Objective Throughout Europe there is currently an increased societal need to reduce noise and so to improve the quality of life. With the growth of freight traffic, especially at night, this need to reduce noise becomes critical. This study's main objective is to provide a new tread braking means (brake block or "shoe") for the 700,000 European wagons which reduces noise emission and is completely interchangeable with the current system (for cost and safety reasons). The other objectives are to reduce the Life Cycle Cost (LCC) of the braking system by 10% and to find a process whereby the new product can be recycled. Programme(s) FP5-GROWTH - Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002" Topic(s) 1.1.3.-3. - Key Action Land Transport and Marine Technologies Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator SOCIETE NATIONALE DES CHEMINS DE FER FRANCAIS Address Rue traversiere 15 75571 Paris France See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BECORIT GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Rumplerstrasse 6-10 45659 Recklinghausen See on map BREMSKERL-REIBBELAGWERKE EMMERLING GMBH & CO. KG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Brakenhof 7 31629 Estorf-leeseringen See on map CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Sweden EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hörsalsvägen 7 412 96 Goeteborg See on map CHEMINS DE FER FÉDÉRAUX SUISSES Switzerland EU contribution € 0,00 Address Schanzenstrasse 5 3000 Bern See on map DEUTSCHE BAHN AG Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Weserglacis 2 32423 Minden See on map FEDERAL MOGUL FRICTION PRODUCTS LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Derbyshire SK23 0JP Chapel-en-le-frith See on map HONEYWELL BREMSBELAG GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Glinder weg 1 21509 Glinde (kr stormarn) See on map ICER BRAKES S.A. Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address Poligono industrial comarca - agustinos c/g 31013 Pamplona See on map TRENITALIA SPA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address V.le s. lavagnini 58 50129 Firenze See on map
