We would like to invite you to the Mid-Term Conference of the Shift2Rail JU Funded IP5 Project OptiYard to be held at UIC in Paris on 5 October 2018.
Join us! It will be a fantastic opportunity to look at future scenarios for railways in line with Shift2Rail goals and, of course, to boost networking.
Registration is mandatory and free of charge but only a limited number of participants can be welcomed on a first-come-first-served basis.
Project overview
The Shift2Rail-JU Funded IP5 Project OptiYard will provide decision support tools to Yard Managers that consider the surrounding network, in a view to ensure smooth marshalling that is essential for the global efficiency of the transport chain.
OptiYard uses a three-pronged approach to develop an optimised decision support system for yard dispatchers by:
- Providing enhanced, automated yard management by analysing existing process and operations and developing appropriate optimisation algorithms to improve operations for both single wagon load and block train traffic;
- Improving information and communications processes between the Yard Management System, the RUs and Network (IM) by analysing data feeds and modelling an enhanced communications environment;
- Enhancing real-time interaction with the surrounding network, giving the yard dispatcher better visibility of pending perturbations and major disruptions to the yard production schedule.
Programme
5 October 2018 – Welcome to Paris
Venue: UIC, 16 rue Jean Rey, Paris, France
How to get to UIC
09:30 Registration and welcome
10:00-10:30 Opening and Introduction, Mr. Giancarlo De Marco Telese, Project coordinator, UIC and Mr. Lucas Garvias, Shift2Rail JU
Introduction to the project, its contextualisation in S2R (IP5 and TDs involved)
10:30-11:00 WP2, Ms. Birgit Jaekel, Technische Universität Dresden
Data Analytics addressing current data handling capabilities as well as identifying new data models needed for the yard management system optimisation
11:00-11:30 WP3, Ms. Ronghui Liu, University of Leeds
Development of Specifications that apply to the new optimisation modules
11:30-12:00 WP4, Mr. Riccardo Licciardello, DICEA
Process Optimisation
12:00-12:30 WP5, Mr. Joaquin Rodriguez, IFSTTAR
Dual Modelling of the yard and network environments
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00 Round table, wrap-up and conclusions
Real-life utilisation of OptiYard decision support tool
16:00 Meeting close
Registration
If you wish to register for the OptiYard mid-term conference at UIC in Paris, please do so on the registration form below:
Contact
For more information about the conference, please contact Christine Hassoun (UIC) at hassoun at uic.org