Predictive maintenance of railway infrastructures against climate change

THE RESILTRACK PROJECT, LED BY COMSA, PROVIDES INFORMATION ON THE STATE OF RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE AND HOW IT IS AFFECTED BY ADVERSE CLIMATIC PHENOMENA.

In line with its commitment to innovation in the railway sector, COMSA leads the consortium of companies that has developed the RESILTRACK project to design a system that provides information on the state of railway infrastructure and how it is affected by adverse climatic phenomena. It is a solution that provides real-time data and also forecasts the behaviour of the infrastructure in order to act where necessary, making it resilient to the effects of climate change.

The new maintenance techniques proposed by RESILTRACK take advantage of the opportunities offered by new technologies, both in terms of real-time sensors and the collection, processing and integration of large amounts of data (Big Data and BIM), as well as advances in computational calculation that allow a wide range of simulations with predictive capabilities to be considered in decision-making.

The project, which started in 2017, has completed the industrial and experimental research stages, the development of the system for optimised maintenance of railway infrastructure and also several pilot tests. It is currently in its final phase and is one of the areas of innovation that COMSA Corporación intends to continue promoting.