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THE RIVAS TOOLBOX FOR VIBRATION MITIGATION

ARTICLE - ISSUE 25 - by EURAILmag

THE RIVAS TOOLBOX FOR VIBRATION While plenty of research[1] has been carried out on rail-generated noise, since vibration is less perceptible it tends to receive less attention. To fill this gap, European project RIVAS[2] – Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions – is exploring low frequency ground-borne vibration with a view to reducing its environmental impact, while safeguarding the commercial competitiveness of the railway sector.

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ASSOCIATED CONTENT

IMPACT OF REGULATION ON EUROPEAN COATING MANUFACTURERS
The European Union (EU) has adopted several regulations that are having a major impact on the coating manufacturing industry. These include REACH…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 24 - by Dr Jacques Warnon, European Council of Paint Printing Ink & Artist Colours’ Industry (CEPE)
BIOFUEL – AN OPTION FOR REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS
Biofuel is emerging as one of the most recent solutions to greening the transport sector, by reducing the amount of CO2 produced…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 16 - by Henning Schwarz, UIC / Ian Papworth & Bryan Donnelly, ATOC
CANopen IN ROLLING STOCK
Nowadays you can find CANopen in new and modernised rail vehicles such as tramcars, light railways and commuter trains. Croatian consortium Crotram…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 22 - by Dipl.-Ing. Christian Paul & Dipl.-Ing. Reiner Zitzmann, CAN in Automation
THE MATERIAL WORLD OF COMPOSITES
Composite materials are coming into their own in transport. To meet growing needs for energy and production efficiency, constructors of all moving…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 25 - by EURAILmag
VINYLS & HIGH GLOSS FOR NORTHERN RAIL
When Northern Rail refurbished its 15-year-old Class 323 fleet of rolling stock it had a choice of three options for…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 24 - by EURAILmag
DRIVER TRAINING – INTO THE BLENDER
Train drivers need training. But in Europe as capacity demands limit track availability and competition in the industry pressurises services, it is…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 23 - by EURAILmag
MANTENING OPERATIONS
Mantena, the maintenance arm of Norwegian State Railways (NSB), maintains and repairs rolling stock in Scandinavia for both the incumbent operator and…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 24 - by EURAILmag
VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS – REDUCING EMISSIONS IN RAIL
L’Agence de l’Environnement et de la Maitrise de l’Energie (ADEME) plays a key role in implementation of public policies…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 22 - by Christophe Stavrakakis, air pollution engineer, Entreprises et Eco Technologies Direction Productions et Energies Durables, Angers & François Boisleux, engineer, Direction Régionale Nord-Pas de Calais, ADEME
FLY ITALY & BEYOND, BY RAIL
The full-scale mock-up of the frecciarossa 1000[1], unveiled at innotrans 2012, drew flocks of visitors keen to discover the…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 27 - by EURAILmag
VELARO ACROSS BORDERS
Described as “a train for every customer”, a total of 200 high-speed Velaro trains by Siemens are currently operating in Europe…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 22 - by EURAILmag
WINTERISATION – LEARNING FROM COLD EXPERIENCE
The winter freeze, the big chill, harsh weather, cold snap…. Although rail tends to fare better than air when temperatures plunge, the…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 23 - by EURAILmag
HEATHROW GOES FOR GOLD
In a year when the eyes of the world are on London, Heathrow Express has been steadily unveiling the results of a…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 26 - by EURAILmag
INTEGRAIL ON QUEST TO BOOST PERFORMANCE
In EURAILmag ISSUE 16, we introduced the Integrail project (2005-2009) along with its original needs and the approach adopted to work out…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 19 - by Paolo Umiliacchi, Centro Nuova Comunicazione, Bologna
TRACKS TIME & TASTE. INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS GIBB, VIRGIN TRAINS
Virgin trains operates the West Coast rail franchise in the U.K., running services between major towns and cities including London, Birmingham, Manchester…

INTERVIEW - ISSUE 20 - by EURAILmag
COMFORT COUNTS FOR IARNRÓD ÉIREANN
The blueprint for investment in Ireland’s transport infrastructure is Transport 21. And in 2009 the country’s rail network, a particular…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 19 - by Noel Dempsey TD, Minister for Transport, Ireland
DB REGIO GOES MODULAR WITH TALENT 2, INTERVIEW WITH ULRICH HOMBURG, CHAIRMAN, DB REGIO
At the end of 2008, Deutsche Bahn (DB) placed an order for 15 Bombardier Talent 2 trains worth approximately €60 million. The…

INTERVIEW - ISSUE 19 - by EURAILmag
FROM CABLE TO CHIP – FERROCOTS TAKES COMMAND CONTROL
FerroCOTS aims to metamorphose command-control systems by replacing cables with chip cards. “Today the ‘brain’ of the train is made up…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 21 - by EURAILmag
ARTBATTLES AT PARIS GARE DU NORD
Inspired by hip-hop’s freestyle rap ‘battles,’ in which MC’s match wits while improvising lyrics, ArtBattles* made its French debut…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 24 - by EURAILmag
OPTIMISING INTERIORS TO REDUCE STOP-OVER TIMES
On the whole, current levels of train passenger exchange are unsatisfactory. On the one hand different entrance areas cause difficulties that restrict…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 19 - by Bernhard Rüger & Doris Tuna, Vienna University of Technology
INTERIOR DESIGN EXPECTATION, PROMISE & MISUNDERSTANDING*
To the customer, the world of rail may be a little confusing. They simply do not understand why it so difficult to…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 20 - by Neil Bates, Creactive Design, U.K.
DRIVERS IN FOR SAFER RIDE WITH PROCAB
Trains are one of the safest means of transport in use today: in 2003 in Europe, there were only 0.035 fatalities…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 19 - by Amélie Faubert, PROCAB coordinator, Bombardier Transportation
SOCIALLY FRIENDLY AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS – AN IMPOSSIBLE EQUATION?
Today’s modern world of rail uses automatic driving systems. What felt like a small ‘revolution’ in the 80s is considered normal…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 26 - by Antoine Baron, Gaël Boussaert, SNCF
IMAG’IN THE TRAIN OF THE FUTURE
European environmental legislation and growing awareness of the need to save energy and resources is driving innovative developments in the rail coating…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 23 - by Thierry Guénard, SNCF Technicentre Romilly-sur-Seine
GRÖNA TÅGET – A GREENER FUTURE FOR RAIL?
The Green Train (Gröna Tåget) research, development and demonstration project has been running since 2005. Scheduled to end in 2010/2011, it aims…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 19 - by EURAILmag
SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITIES OF URBAN MOBILITY
Given the facts and figures about global population trends – over 50% of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, which themselves are…

ARTICLE - ISSUE 26 - by EURAILmag