The aim of this deliverable is to present the 2 new slab track concepts that address the general objectives of the project, i.e. an affordable, adaptable, automated, resilient and high capacity railway infrastructure. To that extent, the deliverable documents the structural and functional design, describes the developed installation and maintenance procedures and presents the results of the studied business cases.
Additionally, as both concepts were prototyped, installed full-scale in the CEDEX railway section testing facilities and tested, the deliverable strives to describe the unexpected difficulties and conclusions related to the installation procedure extracted from the prototype construction, record the parameters and particularities of the tests performed on the prototypes and present the analysis of the data recovered during the testing.
In Section 3, the deliverable recaps the general requirements for designing an innovative slab track concept. These requirements are mainly based on the feedbacks from current operated slab track systems. A special attention is paid for construction costs and maintenance costs requirements in order to design a financially more attractive product.
Section 4 provides a detailed geometric description of both slab track concepts, as well as a general overview of the structural and functional design process, including the most relevant features of the FE models and a general approach to the results
Section 5 and 6 describe the component fabrication process, system installation procedure and foreseen maintenance operations
Sections 7 documents the installation, testing procedure and data analysis performed of the two concept prototypes
Sections 8 and 9 document the Life Cycle Cost and studied business cases and their most relevant conclusions.