Patent ID: 7850089

Claim:
A fixed carriageway for rail vehicles, comprising: sleepers embedded in a carriageway panel; and a reinforcement which comprises longitudinal rods and transverse rods disposed in the carriageway panel parallel and transverse to the sleepers, the longitudinal rods and transverse rods being electrically isolated from one another, at least one transverse rod of the transverse rods having an insulating coating to maintain said at least one transverse rod and said longitudinal rods and remaining ones of said transverse rods isolated from one another, said at least one transverse rod having the insulating coating being formed as a lower boom of a grid support of at least one of the sleepers, said grid support being comprised of lower booms including said at least one lower boom, said longitudinal rods resting only on said at least one lower boom having the insulating coating which is disposed in a position higher that other ones of the lower booms, such that said other ones of the lower booms are maintained in a spaced apart condition from said longitudinal rods.