NOTE: Rescheduled to Nov. 29. Light rail projects are typically blends of rail, highway, civil engineering and urban regeneration work, conducted in a complex urban environment with multiple stakeholders. Although usually very successful once in operation, light rail projects have gained a reputation for cost and programme overruns as well as intense media scrutiny. Speaker: […]
China has embarked on an impressive programme of railway development in recent decades, including building 25000 km of high speed rail lines in the past 10 years to create the world’s largest high speed network. While early Chinese high speed lines utilised technology transfer programmes with overseas suppliers, increasingly Chinese designed systems and equipment are […]
Day 1 RTSA Streams: Rail Infrastructure Rolling Stock & Maintenance. See link below for more information
Day 2 RTSA Streams: Regional Rail See link below for more information
Engineers Australia AGM 2019 The 2019 Annual General Meeting of The Institution of Engineers Australia (Engineers Australia) will be held at our Brisbane Division office on 5 December 2015 at 5.00pm AEST. (note this is Brisbane time; please take into account daylight savings adjustments, if applicable to your location) The meeting will also be streamed […]
RTSA NZ Chapter's first ever simultaneous end of year function in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch! It’s been a big year for RTSA New Zealand so please join us to celebrate at our first ever concurrent End of Year functions in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch on Thursday 5th December 2019. Our Guest Speaker is David Gordon, […]
Nomination for the following 6 RTSA awards are open until Dec. 6: Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award Phd Thesis Award Masters Thesis Award Biennial Project Award Biennial Individual Award Railway Professional of the Year Award Please visit our awards page for more details.
Join the Railway Technical Society of Australasia as they celebrate with their annual Queensland rail industry learned society end of year networking event and lecture. Hear from Scott Riedel as he discusses his first 100 days and into the future. Members of the following kindred bodies will also recieve complimentary registration: Rail Track Association of […]
The American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association (AREMA) invites members of RTSA to submit Paper Abstracts on subjects of interest to the railway engineering community to be considered for publication and/or presentation at the AREMA Annual Technical Conference. Papers on significant railway infrastructure projects and on heavy haul technology are encouraged. Dallas, Texas USA September […]
The signalling system on the railway is often the restrictive factor in determining the frequency of trains that can safely run on the rail network. Recent advances in technology have allowed for the implementation of traditional rail signalling principles in a smarter way, allowing for signals themselves to be removed and the equivalent information instead […]
As part of Round three of the Bridges Renewal Program, the Meyer Road bridge located in Lonsdale in South Australia has been selected for replacement and is set to be demolished and replaced with a new bridge. This bridge is over a live, electrified and operational railway, this particular project has unique challenges which must […]
The current NSW state government is committed to the delivery of fast and high-speed railways in the state, with the short to medium-term focus on upgrading and optimising existing routes with target train speed of 200 km/hour, and the medium to long-term focus on building new routes with train speed over 250 km/hour. While it […]
Come and join us to see firsthand the latest rail network operations control facility in Sydney! The NSW Government has invested in a state-of-the-art Rail Operations Centre (ROC) which will minimise delays and ensure when incidents do occur on the Sydney Trains rail network, customers receive better and faster information. The Sydney Trains ROC will […]
Come and join us to see firsthand the latest rail network operations control facility in Sydney! The NSW Government has invested in a state-of-the-art Rail Operations Centre (ROC) which will minimise delays and ensure when incidents do occur on the Sydney Trains rail network, customers receive better and faster information. The Sydney Trains ROC will […]
The RTSA’s biennial Conference on Railway Excellence (CORE) has firmly established itself in recent years as the premier technical event in the Australasian rail conference market, with a reputation for high quality papers covering a wide range of rail engineering, operations, planning and management topics. The RTSA is proud of CORE’s reputation for high quality […]
