InnoTrans 2026 · 22 to 25 September
Meet Traila and friends at the SwissRail Pavilion. Hall 2.2, Stand 250.
The soundwave shows you when, where and how to lubricate your flange and condition your rail.
Protect the rail, protect the wheel to stop the squeal.
Curve squeal, as residents hear it. Turn the sound on.
InnoTrans 2026 · Hall 2.2, Stand 250
Traila friction control.
Finally, proven intelligent flange lubrication and top of rail conditioning solutions all from one source. The right product, in the right amount, at the right place, at the right time. And still right when the rail is wet, the season turns, or a new curve starts to sing. Traila reads the wheel-rail interface with proven monitoring and control hardware and decides where and when. One stand in Berlin, one supplier answering for the result: the curve that hurts today stops hurting, and stays quiet.
Stand 250 is in the SwissRail Pavilion, doors open 22 September at nine. Pre-booked slots come first; walk-ups are served when the diary allows.
The complete tech stack
One stop shop.
Traila owns the whole loop, end to end: sensing at the interface, the intelligence that reads it, and the chemistry and application that act on it, through the equipment already on your depot floor. One point of contact. One system. One party accountable for the quiet.
Friction control = noise control = cost control.
01
Sensing
Onboard, it measures the wheel-rail contact right across the fleet.
02
Intelligence
Scattered readings become one picture of the whole network.
03
Chemistry
The right conditioning agent, controlling friction where wheel meets rail, matched to the job at the interface. Igralub, the rail conditioning standard since 1992, treats it.
04
Application
Applied where the map says it pays, in the right amount, in the right place.
Partners
Traila measures the wheel-rail interface. Our conditioning partner treats it.
What we condition
Two jobs at the interface.
Conditioning the wheel-rail contact is two distinct jobs, and each pays back differently.
Top-of-rail
Kills curve squeal and cuts surface wear. Hotspots are individual; effect requires monitoring.
Flange
Extends wheel life. In a tight curve the wheel flange bears against the gauge face of the rail, and that metal-on-metal contact is what grinds a wheel out of profile. Conditioning the flange manages the friction there, so wheels hold their profile longer and reprofiling comes round less often.
Proof
Switzerland is leading in intelligent lubrication.
up to −98%
curve squeal
up to −12%
wear
up to −60%
conditioning agent
In conditioning programmes assessed for the Swiss Federal Office of Transport, the acoustic sensing approach cut curve squeal by up to 98 per cent, wear by up to 12 per cent, and conditioning-agent use by up to 60 per cent (aramis.admin.ch, document 73688). Every hotspot is individual, and the effect holds only where it is monitored. None of this is a promise of identical results elsewhere.
Where the work is
Live projects with operators in three countries; European tram, light-rail and standard passenger rail; mainline and freight in development. Operators stay confidential; references in a briefing.
Credentials
- IRIS-certified (ISO/TS 22163)
- ISO 9001
- Seven active patent families
- Three years on rail
Network and atlas
Love the tram. Lose the noise.
Clean, safe, comfortable solution to urban congestion, but often loud in curves.
Tram networks come first, as they have the tightest curves, and usually own both rolling stock and infrastructure. LRV and subway, commuter and freight operators and networks are in the Atlas pipeline.
It models curve-squeal risk from track geometry and market data, not from sound recordings.
Operators and implementation partners · InnoTrans 2026, Berlin, 22 to 25 September
Will you bring adaptive friction control to your network?
Curve squeal is the high-pitched note a wheel makes when its tread slips sideways across the top of the rail in a curve. Flange grinding is the harsh noise of the wheel's raised inner edge rubbing against the side of the rail. Squeal wears on people. Grinding wears on budgets.
Our mission is to eradicate both on every network in the world. We are looking for operators and implementation partners, in Europe and overseas, to bring adaptive friction control to their networks. Meet us in Berlin, or start the conversation now.
Our promises
What we stand for.
Swiss engineering keeps its promises inside the evidence. Here is where we stand.
We stand for
- Every figure we show you was measured on your network, per curve and per vehicle.
- The coverage model comes first. You see the whole plan before any hardware is ordered.
- Your data stays yours; we just do the analysis.
- Retrofit first. We design around the fleet you already run.
- Where the monitoring and lubrication hardware you own can do the job, we use it and tune it.
- Results are unique to each network. Hotspots and solutions are individual.
Stop the squeal · InnoTrans 2026
Bring us your noisiest curve.
Thirty minutes at the stand or online. Bring the curve that keeps coming back and we will show you what the loop does about it.
Doors open in
6
days
12
hours
44
minutes
Or start narrower