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A risk‑based approach to automatic brake tests for rail freight service: incident analysis and realisation concept

  • 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.

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Author:Raphael PfaffORCiD, Manfred Enning, Stefan Sutter
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05007-x
ISSN:2523-3971
Parent Title (English):SN Applied Sciences
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Cham
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2022
Date of the Publication (Server):2022/03/29
Tag:Brake set-up; Brake test; Freight rail; Incident analysis; Train composition
Volume:4
Issue:4
First Page:1
Last Page:14
Note:
Corresponding author: Raphael Pfaff
Link:https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-022-05007-x
Zugriffsart:weltweit
Institutes:FH Aachen / Fachbereich Maschinenbau und Mechatronik
FH Aachen / ECSM European Center for Sustainable Mobility
collections:Verlag / Springer
Open Access / Gold
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung