Railway Track & Structures - November 2007 - (Page 31) Automated m/w planning There will be five units equipped with ENSCO’s Automated Joint Bar Inspection System by the end of the year. M/W planning the automated way With more sophisticated software, railroads and transit systems are learning to plan MOW more efficiently, which leads to better risk management. by Tom Judge, editor R Bentley esearch and testing have led to software advances that give railroad m/w departments the opportunity to have hightech computers assist in planning work for the upcoming construction season and for years down the road. “Over the past year, Bentley’s Optram™, an information system for railway corridor infrastructure management, has had some significant developments,” said Ted Selig, director of operations solutions. “In October, I was especially proud to announce www.rtands.com Bentley Optram Enterprise Version 4 release and to congratulate our development team’s hard work on this major release. The Optram development team has expanded to include staff from Bentley offices in Massachusetts, Virginia and Cambridge, England, taking advantage of staff experience in geospatial, transportation, and enterprise information technology.” Included in this release is a new Optram Linear Data Analysis module. LDA is a library of analysis, logical, and data alignment functions built specifically to process corridor information such as track measurements, events (such as rail defects, work records) and asset data. LDA is scriptdriven capability allowing users to tailor corridor data analysis to each railway’s unique data types, policies, asset degradation characteristics, and business processes. The Swedish national rail system, Banverket, will be using Bentley’s patent-pending LDA technology to calculate system-wide track quality index, visualize frequency component of the rail head wear and forecast asset remaining life. “The new Optram Enterprise release also incorporates significant enhancements in information technology,” Selig said. “Optram Enterprise now runs on the industry-standard Java November 2007 31 Railway Track & Structures http://www.rtands.com
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