Proactive Mitigation of Adverse Weather Conditions to Increase Passenger Confidence in Rail Resilience

积极缓解恶劣天气条件，提高乘客对铁路弹性的信心

• 批准号: 10002507
• 金额: $ 43.75万
• 依托单位: LENZ LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10002507
• 关键词: Proactive; Mitigation; Adverse; Weather; Conditions

At Lenz Labs, our mission is to make train delays a problem of the past. During autumn and winter seasons, railway stakeholders face the challenge of operating passenger and freight services under low adhesion conditions that occur when vegetation is crushed onto damp rails to create a smooth, slippery surface. With reduced traction, drivers approach bends at high speed and encounter dangerous braking scenarios as they lose control over the wheels, resulting in platform and junction overruns, or even derailment.To mitigate, reduced speed limits are imposed on 10% of services resulting in £345m of economic damage per year across the UK and fines to Network Rail of over £300m due to poor service reliability. In essence, drivers and stakeholders are suffering from the "black ice of rail".To combat this problem, Lenz proposes the novel Traction Hub - a solution that delivers safe and predictable braking whilst improving acceleration performance by retrofitting to the wheelset and increasing adhesion levels at the wheel-rail interface.Mitigating slip has the added benefits of allowing vehicles to traverse greater inclines - currently limited to 3 percent above horizontal - with the product requiring no new infrastructure to install. Once installed, the product aims to deliver improvements to the key metrics of control period 6 in public performance measure, miles per technical incident and signals passed at danger.The founding team at Lenz Labs originally built Hyperloop prototype vehicles during their time leading the University of Edinburgh's Hyperloop Team from 2016-2019 and pioneered the use of novel traction principles within their roles. The blue-sky concept of Hyperloop alerted us to how much the rail industry stands to gain from the application of these underlying principles. This inspired us to apply the technology conceived in developing the transport systems of the future to solve problems facing today's rail network.With this SBRI First of a Kind project, we will be trialling the Traction Hub product on national rail infrastructure to accelerate the route to market and demonstrate the technologies' capabilities to rail stakeholders.**We are appealing to the UK rail industry leaders and anyone interested in viewing a demonstration of the technology, to get in touch, explore the offering and join the journey. Drop Hamish a line at [e-mail] to find out more.**

在伦茨实验室，我们的使命是让火车晚点成为过去。在秋冬季节，铁路利益相关者面临着在低附着力条件下运营客运和货运服务的挑战，这种条件是植被压在潮湿的铁轨上以形成光滑光滑的表面。由于牵引力降低，驾驶员在高速接近弯道时会遇到危险的制动情况，因为他们失去了对车轮的控制，导致站台和交叉口超限，甚至脱轨。为了缓解这种情况，对10%的服务施加了降低的速度限制，每年在英国造成3.45亿英镑的经济损失，并因服务可靠性差而对Network Rail罚款超过3亿英镑。从本质上讲，司机和利益相关者正在遭受"铁路黑冰"的痛苦。为了解决这个问题，伦茨提出了一种新型的牵引轮毂--这种解决方案可提供安全和可预测的制动，同时通过改装轮对和提高轮轨界面的附着力水平来提高加速性能。减少滑移的额外好处是允许车辆通过更大的斜坡-目前限制在水平以上3%-该产品不需要安装新的基础设施。一旦安装完成，该产品旨在改进公共性能测量中的控制周期6的关键指标，每起技术事件的英里数和危险时传递的信号。伦茨实验室的创始团队最初在2016 - 2019年领导爱丁堡大学的Hyperloop团队期间建造了Hyperloop原型车，并在他们的角色中率先使用了新颖的牵引原理。Hyperloop的蓝天概念提醒我们，铁路行业将从这些基本原则的应用中获益匪浅。这启发了我们将未来交通系统开发中的技术应用于解决当今铁路网络面临的问题。通过SBRI First of a Kind项目，我们将在国家铁路基础设施上试用Traction Hub产品，以加快通往市场的路线，并向铁路利益相关者展示技术的能力。**我们呼吁英国铁路行业的领导者和任何有兴趣观看该技术演示的人，与我们联系，探索产品并加入旅程。在www.example.com上给Hamish留言，了解更多信息。**