Defect Detection of Moving Railway Vehicles on the Czech Railway Network

The objective of the contribution is to present on the basis of professional literature research the basic methods of defect diagnostics of moving railway vehicles on the Czech railway network. The contribution first presents individual types of vehicles detected defects and subsequently, the principles of detecting such defects and special devices (systems) for vehicles diagnostics. The defects and technologies described are then demonstrated on relevant diagrams and figures in the text. The final part of the contribution mentions the connection to higher management information systems as one of the important pillars of the automation of the entire information transfer process. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the Horizons of Railway Transport 2020