16th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design & Operation
2 - 4 July, 2018
Lisbon, Portugal
Introduction
The 16th International Conference on Railway Engineering Design and Operation (COMPRAIL 2018), is the latest in a series of very successful meetings which started in Frankfurt in 1987 and continued in Rome (1990); Washington (1992); Madrid (1994); Berlin (1996); Lisbon (1998); Bologna (2000); Lemnos (2002); Dresden (2004); Prague (2006); Toledo (2008); Beijing (2010); the New Forest, home of the Wessex Institute (2012) ; Rome in 2014 and Madrid (2016).
The meeting is organised by the Wessex Institute and sponsored by WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, the International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning and the International Journal of Transport Development and Integration.
The Conference aims to update the use of advanced systems, promoting their general awareness throughout the management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other emerging passenger, freight and transit systems. It emphasises the use of computer systems in advanced railway engineering.
The meeting attracts a variety of specialists interested in the development of railways, including managers, consultants, railway engineers, designers of advanced train control systems and computer specialists. It provides a forum for researchers, academics and practitioners involved in railway engineering to present and discuss the latest developments.
Since 1993 all published papers are permanently archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary (www.witpress.com/elibrary), where they are freely available to the international community.
Conference Topics
The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at COMPRAIL 2018. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the conference are also welcome.
- Advanced train control
- Operations quality
- Risk management
- Planning and policy
- Monitoring and maintenance
- Energy supply and consumption
- Train control systems
- Timetable planning
- Rescheduling
- Safety and security
- Railway vehicle dynamics
- Driverless and automatic train operation
- Operational planning
- Systems integration
- High speed technology
- Interoperability
- Computer simulations
- Multi-modal integration
- Maglev and advanced technologies
- Communications and signalling systems
- Complex systems
- Freight transport
- Rail freight transport and logistics
- Real time economics
- Fares and prices
- Monorails
- Regional and single track lines
- Track design and maintenance
- Intelligent railway systems
- Big data in railway
- Railways and insurance
Find out more on the conference webpage.
