Capability Category
Batteries, Bogie, Brakes and Break Discs, Corridor Infrastructure, Couplers, Decarbonisation, Digitisation, Data and Modelling, Drawbar, Electrical Energy, Energy, Fleet, Freight Vehicles, Light Rail Vehicles, Locomotives, Ore Cars, Roads and Pavements, Rolling Stock Subsystems, Rollingstock Components, Sub-Systems Integration, Supervisory and Control Systems, Trainborn Condition Monitoring, Unit Train, Wagons, Wayside Monitoring, Wheel and Rail Interface, Wheel Sets
Strengths and Specific Capabilities
Expertise is focused on rollingstock and multi-body vehicle dynamics, condition monitoring and non-linear system simulation and digital twins. Applications include decarbonisation, derailment simulation, energy analysis, friction and wear, hydrogen technologies, locomotive traction, product design, roadworthiness, smart sensors, train and vehicle dynamics, train control and wheel-rail contact.
Infrastructure, Facilities, Major Equipment and Onsite Technologies
CRE facilities are located at Rockhampton, Qld. A Smart Instrument Development Lab supports custom instrumentation solutions for railway systems including data acquisition and low power and compact devices. Heavy Testing Laboratory with 200 tonne strong floor, portal frames and hydraulic equipment up to 440 tonnes capability. Specialised machines for draft gear, rail joint and wear testing.
Past and current industry partners
- Aecom
- Aurizon
- ARTC
- Arc Infrastucture
- Bradken
- Calibre
- DFCCIL, India
- Deloitte, India
- Fortescue Metals Group
- Fortesque Future Industries
- Pacific National
- Qube
- Rio Tinto
- RISSB
- RDSO, India
- Queensland Government
- Queensland Rail
- VLine
Technology Readiness Level
TRL 7 - System/process prototype demonstrated in pilot.