Assessing Reliability and Availability under Correlated Failures in Railway Locomotive Bogies

Railway is the backbone of the transportation systems worldwide. To ensure reliability and availability of such systems, maintenance policies need to be optimized under a challenging and competitive environment. Condition-based and predictive maintenance strategies are key strategies in the European rail traffic system, where common advanced monitoring solutions of railway Read more…

LOCATE Final brochure

The Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking LOCATE project has come to an end. Discover a summary of our results in the project final brochure at: bit.ly/3BaQnGE For further information, please contact Christine HASSOUN, dissemination advisor at UIC. This project has received funding from the Shift2Rail JU under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research Read more…

Presentation of the Europe’s Rail LOCATE Project results at WCRR on 8 June 2022

On 8 June 2022, Farouk Balouchi from The University of Huddersfield presented at the World Congress on Railway Research 2022 (WCRR) the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking LOCATE Project results in a session entitled “Condition Based Maintenance”. Abstract The freight industry is under increasing pressure to reduce costs and improve the reliability of its Read more…