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Financial support from the European Commission is acknowledged for H2020-MSCA-RISE, Project No. 691135 “RISEN: Rail Infrastructure Systems Engineering Network,” which enables a global research network that tackles the grand challenge in railway infrastructure resilience and advanced sensing.
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Volume 144 • Issue 4 • April 2018
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Received: Apr 4, 2017
Accepted: Jul 7, 2017
Published online: Feb 9, 2018
Published in print: Apr 1, 2018
Discussion open until: Jul 9, 2018
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