Conference Program October 3, 2013

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TIME

EVENT

8.30-9.00

Coffee/tea + light breakfast

9.00-9.30

Welcome, overview of RobustRailS by David Pisinger, Professor, DTU Management Engineering

9.30-10.10

Positioning systems and railway signalling technologies – IFSTTAR’s contributions

by Marion Berbineau, Research Director, French Institue of Science & Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR)

10.10-10.50

Robust Railway Operations: Best Practice and Challenges by Jan Peleska, Professor Dr. habil., University of Bremen and Verified Systems International GmbH

10.50-11.10

Coffee/tea break

11.10-11.40

Realtime Rail Traffic Management (with focus on necessary preconditions) by Sune Vendelbo Enevolsen, TMS expert, Banedanmark

11.40-12.10

Presentation (title to be announced) by Julie Jespersen Groth, DSB S-tog

12.10-13.00

Lunch

13.00-14.00

Short presentation of RobustRailS PhD projects:

  • A framework for Rolling Stock Rescheduling by Jørgen Thorlund Haahr, PhD student, DTU Management Engineering
  • Measuring Network Effects and Robustness in Railway Timetables by Lars Wittrup Jensen, PhD student, DTU Transport
  • The passenger perspective in robust railway operations by Jens Parbo, PhD student, DTU Transport
  • Formal Development and Verification of Railway Control Systems by Linh Vu Hong, PhD student, DTU Compute
  • Railway communication technologies: future opportunities by Aleksander Sniady, PhD student, DTU Fotonik

14.00-15.00

Best practice and challenges: Discussion in groups

15.00-15.20

Coffee/tea/cake break

15.20-16.00

Robustness in railway planning and operations by Leo Kroon, Professor of quantitative logistics at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and Logistics Consultant at Netherlands Railways (NS)

16.00-16.20

Conclusion and international perspective