RailTEC Graduate Student Wins Second in Poster Contest

University of Illinois RailTEC systems group faculty and students recently attended the 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix AZ where Tyler Dick, Wesley Chen, Stan Chang and Adrian Diaz de Rivera all presented their current railway simulation research projects. Adrian Diaz de Rivera won second place in the 2018 INFORMS Railway Applications Section Student Poster Contest for his poster entitled “Line Capacity and Performance of North American Freight Railway Lines Under Advanced PTC”. The team of Mohammad Amin Nabian, Negin Alemazkoor and Hadi Meidani won second place (out of 40 teams) in the 2018 INFORMS Railway Applications Section Problem Solving Competition for using bi-level random forests to predict passenger train delay.

RailTEC graduate student, Adrian Diaz de Rivera.

The team of Mohammad Amin Nabian, Negin Alemazkoor and Hadi Meidani won second place (out of 40 teams) in the 2018 INFORMS Railway Applications Section Problem Solving Competition for using bi-level random forests to predict passenger train delay. Here Mohammad and Negin are pictured receiving their award from University of Dayton Professor Mike Gorman who chaired the competition.

The RailTEC System Group at the 2018 INFORMS conference. From L-R are: Stan Chang, James Chan, Tyler Dick, Wesley Chen, Michael Pugh and Adrian Diaz De Rivera.

RailTEC faculty member, Tyler Dick, giving his presentation on “Traffic Complexity and the Performance of Railway Classification Yards”.

RailTEC Graduate student, Stan Chang presenting his work on “Simulating Railcar Transit under different Operating Strategies”.

RailTEC Graduate student, Wesley Chen giving his presentation on “Investigating the Capacity of Different intermodal Terminal Layouts with AnyLogic”.