It was a busy summer of conferences for TRAIN faculty and students!
In May, TRAIN doctoral students Rydell Walthall and Steven Shi travelled to the ASME/IEEE/ASCE Joint Rail Conference in Columbia, SC. Rydell presented on his work to model and optimize partial railway electrification using overhead catenary and batteries. Steven presented on his work to model the sensitivity of diesel fuel savings from battery electric locomotive deployment.
In June, Prof. Dick travelled to Atlanta to chair sessions at the ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development. He also made two presentations, one on ongoing research for Parallel Systems on self-propelled autonomous railcars for transporting shipping containers, and a second presentation on ongoing work with Michigan Technological University to development a framework for LCA of track maintenance material and activity emissions.
Finally, in August, Prof. Dick travelled to Livonia, MI (outside Detroit) to present at the Michigan Rail Conference. His talk addressed the challenges of creating capacity for passenger operations on freight rail corridors.
