| Time | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | 09:00–09:30 | Registration |
| 09:30–09:40 | Welcome - Harry Bryant & Jiaxiang Zhang - Swansea University | |
| 09:40–09:55 | Paul Plummer - Academic lead for UK Rail Research & Innovation Network | |
| 09:55–10:55 | Sean McCabe - Head of Software at Siemens Mobility Railway Decarbonisation |
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| 10:55–11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15–12:30 | Contributed Talks 1 | |
| Afternoon | 12:30–12:50 | The PWI |
| 12:50–13:50 | Lunch & Poster Session | |
| 13:50–14:50 | Luisa Moisio - Director of Research at the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) Collaboration and passion to drive rail innovation forward |
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| 14:50–15:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:15–16:40 | Contributed Talks 2 | |
| 16:40–17:00 | Coffee Break & Poster Session | |
| 17:00–17:15 | Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB) ‘How to pitch research to get industry listening?’ |
| Time | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | 09:30–11:00 | Contributed Talks 3 |
| 11:00–11:30 | Coffee Break & Poster Session | |
| 11:30–12:30 | George Bearfield - Visiting Professor of Railway System Safety at the University of Huddersfield Institute of Rail Research Cyber Security of Railways |
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| Afternoon | 12:30–13:30 | Lunch & Poster Session |
| 13:30–14:30 | GCRE Project | |
| 14:30–15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00–16:00 | Yue Hou - Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Swansea University Using Large Language Models to predict the rail stress development of High-speed Railways |
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| 16:00–16:30 | Markus Roggenbach - Professor, Department of Computer Science, Swansea University & Co-head of the The Swansea Centre for Research in Digital Railways The Swansea Centre for Research in Digital Railways - Overview on Verification Tools and Techniques for Ladder Logic |
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| Evening | 18:00– | Conference Dinner: No Sign Wine Bar (56 Wind St, Swansea SA1 1EG) |
| Time | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | 09:15–10:55 | Contributed Talks 4 |
| 10:55–11:15 | Nigel Shaw: Establishing the cause of a flange climb freight derailment – a case study | |
| 11:15–11:45 | Coffee Break & Poster Session | |
| 11:45–12:45 | Jacqueline Starr - CEO of the Rail Delivery Group Improving the Railway Experience |
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| Afternoon | 12:45 | Closing - please note lunch is not provided on the Friday |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Tianhao Xie | Understanding the formation mechanisms of leaf layers on the rail surface using a high-pressure torsion test |
| Samuel Elijah Yaw Osei | Modelling Rolling Contact Fatigue Using Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method |
| Philomenah Holladay | Wear and Fatigue of Three Pearlitic Rail Steels in a Bonded Brick Model for Rail Failure |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Jose Santos | Offline Iterative Hybrid Testing of Pantograph-Catenary Dynamics |
| Mishaal Sanad | Influences of Pantograph Base Pneumatic Actuator to the Interaction Dynamics under Large-Gradient Catenary Wires |
| Adam McGirr | Speed Control of a Freight Train Based on an Inverse Simulation Approach |
| Liu Yang | Coordinated Energy Scheduling of Railway Stations Considering EV Flexibility and Regenerative Braking for Grid-Railway Co-Benefits |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| George Brooks | Demand Guided Railway Timetable Optimization |
| Christopher Davis | Development of a novel, open-source micro transport simulator: pytms & web-tms |
| Kang Rui Tan | A Practical Decision-Support App for Managing Real-Time Railway Disruption |
| Xuwen Jia | From Psychological Workload to Railway Big Data: Understanding Driver Decision-Making |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Ismail N. Ismail | Structural Analysis of Slab Track Systems using Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis: Methodology and Model Development |
| Christoph Schuessler | Holistic Data-Driven Maintenance Framework for Rolling Stock |
| Shobin John | Hybrid AI–Knowledge Framework for High-Integrity Anomaly Detection in Remote Monitoring |
| Yuxuan Guo | Analysis of diesel passenger train idling times at station: the case of Dublin Heston station |