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"Advances in Railroad Technology –
Advantages in the Global Marketplace"
The second annual ASME Rail Transportation Division Fall Technical Conference will be held in Chicago, IL, on Wednesday and Thursday, September 24-25, 2008, at the Chicago Hilton Hotel. Chicago has a long and storied history as the primary railroad gateway in North America and therefore serves as an ideal location for a gathering of rail industry technical professionals. The ASME 2008 RTD Fall Technical Conference will follow the 2008 RSI Coordinated Mechanical Associations Technical Conference, which will take place September 21-24, 2008. This allows for busy rail industry engineering professionals to attend two premier rail industry technical conferences during the same week, thereby saving on travel costs, and most importantly in today's busy world, precious time.
You are invited to submit technical papers for presentation and discussion at the 2008 RTD Fall Technical Conference. Papers are solicited from members of the railway supply industry, rail transportation companies and transit agencies, governmental agencies, consulting/engineering firms, academia, technical organizations and others. Papers should cover a topic of current industry interest. Topics may include, but are not
limited to:
- Vehicle Dynamics
- Track and Equipment Health Monitoring
- Passenger Equipment Crashworthiness
- Innovations in Tank Cars
- Locomotive and Freight Car Improvements
- ECP Brakes
- New or Improved Mechanical Components
- Improvements in Analysis and Testing Methods
- Heavy Axle Load Performance Issues
- System Safety and Emergency Preparedness
- Communications-Based Train Control
- Infrastructure and Capacity Enhancements
Advanced conference registration is required for the lead authors of papers, before final acceptance of papers for publication. For specific details and questions regarding submission of papers, please contact David Tyrell at tyrell@volpe.dot.gov.
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Available from ASME Press...