Altametris digitalises ballast management on SNCF network
Altametris data Altametris/ SNCF
The French railway network is 47,000 kilometres long. Until 2020, these tracks were inspected on foot by agents on average every 2 months. Since then, they have been replaced by measurement trains that collect 3D data. New software is now facilitating ballast management for the SNCF, and decreasing the environmental footprint of ballast maintenance.
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Yes, a pity it is, but track standard, now devastatingly is short of resiliency.
Yes, “state of the art”, current ballasted sleeper tracks, majority, now is dependent of a most costly attending.
(Defensively, simply for maintaining, for restoring, etc., now sub optimally, all sorts of predictive, “optimal maintenance”, is mantra – and big business.)
This is not sustainable! Simply proactively, a resilient and redundant (a robust) -for a marginal extra, a New Old Railway is the Alternative!