Objective ACEM-Rail project deals with automation and optimisation of railway infrastructure maintenance. It focuses on the track. The final goal is to reduce costs, time and resources required for maintenance activities and increase the availability of the infrastructure. The project includes both conventional and high speed lines.ACEM-Rail project will mean an important step forward in railway infrastructure maintenance techniques for the following reasons:• Several technologies for automated and cost effective inspection of the track (subgrade and superstructure) condition will be developed and prototypes will be manufactured. These technologies will be applicable both to conventional and high speed lines.• Predictive algorithms will be developed to estimate the rail defects evolution.• Algorithms will be developed for an optimal planning of railway infrastructure maintenance tasks. For the moment, there are not appropriate optimisation models for the integrated scheduling of preventive and corrective operations.• Modes and tools will be developed in order to monitor the proper execution of corrective and preventive maintenance tasks. These technologies will be applied in mobile (hand.held) computers. This way execution and monitoring of maintenance tasks will be automated and optimized.• A novel technology based on intelligent systems will be developed for the optimal management of all the subsystems in the whole railway infrastructure system. A classification of all the different subsystem together with the selection of most relevant parameters will be carried out.The main benefits of the project are: (i) reduction of cost, (ii) increase in safety, quality and reliability of the service, (iii) increase of rail freight transport and, as a consequence, (iv) reduction in CO2 emissions. Fields of science social sciencessocial geographytransportfreight transportsocial sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomation Programme(s) FP7-TRANSPORT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) Topic(s) SST.2010.5.2-1. - Automated and cost effective railway infrastructure maintenance Call for proposal FP7-SST-2010-RTD-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS DE MATERIALES Y CONTROL DE OBRA SA EU contribution € 578 141,00 Address CALLE BENAQUE 9 29004 Malaga Spain See on map Region Sur Andalucía Málaga Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Noemi Jiménez-Redondo (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA Spain EU contribution € 272 272,00 Address CALLE S. FERNANDO 4 41004 Sevilla See on map Region Sur Andalucía Sevilla Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Margarita Martinez-Pais Loscertales (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV Germany EU contribution € 534 511,00 Address HANSASTRASSE 27C 80686 Munchen See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Christoph Schulte (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data POLITECNICO DI TORINO Italy EU contribution € 112 166,00 Address CORSO DUCA DEGLI ABRUZZI 24 10129 Torino See on map Region Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Marica Pertile (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA LUIGI VANVITELLI Italy EU contribution € 103 296,00 Address VIALE ABRAMO LINCOLN 5 81100 Caserta See on map Region Sud Campania Caserta Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Luigi Zeni (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data OPTIM-AL EOOD Bulgaria EU contribution € 133 888,00 Address BOULEVARD TSAR BORIS III No7 FL6 office8 1612 SOFIA See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Krassimir Gurov (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DMA SRL Italy EU contribution € 191 589,00 Address VIA BOTTEGO 8 10129 TORINO See on map Region Nord-Ovest Piemonte Torino Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Cesare Santanera (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Tecnomatica s.a.s. di Giuseppe Porcaro & C Italy EU contribution € 172 004,00 Address Via MONSIGNOR FORTUNATO MARIA FARINA 58 71122 Foggia See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Giuseppe Porcaro (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Germany EU contribution € 314 315,00 Address WERNER-VON-SIEMENS-STR. 1 80333 Munchen See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Hans-Reiner Leikard Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SCANMASTER SYSTEMS (IRT) Ltd. Israel EU contribution € 89 133,00 Address HAMELACHA STREET 23 58001 ROSH HAAYIN See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Michael Bron (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data