November 2016: RailTEC Senior Research Engineer, C. Tyler Dick, is co-editor of the latest issue of the INFORMS Railway Applications Section (RAS) Newsletter. RAS helps advance the application of operations research and analytics to railroad problems. In addition to an update from RAS, an agenda for the Nashville meeting and a problem solving competition, the 2016 newsletter contains articles Tyler wrote about the National University Rail (NURail) Center, K-12 STEM Outreach and Local Versus Global Optimums. Click here to read the newsletter.