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Sunday, October 24
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| Passenger Rail II (Chair: Jiateng Yin; Beijing Jiaotong University) |
1. Rolling Stock Allocation And Timetabling For Rail Transit Network With Multiple Depots
Fan Pu; Beijing Jiaotong University, China |
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2. Timetable Optimization For Minimizing Transfer Costs Under Through-operation
YI ZHENG; PEKING UNIVERSITY, China |
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3. Dynamic Passenger-centric Railway Traffic Management
Yongqiu Zhu; ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
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4. Trains Rescheduling Method During Multi-disturbances Under A Quasi-moving Block System
Peijuan Xu1, Francesco Corman2; 1Chang'an University, China, 2ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
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5. Train Scheduling Optimization With Virtual Coupled Vehicles For Integrated Commuter Rail And Underground Metro Network
Simin Chai; Beijing Jiaotong University, China |
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| RAS Roundtable (Chair/Moderator: Bruce W. Patty; Veritec Solutions, USA) |
1. Improving Rail Share of Intermodal Freight
Bruce W. Patty; Veritec Solutions, USA |
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2. The Growth Imperative: Rail Pursuit of Freight Share
Adriene Bailey; Oliver Wyman, USA |
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3. Increasing Intermodal Rail Use: Alameda Corridor Perspective
Michael Leue; Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, USA |
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| Monday, October 25 |
| Railroad Maintenance (Chair: Faeze Ghofrani; Penn state Altoona, USA) |
1. Deep Learning For The Detection And Recognition Of Rail Defects In Ultrasound B-scan Images
Qing He; Southwest Jiaotong University, China |
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2. Willow Digital Twin for Railway Networks: Lessons and Challenges
Ali Jamshidi; Willow Inc, Netherlands |
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3. Use Of Ground Penetrating Radar Measured Track Conditions To Predict Track Geometry Degradation
Allan M. Zarembski; University of Delaware, USA |
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4. Inspection Technologies For Reliable Railway Transportation Systems
Faeze Ghofrani; Pennsylvania State University, USA |
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| Yards and Terminals (Chair: Roger W. Baugher; TrAnalytics, LLC, USA) |
1. Flat Yard Simulation using AnyLogic
Roger W. Baugher; TrAnalytics, LLC, USA |
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2. Development of Yard Planning Systems
Jeremiah Dirnberger; Wabtec Corporation, USA |
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3. Machine Learning Algorithms for Yard Departure Prediction
Niloofar Minbashi, Markus Bohlin; KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden |
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4. Thoughts on Improving Yard Representation in Line Simulation from a Field Perspective
Tim Robinson; Canadian National Railroad, Canada |
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5. Hump Yard Simulation using AnyLogic
Jiaxi Zhao; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
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| Passenger Rail I (Chairs: Jiateng Yin and Andrea D'Ariano) |
1. Automatic Train Dispatching: A Real-life Application in the Greater Oslo Region
Carlo Mannino, Giorgio Sartor, Andreas Nakkerud, Oddvar Kloster, Christian Schulz, Bjørnutar Leberget, Giorgio Grani; SINTEF Digital, Norway |
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2. Effective Pruning Strategies for the Alternative Graph Model
Marcella Sama1, Andrea D'Ariano1, Dario Pacciarelli2; 1Roma Tre University, Italy, 2Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy |
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3. Train Scheduling Optimization For Commuter-metro Networks: An Improved Job-shop Formulation With Procedence Constraints
Jiateng Yin; Beijing Jiaotong University, USA |
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4. Including Stochasticity In Railway Traffic Management Models
Francesco Corman1,,1, Alessio Trivella1, Oskar Eikenbroek2; 1ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2University of Twente, Netherlands |
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| Artificial Intelligence in Railway Transportation (Chair: Nikola Besinovic, TUDelft) |
1. Dealing With Limited Data: Enabling AI In Railways By Transfer Learning
Lorenzo De Donato1, Stefano Marrone1, Valeria Vittorini1, Francesco Flammini2, Claudio Mazzariello3, Frédéric Bernaudin4; 1University of Naples Federico II, Italy, 2Linnaeus University, Sweden, 3Hitachi Rail STS, Italy, 4Hitachi Rail STS, France |
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2. Traffic Delay Predictions in Disrupted Railway Networks using a Graph Neural Network Model
Christopher Szymula; Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany |
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3. Artificial Intelligence In Railway Transport: Taxonomy, Regulations And Applications
Nikola Besinovic; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands |
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| Tuesday, October 26 |
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Leveraging PTC and Advanced Technologies to increase Rail Capacity (Chairs: Dharma Acharya, Ken Kenjale; Wabtec, USA)
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1. Capacity and Planning toward a Moving/Virtual Block future
Ken Kenjale; Wabtec Corporation, USA |
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2. Comparing The Effectiveness Of Different Train Following Control Algorithms For Freight Trains In Moving Block
Geordie Roscoe1, Tyler Dick2; 1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
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3. Managing Capacity in an Australian Coal Rail Network
Wayne Johnson; Australia |
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4. How Positive Train Control Can Help A Railroad Run On Schedule With Precision, Safety, Efficiency, And Profitability And Please Its Customers
Steven R. Ditmeyer; Transportation Technology and Economics, USA |
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5. From Moving Block To Virtual Coupling - A Breakthrough In Train Operation
Hongjie Liu, Ming Chai; Beijing Jiaotong University, China |
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6. Designing And Rolling Out Movement Planners For European And North American Operations: A Comparison
Leonardo Lamorgese; Optrail, Italy |
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| RAS Problem Solving Competition (Chair: Hyeong Suk Na; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA) |
1. Arrival Time Estimation for Unit Trains Utilizing Train Matching Techniques
Geordie Roscoe, Jiaxi Zhao; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
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2. Prediction of Estimated Times of Arrival of Freight Trains in US Railroads
Qing He, Zhen Liu, Qingsong Ma; Southwest Jiaotong University, China |
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| RAS Student Paper Award (Chair: Faeze Ghofrani; Pennsylvania State University, USA) |
1. Integrated Rolling Stock Deadhead Routing and Timetabling in Urban Rail Transit Lines
Dian Wang1, Andrea D'Ariano2, Jun Zhao1, Qiyuan Peng1; 1Southwest Jiaotong University, China, 2Roma Tre University, Italy |
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2. Effective Train Routing Selection for Real-time Traffic Management: Improved Model and ACO Parallel Computing
Bianca Pascariu1, Andrea D'Ariano1, Marcello Sama1, Dario Pacciarelli1, Paola Pellegrini2, Joaquin Rodriguez2; 1Roma Tre University, Italy, 2Univ. Lille Nord de France, France |
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3. Solving the Train Unit Shunting Problem using Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning with Routing Optimization
Jacob Trepat Borecka, Nikola Besinovic, Yousef M. Maknoon, Rob M. Goverde, Wan-Jui Lee; Delft University of Technology, Netherlands |
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