NON - CONTACT MEASURMENT OF TRACK GEOMETRY PARAMETERS

Abstract

With the tendency to develop and improve the railways, increasing the speed on the railways and the requirements for increasing the throughput of the railways due to the increase in the volume of traffic, the challenges of maintaining the railway infrastructure also grow proportionally. By non-contact measurement of track geometry parameters and analysis of measurement results, it is possible to create high-quality plans and management strategies for the maintenance of the railway infrastructure in a short time and take timely measures to eliminate registered errors on the track. On that way, safety will be raised to a significantly higher level, unplanned track closures will be avoided, regular traffic will be enabled and the costs of inadequate and unplanned maintenance of the railway infrastructure will be reduced.