Improved availability & reduced life cycle cost of track switches

Program:
Sponsors: Trafikverket
Researchers: Jen Jönsson & Jan Lundberg
Duration: 2011 – 2016

The Swedish railway infrastructure manager faces challenges of demands of increasing traffic capacity and the improvement of the switches and crossings (S&Cs), reliability is an important aspect for achieving this. Therefore, the aim is to identify important conditions that can improve availability and reduced life cycle cost of track switches.