A catalogue of vibration reducing measures for railways
Regular paper
Grontmij Nederland B.V.
Tuesday 2 june, 2015, 15:00 - 15:20
0.1 London (90)
Abstract:
In the Netherlands, our railways cross a lot of urban areas. A lot of people
are effected by the vibrations caused by the trains. Therefore train
vibrations are a “hot” environmental item. Changes of the railway tracks
or changes in the type of trains using the railway, mean that the vibration
level caused by the trains in this new situation, has to be determined. When
the vibration level is too high, reducing measures have to be taken into
consideration.
Since there is not one specified and approved way to predict the effect of
vibration reducing measures, every consultant more or less uses his own
system. As a consequence the results can be very different and the results
of different studies are hard to combine.
ProRail (organisation managing the railway network in the Netherlands) is
looking for ways to create an unambiguous system to consider the effect of
reducing measures. That is why they have commissioned Grontmij and DPA
Cauberg-Huygen to develop a catalogue of vibration reducing measures for
railways. The goal is that in the future in all projects the catalogue is
used which makes it easier to compare the effect of different measures
within a project or between projects. It is also improving the procedure in
the consideration of the effectiveness of the measures. Which measure can be
taken within the amount of money that is available?
This paper shows the process of development of the catalogue, the design
criteria and describes the first edition of the catalogue. Furthermore
suggestions are made for studies in the future to improve the efficiency of
the catalogue.