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ONE GmbH | Ingolstaedter Strasse 51 | D-92318 Neumarkt

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| ATD-G and RHEDA CITY GREEN
The green tracks for urban traffic
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We develop innovative track systems, to help you get ahead
fast and safely. And what are your plans?
RAIL.ONE - the way to go
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Ecologically oriented and cost-effective
Track systems are frequently designed from a
purely technical point of view, and too often repre-
sent a foreign body in the urban landscape. Devel-
opment of the RAIL.ONE Green Track, however,
makes possible a much more pleasant appear-
ance by improved integration of tracks into the
urban landscape. Additional vegetated surfaces
beautify the entire urban landscape, and allow use
of the track area as a design element. At the same
time, the municipal environmental balance ben-
efts from this type of track system: the Green
Track improves air, soil, and groundwater condi-
tions. The structured surface of the green space,
and the advanced elastic rail fastening common
to modern tracks, result in more favourable air-
borne-sound emission and structure-borne noise
in comparison to conventional track models with-
in the city.
In the fnal analysis, everyone gains from the bene-
fts of green tracks: city residents, passengers, and
the transit authorities. RAIL.ONE offers a selection
of various ballastless track systems as green-track
solutions:
ATD-G, as a system directly supported on
asphalt supporting layers
RHEDA CITY GREEN, as a monolithic system
on a concrete base.
Both models are presented on the following pages.
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ATD-G is derived from the ATD system already proved successful in
high-speed traffc applications for railways.
ATD-G the Green Track
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ATD-G structural track design
The track system ATD-G (which stands for Asphalt
supporting layer for Track Direct support, Green)
is a ballastless track system in which a cross
sleeper track panel, consisting of concrete bi-
block sleepers and the connected rails, is directly
installed onto an asphalt supporting layer with ex-
act height tolerance. The modular principle used
here enables effective derivation of solutions for
the individual requirements of public transport au-
thorities. The basis for this work is a uniform sys-
tem structure for all elements of the track route:
e.g., straight and curved through-track sections,
curved track with cant, train stations, turnouts,
transitions to other rail profles, and crossings for
pedestrians and vehicles.
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The most important ATD-G characteristics:
Continuous track stability and long life cycle
Simple and transparent structure of the system
Flexible layout possibilities
Favourable installation by mechanized processes
Short construction periods, with resulting short
interruption of rail traffc
Minimum interference with private motorized
transport during installation
Easy cleaning
Modular adaptation to various road construction
types
High resistance to corrosion caused by parasitic
current.
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System cross-sections
Low vegetation cover
Mixed vegetation cover
High vegetation cover
2500
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Substrate
Asphalt supporting layer
Waterbound macadam
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Substrate
Asphalt supporting layer
Waterbound macadam
Geotextile
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Asphalt supporting layer
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Low, high, or mixed
ATD-G can be easily adapted to the specifc demands of the individual traffc
authorities. Since the basic structural design is always identical, the differing
solutions result from modular adaptation for various types of vegetation.
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Track bed with low vegetation coverage, to
the top edge of the sleepers
The intentional objective of this track system is to
preserve the technical character of the facilities,
but at the same time to enhance the townscape.
Even after vegetation growth, the rail fastenings
remain visible. Excessive growth of vegetation on
the tracks is prevented by means of the plates ft-
ted between the sleepers.
Track constructions with mixed vegetation cover
are also possible.
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Track bed with high vegetation coverage,
up to the rail head
The aim of this solution is optimum integration
into the environs so that the rails are barely vis-
ible. Chamber elements, made of plastic or rub-
ber, directly mounted onto the sleepers, prevent
the vegetation from growing up to the rails. In this
way, airborne sound from the tracks is consider-
ably reduced. By addition of solid material (e.g.,
drainage concrete for additional bonding of the
sleepers onto the asphalt base layer), it is also
possible to make the tracks passable for road ve-
hicles in case of emergencies.
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Basic track
Completed supporting asphalt (three layers), with
height exactness of 2 mm, and with integrated lateral-
force base support
Sub-grade prepared for asphalt cover
Placing the sleepers on the
completed asphalt supporting layer
Installed and properly aligned track panels
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Green-track chamber elements for the spaces between the
rail head and rail fange, with ballast flling for vegetation
Graded track before planting vegetation
Completed track with turf
Filling of the aligned track panels with a mineral drainage
mixture, to enable access by emergency vehicles
Green-track chamber elements for the spaces between
the rail head and rail fange; with geotextile cover layer
The DRESDEN model
The BERLIN model
Placing of rolled turf on a plastic honeycomb structure, to
enable vehicle support
The ATD-G Green Track in operation
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Special solutions
Advanced urban-traffc systems promote mobility and set desired accents.
Track systems must harmoniously integrate into the urban architectural
landscape - and satisfy a great variety of requirements for functional and
representational purposes. The possible solutions are just as individual as
the cities in which they are implemented.
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Customized solutions
ATD-G offers further proven solutions that go be-
yond straight and curved through-track sections.
These fexible options offer project planning and
design engineers a complete portfolio of track ele-
ments that allow comprehensive green-track plan-
ning e.g., for the following:
The areas around train and tram stations
Rail crossings for pedestrians and vehicles
Rail transitions to ballasted track sections,
or to other ballastless track systems
Turnouts with an especially designed ATD-G
solution, and with concrete sleepers
Track curves with small radii
ATD-G track systems with grooved rails and
transition to track panel
ATD-G track system at the transition zone
from vignol to grooved rail profles
Urban station executed
with the ATD-G system
Turnout on concrete sleepers
with the ATD-G system
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Reference projects
Each project is just as individual as the contracting customers company
itself. The special circumstances at the construction site, and the
customers special requirements, are equally essential. Owing to its
fexible system structure, the ATD-G Green Track system has been
successfully implemented in numerous cities.
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Berlin Public Transport Authority (BVG)
Beginning as early as 1995, the Berlin Public Trans-
port Authority (BVG) constructed a two-track pi-
lot section. This project realized a model featur-
ing tracks installed fush, at sleeper height, with the
street surface, and planted with sedum. The out-
standing results obtained at this location prompted
the BVG in Berlin to stipulate that the ATD-G model
would be the standard form of implementation in its
network, and that it would be realized in future proj-
ects. After these successful trials, the BVG had exe-
cuted over 16,000 metres of ATD-G Green Track on
several projects. In the meantime, the Berlin Pub-
lic Transport Authority has, in several development
stages, raised the vegetation of the track system to
the level of the rail head.
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Hanover Public Transport Authority (stra)
As part of the infrastructure measures for the EXPO
2000 Worlds Fair in Hanover, the municipal public
transport authority executed approx. 8,000 metres
of the suburban passenger line to the EXPO site as
ATD-G. The vegetation used on the Green Track was
in the form of sedum mats and seed-planted turf,
both up to sleeper height. Concrete slabs installed
in the spaces between the sleepers prevent the
vegetation from covering the rails. Now, after more
than seven years of operation with heavy usage of
the track facilities the position and the height of
the rails remain stable.
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Cologne Public Transport Authority (KVB AG)
In late April of 2003, the Green Track was put into
operation on the tram line running down the Co-
logne street Markgrafenstrasse. The system im-
plemented for the 2,000-metre tram line was the
ATD-G, with sedum planted up to sleeper height. As
a result of more stringent requirements placed to
prevent vibration and airborne noise, the E 14 Voss-
loh Fastening System was used on this project.
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Dresden Public Transport Authority (DVB AG)
In 1996 the Dresden Public Transport Authority in-
stalled an attractive turf track in two construction
phases, with a total length of 1,400 metres. The turf
was installed in the form of rolled sod, with grass up
to the level of the rail head. Special elements that
fll the space between the rail head and rail fange
provide insulation and prevent the turf from grow-
ing up to the rail. Both of these measures reduce
the airborne noise emission to low levels. In order
to allow rescue vehicles to use part of the section of
the track, the track panel was flled with a mixture
of mineral material used for drainage, and plastic
honeycomb material was installed in the turf area.
Now, after eleven years of operation, the track is
still in outstanding condition, and satisfes the cli-
ents stringent expectations for track-position sta-
bility, noise-emission reduction, and vegetation.
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RHEDA CITY GREEN is the green-track alternative of the RHEDA
CITY model the system with long years of proven operation in
urban transit.
RHEDA CITY GREEN
the appealing alternative
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Modern ecology plus advanced technology
For the RHEDA CITY GREEN model, modifed bi-
block sleepers with lattice girders are concreted
into a compact concrete slab. A cover with turf
or sedum provides an attractive optical impres-
sion. This system combines the functional and
safety advantages of absolutely stable track po-
sition with the cost-effciency benefts of practi-
cally no maintenance. In Germany, projects with
the Green Track have already been executed in a
number of cities: Cologne, Dsseldorf, Karlsruhe,
Mannheim, and Berlin. This ballastless track sys-
tem has also been implemented in The Hague,
Netherlands.
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Ecologically benefcial
Compared to other forms of track, the combina-
tion of vegetation and rail systems offers an op-
tically attractive variation. Vegetation of track
surfaces dampens the noise level and minimizes
maintenance costs. Track with turf in fact redu-
ses noise at its very source. The Green Track also
allows cost-effective solutions in cases of espe-
cially strict requirements placed on vibration pro-
tection and on the propagation of structure borne
noise.
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System cross-sections
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S 49 rail profle
Green-track chamber
elements
Elastic rail pad
Steel brackets
Adjusting bolts are removed
after concrete casting
Bonded-fbre matting
Vegetation
Track containment
C30/37 structural
concrete
Contact plates
(remain in concrete)
Non-bound support
layer
Drainage shaft if required The Berlin model
The Karlsruhe model
Track containment
C30/37 structural
concrete
Contact plates
(remain in concrete)
Non-bound support
layer
Drainage shaft
S 49 rail profle
Elastic pad
Green-track chamber
elements
Pressure-distribution plate
W-14 fastening
Adjusting bolts are removed
after concrete casting
Electrically-insulating rail-fange
sheathing
Vegetation
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Attachment of the rail-fange sheathing
Completely assembled and aligned track panels
Concreting of the track panels
Concreted track with green-track chamber
elements and level crossing
Positioning of the bi-block sleepers
Completed track
Steps of work
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