Freight Train Aerodynamics for Efficiency and Safety

Abstract

This webinar focused on multimodal hydrogen containers, automation through the self-propelled wagon and aerodynamic energy-efficient wagons designs for safety and efficient driving practices. Watch the film, download the presentation and update yourself on the status, ongoing work and plans.

With a mission to create new solutions for efficient logistics for rail services, the FP5 TRANS4M-R project has worked on defining functional requirements and concepts of Innovative Freight Assets. This work has lead to technical specifications, validation plans, preliminary designs for implementation and preliminary tests which we now want to share outside the project.

Agenda 11.30 Welcome, Introduction Rail Sweden and FP5 TRANS4M-R Sneha Gosavi, Project Manager, Rail Sweden

11.40 Introduction to Innovative freight assets Inigo Adin, Senior Researcher, CEIT

11.45 Use cases and concepts of Self-Propelled Wagons Behzad Kordnejad, Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm

12.20 Multimodal Hydrogen Container Jürgen Klarner, Director Research & Development and Innovation, Voestalpine Tubulars

12.40 Freight Train Aerodynamics for efficiency and safety James Bell, Research Engineer, German Aerospace Center - DLR

12.55 Questions, discussion and closing of the meeting Sneha Gosavi, Project Manager, Rail Sweden