The Austrian company Virtual Vehicle is an In2Track3 partner working on a modular Whole System Model-based framework. Kamil Sazgetdinov is one of Virtual Vehicle in the project. In2Track3’s Mats Tiborn was curious of what the benefits of the Whole System Model are for rail Europe. In what way do the results that Virtual Vehicle are […]

Railway turnouts feature discontinuities in wheel-rail contact geometry and track stiffness. These discontinuities result in large dynamic contact forces causing degradation of the rail surfaces and track irregularities over time.The analysis of the previous research activities in this field has shown that main research institutions have put their focus mostly on one damage mechanism at […]

WP1 team has recently participated at the In2Track3 Consortium Meeting, which was held on 15-16th of June in Gothenburg, Sweden.During the Consortium Meeting WP1 team members presented their latest developments of the Shift2Rail system demonstrators, turnout design optimisation methods as well as the turnout monitoring techniques within the work package (WP1) activities. Core focus of […]

Meet Eva Koinig. She is the leader of Work package 1 in In2Track3, working for Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH in Graz, Austria.– This project is driven forward by a fantastic mindset. The people involved are passionate about their job and want to move forward, she says.

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More work done within In2Track3 project, now from our partner Getzner in Austria on a new elastomer solution. Newly implemented elastomer solutions from Getzner lower the ballast degradation in the installed next-generation demonstrator turnouts near Vienna.

A turnout demonstrator in the In2Track3 project, that addresses more than one challenge;– Rolling Contact Fatigue– Ballast destruction– Wear– Load distributionand more, is installed in Liesing, Vienna. Several innovations are included in the turnouts, and measurements are being compared to reference turnouts.