Railway Infrastructure – Asset Management – 27 NOVEMBER 2024
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Topics: Life Cycle Management (LCM), Life Cycle Costs (LCC), Sustainability, Proof of Economic Efficiency
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Agenda
- 10:00 – 10:05 Greeting participants.
- 10:05 – 10:10 Introduction round of participants (Ingo Mayr-Knoch, CEO weTHINK.)
- 10:10 – 10:40 Keynote 1 : “Life Cycle Management of Railway Track Assets and Insights into ÖBB’s LCM Software”, Georg Neuper ÖBB-Team Coordinator Life Cycle Management Track Assets – Austrian Railway Infrastructure
- 10.40 – 11.10 Keynote 2: “Optimizing Railway Infrastructure: Embedded Solutions for Safety, maximum Availability, and Cost Efficiency”, Ivan Vidovic – Managing Director – Voestalpine Signaling UK
- 11:10 – 12:10 Panel discussion – challenges, solutions and best practices for railway track infrastructure management.
- Georg Neuper (ÖBB Austrian Railway Infrastructure)
- Ivan Vidovic (Voestalpine Signaling UK)
- Peter Veit (TU Graz)
- Thomas Benjamin Frogner (Bane NOR)
- 12.10 – 12.15 Wrap up and follow-up steps.
Abstracts
Georg Neuper (ÖBB-Infrastruktur, Track management and Infrastructure development, Team Coordinator Life Cycle Management Track Assets) – Life Cycle Management of Railway Track Assets and Insights into ÖBB’s LCM Software
The presentation deals with the basic definition and practical implementation of life cycle management for track systems at ÖBB Infrastructure. The content ranges from life cycle engineering to life cycle costing and life cycle management optimised across track systems.
Accordingly, the IT tool “LCM:assistant” used by ÖBB Infrastructure for LCM is presented.
Ivan Vidovic (Managing Director – voestalpine Signaling UK) – Optimizing Railway Infrastructure: Embedded Solutions for Safety, maximum Availability, and Cost Efficiency
This presentation outlines innovative system solutions for optimizing railway infrastructure, focusing on safety, availability, and cost efficiency. By integrating real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and automated safety-related inspections, we aim to increase track availability and enable maximum traffic flow with minimal need for personnel on the tracks. This approach mitigates risk, reduces operational costs, and ensures a resilient, efficient railway network capable of handling high traffic demands.
About weTHINK. Railway LCM
Knowledge Exchange
Goal is to build a knowledge exchange community for best practices on technical sustainability and economic efficiency for track superstructure.
Technical Sustainability
Increasing traffic pushes on track deterioration but also limits time for track work more and more. To overcome this problem further development of track must target more sustainable track components and track maintenance to reduce the demand of track possession without reducing track quality. This requires understanding of track deterioration, gained by time sequences of track data allowing forecasting of track behaviour and thus preventive maintenance.
Economic Efficiency
R&D within track needs to present sustainable solutions which show a high economic efficiency. As track shows costs only, track strategies can be economically evaluated by comparing different options. Standard evaluations can be used as calculating the dynamic annual average costs. Dynamic methods are required due to the long service lives of track, annual average costs are used to enable comparing strategies with different service lives. Furthermore costs of non- or reduced availability due to either track work or due to speed restrictions caused by poor quality need to be taken into account for a proper evaluation of track component and/or track maintenance strategies. These methodologies will be presented theoretically and on real examples.
