Fugro Wins Innovate UK Funding to Support Rail Industry Innovation

Fugro has won innovation funding from Innovate UK’s ‘First of a Kind’ competition to optimize rail maintenance.

The theme of Innovate UK's (FOAK2020) competition was optimized and cost-effective rail maintenance. The FOAK2020 award will fund the development of Fugro’s Innotamp project for a period of 9 months in collaboration with Network Rail. A world first for track maintenance, the funded project will demonstrate how track alignments, generated using geodata from Fugro’s Raildata solution, can be directly uploaded to a tamper’s computer to optimize tamping of railway lines.

TheFOAK2020 innovation programme，由运输部（DFT）资助并由Innovate UK管理，旨在证明如何首次将验证的技术集成到铁路环境中（“首先是类似的”演示）。它使用RILA等新技术和应用数据的新技术来鼓励铁路行业的创新。

Rila技术

The Innotamp project utilizes Fugro’sRila技术, which makes use of in-service passenger trains to survey the network at line speed and generate high-accuracy geodetic track data, to streamline tamping operations. The immediate benefit is improved productivity and, over time, it will lead to lower annual maintenance costs, improved passenger comfort, and less disruption to rail services.

Robert Hoddenbach,Fugro’s global director for Land Asset Integrity, said: “We are very excited to be working on the FOAK2020 programme, which aligns with our vision to combine innovative digital technologies into integrated solutions for our clients. This funding is significant and will fast-track development and integration of the Innotamp project so we can provide fast, high-quality and regular survey data for predictive track maintenance.”