Fretting in railway transportation results usually on the contact areas (fitting zones) of wheelsrnand axles due to repeated relative oscillatory movement of small amplitude which leads to thernformulation of cracks. The wheel seat of the axle is the weak zone for fatigue with the impactrnof fretting; hence to minimize this, this research deals on the analysis of fretting damages onrnrail vehicle axles and wheels (wheel set) with respect to the Addis Ababa light train (LRT).rnThe main objective of this research deals with the evaluation of fretting fatigue life of wheelrnset by using CATIA software for the modelling purpose and finite element analysis (FEA)rnANSYS workbench for fatigue life and damage analysis. The results are computed byrnvarying the main causes of fretting that is the influence of the coefficient of friction, sliprnamplitude, and frequency is observed. Calculation of The main causes for the formation ofrnfretting such as bending stress, tangential force and frequency is done. Based on these resultsrnfretting fatigue life of wheel set is observed to decrease at friction coefficients ranging fromrn0.1 to 0.3.in addition to this it is observed that the fretting life of the axle and wheel assemblyrndecreases with an increase of frequency and slip amplitude ranging from 8.84 Hz up torn200Hz and 5 Î¼m up to 25Î¼m respectively. Finally fretting damage is observed to increasernwith an increment of coefficient of friction, slip amplitude and frequency by the analysisrnmade mathematically and using ANSYS software; hence this thesis would be applicable andrnwill contribute detail information in our country railway system by reducing failures thatrnarise due to fretting.