Project
AVI-2015 - 100% Spanish integrated system for interoperable railway networks
Funding origin:
Spain
STRIA Roadmaps:
Vehicle design and manufacturing (VDM)
Transport mode:
Rail
Transport sectors:
Passenger transport
Freight transport
Project website:
Duration:
Start date: 01/01/2006,
End date: 01/01/2010
Status: Finished
Funding details:
Overview
Background & policy context:
The research project AVI 2015 ("Integrated System for High Speed 100 % Spanish for Interoperable Rail Networks") was approved in March 2006 by the Center for Technology Development Industry (CENIT ) was launched in January 2006 and ended in January 2010 after exhausting the expected duration of 48 months. It involved as partners, under the leadership of CAF, Donewtech, Eliop, Matalocaucho, Sispra and Verkol and research centers CEIT, Ikerlan, Tekniker and the Universities of Huelva, Politécnica de Madrid, Seville and Zaragoza.
Objectives:
- Bridging the phenomenon of "projection ballast" allowing speeds above 300km / h.
- Obtain technologies that allow the use of ERTMS signalling equipment with open architectures, and are easily integrated with many national signalling systems.
- Saving without increasing cost or weight interoperability barrier posed by different supply voltages.
- Saving the interoperability barrier caused by the different gauges, allowing variable gauge trains reaching speeds of the fastest high-speed trains in service.
- Increase speed of movement in conventional ways by a new generation of active suspensions.
- Reduce by 10% the energy consumption of the train, using traction systems more efficient, less aerodynamic drag and lighter materials.
- Reduce by 50% the time of approval, reducing delivery times, by defining new concepts of test fixtures and new procedures.
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