Railway Track & Structures - November 2008 - (Page 31) Railroads automating m/w planning Information gathered by people and systems in the field can be tweaked effectively to produce sound, efficient m/w plans. by Tom Judge, editor M Bentley aintenance-of-way planning has come a long, long way from some by-guess and by-gosh methods of days gone by. Tight budgets will get tigheter and track time will continue to get shorter, so it’s vitally important that railroads obtain and use sophisticated m/w planning systems. Fortunately, several suppliers are offering such systems today. Bentley’s Optram™, an information system for railway corridor infrastructure management, introduced Bentley Optram Enterprise Version 4 late in 2007. Included in this release is a new www.rtands.com 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, is 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. ENSCO “2008 has been another busy year for ENSCO, Inc., in the development of new technology for automated maintenance-of-way planning,” said Jeff Stevens, director, ATE commercial operations. “In the spring of 2008, ENSCO launched TrackIT™ v3.0, the latest release of a centralized Webbased system for managing track infrastructure, inspection and maintenance information. This product enables engineering and maintenanceof-way personnel to rapidly retrieve ENSCO’s RailScan™ Lite Hi Rail Gauge Inspection System is a non-contact laser gauge measurement system. November 2008 31 Railway Track & Structures http://www.rtands.com
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