Mat4Rail Newsletter 03  |  April 2019

Design in the Railway Industry
Why service offerings, consumer relation and flexibility of “plug & play” interior concepts will help to win back lost terrain and lead into a better future of consumer driven intermodal transportation landscape
New offerings and features available in trains are in growing demand and are a relatively new task for train operators and builders alike. The Mat4Rail design partners are working to design and develop a hyper-flexible and intelligent new “plug & play” system as well new new lightweight seats for an efficient seating environment. Read More

Mat4Rail on Tour
Spreading results and influencing the trains of the future
The Mat4Rail consortium joins existing events, exhibitions, tradeshows, workshops and information days to communicate and reach out to interested stakeholders and to disseminate and demonstrate Mat4Rail related information and results. Starting in the second project year, Mat4Rail partners have attended a number of national and international events to present the Mat4Rail results and prototypes. Read More

Standardisation of composites and dissimilar joints for the use in train carbodies
Mat4Rail's and PIVOT's first steps towards standardisation
Mat4Rail, organised hand in hand with PIVOT the first stakeholder board meeting on standardisation of composites and joints in railway, held at the Spanish Railway Foundation, in Madrid in February 2019. The meeting was co-organised by Talgo and CIDETEC, and members of PIVOT, Mat4Rail as well as external advisors of CEN, the European Committee for Standardisation. Read More