| 7:00am - 5:00pm | Registration | Aaron Lobby |
| 8:00am - 9:00am | Continental Breakfast | Aaron Student Lounge |
| 9:00am - 10:00am | NURail Kickoff Meeting Chris Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC (Moderator) |
Aaron Room 006 |
| Penn State Altoona Welcome (Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Head, Division of
Business and Engineering, Penn State Altoona) TRB Rail Freight Committee (AR040) welcome (Avery Grimes) NURail Welcome and Overview of Center Activities (Chris Barkan) |
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| 10:00am – 10:15am | Break | Aaron Student Lounge |
| 10:15am - 12:00am | Affiliate Member Program Meeting Program Introduction; Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech (Moderator) |
Devorris Auditorium |
| Affiliate Presentations and panel discussion: Dimitris Rizos, University of South Carolina Denver Tolliver, North Dakota State University Leslie McCarthy, Villanova University Steve Dillon, Penn State Altoona |
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| 12:00am – 1:00pm | Lunch | Heritage Discovery Center |
| 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Education and Curriculum Development Jim McKinney, Rose-Hulman (Moderator/Presenter) with discussion |
Devorris Auditorium |
| Discussion Panelists: Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech Tyler Dick, UIUC Dave Clarke, UTK |
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| 2:00pm – 3:15pm | Outreach, Workforce Development and Tech Transfer Dave Clarke, UTK (Moderator/Presenter) Mini workshops on Outreach and Workforce Development topics |
Devorris Auditorium |
| 3:15pm – 3:30pm | Break | Aaron Student Lounge | 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Strategic Development Plan Workshop |
| 1. Vehicle - Track Interaction Conrad Ruppert - UIUC (Moderator) |
Devorris Auditorium | |
| 2. Safety and Risk Rapik Saat, UIUC (Moderator) |
Devorris Room 001 | |
| 3. Network Capacity Planning Dave Clarke, UTK (Moderator) |
Devorris Room 003 | |
| 4. Urban, Regional and HSR Passenger &
Funding and Economic Development Steve Schlickman, UIC (Moderator) |
Aaron Room 009 | |
| 5. Multimodal Freight Transport Reg Souleyrette, UK (Moderator) |
Aaron Room 008 | |
| 5:00pm | Adjourn General Sessions | |
| 5:15pm | Reception and Student Poster Session | Heritage Discovery Center |
| 6:30pm | Dinner and Keynote Address John Tunna, Director, Office of Research and Development, Federal Railroad Administration (Keynote Speaker) |
Heritage Discovery Center |
| 7:00am - 10:00am | Registration | Aaron Lobby |
| 7:00am - 7:45am | Continental Breakfast | Aaron Student Lounge |
| 7:50am – 8:00am | Welcoming Remarks Chris Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC (Moderator) |
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| 8:00am – 9:45am | Research Session Presentations Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) |
Devorris Auditorium |
| 8:00am Andrew Scheppe, UIUC "Characterization of Vertical and Lateral Wheel Loads" 8:15am Mohsen Issa, UIC "Status of NURail Structural and Materials Testing Progress at UIC" 8:30am Ibrahim Lofty, UIC "Experimental Evaluation and Modeling of Fastening Systems for Plastic Composite Crossties" 8:45am Teng (Alex) Wang, UKY "Rail Crossing 3D Assessment" 9:00am Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech "Rail Embankment Investigation Using Remote Sensing for a Permafrost Region" 9:15am Maen Farhat, UIC "Totally Prefabricated Counterfort Substructure System for Highway and Railway Applications" 9:30am Baoshan Huang, UTK "Laboratory Investigation into Mechanical and Viscoelastic Properties of Hardened Cement Emulsified Asphalt Mortar" |
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| 9:45am – 10:00am | Break | Aaron Lobby |
| 10:00am – 12:00am | Research Session Presentations Conrad Ruppert, UIUC (Moderator) |
Devorris Auditorium |
| 10:00am M. Rapik Saat, UIUC "Risk Assessment of Adjacent Track Accidents on Shared-Use Rail Corridors" 10:15am M. Rapik Saat, UIUC "Risk Management of Rail Transport of Petroleum Crude Oil" 10:30am Stephen Schlickman, UIC "Value Capture Coordination: Case Studies and Best Practices" 10:45am David Nelson, Michigan Tech "Rural Freight Rail and Multimodal Transportation (The Upper Peninsula of Michigan Case Study)" 11:00am Maite Pena Alcaraz, MIT "Capacity Allocation and Pricing on Shared Rail Infrastructure" 11:15am Ivan Atanassov, UIUC "Influence of Infrastructure Characteristics on Expanding Rail Corridor Capacity and Operations" 11:30am Pasi Lautala, Michigan Tech "Rescheduling/Timetable Optimization of Trains along the U.S. Shared-use Corridors" 11:45am Bo Zou, UIC "Integrated Modeling of High Performance Passenger and Freight Train Operation Planning on Shared Use Rail Corridors" |
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| 12:00am – 1:30pm | Lunch and NURail Partner Student Highlights Tyler Dick, UIUC (Moderator) |
Heritage Discovery Center |
| 12:15pm | AREMA Student Chapter Highlights | |
| 1:30pm – 2:15pm | Education Overview and Summary Session Pasi Lautala, UIUC (Moderator/Presenter) with discussion |
Devoris Auditorium |
| 2:15pm - 2:30pm | Break | Aaron Lobby |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting Chris Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC (Moderator) |
Devorris 001 |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Student Leadership Council (SLC) Business Meeting Tyler Dick, UIUC (Moderator) |
Devorris 003 |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm | Executive Advisory Board (EAB) (NURail Partners & EAB) Chris Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC (Moderator) |
Aaron Room 006 |
| 5:30pm - 6:30pm | NURail Partners Meeting and Wrap-Up (NURail Partners) Chris Barkan, NURail Center Director, UIUC (Moderator) |
Devorris Auditorium |
| 6:30pm | Joint NURail/Summerail Reception | Railroaders Memorial Museum |