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New high-performant and long-lasting ballast for sustainable railway infrastructures

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Project "NEOBALLAST" data sheet

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Coordinator	COMSA SAU Organization address address: CALLE VIRIATO 47 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8014 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Spain [ES]
Project website	http://www.neoballast.eu
Total cost	2˙274˙625 €
EC max contribution	1˙592˙237 € (70%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.3. (PRIORITY 'Societal challenges) 2. H2020-EU.2. (PRIORITY 'Industrial leadership')
Code Call	H2020-FTIPilot-2015-1
Funding Scheme	IA
Starting year	2016
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2016-06-01 to 2019-11-30

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	COMSA SAU COMSA SAU Organization address address: CALLE VIRIATO 47 city: BARCELONA postcode: 8014 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (BARCELONA)	coordinator	542˙675.00
2	DYNAMICS,STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL NV DYNAMICS,STRUCTURES AND SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL NV Organization address address: JULES VANDENBEMPTLAAN 71 city: HEVERLEE postcode: 3001 website: www.d2sint.com contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	BE (HEVERLEE)	participant	405˙125.00
3	TALLERES FELIPE VERDES SA TALLERES FELIPE VERDES SA Organization address address: CARRETERA IGUALADA A SITGES KM 2 city: VILANOVA DEL CAMI postcode: 8788 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (VILANOVA DEL CAMI)	participant	356˙387.00
4	MAPEI SPA MAPEI SPA Organization address address: VIA CAFIERO CARLO 22 city: MILANO postcode: 20158 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IT (MILANO)	participant	197˙925.00
5	SORIGUE S.A. SORIGUE S.A. Organization address address: C/ ALCADE PUJOL 4 city: LLEIDA postcode: 25006 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	ES (LLEIDA)	participant	90˙125.00

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Project objective

NEOBALLAST is an innovative high-performance, long-lasting and eco-friendly ballast aggregate solution designed to overcome the two most important shortcomings of railway tracks: track degradation and noise and vibration emissions, whilst improving safety and customer service. The implementation of NEOBALLAST will improve the economic and environmental performance of European railway tracks, bringing important socio-economic benefits to the whole European society. As a suitable solution for both, new and existing railway lines, NEOBALLAST potential market extends to the whole European rail network (i.e. beyond 200,000km of lines), accounting for almost 20 million tonnes of new ballast every year, and a related turnover about 350M€.

In order to take this mature and proven technology, NEOBALLAST project joins industry partners from different sectors, covering the whole value-chain of NEOBALLAST, into a well-balanced and multidisciplinary team. The project has a business-driven approach, where actions are devised to solve those barriers that may difficult NEOBALLAST quick and extensive market up-take. In this sense, the main steps to attain a successful and effective market uptake are the development of a large-scale production technology to meet expected market demands, the demonstration and validation of NEOBALLAST in real working environment, an effective dissemination across Expert Panel groups to achieve a wide deployment and finally the IPR management, exploitation and commercialization of NEOBALLAST through the creation of a NEWCO constituted by all the project parents.

The management structure joins forces with an Advisory Committee that will provide the Consortium with an independent, end-user centric viewpoint to the direction and relevance of the work as the project. The Advisory Committee will be drawn from three Infrastructure Managers, track contractor organisations, technological platforms and three track expert members of the Academia.

Deliverables

List of deliverables.
Certification of Neoballast	Documents, reports	2020-04-02 11:31:47
Potential aggregate suppliers for Neoballast replication	Documents, reports	2020-04-02 11:31:55
Media and specialised publications	Websites, patent fillings, videos etc.	2020-04-02 11:32:12
Design and construction of the field tests,	Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes	2020-04-02 10:45:39
LCCA and LCA of Neoballast	Documents, reports	2020-04-02 10:45:52
Monitoring of the field tests	Documents, reports	2020-04-02 10:45:45
Workshops and training material	Websites, patent fillings, videos etc.	2020-04-02 11:32:03
Fairs and technical events	Documents, reports	2020-04-02 11:32:22
Website	Websites, patent fillings, videos etc.	2019-07-19 11:30:43

Take a look to the deliverables list in detail: detailed list of NEOBALLAST deliverables.

Publications

List of publications.
year	authors and title	journal	last update
2019	K. Smith, S. Govender, N. Manzo, M. Morata, V. FontserÃ¨ Rubber-coated ballast demonstrates improved track resilience published pages: 52-55, ISSN: 2161-7368, DOI:	International Railway Journal September 2019 \| Volume 59 Issu	2020-01-30
2018	M. Sol-SÃ¡nchez, F. Moreno-Navarro, M. C. Rubio-GÃ¡mez, N. Manzo, V. FontserÃ© Full-scale study of Neoballast section for its application in railway tracks: optimization of track design published pages: , ISSN: 1359-5997, DOI: 10.1617/s11527-018-1167-2	Materials and Structures 51/2	2019-07-19
2016	N. Manzo, A. LÃ³pez-Pita, V. FontserÃ¨, J. A. Casado, I. Carrascal, S. Diego NEOBALLAST: Seeking the ballast of the future published pages: 49-61, ISSN: 2174-0194, DOI:	VÃa Libre TÃ©cnica Number 11, December 2016	2019-07-19

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