Students, staff, and faculty from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s RailTEC program as well as other universities involved with the National University Rail Center of Excellence (NURail CoE), a federally funded consortium of nine universities led by Illinois, attended the University of Delaware’s Big Data in Railway Maintenance Planning Conference on 11 – 12 December in Newark, Delaware.
During the conference, Arthur Lima, a RailTEC senior research engineer, presented his research on “Cross-Correlation-Based Railway Change Detection: A Novel Approach for Maintenance Detection.” Graduate research assistants Augusto Ramos, Gustavo Ramos, Panshul Jindal, and Yash Kakde assisted with the research.
J. Riley Edwards, RailTEC assistant professor and senior associate director of NURail CoE, also attended this year’s conference which introduced new and emerging analysis techniques and how those methods can be applied to the large volume of inspection and operational data collected by railways to improve maintenance programs.