Zbornik radova Koridor 10 - Kirilo Savić

3rd International Scientific and Professional Conference
CORRIDOR 10 - a sustainable way of integrations
defined. If it’s exceeded, it requires performing works right after the track recording run.
The Institute for Standardization of Serbia has adopted and published four out of six parts of this group
of standards [13].
Professional work of the Institute in the field of standardization, "Railway Applications" is conducted
within the Technical Committee P256. Considering the complexity of the field, "Railway Applications",
the Technical Committee has two sub committees: for civil engineering and for mechanical
engineering part. The Technical Committee P256 brings together representatives of the University (the
Faculty of Civil Engineering and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Belgrade), the Railway
Directorate, designers, contractors and industry in the field of railways. This structure corresponds to
the standardization committee structure in the field of railways, according to the experience of the
European Union [10].
However, practical application of adopted standards EN 13848 on Serbian Railways will be possible
only after linking them with technical regulations.
4. CONCLUSION
Undisturbed and efficient traffic on the European railway network requires harmonized characteristics
of the infrastructure and rolling stock, as well as the efficient interconnection of information and
communication systems of different railway administrations and operators.
The incompatibility of the existing technical regulations in the area of railway infrastructure
maintenance in the Republic of Serbia with the EU regulations is obvious. Existing Serbian railway
regulations and logistics concerning track inspection, quality evaluation and correction of track
geometry are in collision with those of the European Union. Solving this problem, which represents the
essential barrier for integrations of the Serbian Railways to the European railway network, requires
adoption of legal and technical frameworks for the application of European standards.
Although the Railway Act (Official Gazette RS, No.18/2005) coincides with the corresponding
European Union Directives, its decrees are still not applied in practice in the area of maintenance.
According to this Act, railway infrastructure must be maintained in a condition which ensures safe and
unobstructed railway traffic, as well as quality and regular transport. In this purpose, constant
supervision and occasional inspections must be performed, as well as correction of determined
defects. Creation of an annual maintenance plan is performed according to the existing technical
regulations for the area of maintenance, which is adjusted to the application of track recording vehicle
EM 80L. The mentioned track recording vehicle cannot measure parameters defined according to [1].
Quantifications of the track geometry quality based on the locally defined parameters in the Instruction
339 essentially disable the access and usage of the public railway infrastructure to all interested
railway operators.
Technical limitations for the application of the European standards in the area of maintenance
planning are: lack of database on the reference track geometry on the existing Serbian Railways
network, the lack of strategy and material means for filling in the base, incompetence in the level of
expertise of the personnel for work on modern track recording vehicles, lack of knowledge in the area
of management and maintenance of railway infrastructure, not following Directives, Technical
Specifications of Interoperability and technical standards in this area.
Only after solving the given legal and technical limitations, can the Directorate for Railways possibly
achieve harmonization of technical regulations in the area of maintenance. On the contrary,
harmonized regulations could not be applicable in practice.
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