Opendata, web and dolomites

DIGITALIA 2

Disruptive process for the construction of railway transition zones, reducing drastically construction and maintenance costs

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 DIGITALIA 2 project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the DIGITALIA 2 project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "DIGITALIA 2" about.

quick    yearly    vibrations    constructed    benefit    requiring    commercial    length    business    track    differently    operation    led    degradations    area    completely    properly    revenue    train    speeding    saving    precast    backfill    deployment    when    10    torrescamara    soil    zone    rest    comfort    commercialization    construction    simplifying    transition    invertical    vertical    strategic    accelerating    innovative    viaduct    98m    embankment    introduce       471m    total    regular    alliances    digitalia    times    railway    phase2    wedge    manufacturing    13m    hence    deploy    cement    successful    5th    shaped    solving    stakeholders    8m    investment    bridge    reducing    passenger    uncertain    ease    accounting    demonstration    slabsthat    smooth    specifications    zones    performance    tunnel    definition    managers    phase1    constitute    model    time    tools    generating    consuming    stiffness    demanding    crosses    maintenance    infrastructure    establishing    owners    tracks    abrupt    consequently    nearly152m    solution    inclusion    market    suppliers    speed   

Project "DIGITALIA 2" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
TORRESCAMARA Y CIA DE OBRAS SA 

Organization address
address: CL FONTETA DE SORIA 4 OLIVA
city: VALENCIA
postcode: 46780
website: n.a.

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country Spain [ES]
 Project website http://www.torrescamara.com/en/areas-of-activity/innovation
 Total cost 2˙182˙598 €
 EC max contribution 1˙527˙818 € (70%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.3.4. (SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Smart, Green And Integrated Transport)
2. H2020-EU.2.1.1. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT))
3. H2020-EU.2.3.1. (Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument)
 Code Call H2020-SMEINST-2-2016-2017
 Funding Scheme SME-2
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-03-01   to  2019-02-28

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    TORRESCAMARA Y CIA DE OBRAS SA ES (VALENCIA) coordinator 1˙527˙818.00

Map

 Project objective

When a train crosses from an embankment area to a bridge, tunnel or viaduct (transition zone), there is an abrupt change invertical stiffness, accelerating track degradations and generating vibrations. Hence, the embankment at transition zones are constructed differently to the rest of the track, using cement-treated soil to constitute a wedge shaped backfill. However, this construction is complex, uncertain and time-consuming, while not completely solving the vertical stiffness transition. Consequently, maintenance needs of transition zones are up to 6 times higher than regular tracks,requiring yearly about 471M€ (10% EU investment in track maintenance), while only accounting for 2,8% of total length. TORRESCAMARA has developed DIGITALIA 2,an innovative solution for transition zones based on precast concrete slabsthat properly smooth vertical stiffness and maintain this performance over time, with the aim of: 1) Simplifying and speeding up the construction process, 2) Reducing costs of the construction process, 3)Reducing maintenance operation needs, and 4) Reducing the associated vibrations to improve passenger comfort. The successful execution of Phase1 has led to the definition of a business model to deploy DIGITALIA 2 and reach EU market, establishing strategic alliances with potential stakeholders, users as well as commercial suppliers.In Phase2, our overall objective is to introduce DIGITALIA 2 in the market through the construction of an advanced demonstration element in the most complex and demanding conditions. We will also develop tools to ease and speed up the design,manufacturing and construction process. We will ensure a quick market deployment and promote the inclusion of DIGITALIA 2 in the specifications of railway infrastructure owners. As a result, the commercialization of DIGITALIA 2 will lead to a revenue of nearly152M€ and a benefit of 13M€ by the 5th year, while saving construction managers over 98M€ in construction cost and 8M€ on maintenance.

 Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Report of completed and planned dissemination and communication activities Documents, reports 2019-11-26 12:23:35
Specific instructions about how to transport stockpile and install DIGITALIA Documents, reports 2019-11-26 12:23:36

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail:  detailed list of DIGITALIA 2 deliverables.

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "DIGITALIA 2" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "DIGITALIA 2" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.3.4.;H2020-EU.2.1.1.;H2020-EU.2.3.1.)

SAFESEAT (2017)

SAFESEAT: the next generation, Smart Child Restraint Seat

Read More  

Zbox (2018)

ZBOX: THE NEXT GENERATION OF FOLDABLE CONTAINERS

Read More  

REFITT (2018)

Rare Earth Free Innovative Truck Traction

Read More