JRC - 2010 High-Speed & Intercity Passenger Rail

JRC 2010 is a cooperative effort of ASME, IEEE, ASCE, AREMA and TRB and will be the principal, multi-disciplinary, North American conference focused on rail transportation next year.  The conference will be held 27-29 April 2010 on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL 140 miles (225 km) south of Chicago, Illinois in the USA.

CALL FOR PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS

Abstracts Due 31 October 2009
To submit abstracts go to:
http://ict.illinois.edu/railroad/JRC/callforpapers-jrc.asp

Papers and presentations are being solicited on all aspects of railroad civil, mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering, as well as rail safety, planning, design, financing, operations and management.  Both freight and passenger rail subjects will be included, but the conference theme will be high-speed rail (HSR) and other forms of developing intercity passenger rail.

Topics we are encouraging submissions on include, but are not limited to:

Railroad Infrastructure Engineering

Heavy axle load (HAL) engineering, advances in track systems and components, railbed substructure engineering, bridge engineering, electrification, best maintenance practices

Rail Equipment Engineering

Motive power technology, energy efficiency and emissions, rolling stock design and performance, crashworthiness, rolling stock components, equipment manufacturing

High-Speed Rail Experience & Development

International and North American experience, Federal and state development plans

Shared Corridors

Rail capacity, operation, interoperability, regulatory challenges for HSR, compliant and non-compliant rolling stock, integration of train control systems, combined HAL and HSR infrastructure challenges

Planning, Management & Operation

Planning and financing HSR, HSR-oriented development, project management, transport mode integration, service recovery and planning, reliability, information systems, human resources & academic programs

Safety, Security & Environment

PTC, human factors, employee fatigue, close-call reporting, train safety, risk analysis, security, emergency response, environmental performance.

Abstracts Are Due 31 October 2009

To submit an abstract go to: 

http://ict.illinois.edu/railroad/JRC/callforpapers-jrc.asp

Sponsorship and exhibit opportunities

For more information contact Kim Hagemann or phone (217) 244-0841

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