📋 Tender Overview
Funding
European
European Union
Duration
12/2022
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11/2026
Status Ongoing
Geo-spatial type Infrastructure Node
Total project cost €0
EU Contribution €46 225 689
Project website
https://projects.rail-research.europa.eu/eurail-fp3/
Project Acronym FP3 - IAM4RAIL
STRIA Roadmaps
Infrastructure (INF)
Transport mode
Rail icon
Transport policies
Other specified
Transport sectors
Passenger transport, Freight transport
Call for proposal HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-01
Link to CORDIS
CORDIS ID: 101101966
Background & Policy context
Innovation can advance the management of Europe’s railway assets. However, this calls for a European cross-border, interoperable and holistic integrated approach. The EU-funded FP3 - IAM4RAIL project will focus on seven different integrated demonstrators for rail assets which are crucial for research and innovation in the rail sector. The project will integrate asset information obtained via advanced monitoring with decision-making tools and the traffic management system. To improve rail asset management, it will combine available information with artificial intelligence, digital twins and other areas like interventions, using advanced technologies such as robotics or additive manufacturing. FP3 - IAM4RAIL will optimise costs and improve rail system performance and reliability.
Objectives
The IAM4RAIL project focuses on seven (7) different integrated demonstrators for rail assets which are key for research and innovation (R&I) in the rail sector.
Integrating asset condition information obtained via advanced monitoring with decision-making tools and into the traffic management system (TMS), combining available information with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twins are covered as key topics for R&I in IAM4RAIL. Other topics such as interventions using cutting-edge technologies as robotics or additive manufacturing are seen as relevant for improving asset management in the rail sector. An European cross-border, interoperable and holistic integrated approach is needed for those topics and others in the asset management framework, that are to be transferred once developed crucial to harmonise European Rail System.
Therefore, IAM4RAIL aims to reinforce the next generation of Intelligent and Integrated Rail Asset Management providing and demonstrating innovative solutions covering fixed and rolling stock assets, minimizing the life cycle costs of assets and extend their lifetime, while meeting safety requirements and improving the reliability, availability and maintainability of the rail system. IAM4RAIL will pave the way for the integration of asset condition information and TMS, enabling optimization of train routing decisions and improving the overall lifecycle of monitored assets.
IAM4RAIL ensures an increased volume of rail traffic in existing lines with improved cost efficiency and lower CO2 emissions from their maintenance and operations. Furthermore, construction time and cost of new asse
