International Railway Exhibition “TRAKO-2019”


In September 2019, the Polish city of Gdansk was brought again for the 13th time in the center of attention of the international railway transport community thanks to one of the largest international railway exhibitions - TRAKO, which was held on 23-27 September. Nearly 700 exhibitors from 30 countries presented their products — equipment, services, technologies, rolling stock, track maintenance machines and much more at an exhibition area of 30,000 m2 and on railway tracks of 1000 meters long.

 

Expert Meeting of the OSJD Commission on Infrastructure and Rolling Stock on the sub-topic “Integrated Diagnostics of the Railway Track” of the subject “Railway Track and Engineer Structures”

 

This meeting was held in Gdansk in parallel with the ‘TRAKO’ exhibition from 24 till 26 September 2019 at the invitation of the PKP PLK JSC.

The meeting was attended by the representatives of railways from: NK ZI (Bulgaria), MAV CJSC (Hungary), LG (Lithuania), PKP PLK JSC (Poland), RZD OJSC (Russia), ZSR (Slovakia), Ukrzaliznytsia JSC (Ukraine), as well as the OSJD Committee and OSJD affiliated enterprises: Enteria JSC (Czech Republic), Betamont LLC (Slovakia) and “Firma TVEMA” JSC (Russia).

 

The following items were considered under the agenda:

preparation of the draft Leaflet “Requirements for video control systems”;

updating Leaflet R 709 “Recommendations on non-destructive methods for determining the stressed condition of rails of a welded jointless track”;

preparation of information material on modern diagnostic tools used in monitoring infrastructure facilities;

updating the information material on acceptable standards for the impact of rolling stock on the railway;

development of information material on expert systems used on railways;

development of material on the subject “The concept of constructing a system for automated diagnostics of rolling stock enroute in order to minimize the damage caused onto the railway infrastructure”;

use of the logged platform of the OSJD Web-site in the work of the OSJD Commission on Infrastructure and Rolling Stock;

consideration of the draft Work Plan for the sub-topic “Comprehensive diagnostics of the railway track” for 2020.