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Condition Monitoring of Railway Tracks Using Compact Size On-board Monitoring Device

Last updated on 08 December 2014 10:58

This paper summarizes a new development of a compact size on-board device for condition monitoring of railway tracks and the monitoring software. Track irregularities are estimated from a vertical and lateral acceleration and roll rate of a car body. A GPS system and a map-matching algorithm are used to pinpoint...

Author(s): Tsunashima H;Mori H;Yanagisawa K;Ogino M;Asano A

Organisation(s): Nihon University ; National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory ; Kyosan Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd ;

2014

Japan

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