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THURSDAY, APRIL 06 Technical Sessions

TRACK 6 SAFETY AND SECURITY TRACK 1 RAILROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING
Track Organizer: Dave Schlesinger, Parsons, Pomona, CA, United States
Track Organizer: Conrad Ruppert, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United
Track Co-Organizer: Greg Placencia, California Polytechnic University States
Pomona, Alhambra, CA, United States

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TRACK LOADING & CROSSTIE PERFORMANCE 1

6-3 Third Level, Aria A 10:15am - 12:00pm
RAIL OPERATIONAL SAFETY
8:00am - 9:45am
Third Level, Aria B

Session Organizer: Dave Schlesinger, Parsons, Pomona, CA, United States Session Organizer: Alvaro Canga Ruiz, University of Illinois at Urbana-
FRA Training Requirements Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Technical Publication. JRC2017-2213
Dave Schlesinger, Parsons, Pomona, CA, United States Dynamic Loading Environment of Light, Heavy, and Commuter Rail
Systems

Technical Presentation. JRC2017-2285

Aaron Cook, J. Riley Edwards, Yu Qian, Marcus S. Dersch, Matthew V.
Csenge, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Urbana, IL, United
States

Development of an Intelligent Module Used in Railway Level Crossings Development of a Load-Deflection Metric for Characterization of North
to Solve the Safety and Punctuality Issues in Urban Area American Concrete Crossties

Technical Publication. JRC2017-2220 Technical Presentation. JRC2017-2278

Tu-Huan Lin, Yu-Lin Shih, Jyh-Cherng Jong, Chian-Shan Suen, Sinotech Josue César Bastos, Alejandro Alvarez Reyes, University of Illinois (RailTEC),
Engineering Consultants, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan Urbana, IL, United States, Marcus S. Dersch, J. Riley Edwards, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
A Survey of Railyard Worker Protection Approaches and System Design
Considerations

Technical Publication. JRC2017-2246 Numerical Study of Splitting/Bursting Performance of Prestensioned
Concrete Prisms
Subharthi Banerjee, Michael Hempel, Hamid Sharif, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Omaha, NE, United States Technical Presentation. JRC2017-2333

Major Factors Contributing to Freight Train Safety Improvements over Moochul Shin, Brian Wodecki, Western New England University, Springfield,
the Past Decade MA, United States, Hailing Yu, John A. Volpe National Transportation
Systems Center, Cambridge, MA, United States

Technical Presentation. JRC2017-2335 Finite Element Analysis of Contributing Factors to the Horizontal Splitting
Cracks in Concrete Crossties Pretensioned with Seven-Wire Strands
Zhao Wang, Chris Barkan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL, United States Technical Publication. JRC2017-2256

Hailing Yu, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center,
Cambridge, MA, United States

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