Highly regarded scientific partners


SNCF has long-standing, privileged relationships with the laboratories of major national institutes. Research is conducted with them in many scientific fields.


Some examples...

///  Environmental acoustics (annoyance from exposure to both road and rail noise, screeching in small-radius curves)
///  New information and communications technologies (Use of satellite signals, communicating nomad objects, transmission techniques combining high data transfer rates and mobility for train-land communications at high speeds)
///  New energy technologies (fuel cells, energy storage and management)
///  Signal processing (image processing for video surveillance and detection of obstacles)
///  Rail dynamics (wheel-rail contact, modelling derailment risks, systems for rolling stock...)
///  Bridges and viaducts
///  Transport safety systems


SNCF Research partners among others:

///  Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité – National Institute for Transport Safety and Research (INRETS)
///  Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (LCPC)
///  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS)
///  Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique – National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA)



 Research is conducted jointly with the laboratories of universities and engineering
       schools

They include, among others:


  In France

///  Ecole Centrale de Lyon
///  Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Poitiers (aerodynamics)
///  INSA de Lyon
///  Ecole des Mines de Paris (robotics, artificial vision…)
///  ENPC
///  Télécom Paris
etc.

  In Europe

///  University of Dresden (Germany)
///  University of Braunsweig (Germany)
///  University of Kassel (Germany)
///  University of Dortmund (Germany)
///  University of Aix-la-Chapelle (Germany)
///  University of Graz (Austria)
///  University of Mons (Belgium)
///  University of Genoa (Italy)
///  Politecnico de Milan (Italy)
///  University of Lisbon (Portugal)
///  University of Southampton (UK)
///  University of Kingston (UK)
///  University of Sheffield (UK)
///  University of Chalmers (Sweden)
///  Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (Switzerland)
etc.

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