The planning of tamping tasks is an essential task of every railway infrastructure manager to guarantee safe train operation with sufficient comfort in an economic way. To fulfil the task of tamping scheduling automatically, the algorithm 4tamping is developed to create technically and economically optimised maintenance plans.

Fibre Optic Sensing and Railway Infrastructure Condition Monitoring – How do these two go together? The answer to this can be found in this work outlining the applicability of already installed optical fibres for condition monitoring of e.g. turnouts, isolated track defects and monitoring of executed maintenance tasks.

Die Umsetzung des Integrierten Taktfahrplanes im liberalisierten Personenfernverkehr erfordert ein Konzept von Systemtrassen-Bündeln. Unter Berücksichtigung von rechtlichen, betrieblichen und vergabetechnischen Aspekten wird ein Konzept präsentiert das langfristige Planung und eine effiziente Infrastrukturnutzung erlaubt.

Asset management is not just a buzzword, especially in the railway sector with long service lives. Rather, itconsiders the fact that high investment costs and service lives of more than 30 years are incurred. Economicand technical life cycle considerations are therefore indispensable, especially with regard to turnouts.