RSRG and Zetica Rail lead industry in GPR technology advancement.
North American railroads continue to invest billions in maintenance annually. Advancements in ground penetrating radar are being used to improve safety and target investment in ballast maintenance more efficiently.
In 2023 Rhomberg Sersa and technology partner Zetica Rail surveyed and processed over 48,000km of track providing GPR condition-based metrics to drive efficiencies in planning and execution of ballast cleaning activities include ballast cleaner / undercutter, shoulder ballast cleaning and tamping of track.
With ‘near real time’ autonomous processing of data and reporting being implemented, this enables railroads to cost effectively monitor ballast and subgrade conditions at a higher frequency which in turn allows monitoring asset performance and degradation and the ability to track change in conditions and forecast future maintenance intervention requirements.
