• Transit Infrastructure Maintenance Solution (TIMS)

Maintaining transit infrastructure is critical to reducing downtime and improving customer ride satisfaction. And yet, identifying where to perform infrastructure maintenance can be a painful process, often to the point where it doesn’t get done. There can be several causes that contribute to problems such as excessive wear on overhead catenary, which ultimately can result in system downtime.

Through our technology partner, Deutzer Technische Kohle GmbH (DTK), ZTR Control Systems is pleased to offer the Transit Infrastructure Maintenance Solution (TIMS) for our North American customers. The ZTR-TIMS is a service solution that gives you the information you need to proactively fix problems with your catenary, track, or other related infrastructure. Proactive infrastructure adjustments significantly reduce downtime and overall maintenance costs.

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The ZTR-TIMS service solution has advantages that maximize your investment:

     Data collection is performed during normal revenue service, so analysis reflects real conditions and there is minimal impact to your riders.

•     Overhead catenary and track data are combined through synchronized analysis and reporting. This allows you to choose the most cost effective adjustment to eliminate the problem.
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•      Data sets from different time periods (i.e. the last several years) are overlaid, so you an pick up deterioration trends in certain trouble spots and fix them before they cause a shutdown.
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•      Gyroscopes are used to provide precise super-elevation data and synchronize track conditions with accurate geographic location.
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•      Real-time video provides a running visual reference that is also synchronized with the data to give you the full picture.
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•      Analysis and a full report is completed for you and presented within days of the data collection. We will also train you to analyze the data using our easy software tools.

  Contact us today to learn more about how we can reduce your maintenance costs and downtime. Tel: 952-233-4393    Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

SmartStart is certified to the new requirements in EPA 40 CFR Part 1033.115(g), which took effect in January 2009 on all new and remanufactured locomotives.  

The savings, in fuel costs alone, can pay back your SmartStart investment in twelve months or less!  Find out how much you could be saving with the SmartStart Fuel Savings and Emissions Reduction Estimator:  Click Here!   

Read About another railway that quantified the savings - CLICK HERE!

Each system is custom-engineered for your locomotives, regardless of make or vintage.  Call today for more information and pricing! 

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Click here to read about a project in which SmartStart and DDHS technology were intererfaced on three Vancouver, WA based locomotives and achieved substantial fuel savings and emissions reductions.

Revitalize your older four-axel locomotives with BOA Excitation & Wheel Slip Control System.  You'll be pleased to see your workhorse locomotives grip the rail with unwavering strength, pulling heavier loads under any rail condition.

Experience the BOA advantage:

-          70-80% Improvement in adhesion under any rail condition

-          Increased drawbar pull

-          Smoother excitation control

-          Main generator and traction motor overload protection

-          More efficient train handling

-          No probes or axel generators

-          Solid state replacement of load regulator

-          Easy installation

-          Self diagnostics

Get the grip with BOA – Call today for more information and pricing! 

Bring your aging locomotives into the 21^st century with NEXSYS, simply the best locomotive control system available today!

NEXSYS Highlights:

-          Increased locomotive reliability

-          Customized to fit any application

-          Reduction/elimination of high maintenance components

-          Significant and consistent improvement in tractive effort under all weather conditions

-          Superior wheel slip detection and control capabilities

-          Effective main generator/traction alternator and traction motor voltage limiting

-          Main generator/traction alternator current overload protection

-          Traction motor short term overload protection and annunciation

-          Superior control of excitation ramp rate

-          Reliable transition control

-          KWH trip recording

-          Extensive data collection and systems diagnostics

-          Occupies less than 1/4^th of the space of a Dash 2 system

-          More features and locomotive protection than a Dash 2 system

Improve performance - Increase reliability - Revitalize your locomotives with NEXSYS.  Call today for more information and pricing!

InteLevel takes the guesswork out of fuel and other liquid measurement. This high performance measurement technology includes solid state electronics and guided microwaves that can make precise measurements accurate up to +/-1%.

ZTR’s InteLevel is designed for the rigors of the railroad industry and all that the environmental extremes can offer. The system maintains accuracy throughout its operating temperature range of -40º F (-40ºC) to 176º F (80º C.)

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EZPace provides accurate slow speed locomotive control.

EZPace from ZTR Control Systems provides precise very low speed control in loading applications. The system utilizes microprocessor technology to enhance reliability. EZPace is designed with railroad environment in mind and has been tested to withstand the rigors of locomotive applications.

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