Glossary

Your quick guide to rail, engineering and AIVR jargon

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AIVR Explainers Engineering Explainers Infrastructure Monitoring Explainers Rail Explainers

AIVR Explainers

AIVR Cloud

AIVR Cloud Agent

AIVR Connect

AIVR Dynamic Demand

AIVR FFV (Forward Facing Video)

AIVR Focus

AIVR Geometry System (AGS)

AIVR Go

AIVR Pace

AIVR Ready

AIVR STREX

AIVR Tempus

AIVR Thermal

AIVR TLC (Tail Lamp Camera)

Engineering Explainers

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Vision

Data vs. Information

Edge Computing

GNSS (and GPS)

IoT (Internet of Things)

Machine Vision

Precision and Recall

Precision-recall Curve

Rapid Iteration

The Cloud (and Cloud Computing)

Infrastructure Monitoring Explainers

Balises

BVI (Basic Visual Inspection)

GPR (Ground-penetrating radar)

LiDAR

New Measurement Trains

PLPR (Plain Line Pattern Recognition)

Predictive Maintenance

Spalling

Squats

Ultrasonic Testing (UT)

UTUs (Ultrasonic Test Units)

Rail Explainers

Adjustment Switches

Ballast

Boots off Ballast

Chainage

CWR (Continuous Welded Rail)

ELR (Engineers Line Reference)

ERTMS

FOCs (Freight Operating Company)

GSM-R

Low Ballast

Measurement Trains

OLE (Overhead Line Equipment)

Pantograph

Permanent Way

Rail Infrastructure Monitoring

Rail Profile

S&Cs (Switches and Crossings)

Slab Track Systems

Sleepers

Tamping

TOCs (Train Operating Company)

Trackbed

Voiding

Wet Beds

Yellow Fleet