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DESTination RAIL - a brief introduction

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The aim of DESTination RAIL is to provide solutions for a number of problems faced by EU infrastructure managers. Novel techniques for identifying, analysing and remediating critical rail infrastructure will be developed. These solutions will be implemented using a decision support tool, which allows rail infrastructure managers to make rational investment choices, based on reliable data, See Figure 1. At present Infrastructure Managers make safety critical investment decisions based on poor data and an overreliance on visual assessment. As a consequence their estimates of risk are therefore highly questionable and large-scale failures are happening with increasingly regularity.

 

As the European rail Infrastructure network ages, investment becomes more challenging. As a result reliability and safety are reduced, users perception of these is negative and the policy move to increased use of rail transport is unsuccessful. The objective of this project (safer, reliable and efficient rail infrastructure) will be achieved through a holistic management tool based on the FACT (Find, Analyse, Classify, Treat) principle.

 

  • DestinationRail - figure1.pngFind – Improved techniques for the assessment of existing assets will be developed.

 

  • Analyse – Advanced probabilistic models fed by performance statistics and using databases controlled by an information management system will be used to determine the level of safety of individual assets.

 

  • Classify – The performance models will allow a step-change in risk assessment, moving from the current subjective (qualitative) basis to become fundamentally based on quantifiable data. A decision support tool will take risk ratings and assess the impact on the traffic flow and whole life cycle costs of the network.

 

  • Treat – Novel and innovative maintenance and construction techniques for treating rail infrastructure including tracks, earthworks and structures will be developed and assessed by whole life cycle assessment and impact on the traffic flow.

 

News

 

DESTinationRAIL Final Conference held in Zagreb

08.05.2018

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TRA Senior Researcher, Rail, Award 2018

25.04.2018

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TRA Vienna 16th to 19th April 2018

25.04.2018

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OECD, NETWORK OF ECONOMIC REGULATORS MEETING PARIS 10th APRIL

11.04.2018

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DESTinationRAIL Final Conference, 26/27th April in Zagreb

26.03.2018

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Club Feroviar Infrastructure Conference : Alba Lulia 14/15 March 2018

15.03.2018

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DESTination RAIL presentation to the CER in Brussels 6th March 2018

08.03.2018

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TRA VIENA 2018:UPDATE

19.02.2018

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TRA Vienna 2018

10.01.2018

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DESTinationRAIL Workshop 1 December 2017 in Ljubljana

04.12.2017

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Railway Pro Investment Summit 3rd and 4th October 2017

05.10.2017

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Asset Management for Urban Rail Systems in Europe, Amsterdam 12/13 September 2017

17.09.2017

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DESTinationRAIL: Decision Support Tool Workshop, Ljubljana, 1 December 2017

07.09.2017

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Scandinavian Rail Development Conference Stocckholm, 22/23 May 2017

17.07.2017

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DESTinationRAIL team meeting in Trondheim, 18/19 May 2017

22.05.2017

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MOSTY International Bridge Symposium, BRNO, 27/28 APRIL 2017

03.05.2017

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Railway Pro Technology and Services Forum, Arad 5/6 April

24.04.2017

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DESTinationRAIL presentation at the International Rail Forum and Conference, Prague 21-24 March, 2017

27.03.2017

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DESTinatRAIL Planned Events March to June 2017

23.02.2017

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Workshop on improving attractiveness and competitiveness of Railways in the Danube Ragion, 21-22- November 2016, Ljubljana

01.12.2016

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DESTinationRAIL article published in Railway Pro

24.11.2016

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Presentation at the Braunschweiger Verkehrskolloquium 3 November 2016

07.11.2016

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RAILCON 2016 conference in Nis, Serbia on 13th of October, 2016

24.10.2016

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EFTRC General Meeting, Madrid 21 October 2016

24.10.2016

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Railway Pro Investment Summit Bucharest 11/12 October 2016

20.10.2016

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Article published on the European Railway Review website

18.07.2016

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Iberian Rail Development Conference Madrid, 7 June 2016

08.06.2016

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Scandinavian Rail Development Conference; Stockholm 24 May 2015

27.05.2016

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DESTinationRAIL presentations to the International Bridge Symposium (MOSTY 2016)

04.05.2016

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TRA WARSAW 19 APRIL 2016

03.05.2016

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DESTinationRAIL presentations at the Railway Pro Technology & Service Forum

DESTinationRAIL presentations at the Railway Pro Technology & Service Forum “Innovating with Smart Railway Infrastructure” held in Buzau 24/25 February 2016.

03.03.2016

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Report of a presentation to the CER Infrastructure Interest Group in Brussels on 1 December 2015.

Report of a presentation to the CER Infrastructure Interest Group in Brussels on 1 December 2015.

07.12.2015

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DESTinationRAIL 6 monthly meeting 12/13 November 2015, TRL Wokingham

30.11.2015

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Shift2Rail meeting

20.11.2015

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UIC Global Asset Management Conference, Paris 12/13 October 2015

11.11.2015

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Railway Pro Investment Summit Bucharest 6/7 October 2015

11.11.2015

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This project has received funding from European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 636285.