an Automated Joint Bar Inspection System that uses high-resolution line scan cameras inspecting joint bars on both sides of the left and right rail. A third package enables rail replacement planning on three-, five- and even 10-year horizons. It uses rail wear data, allows for statistically based rail wear loss rate analysis and applies a multivariate regression analysis. An engineering-based rail wear model supplements the calculations. The model can produce forecasts of rail fatigue at various time scales.

• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1763403
• Authors:
  • Judge, Tom
• Publication Date: 2007-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 31-34
• Serial:
  • Railway Track and Structures
  • Volume: 103
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation
  • ISSN: 0033-9016

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automation; Inspection; Maintenance of way; Railroad tracks; Risk management; Software packages; Wear
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01083317
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 31 2007 7:38AM