Centre of the Competence for the branch of railway vehicles (en)

 

Our company has joined research and development as an associate investigator of Centre of the Competence for the branch of railway wehicles project (CKDV). CKDV focuses on the research and development of railway vehicle operation issues.

Allows co-ordinated co-operation of specialists from a variety of science branches:

    • Mechanics,
    • flexibility and solidity,
    • materials science,
    • production technology,
    • electrotechnics,
    • SW and IT,
    • reliability and security,
    • legislation and testing engineering

Project partners

  • University of West Bohemia (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Faculty of Electrical Engineering)
  • University of Pardubice (Jan Perner Transport Faculty)
  • Czech Technical University - Prague (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering)
  • Czech Aerospace Research a.s.
  • ŠKODA TRANSPORTATION a.s.
  • ŠKODA ELECTRIC a.s.
  • CZ-LOKO, a.s.
  • LEGIOS a.s.
  • DAKO-CZ, a.s.
  • Wikov MGI a.s.
  • Eurosignal, a.s.
  • MSV elektronika s.r.o.
  • VÚKV a.s.


Project support

The project acquired a support from the grant program of Czech Technological Agency and is registered under Nr. TE01020038 named as: Centrum kompetence drážních vozidel (Centre of the competence for the branch of railway vehicles)
Date of commencement: 1.4.2012, date of termination: 31.12.2019.

 


Working packages and areas

The CKDV activities are happening in 15 working packages:

  1. Project management
  2. Chassis
  3. Cabinets and bodywork
  4. Vehicle interiors
  5. Mutual effects of vehicle and railroad
  6. Mutual effects of vehicle and surroundings
  7. Control systems and security systems
  8. Recuperation
  9. Security
  10. Mechanical parts of the drives
  11. Electrical parts of the drives
  12. Hybrid drives
  13. Brake systems
  14. Vehicle operation
  15. Legislation and technical regulations

Our company participates in working packages 7 and 9.