Faculty, staff, students and alumni participated in the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) 2020 Virtual Conference & Expo on September 13 – 17, 2020. RailTEC was represented by 11 presentations and two alumni served on the Meet the Next Generation Panel Discussion. The National University Rail (NURail) Center, a rail-focused seven university consortium led by RailTEC, had a virtual booth.
RailTEC presentations were:
- Quantifying the Relative Influence of Classification Yard Performance Factors
Tyler Dick, PhD, PE, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - A Risk Management Tool to Evaluate Adjacent Track Accidents on Shared-Use Rail Corridors
Chen-Yu Lin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Track Technical Presentation: Field Investigation of Load Environment in Revenue Service Track with Railroad Spike Failures Systems
Marcus S. Dersch, PE, Matheus Trizotto and Christian Khachaturian, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Laboratory Structural Investigation of the of Heavy Rail Transit Direct Fixation Fastening System Capacity
Arthur De Oliveira Lima, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Ravi Amin, PE, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) - Understanding Influences on Student Pursuit of Railway Education and Careers
Lee Evans, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Using Advanced PTC with Moving Blocks to Improve the Operational Feasibility of Short Trains on Single-Track Rail Corridors
Adrian Diaz De Rivera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Artificial Intelligence-Aided Prediction of Broken Rail Occurrence Using Railroad Big Data
Xiang Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Artificial Intelligence-Aided Railroad Trespassing Data Analytics based On Camera Video Data at Grade Crossings
Xiang Liu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Adaptive Prestressing System for Concrete Crossties using Shape Memory Alloys and Steel
Minsoo Sung and Bassem Andrawes, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - History of Heavy Axle Load Subgrade Research at Facility for Accelerated Service Testing (FAST)
Stephen Wilk, PhD, Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) - Using LIDAR To Detect Rockfall – A Case Study of Using COTS Equipment for a Safety Critical Application
Paul Shih, BNSF Railway and Mark Aston, LB Foster
RailTEC alumni Meet the Next Generation Panel Discussion participants were Anna Delheimer – BNSF Railway (top row, center) and Giovanni DiDomenico – Kiewit Engineering Group (top row, right).
