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Mid-chord Rail Offset Measurement Systems (McROMS)
Award last edited on: 1/9/2015

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOT
Total Award Amount
$149,832
Award Phase
1
Solicitation Topic Code
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Principal Investigator
Paul A Chambers

Company Information

Technical Products Inc (AKA: Airbeams LLC~TPL)

50 Pratts Junction Road
Sterling, MA 01564
Location: Single
Congr. District: 02
County: Worcester

Phase I

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Phase I year
2014
Phase I Amount
$149,832
What is needed is a lightweight system that can be deployed and used by one person that will measure and compile the track geometry data and compute the MCO for a rail section in real time without reliance on any external reference. Such a device, the Mid-chord Rail Offset Measurement System (McROMS) is the subject of this proposal. But MCO is not the only rail geometry data of interest. If this system could concurrently measure other important rail characteristics such as individual rail cant and the track gage and super elevation between rails it would provide a very significant enhancement over current capabilities. The McROMS system offered by Technical Products Inc. (TPI) meets all these goals.

Phase II

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Phase II Amount
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