Programme

Day 1 – Wednesday 7th

  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
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
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?’

Day 2 – Thursday 8th

  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
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
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
Evening 18:00– Conference Dinner: No Sign Wine Bar (56 Wind St, Swansea SA1 1EG)
We are sorry that the excursion to GCRE has been cancelled due to the snow and ice in the Swansea Valley.

Day 3 – Friday 9th

  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
Afternoon 12:45 Closing - please note lunch is not provided on the Friday

All contributed talks are 15 minutes in length, with 5 minutes for questions. Posters are to be A1 size.

Contributed Talks 1: Wheel-Rail Materials & Contact Mechanics

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

Contributed Talks 2: Catenary Dynamics & Energy

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

Contributed Talks 3: Operations & Simulations

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

Contributed Talks 4: Infrastructure, Maintenance & Monitoring

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