Switch and Crossing Optimal Design and Evaluation

Project title: Switch and Crossing Optimal Design and Evaluation (S-CODE)

Project reference: 730849
Program: HORIZON 2020, Shift2Rail
Call reference: S2R-OC-IP3-01-2016
Period: from 01/11/2016 to 31/10/2019
Coordinator: The University of Birmingham
Project website: www.s-code.info/

The overall aim of the S-CODE project is to investigate, develop, validate and initially integrate radically new concepts for switches and crossings that have the potential to lead to increases in capacity, reliability and safety while reducing investment and operating costs.

The S-CODE project is a research and innovation action under IP3 of the Shift2Rail Multi Annual Action Plan. IP3 aims to establish cost efficient and reliable infrastructure.

The S-CODE project will build on existing European and national research projects (in particular, the lighthouse project In2Rail, Capacity4Rail and Innotrack) to identify radically different technology concepts that can be integrated together to achieve significantly improved performance for S&C based around new operating concepts (e.g. super-fast switching, self-healing switch).

The project is divided into three phases:

Phase 1: Requirements and initial design – focusing on understanding constraints and critical requirements, and developing a radically different architecture and operation that makes use of technologies from other domains;

Phase 2: Technical development – undertaking detailed modelling and simulation to identify an optimal configuration to maximise performance;

Phase 3: Validation and evaluation – testing (to TRL4) the design concepts and formally evaluating their performance in order that an integrated design can be presented for further development.

University of Birmingham (coordinator)
DT - Výhybkárna a strojírna, a.s.
Ferrovial
Rhomberg Rail Consult GmbH
Rail Safety and Standards Board
COMSA
Loughborough University
Brno University of Technology
University of Pardubice

doc. Ing. Jaromír Zelenka, CSc.
Ing. Martin Kohout, Ph.D.
prof. Ing. Bohumil Culek, CSc.
prof. Ing. Eva Schmidová, Ph.D.
Ing. Aleš Hába, Ph.D.
Ing. Tomáš Michálek, Ph.D.
Ing. Jakub Vágner, Ph.D.
Ing. Petr Voltr, Ph.D.
Ing. Stanislava Liberová, Ph.D.
Ing. Monika Skalská, Ph.D.