The Criteria for the Control of Condition of Railway Lines in FB&H

Construction of the railway infrastructure is a very complex activity and requires a large financial investment. For this reason, always tends to build systems that have a long lifetime. A precondition for this, other than a quality of construction work and installation of high-quality material is continuous and proper maintenance. If we disregard the obvious and unexpected irregularities, which are observed by visiting the railway and requiring emergency and urgent actions to maintain the railway and treatment of the same, measuring driving is the most important instrument for identifying irregularities of track geometry and track condition, and railway capacity in terms of planning activities to maintain the railway and the planning works. According to the concept of measuring driving means the recording geometrical parameters the railway, customized railway vehicles for this purpose, which we call the measuring vehicle. Measuring vehicles carry out recording while driving on the track at reduced speed and under specific axial load. The geometry of tracks is one of the basic parameters, based on which it determines the speed of trains and rolling stock, and therefore the level of security in railway transport and line capacity.