While modern day track inspection is typically performed at routine intervals using dedicated geometry measurement cars, hi-rail vehicles and/or manual inspections, these methods are expensive and performed infrequently due to cost. Car Body Acceleration data, however, can be gathered at a significantly lower cost, allowing more frequent collection and greater areas to be covered (i.e., every time a train is in service).
Augmenting traditional track inspection technologies with day-to-day acceleration data provides rail carriers with more up-to-date situational awareness of their tracks and their vehicles and may improve overall operational safety.
Trakscope is a powerful Android App to help you detect and track the history of car body accelerations.
Data can be loaded into Bentley's Optram ® product for linear visualization and further processing.
Trakscope is currently being tested in the field. If you would like more information about Trakscope please reach out to use at info@trakscope.com