TY  - JOUR
A1  - Franzen, Julius
A1  - Pinders, Erik
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Enning, Manfred
T1  - RailCrowd’s virtual fleets: Make most of your asset data
JF  - Deine Bahn
N2  - For smaller railway operators or those with a diverse fleet, it can be difficult to collect sufficient data to improve maintenance programs. At the same time, new rules such as entity in charge of maintenance – ECM – regulations impose an additional workload by requiring a dedicated maintenance management system and specific reports. The RailCrowd platform sets out to facilitate compliance with ECM and similar regulations while at the same time pooling anonymised fleet data across operators to form virtual fleets, providing greater data insights.
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 0948-7263
IS  - 9
SP  - 11
EP  - 13
PB  - Bahn-Fachverlag
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pfaff, Raphael
A1  - Enning, Manfred
A1  - Sutter, Stefan
T1  - A risk‑based approach to automatic brake tests for rail freight service: incident analysis and realisation concept
JF  - SN Applied Sciences
N2  - This study reviews the practice of brake tests in freight railways, which is time consuming and not suitable to detect certain failure types. Public incident reports are analysed to derive a reasonable brake test hardware and communication architecture, which aims to provide automatic brake tests at lower cost than current solutions. The proposed solutions relies exclusively on brake pipe and brake cylinder pressure sensors, a brake release position switch as well as radio communication via standard protocols. The approach is embedded in the Wagon 4.0 concept, which is a holistic approach to a smart freight wagon. The reduction of manual processes yields a strong incentive due to high savings in manual
labour and increased productivity.
KW  - Freight rail
KW  - Brake test
KW  - Incident analysis
KW  - Train composition
KW  - Brake set-up
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05007-x
SN  - 2523-3971
N1  - Corresponding author: Raphael Pfaff
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  -