Objective
Ground vibration, effected by rail services, is an important environmental concern, affecting European citizens nearby any rail infrastructure. Surveys show that many Europeans are subjected to annoying levels of feelable vibration and vibration-induced noise. Although solutions are available for track in tunnels, tracks at grade are a much more extensive problem even for vibration-induced noise. However, solutions for tracks at grade are lacking: for some problems currently no feasible solutions at reasonable cost are available.
A group of railway operators, infrastructure managers, infrastructure and rolling stock manufacturers, and construction companies, end users of vibration mitigation technology, have gathered, to propose a major project for Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions (RIVAS). They aim at providing tools and methods to reduce vibration below the threshold of annoynace and induced noise below background levels by 2013.
The group includes the expertise of research organisations and universities with specialist laboratory and theoretical modelling facilities. The issues are treated in a holistic way with the focus on reducing the annoyance to lineside residents. The project examines all vibration effects and aspects of the system: vehicle, track, propagation, freight and high-speed rail services.
WP1 establishes the test procedures to monitor and control the performance of vibration mitigation measures under realistic conditions
WP2 develops and evaluates mitigation measures based on reducing the excitation of vibration at the vehicle–track interface by improved maintenance
WP3 develops and evaluates mitigation measures for ballasted and slab tracks
WP4 will develop and evaluate mitigation measures based on sub-grade improvement and ground barriers within the railway infrastructure
WP5 addresses the impact of the vehicle
Each of the solutions is to be validated with field tests on the major European rail networks represented in RIVAS
Topic(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-SST-2010-RTD-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
75015 Paris
France
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Participants (26)
1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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28020 MADRID
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781 89 Borlange
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10785 Berlin
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75012 Paris
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3014 Bern
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93200 St Denis
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12205 Berlin
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412 96 Goteborg
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28014 Madrid
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77420 Champs Sur Marne
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3001 HEVERLEE
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SO17 1BJ Southampton
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3000 Leuven
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69131 Ecully
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92318 NEUMARKT
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93400 Saint Ouen
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721 73 Vasteras
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44809 Bochum
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KT15 2AR ADDLESTONE
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63067 Offenbach
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25128 Brescia
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51105 Koln
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92800 PUTEAUX
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8400 Winterthur
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