An intelligent track monitoring system
Howard Parkinson, Simon Iwnicki · e-space (Manchester Metropolitan University) · 1999
Railway infrastructure is increasingly coming under the close scrutiny of the Health and Safety Executive over incidents that may be due to track irregularities. In order to show compliance with safety targets and to make maintenance and future investment decisions, it is proposed that an attempt should be made to improve the current methods of linking particular types of track irregularities with derailments. This would also allow operators and infrastructure managers to monitor these irregularities more effectively and to direct maintenance over the long term.