Advanced Rail Radar System, Trackbed Evaluation and Maintenance
The rail industry is committed to investing millions of pounds in improving quality through renewals and maintenance. Productivity and efficiency are key to delivering value for money during this process.
For a number of years Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has offered a means of potentially identifying incipient trackbed problems such as wet bed formation, ballast pumping and ballast degradation, and sub-grade failure.
Zetica has developed the innovative train-mounted Zetica Advanced Rail Radar (ZARR) system. ZARR offers the following two main benefits:
Major efficiencies and cost savings compared with existing trackbed evaluation methods: data is acquired using any measurement or in-service train platform and trackbed information can now be acquired alongside track geometry and asset mapping data.
More efficient planning and execution of trackbed maintenance through monitoring of trackbed deterioration over time, identification of sites for renewal by ballast cleaning before degradation reaches the stage where costlier machine reballasting is required, and quality control of renewals through pre- and post-renewal scanning.
The system also provides for:
Zetica also provides its Trackside service offering detailed site investigation of the rail trackbed and its surroundings.
Utilising a combination of traditional site investigation methods and non-intrusive techniques, Zetica can provide information that enables a better assessment of ballast, formation, drainage and other key trackbed conditions:
Zetica utilises GPR on road-rail (up to 30kph) or trolley platforms with targeted sampling to:
Zetica offers the following full range of trackside site investigation services and structural surveys:
Significant changes can occur at different stages in the lifetime of a ballasted trackbed under repeated loading. These include, but are not limited to, the generation of fines, which may clog ballast void space, the failure of the formation leading to ingress of fines through pumping and localised settlement of the formation leading to the growth of ballast pockets.
ZARR utilises ground penetrating radar (GPR) and is a uniquely powerful desk study tool to continuously map changes in the thickness and quality of the ballast layer across a network.
Since opening in 1987, the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) has been central to the regeneration of east London. Now its significance is far greater than originally envisaged.
The modernisation of the 399-mile (641.6km) rail route between London and Glasgow and its key divergences to Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester, was the largest rail project to date in the UK.
Full UK Government approval was granted in 1996 for the two sections of the 69-mile (108km) high-speed Channel Tunnel Ra
Zetica, a company that develops innovative train-mounted advanced rail radar systems, has recently released two free white papers, which explain the company's products and services - ZARR and its holistic strategy for inspecting track beds.
Zetica Rail has won contracts to carry out railway asset scanning car (RASC) surveys in Australia and the USA in 2012. The RASC is a multi-sensor hy-rail vehicle-based inspection system, comprising one or more of the following capabilities:
Zetica Rail has won a contract to scan approximately 6,000km of trackbed for Transnet Freight Rail in South Africa.
Zetica Rail has been awarded a contract by Network Rail to upgrade Zetica's advanced rail radar (ZARR) installation on three inspection trains to include high frequency horn antenna for ballast fouling measurements in addition to existing antennas for imaging deeper trackbed layers.
Zetica Rail is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new asset management inspection system, the Railway Asset Scanning Car (RASC). The RASC is a multi-sensor hy-rail vehicle-based system comprising industry leading laser scanning, rail radar and video inspection systems.
Zetica Rail and Balfour Beatty Rail (BBRI) have commenced a 1,000 mile rail ground penetrating radar survey to characterise ballast quality for the BNSF railroad company in the US. The works are designed to optimise maintenance planning by targeting the most contaminated ballast. Zetica R
Zetica Rail is pleased to invite you to visit its stand at the Trako Rail exhibition, held on the 14-16 October 2009 in Gdansk, Poland. At the show, Zetica will introduce its non-invasive trackbed rail radar services and systems to optimise trackbed maintenance activities.
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