Research pipeline
Winter/Spring 2025
The value of the research delivered by RSSB is strongly influenced by rail organisations across the industry, who support RSSB in defining needs and opportunities for which research is required, and by delivery partners with specialist knowledge, creative approaches, and best practice from previous research.
To register your interest in any project listed below, contact us through the customer self-service portal. This list reflects our plans at the time of publication and may be subject to change.
Project reference (PROGRAMME)
Project description
T1338 (PERFORM)
Optimising the weekly and periodic operating notices
T1346 (FUTURE RISK)
Feasibility of modelling the effects of asset reliability and degradation on safety risk
T1361
Evaluating how draft international guidance would inform train braking simulations
T1369
Improvements to train heating for passenger rolling stock
T1370
Developments on the Use of On-Train Satellite Positioning Technology Based Locator for Railway Applications
T1371
Train driver medical intervals
T1373
Managing liability and assurance of risk insights in the context of data fusion
T1374
Assessing the effect of changes in extreme weather events on the Safety Risk Model risk profile
T1375
Ensuring RSSB risk tools adequately capture and model information on technology recently introduced
T1376
How can the Future Railway Mobile Communication System (FRMCS) help unlock capacity, operational change and commercial developments?
We invite stakeholders from across the industry to tell us about the challenges they face and the new knowledge and solutions they need. If these require cross-industry collaboration and system-wide thinking, the RSSB Research Programme may be able to help.
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