RIVAS

Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions

 Coordinatore UNION INTERNATIONALE DES CHEMINS DE FER 

 Organization address address: RUE JEAN REY 16
city: PARIS
postcode: 75015

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Aline
Cognome: Wego
Email: send email
Telefono: 33144492064
Fax: 33144492069

 Nazionalità Coordinatore France [FR]
 Totale costo 8˙163˙798 €
 EC contributo 5˙199˙995 €
 Programma FP7-TRANSPORT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics)
 Code Call FP7-SST-2010-RTD-1
 Funding Scheme CP-IP
 Anno di inizio 2011
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2011-01-01   -   2013-12-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNION INTERNATIONALE DES CHEMINS DE FER

 Organization address address: RUE JEAN REY 16
city: PARIS
postcode: 75015

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Aline
Cognome: Wego
Email: send email
Telefono: 33144492064
Fax: 33144492069

FR (PARIS) coordinator 281˙000.00
2    SCHWEIZERISCHE BUNDESBAHNEN SBB AG

 Organization address address: Hochschulstrasse 6
city: Bern 65
postcode: 3000

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Roger
Cognome: Mueller
Email: send email
Telefono: +41 51 220 5118
Fax: +41 51 220 4475

CH (Bern 65) participant 395˙250.00
3    VIBRATEC

 Organization address address: 28 Chemin du petit bois
city: ECULLY
postcode: 69131

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Stéphane
Cognome: Lelievre
Email: send email
Telefono: 33472866569
Fax: 33472866566

FR (ECULLY) participant 386˙909.00
4    DEUTSCHE BAHN AG

 Organization address address: Potsdamer Platz 2
city: BERLIN
postcode: 10785

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Andrea
Cognome: Schaer
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 30 297 56062
Fax: +49 69 265 49552

DE (BERLIN) participant 324˙091.00
5    KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

 Organization address address: Oude Markt 13
city: LEUVEN
postcode: 3000

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Sarah
Cognome: Malevé
Email: send email
Telefono: +32 16 32 06 11
Fax: +32 16 32 65 15

BE (LEUVEN) participant 322˙980.00
6    BUNDESANSTALT FUER MATERIALFORSCHUNG UND -PRUEFUNG

 Organization address address: Unter den Eichen 87
city: BERLIN
postcode: 12205

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Eva-Maria
Cognome: Müller
Email: send email
Telefono: 493081000000
Fax: 493081000000

DE (BERLIN) participant 314˙818.00
7    TUEV RHEINLAND CONSULTING GMBH

 Organization address address: AM GRAUEN STEIN
city: KOELN
postcode: 51105

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Stefan
Cognome: Kuschel
Email: send email
Telefono: 492218000000
Fax: +49 221 806 3496

DE (KOELN) participant 305˙149.00
8    BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION SWEDEN AB

 Organization address address: OSTRA RINGVAGEN 2
city: VASTERAS
postcode: 721 73

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Anders
Cognome: Frid
Email: send email
Telefono: +46 10 852 72 62
Fax: +46 10 852 71 11

SE (VASTERAS) participant 257˙738.00
9    SOCIETE NATIONALE DES CHEMINS DE FER FRANCAIS

 Organization address address: PLACE AUX ETOILES 2
city: ST DENIS
postcode: 93200

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Estelle
Cognome: Bongini
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 1 53422356
Fax: +33 1 53429252

FR (ST DENIS) participant 256˙766.00
10    "Dynamics, Structures and Systems International"

 Organization address address: Jules Vandenbemptlaan 71
city: Heverlee
postcode: 3001

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: André
Cognome: Van Leuven
Email: send email
Telefono: 3216238988
Fax: 3216238910

BE (Heverlee) participant 229˙336.00
11    CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB

 Organization address address: -
city: GOETEBORG
postcode: 41296

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Katarina
Cognome: Ekman
Email: send email
Telefono: +46 31 7722637
Fax: +46 31 7723690

SE (GOETEBORG) participant 224˙976.00
12    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

 Organization address address: Highfield
city: SOUTHAMPTON
postcode: SO17 1BJ

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Yan
Cognome: Qiao
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 2380593907
Fax: +44 2380 59 6841

UK (SOUTHAMPTON) participant 210˙784.00
13    Keller Holding GmbH

 Organization address address: Kaiserleistrasse 44
city: Offenbach
postcode: 63067

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Andrea
Cognome: Leuer
Email: send email
Telefono: +49 69 8051 218
Fax: +49 69 8051 221

DE (Offenbach) participant 187˙025.00
14    CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS Y EXPERIMENTACION DE OBRAS PUBLICAS - CEDEX

 Organization address address: C/ Alfonso XII 3-5
city: MADRID
postcode: 28014

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Fernando
Cognome: Pardo De Santayana
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 91 335 7300
Fax: +34 91 335 7346

ES (MADRID) participant 181˙800.00
15    TRAFIKVERKET - TRV

 Organization address address: RODA VAGEN 1
city: BORLANGE
postcode: 781 89

contact info
Nome: Ann
Cognome: Ludén
Email: send email
Telefono: +46 243 756 81
Fax: +46 243 757 33

SE (BORLANGE) participant 179˙900.00
16    RAIL.ONE GMBH

 Organization address address: INGOLSTADTER STRASSE 51
city: NEUMARKT
postcode: 92318

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Arnold
Cognome: Pieringer
Email: send email
Telefono: 499181000000
Fax: 499181000000

DE (NEUMARKT) participant 170˙231.00
17    ALSTOM TRANSPORT S.A.

 Organization address address: Avenue Andre Malraux 3
city: LEVALLOIS PERRET
postcode: 92300

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Daniel L.
Cognome: Cadet
Email: send email
Telefono: +33 1 57 06 91 88
Fax: +33 1 57 06 88 02

FR (LEVALLOIS PERRET) participant 141˙147.00
18    Eiffage Rail GmbH

 Organization address address: Hernerstrasse 299
city: Bochum
postcode: 44809

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Flöttmann
Cognome: Hanfried
Email: send email
Telefono: 4920929658
Fax: 4923480000000

DE (Bochum) participant 139˙788.00
19    CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE DU BATIMENT

 Organization address address: Avenue Jean Jaures 84
city: CHAMPS SUR MARNE
postcode: 77420

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Michel
Cognome: Villot
Email: send email
Telefono: 33476762525
Fax: 33476442046

FR (CHAMPS SUR MARNE) participant 129˙412.00
20    UNION DES INDUSTRIES FERROVIAIRES EUROPEENNES - UNIFE

 Organization address address: Avenue Louise 221 - bte11
city: BRUXELLES
postcode: 1050

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Lea
Cognome: Paties
Email: send email
Telefono: 3226437081
Fax: 3226261261

BE (BRUXELLES) participant 116˙200.00
21    ADMINISTRADOR DE INFRAESTRUCTURAS FERROVIARIAS

 Organization address address: C/ SOR ANGELA DE LA CRUZ 3 10 PLANTA
city: MADRID
postcode: 28020

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Miguel
Cognome: Rodríguez Plaza
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 91 774 48 69
Fax: +34 91 774 49 02

ES (MADRID) participant 102˙617.00
22    PROSE AG

 Organization address address: ZUERCHERSTRASSE 41
city: WINTERTHUR
postcode: 8400

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Jochen
Cognome: Helmlinger
Email: send email
Telefono: 41522627400

CH (WINTERTHUR) participant 80˙000.00
23    PANDROL LIMITED

 Organization address address: STATION ROAD 63
city: ADDLESTONE
postcode: KT15 2AR

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Dave
Cognome: Herron
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1932 834500
Fax: +44 1932 850858

UK (ADDLESTONE) participant 67˙381.00
24    LUCCHINI RS SPA

 Organization address address: Via Oberdan 6/a
city: Brescia
postcode: 25128

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Steven
Cognome: Cervello
Email: send email
Telefono: 39035963483
Fax: 39035963488

IT (Brescia) participant 62˙006.00
25    DE VOS PAUL HENRY

 Organization address address: ACACIALAAN 23
city: LOOSDRECHT
postcode: 1231BS

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Paul
Cognome: De Vos
Email: send email
Telefono: 31653526524
Fax: 31355821297

NL (LOOSDRECHT) participant 56˙147.00
26    SATEBA SYSTEME VAGNEUX SA

 Organization address address: PLACE RONDE 31 QUARTIER VALMY
city: PUTEAUX
postcode: 92800

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Charles
Cognome: Petit
Email: send email
Telefono: 33146532900
Fax: 33146532901

FR (PUTEAUX) participant 44˙450.00
27    REGIE AUTONOME DES TRANSPORTS PARISIENS

 Organization address address: QUAI DE LA RAPEE 54 LAC B71
city: PARIS
postcode: 75012

contact info
Titolo: Mr.
Nome: Guillaume
Cognome: Coquel
Email: send email
Telefono: 33158774342
Fax: 33158782080

FR (PARIS) participant 32˙094.00

Mappa


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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Ground vibration, effected by rail services, is an important environmental concern, affecting European citizens nearby any rail infrastructure. Surveys show that many Europeans are subjected to annoying levels of feelable vibration and vibration-induced noise. Although solutions are available for track in tunnels, tracks at grade are a much more extensive problem even for vibration-induced noise. However, solutions for tracks at grade are lacking: for some problems currently no feasible solutions at reasonable cost are available. A group of railway operators, infrastructure managers, infrastructure and rolling stock manufacturers, and construction companies, end users of vibration mitigation technology, have gathered, to propose a major project for Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions (RIVAS). They aim at providing tools and methods to reduce vibration below the threshold of annoynace and induced noise below background levels by 2013. The group includes the expertise of research organisations and universities with specialist laboratory and theoretical modelling facilities. The issues are treated in a holistic way with the focus on reducing the annoyance to lineside residents. The project examines all vibration effects and aspects of the system: vehicle, track, propagation, freight and high-speed rail services. WP1 establishes the test procedures to monitor and control the performance of vibration mitigation measures under realistic conditions WP2 develops and evaluates mitigation measures based on reducing the excitation of vibration at the vehicle–track interface by improved maintenance WP3 develops and evaluates mitigation measures for ballasted and slab tracks WP4 will develop and evaluate mitigation measures based on sub-grade improvement and ground barriers within the railway infrastructure WP5 addresses the impact of the vehicle Each of the solutions is to be validated with field tests on the major European rail networks represented in RIVAS'

Introduzione (Teaser)

While plenty of research has been conducted on noise as a side-effect of rail transport, vibrations have received less attention because they are less perceptible. To fill this gap, EU-funded researchers have explored ground-borne vibration with a view to minimising its environmental impact.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

The EU promotes railway transport as the most sustainable surface transport mode both for freight and passenger movements. However, the noise and vibrations are still perceived as weaknesses in need of improvement. In particular, vibrations caused by track and wheel irregularities that are specific to rail stand out as a criticism of rail transport.

In the 'Railway induced vibration abatement solutions' (http://www.rivas-project.eu/ (RIVAS)) project, researchers had three years to explore ways and means of reducing vibrations to values near or below the threshold of perception. They developed a series of technologies to control vibrations at source or reduce them on the transmission path.

RIVAS technologies were primarily developed to meet the needs of railway operators and infrastructure managers. The toolbox includes rail-fastening systems, sleepers and resilient elements for the tracks and sub-grade. These can find applications in suburban, regional and high-speed operations that tend to be built away from residential areas.

Project researchers also defined test procedures to monitor and control the performance of anti-vibration measures under realistic conditions. During the course of the project, the new technologies were tested on or close to existing railway lines and their effectiveness was measured. Based on the results, the team compiled guidelines for their design and implementation.

The undertaking has set the groundwork for establishing European standards and the harmonisation of metrics. The project team has defined methodologies for determining the nature and extent of the impact of vibrations on buildings nearby any railway infrastructure and their residents. Based on the estimated annoyance, track and vehicle conditions could be classified in terms of vibration-induced noise.

RIVAS has been one of the largest EU-funded projects aiming to safeguard the railway sector's commercial competitiveness. Its 26 partners are keen to put the solutions proposed into practice and increase the quality of life for European citizens near railway lines.

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