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Monday, May 8
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Keynote I
Chair: Andrea Arias, BNSF Railway
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"Transforming the Supply Chain Landscape through Innovation"
Jon Gabriel, Vice President Network Strategy, Service Design & Innovation, BNSF Railway |
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Panel I: Current Service Design Organizational Structure and Practices
Chair/Moderator: Dharma Acharya, Wabtec
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"BNSF Network Strategy Overview"
Doug Jones, AVP Bulk Operations, BNSF Railway |
"Organization of Service Planning at CSX"
Mike Swain, Manager of Freight Car Systems - Service Planning, CSX |
"Evolution of Service Design Strategy at Norfolk Southern"
Mike Bradley, Senior Director Network Optimization, Norfolk Southern |
"Network Planning & Operations: Organizational Structure, Philosophy and Network Planning Process"
Simon Hjelm, General Director of Transportation Planning and Scheduling, Union Pacific |
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Topical Presentations I
Chair: Carl Van Dyke, TransNetOpt
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"The Swedish Experience Operating a Fully Reserved, Capacity Managed Wagonload Freight Rail Network"
Jonatan Gjerdrum, Head of Network Design and Analytics, Green Cargo - Sweden. |
"Introducing the New Web-enabled MultiRail Enterprise for Railway Service Design and Network Analysis"
Yury Gorbunov, Director Surface Transportation Practice, Oliver Wyman |
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Keynote II
Chair: Marc Meketon, Oliver Wyman
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"The Growth Journey: Rounding the First Bend"
Adriene Bailey, Partner - Transportation Practice, Oliver Wyman |
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Panel II: Current Network and Resource Planning Practices
Chair: Marc Meketon, Oliver Wyman
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"Current Network and Resource Planning Practices"
Frank Anderson, AVP Network Development, BNSF Railway |
"Infrastructure Planning: Experiences and Incremental Improvement"
Greg Hartley, Director Asset Planning and Quality, Canadian National |
"Integration of Forecast, Plan and Resource Planning Processes at Norfolk Southern"
Stefano Rieppi, AVP Fleet and Capacity Planning, & Clark Cheng, Senior Director Operations Research, Norfolk Southern |
"Resource Planning at Union Pacific"
Alexander Lovett, Manager Fleet Strategy, Union Pacific |
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Topical Presentations II
Chair: Clark Cheng, Norfolk Southern
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"Maximizing the Productivity of Rail Yards through Performance Focused Systems"
Daril Vilhena, Co-CEO, Cedar AI |
"Solutions for the Management of Mine to Port Railways"
Ravi Ahuja, Founder/CEO, Optym |
"RailEval, Rail System Simulator for Planning and Capacity Analysis"
Daniel Brod, CEO, Decisiontek |
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Tuesday, May 9
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Topical Presentations III
Chair: Roger Baugher, TrAnalytics
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"Decision Support for Optimal Resource Scheduling in Classification Yards"
Henning Preis, Faculty, Technical University of Dresden |
"Modeling the Network Effects of Yard Congestion and Disruptions"
C. Tyler Dick, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
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Panel III: Trends in Software Systems for Planning and Operations Execution
Chair: Carl Van Dyke, TransNetOpt
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"Technology Trends in Support of Service Design and Operations/Resource Management"
Brian Faz, AVP Technology Services, & Stephanie Saylor, General Director Technology Services, BNSF Railway |
"Technology and Operations Research Models for CSX Service Planning"
Shantih Spanton, Lead Senior Scientist/Manager Operations Research, & Mike Swain, Manager of Freight Car Systems - Service Planning, CSX |
"Resource and Capacity Planning Tools at Norfolk Southern"
Clark Cheng, Senior Director Operations Research, & Stefano Rieppi, AVP Fleet and Capacity Planning, Norfolk Southern |
"Technology Initiatives at UP"
James Owens, Senior Systems Engineer, Union Pacific |
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Topical Presentations IV
Chair: Stefano Rieppi, Norfolk Southern
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"Strategic Timetabling Concepts and Enabling Technologies: A Practical Case Study" (video)
Giorgio Medeossi, Technical Director, TrenoLab - Italy |
"Line of Road Simulation at NS Using Wabtec Service Design (Schedule Viewer)"
Brandi Wood, Product Manager - Movement Planner/Service Design, Wabtec & Stefano Rieppi, AVP Fleet and Capacity Planning, Norfolk Southern |