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Technical Sessions THURSDAY, APRIL 06

TRACK 2 RAIL EQUIPMENT ENGINEERING TRACK 6 SAFETY AND SECURITY
Track Organizer: Jeffrey Gordon, FRA, Cambridge, MA, United States Track Organizer: Dave Schlesinger, Parsons, Pomona, CA, United States

Track Co-Organizer: Bryan Schlake, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, Track Co-Organizer: Greg Placencia, California Polytechnic University

Altoona, PA, United States Pomona, Alhambra, CA, United States

2-2 6-4
RAIL SAFETY & RISK ANALYSES
MODELING, SIMULATION AND USING DATA TO IMPROVE
Third Level, Aria B
EFFICIENCY 10:15am - 12:00pm

Third Level, Concerto A 10:15am - 12:00pm

Session Organizer: Jeffrey Gordon, FRA, Cambridge, MA, United States Session Organizer: John Cockle, Parsons, Redwood City, CA, United States

On Railroad Tank Car Emergency Braking Performance Probabilistic Analysis of Flying Ballast on High-Speed Rail Lines

Technical Publication. JRC2017-2245 Technical Publication. JRC2017-2236

Kevin Renze, National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, DC, United Jieyi Deng, Xiang Liu, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey,
States Piscataway, NJ, United States, Guoqing Jing, Beijing Jiaotong University,
Beijing, China

Applied Structural Simulation in Railcar Design Visualization of Railroad Equipment Accident Causes Using Data
Technical Publication. JRC2017-2330 Visualization Systems and GIS
Christof Hettiger, BNSF Logistics, Southlake, TX, United States Technical Publication. JRC2017-2239
Trefor Williams, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, John
Interactions of Higher Modes in Nonlinear Free Vibration of Stiffened Betak, Collaborative Solutions LLC, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Rectangular Plates
Technical Presentation. JRC2017-2338 The Importance of Preparedness for Emergency Response to Railway
Saman Farhangdoust, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain Incidents
Technical Publication. JRC2017-2292

How Artificial Intelligence will Change Freight Rail Maintenance John Cockle, Parsons, Redwood City, CA, United States, Larry Day, Federal
Railroad Administration, Ontario, CA, United States

Technical Presentation. JRC2017-2349 Quantitative Analysis of Empty and Loaded Mainline Freight-Train
Derailment Characteristics
Parham Shahidi, Analytics for Condition Evaluation of Systems, System
Sciences Lab, Palo Alto, CA, United States Technical Presentation. JRC2017-2336

Zhipeng Zhang, Chris Barkan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL, United States

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