TRAIN grad students presented two posters at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting held in Washington DC during early January 2025. Steven presented on his work to examine the feasibility of Gravity Battery-Electric Trains on mine-to-port railways while Wang presented his work on estimating aerodynamic drag coefficients for platoons of Self-Propelled Autonomous Railcars (SPARCs) transporting intermodal containers.
In addition, TRAIN graduate Jiaxi Zhao and Prof. Dick were honored to receive the Outstanding Paper Award from the TRB Hazmat Transportation Committee for the paper entitled “Quantifying the Influence of Tank Car Position and Train Configuration on the Risk of Rail Transport of Class 3 Flammable Liquids” published in the Transportation Research Record journal!
