Railway degradation behaviour analysis in narrow-gauge railways: A local-railway case study

Marchetta, V.Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (author)

Validerad;2023;Nivå 2;2023-07-06 (sofila);Funder: University of Catania (TIMUC “Piano della Ricerca Dipartimentale 2018–2020” )
An efficient maintenance strategy is a key factor to ensure acceptable safety levels and manage the overall costs of a railway network. So far, research focused mainly on regional and high-speed rail networks, causing a knowledge and regulation gap between standard and narrow-gauge railways networks. These networks, like the local or isolated railways, have peculiar geometric and operational characteristics that play a key role on track geometry quality degradation process. For this reason, the maintenance knowledge gained in the context of standard railways when applied to systems such as narrow-gauge railways could lead to non-optimized use of the limited resources available. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyse how the track geometry quality degradation behaviour is influenced by the key characteristics of narrow-gauge railways through the analysis of the track geometry data of an Italian local railway, laying the foundation for optimized maintenance strategies for these systems.

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Maskinteknik Tillförlitlighets- och kvalitetsteknik hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Mechanical Engineering Reliability and Maintenance hsv//eng
local railways
narrow-gauge
track geometry
track degradation
maintenance
infrastructure management
Operation and Maintenance Engineering
Drift och underhållsteknik

Di Graziano, A.Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Catania, Italy (author)
Soleimanmeigouni, Iman,1988-Luleå tekniska universitet,Drift, underhåll och akustik(Swepub:ltu)solmei (author)
Ahmadi, AlirezaLuleå tekniska universitet,Drift, underhåll och akustik(Swepub:ltu)aliahm (author)
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, Catania, ItalyDrift, underhåll och akustik (creator_code:org_t)

In:Proceedings of the Institution of mechanical engineers. Part F, journal of rail and rapid transit: Sage Publications237:6, s. 818-8310954-40972041-3017

By the author/editor: Marchetta, V.; Di Graziano, A.; Soleimanmeigouni ...; Ahmadi, Alireza

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