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MAINLINE Final workshop 30 September 2014 Paris UIC HQ
During this workshop the final results and practical outputs of MAINLINE were presented and distributed to the participants, including: a Life Cycle Assessment Tool (LCAT) that will evaluate whole life environmental and economic impact for maintenance and renewal activities of three assets – bridges, track and earthworks – and the corresponding user manual a Guideline to the application of new technologies to extend the life of (...)

Press releases on Mainline Project

MAINLINE Project results : a summary
The objective of MAINLINE was to develop methods and tools contributing to an improved railway system by taking into consideration the whole life of specific infrastructure – tunnels, bridges, track, switches, earthworks and retaining walls.
MAINLINE Final Workshop 30/09/2014 : presentations available here
Growth in demand for rail transportation across Europe is predicted to continue. Much of this growth will have to be accommodated on existing (...)

MAINLINE Life Cycle Assessment Tools (LCATs)
Please find below the LCAT models developed for metallic bridges, plain track and soil cuttings.
MAINLINE reports
Please find below the public reports of MAINLINE separated by Work Package. WP1 - Life Extension - Application of new technologies to elderly infrastructure WP2 - Degradation and structural models to develop realistic life cycle cost and safety models WP3 - Replacement of obsolete infrastructure – New construction methods (...)

Start date: 1st October 2011 Duration: 36 months Project number: 285121
Coordinator: Mr. Björn Paulsson UIC (International Union of Railways) / TRAFIKVERKET bjorn.paulsson@trafikverket.se Phone: +46 70 72 45 620
Project Officer: Mr. Blaise DE VADDER European Commission, DG Research and Innovation Directorate for Transport, Surface Transport Unit (H2)
Project Office: ARTTIC mainline-team@eurtd.com Phone: +33 1 53 94 54 88
Collaboration with other EC funded projects: SMART Rail

WP1 Life Extension – Application of new technologies to elderly infrastructure Activity: RTD Lead Beneficiary: LTU
The main objective for WP1 is to apply new technologies to extend the life of elderly infrastructure by: exploring and evaluating new technologies to extend the life length; developing new more accurate assessment methods to determine if and when the life can be extended without any interventions; further developing new technologies that can reduce life cycle costs for (...)

Participant no.*Beneficiary nameBeneficiary short nameCountry 1 (CO) UIC UIC FR 2 Network Rail Infrastructure Limited NR UK 3 COWI COWI DK 4 University of Surrey Surrey UK 5 TWI TWI UK 6 University of Minho UMINHO PT 7 Luleå tekniska universitet LTU SE 8 Deutsche Bahn AG DB DE 9 MÁV Magyar Államvasutak Zrt MAV HU 10 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya UPC ES 11 Graz University of Technology TUGraz AT 12 TCDD TCDD TR 13 DAMILL AB DAMILL SE 14 COMSA EMTE COMSA ES 15 TRAFIKVERKET