Customer benefit

• The customer identified the vehicle types that cause strong vibrations and was able to take action on rolling stock, instead of expensive and local actions on the infrastructure.

Project tasks

• Statistical analysis of vibration measurements bogie specific
• Determination of how vibrations relate to rolling stock parameters
• Costs and benefits of actions to reduce ground-borne vibrations
• Field test: concept, organization and measurements of wheel out-of-roundness
• Measurement of axle box accelerations on line sections with under-sleeper pads

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