Schedule

Scheduled Talks - Most recent first
(Stay tuned - more to be added soon!!)

Date/Time Presenter Title Presentation's files

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

10:00 EST New York

Roger BaugherTrAnalytics, LLC

Modeling Rail Freight Service Performance

Announcement

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

10:00 EST New York

Jiaxi Zhao, University of Texas at Austin

Evaluating Railway Network Dynamics and Resiliency to Disruptions with Multi-yard Simulation

Announcement

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

10:00 EST New York

Xuekai Wang, Chang’an University

Cooperative train control during the power supply shortage in metro system

Announcement

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

10 EST New York

Zhenliang MA, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

User-Centric Data Analytics in Urban Railway Systems: Monitoring, Prediction, and Planning

Announcement

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

10:00 EST New York

Pengling Wang, Tongji University

Energy-Efficient Train Operation and Organization

Annoucement

Video Recording

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

10:00 EST New York

Xuesong Zhou, Arizona State University
Peiheng Li,  Norfolk Southern Corporation

Open-Source Ecosystem for Intermodal Transportation: Challenges and Opportunities Announcement

Video recording

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

10:00 EST New York

Paola Pellegrini, Universite Gustave Eiffel

RECIFE: An Advanced Platfom for the Design and Test of Railway Traffic Management Optimization

Announcement

Presentation

Video recording

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

10:00 EST New York

Daniel Rusinek, Object Computing, INC

Marty Schlenker, Schlenker LLC

"LiDAR for Railroads: Mathematics and Use Cases"

Announcement
Presentation
Video recording

Wednesday, July 27, 2022
10:00 EDT New York

Torsten Klug & Thomas Schlechte, LBW Optimization (An IVU Company), Germany

"Towards Timetable Optimization For Moving Block Systems" Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
10:00 EDT New York

Warren B Powell, Chief Analytics Officer, Optimal Dynamics; Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

Clark Cheng, Senior Director Operations Research, Norfolk Southern Railway

"Approximate Dynamic Programming for Strategic and Operational Planning of Locomotives at Norfolk Southern Railway: An academic/industrial partnership" Announcement
Presentation W. Powell
Presentation C. Cheng
Video recording
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
10:00 EST New York

Krishna Jha, Executive Vice President, Optym

"Locomotive Optimization" Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
10:00 EST New York

Carl D. Martland, Senior Research Associate, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT (Retired)

"Understanding and Controlling Rail Freight Service Reliability: The role of PMAKE Analysis" Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
First PMAKE function
Thursday, March 24, 2022
11:00 EST New York
Dr. Francesco Corman, Professor, ETH Zurich - Transport Systems “Passenger-oriented railway traffic planning and management” Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
More info
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
10:00 EST New York
Dr. Trefor Williams, Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rutgers University "Railroad Applications of Deep Learning and Text Mining" Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Thursday, September 30, 2021
10:00 EST New York

Giorgio Medeossi and Nicola Coviello, TrenoLab, and
Thomas Nygreen,
Norwegian Railway Directorate

"Seamless integration of microsimulations and ant colonies: a new tool for automatic timetable generation"

Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
10:00 EST New York

Roger Baugher, Independent Consultant

"Application of AnyLogic Simulation Software to Yard Modelling"

Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Thursday, July 29, 2021
10:00 EST New York

Yuan Gao, Associate Professor, School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology

"Optimization of Train Unit Rotations in a Railway Network"

Announcement
Video recording
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
10:00 EST New York

Thomas Graffagnino, Senior Scientific Advisor, Swiss Federal Railways

"Timetable, Driver Advisory System and Some Algorithms"

Announcement
Presentation
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
11:00 ETD New York

Professor Michael Gorman, Ph.D. Niehaus Chair in Business Analytics and Operations University of Dayton School of Business

"Contextual Complications in Modeling: When the Problem is not the Problem"

Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
10:00 EST New York

Christian Liebchen, Professor for Transportation Management, Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Germany

"Railway timetable optimization in Europe - Which model for which type of company? And which typical pitfalls should be avoided in R&D projects?"

Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
11:00 EST New York

Dennis Huisman, Professor of Public Transport Optimization at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Expertise Manager Logistic Processes at Netherlands Railways; 
Pieter-Jan Fioole
, Senior Research Leader at Netherlands Railways

"Crew Rescheduling at Netherlands Railways"

Announcement
Video recording
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
10:00 EST New York

Andrea D'Ariano, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering, Roma Tre University, Italy 

"Exploring the potential of alternative graphs to solve railway optimization problems"

Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Thursday, January 21, 2021
9:00 EST New York

Youneng Huang, Professor, National Engineering Research Center of Rail Transportation Operation and Control System at Beijing Jiaotong University

"Research and application of moving block system in Shuohuang heavy-haul railway"

Announcement
Video recording
Thursday, November 19 2020,
10:00 EST New York

Xingang Clark Cheng, Ph.D.
Senior Director Operations Research, Norfolk Southern Corporation

"Managing Railroad Assets and Capacity for Sustainable Growth"

Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Wednesday, October 21 2020,
10:00 EST New York

C. Tyler Dick, Ph.D., PE 
Rail Transportation and Engineering Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

"Network Efficiency Cycle: Quantifying Yard and Mainline Railway Capacity and Performance Connections"

Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Wednesday, September 23 2020,  10:00 EST New York

Carl Van Dyke, Industry expert and RAS distinguished member

"Freight Rail Operating Plan Systems – Past, Present, Future"

Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Wednesday, August 26 2020,
10:00 EST New York
Ken Kenjale, Dharma Acharya,
Wabtec Corp.
"Optimizing the Network: Taking Precision Scheduled Railroading to the Next Level" Announcement
Presentation
Video recording
Wednesday, July 15 2020, 
11:00 EST New York
Dasaradh Mallampati,
BNSF Railway
"Operations Research's Pivotal role at the Freight Railroad" Announcement
Presentation
More info