AŽD presented the first public ride of an autonomous train on a digital railway on Švestková dráha (Plum Railway line). A railway vehicle without the driver’s intervention reacted, for example, to a broken-down car standing at a level crossing. AŽD is working intensively on the introduction of advanced autonomous technologies into practice, thus creating space…
Adhesive bonding joints are an integral part of rail vehicle design. Part of our development activities in AV R&D are deals with both partial tests of adhesive bonding joints in the AV R&D Testing Center and the development of special test equipment for testing adhesive bonding joints in accordance with DIN 6701. Laboratory tests of…
Company IG Watteeuw ČR, based in Brno, has obtained again the Czech Railways certificate for its supply of gearboxes for railway’s rolling stock, this time including technology of wheel pressing to axle. Thanks to the Škoda CDR 500 hydraulic press, which has a working force of 5000 kN, a feed of 750 mm and a…