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D. Larsson, F. Defossez, G. Vasic, T. Maly, A. Schöbel, A. Zarembski, J. Palese, M. Haltuf, L. Andersson, R. Bystrom:
"Survey and Assessment of Existing Inspection & Monitoring Systems";
Report for European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme; Report No. D4.1, 2013; 174 pages.

This report (Deliverable D4.1) is an outcome of Work Package 4 (WP4) of the EU 7th Framework project D-RAIL. WP4 aims to provide a detailed review (Task 4.1) and critical assessment (Task 4.2) of current (existing and emerging) inspecting and monitoring techniques (including vehicle identification) related to derailment prevention and mitigation.
This study includes, along with a selection of case studies:
 track-based inspection and condition monitoring equipment,
 vehicle-based technologies and specific recording cars with on-board systems, and
 vehicle identification using video or Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).
Data and opinions have been provided for this survey and assessment by various partners involved in WP4: infrastructure managers (UIC, DB and TRAFIKVERKET), academic partners (VUT and UNEW) and suppliers (FAIVELEY, HARSCO, OLTIS and MERMEC). Work Package 4 has also taken input from Work Package 1 (Derailment Impact), on the principal causes of derailment in the EU, and Work Package 3 (Derailment Analysis and Prevention), on related critical parameters. The results of WP4 will feed into technology integration (WP5), field testing and evaluation (WP6) and operational assessment (WP7).
This report presents an assessment of selected monitoring systems to determine their ability to capture key derailment parameters. These results are presented in this report, and some features, advantages and limits of the selected systems are listed. A set of evaluation parameters was generated and a rating scheme developed in order to quantitatively evaluate the systems.
Based on this assessment, Task 4.3 will perform a gap analysis to determine what functions are missing and what technologies require development in order to improve derailment prevention. These results will be described in Deliverable D4.2 (`System enhancements, developments and functional system specifications´).

Project Head Norbert Ostermann:
Entwicklung des zukünftigen Schienengüterverkehrs zur Reduktion des Auftretens und der Auswirkungen von Entgleisungen