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Train Health Advisory System (THAS)

Technology/Research:
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The small, low-cost prototype 'THAS'

The Train Health Advisory System (THAS) is understood to be the first low cost on-board train monitoring system in the world for multiple wagon use.  The THAS involves a low cost sensor device installed on multiple wagons, which communicate with a Head End Unit (HEU) via the ECP trainwire and report on rollingstock and track health and defect events.   Designed as an add-on to the new OzECP brake system being developed by RIA and its partners, the THAS in its current form will report on: wheel unloading; L/V risk; track degradation rates; ride quality; hunting; wheel flats; and axle derailment.

Status:

Rail Innovation Australia and project partners CQUniversity, QR and Faiveley Transport have received a grant of $670,000 from the Queensland Government Smart State Innovation Fund to develop and commercialise this technology.

Industry uptake :

It is envisaged THAS could be marketed separately or as an add-on to the much anticipated OzECP brake product.  Major industry operator QR and international transport company Faiveley Transport have committed themselves as major project partners. !

Present or potential value to industry:

The project, and its associated technology, was estimated by independent consultants STEM Partnerships in 2006, to have the potential to deliver a risk-free-value of $27.2 million over the next 15 years to the rail industry.

For further information:

Dr Anna Thomas
General Manager
Rail Innovation Australia Pty Ltd

Voice: (07) 4923 2029
a.thomas@cqu.edu.au
Fax: (07) 4923 2161


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