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Technical Sessions THURSDAY, APRIL, 19

TRACK 1 RAILROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING Track Co-Organizer: Bryan Schlake, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA,
United States
Track Organizer: Conrad Ruppert, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United
States

2-4

1-7 EQUIPMENT IV: VEHICLE CRASHWORTHINESS AND STRUCTURAL
RAILROAD BALLAST RESEARCH (2)
Conference Level, Conference Center A ANALYSIS

1:30pm - 3:30pm Conference Level, Conference Center B 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Session Organizer: Yubing Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Session Organizer: Jeffrey Gordon, US DOT/Federal Railroad Administration,
Urbana, IL, United States Cambridge, MA, United States

Development of “Coarse to Fine Ratio” as a New Gradation Parameter Locomotive Crash Energy Management Coupling Test
to Study Ballast Packing
Technical Publication. JRC2018-6243
Technical Publication. JRC2018-6125
Patricia Llana, Karina Jacobsen, USDOT Volpe Center, Cambridge, MA,
S M Naziur Mahmud, Debakanta Mishra, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
United States

Simulating Fouling Material Transport in Ballast Improving Crashworthiness of Legacy Locomotives

Technical Publication. JRC2018-6187 Technical Publication. JRC2018-6201

Yu Qian, Yi Wang, Shengwei Zhu, Dimitris Rizos, University of South Jeffrey Gordon, US DOT/Federal Railroad Administration, Cambridge, MA,
Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States United States, Srini Swamy, Sabri Cakdi, Matthew Radovich, Som Singh,
Anand Prabhakaran, Sharma and Associates Inc., Countryside, IL, United
Railway Ballast Strength and Permeability Affecting Track Performance States
under Dry and Wet Conditions
CEM - An Observational Perspective - What it is & What it is not

Technical Publication. JRC2018-6256 Oral Presentation. JRC2018-6230
Al Bieber, STV Inc., Erie, PA, United States
Issam Qamhia, Maximilian Orihuela, Erol Tutumluer, Maziar Moaveni,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Scott Fitness-For-Service Assessment of Passenger Railcars and Trucks
Schmidt, Nicholson Construction Company, Kalamazoo, MI, United States,
Colin Basye, Transportation Technology Center, Inc., Pueblo, CO, United
States, Ding Qing Li, TTCI, Pueblo, CO, United States

Laboratory Evaluation of Naturally Abraded Ballast Behavior and Technical Publication. JRC2018-6147
Properties
Andrew Smyth, LPI, Inc., New York, NY, United States, Kevin Carmody, STV Inc.,
Technical Publication. JRC2018-6206 Boston, MA, United States, Derek Maier, Amtrak, Wilmington, DE, United States

Andrew Rohrman, Carlton Ho, University of Massachusetts Amherst, TRACK 3 SIGNAL AND TRAIN CONTROL ENGINEERING
Amherst, MA, United States
Track Organizer: David Thurston, Canadian Pacific Railway, Calgary, AB,
Canada

TRACK 2 RAIL EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING 3-3 1:30pm - 3:30pm
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY FOR TRAIN CONTROL
Track Organizer: Jeffrey Gordon, US DOT/Federal Railroad Administration, Conference Level, Conference Center C

24 Cambridge, MA, United States