Faculdade

Sustainable Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Railway Track (SMART)

Reference  
Title Sustainable Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Railway Track
Main Area Civil Engineering
Funding Framework Fundo de Relações Bilaterais (FBR) do Mecanismo Financeiro do Espaço Económico Europeu 2014-2021, EEA Grants Portugal
Funding (€)  
Starting date  2023 - 2024
Principal Contractor  
Participating Institutions

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Zuzana Dimitrovová); IDMEC-IST, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet); Cracow University of Technology (CUT)
Web site https://www.idmec.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/projects/sustainable-maintenance-and-rehabilitation-of-railway-track/

 

Objective: to analyse innovative methods of identifying damage (necessity of intervention) on the railway track using data (sound and image from video recordings) collected by UAVs (drones) and to develop techniques for measuring and processing this data.