Schedule

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

Clark Cheng, Senior Director Operations Research, Norfolk Southern Railway

Krishna Jha, Executive Vice President, Optym

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

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"

Roger Baugher, Independent Consultant

"Application of AnyLogic Simulation Software to Yard Modelling"

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

"Optimization of Train Unit Rotations in a Railway Network"

Thomas Graffagnino, Senior Scientific Advisor, Swiss Federal Railways

"Timetable, Driver Advisory System and Some Algorithms"

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"

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?"

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"

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

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

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"

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

"Managing Railroad Assets and Capacity for Sustainable Growth"

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"

Carl Van Dyke, Industry expert and RAS distinguished member

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