DELIVERABLE D6.3 - urban track

4.1.3. Third Network of Operators meeting
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URBAN TRACK Issued: 12/08/2008
Quality checked and approved by project co-ordinator André Van Leuven
The third meeting of the Network of Operators took place in Cologne on the 29 th of April 2008.
Seven members of the Network and three operator members of the Consortium were present:
No.- Name- Company- City/Country
1.- Thomas Potter, City of Bergen, Bergen (Norway)
2.- Lutz Keller - Dresdner Verkeherbetriebe AG – Dresden (D)
3.- Jorgue Quelhas – Metro do Porto – Porto (PT)
4.- Miroslav Penc – Prague Public Transport Company – Prague (CZ)
5.- Richer Vaclav - Brno Public Transport Company, Brno (CZ)
6.- Chris Chatfield – Centro Birmingham – Birmingham (UK)
7.- Robert Grzywacz - TW Warsaw – Warsaw (PL)
Members of the Consortium
1.- Michel Pellot - TMB – Barcelona (E)
2.- Sandrine Bondeux – RATP – Paris (F)
3.- Oliver Glaser – VBK - Karlsruhe – (D)
The following issues were presented and discussed:
– Low cost modular new track systems and fast installation methods in particular
REMS, artificial grass track, super elastic fixation and Ix-MOdulix and RE-MOdulix
– The possible draft for a standard in inspection and maintenance
– The optimal maintenance methodology related mainly to corrugation data
processing and the maintenance modelling
– Preventive maintenance of embedded tram tracks
– Demonstration of the calculation tool for LCC that is currently under development.
Two technical visits were included in the 3 rd meeting. The Network of Operators visited the
Cologne light rail tunnel currently under construction hosted by KVB (Cologne operator). The
other one to the STUVA test tracks installations for the URBANTRACK project.