• Qld Chapter RTSA Event (Webinar) – Historic Splitters Creek Rail Bridge

    Join Engineers Australia Bundaberg Regional Group and RTSA for a presentation on Historic Splitters Creek Rail Bridge. Completed in 1880, the bridge remains largely unchanged. The bridge is now being considered to form part of a Rail trail between Bundaberg and Gin Gin.  Suzanne Brown will provide a historical overview of the bridge. Guest Speaker:  […]

  • RTSA NSW Chapter Event (Webinar) – New York City Subway Modernisation

    The New York City Subway, operated by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), is the ninth-busiest rapid transit system in the world and moves over 5.5 million people through the city daily. This presentation will look at the MTA’s unprecedented investment to modernise the outdated signalling system and move towards Communications Based Train Control (CBTC), along […]

  • RTSA NZ Chapter Event (Webinar): Innovating in response to the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: Modular rockfall protection wall development

    The landslides caused by the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake presented many challenges for the NCTIR geotech design team working on mitigating the rockfall hazards that affected the narrow coastal rail and road corridor. In a few locations, site conditions meant that there was not enough space to use the traditional rockfall protection solutions. A new type […]

  • Qld Chapter RTSA Event (Webinar) – Supercomputing in Train and Track Analyses

    Discover the basics of the implementation of supercomputing in the analysis of railway trains and tracks, including capabilities, challenges and lessons learned in this case study-driven presentation. Overview Computer simulations have been well accepted in railway engineering and research. In recent years, research teams have seen an increasing demand for advanced simulation models and simulation […]

  • RTSA Webinar Series on Management of Railway Operations – Part 1

    This webinar will look at the management of the Australian Railway Industry and the elements involved in the management of railways. This includes: Safety legislation and implementation Economic regulation of Australian railways Asset management for railways Emergency response and accident prevention Elements of engineering in railways. The speaker will provide working examples and case studies […]

  • Vic Event (Webinar) – A Digital Approach to Developing a Heavy Rail Network – A Systems Engineering Victorian Case Study

    The Victorian heavy rail network is being significantly updated, with $57 billion of transport capability improvement projects already underway and more investment to come. Running parallel projects which involve multiple government agencies and private operators requires a high level of communication to ensure everyone has the same understanding of the changing network configurations. This risk […]

  • RTSA NZ Chapter Event (Webinar): Auckland EMU CAF Signalling ETCS Onboard equipment introduction, assurance and commissioning process

    The introduction of electric trains in Auckland in 2014 has undoubtedly been a huge success with annual ridership numbers increasing by over 8 million in that time. As a result, capacity has started to become an issue, so in 2017 Auckland Transport placed an order with Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) for an additional […]

  • RTSA NZ Chapter Event (Webinar): Driver Advice System (DAS) and Sustainability

    Join the Railway Technical Society of Australasia and Soren Low, KiwiRail’s Technology & Customer Innovation Leader, to discuss 'DAS and Sustainability' in this 1 hour webinar. Over the last seven years, KiwiRail have been on a journey to embed a Driver Advice System (DAS) into the business as part of an overall fuel reduction strategy. […]

  • EA Event (Webinar) – Costa Rica’s San Jose Metro Build and Tunnelling Project

    Mobility is an important issue for all cities, big or small, since traffic and congestion are common urban problems everywhere. San José, the capital city of Costa Rica, is not an exception. Different efforts have been made so far to address the growing mobility problem of the city, where people can spend more than 90 […]

  • Australasian Rail Industry Awards – Virtual Award Presentations

    The Australasian Rail Industry Awards are just around the corner, coming to you live and online. Save the date for an unmissable evening celebrating excellence and innovation from across the rail industry. We will be releasing more information on how to make the most of this special event soon, so mark the date in your […]

  • SA and Vic Chapters RTSA Event (Webinar) – Flinders St Viaduct

    Learn more about the works undertaken to understand the Flinders Street Viaduct's asset condition and expected remaining life though various assessment methods. Speaker: Zac Rudd Zac has over 12 years of project and business management experience in a diverse range of industries and locations from oil and gas in the USA to civil construction in […]

  • Engineering Heritage Sydney Event (Webinar) – Timber Laminated Arch and Truss Bridges of the NSW Railways

    This webinar will present a historical survey of the 54 more sophisticated timber bridges planned or built on the NSW Railways, looking at the evolving designs and the engineers who guided their introduction. Speaker: William Phippen, OAM, BSc, BE, FIEAust, Deputy Chair Engineering Heritage Sydney A graduate in civil engineering, Bill spent the latter part […]

  • SESA Australian Systems Engineering Workshop (ASEW) 2020

    ASEW has been programmed across morning, mid-day and evening sessions to minimise work impacts with the focus of the three different sessions each ASEW day: Morning – systems round-tables and discussion forums focused on sharing systems initiatives and concepts; Mid-Day – workshops focused on key SESA/INCOSE initiatives towards a better world through systems approaches; Evening […]

  • IEEE Event (Webinar) – COMMUNICATION-BASED TRAIN CONTROL (CBTC) 101 – Standards, Concepts & Architecture

    The presentation will cover the following introductory topics: Define IEEE's concept of CBTC based on the IEEE 1474.1 standard. Difference between moving block and fixed block signalling philosophy Describe the 3 building blocks that make up a CBTC system (ATO, ATP and ATS) and how they interact with each other Illustrate the different CBTC architectures […]