The RECET4Rail project’s ambition is to provide essential knowledge and competence that can lead the improvement to high TRL levels of Shift2Rail traction demonstrations developed in PINTA-3 project, within the 1st Innovation Programme of Shift2Rail. This collaboration paves the way for future key developments on fields such as digitalisation applied to traction, environmental sustainability (especially devising carbon-free traction systems) or reinforcement of standardisation to lower complexity and costs.
Four workstreams are envisaged: (i) 3D additive manufacturing and new manufacturing technologies; (ii) Wireless Dynamic Charging for urban vehicles based on silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors and high power Li-ion batteries sizing; (iii) Investigations on reliability of traction components and lifetime mechanisms; (iv) Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) for smart and predictive maintenance of traction systems.