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SUMMARY:SA Chapter Event - Annual RTSA/IRSE/PWI/RTAA Local Joint Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Please consider attending the annual SA joint event with IRSE\,  PWI and RTAA at Fedoras at the Hilton Mile End. There will be two interesting lectures as follows: \n6:00pm Meeting Opening – Chairman\, George Erdos FIRSE \n6:05pm Advanced Train Management System (ATMS) Whyalla Line Commissioning\nPeter Rogers – ARTC;  Mike van de Worp – Lockheed Martin \n6:45pm Mobility – Asset Management Innovation at ARTC\nVincent Lammerse – ARTC; Daniel Cappello – ARTC \n7:30pm Meeting Conclusion \n7:40pm Cocktail Meal & Refreshments \n8:45pm Close \n  \nClick below for the flyer and to register: \nIRSE_RTSA_PWI_Local Meeting Flyer_2020_September 03 \n  \nNOTE: \nDue to COVID-19 restrictions\, ticket must be presented at the door – No ticket\, No entry.  Register using this Eventbrite link.  Registration will be strictly limited to 50 guests to maintain COVID-19 Social Distancing.  Registration will be on a “First in Basis” via Eventbrite.
URL:https://www.rtsa.com.au/events/sa-event-annual-rtsa-irse-pwi-rtaa-local-joint-meeting/
LOCATION:Fedoras\, Mile End Hilton Hotel\, South Rd\, Mile End\, 264 South Road\, Hilton\, South Australia\, 5033\, Australia
CATEGORIES:South Australia Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200910T120000
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SUMMARY:Qld Chapter RTSA Event (Webinar) - Historic Splitters Creek Rail Bridge
DESCRIPTION:Join Engineers Australia Bundaberg Regional Group and RTSA for a presentation on Historic Splitters Creek Rail Bridge. \nCompleted 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. \nGuest Speaker:  Suzanne Brown Road Corridor Manager\, Bundaberg Regional Council \nSuzanne has over 25 years’ experience in civil engineering in the area of roads and bridges.  Since June 2019 she has been working for the Bundaberg Regional Council as the Road Corridor Manager. In this position\, she is involved in every aspect of the local road network operation\, maintenance and preservation. Previously\, Suzanne had a long-term career in the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads. From 2016 to 2019\, Suzanne was a member of the Bridges Technical Committee of the World Road Association\, investigating the rehabilitation of bridge structures \n  \nClick on the link below to register:
URL:https://www.rtsa.com.au/events/qld-chapter-rtsa-event-webinar-historic-splitters-creek-rail-bridge/
LOCATION:Queensland
CATEGORIES:Queensland Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Railway Technical Society of Australasia":MAILTO:memberservices@engineersaustralia.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200915T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200915T140000
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SUMMARY:RTSA NSW Chapter Event (Webinar) - New York City Subway Modernisation
DESCRIPTION: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 with some of the unique challenges that the New York City Subway faces (aging infrastructure\, 24-hour service\, politics)\, as well as some of the innovative solutions that NYCT is investigating to help overcome these challenges. \nGuest Speaker: Aaron Fraser\, Principal Project Manager\, Rail Systems\, WSP \nAaron works as a Principal Project Manager\, Rail Systems at WSP in Brisbane\, Australia. He has over 15 years’ experience in signalling\, systems\, project management\, and business development. He has been involved through the complete engineering lifecycle from feasibility\, tender to execution\, as a supplier\, consultant and on secondment as a client. Aaron has global rail experience and has worked on projects throughout Australia\, New Zealand\, Italy and more recently the USA. Aaron has an advanced understanding of train control systems including ETCS\, CBTC\, and PTC. He has recently returned to Australia after spending 3.5 years living in New York City where he worked on some of the busiest and largest rail systems in the world. \nClick on the link below to register
URL:https://www.rtsa.com.au/events/rtsa-nsw-chapter-event-webinar-new-york-city-subway-modernisation/
LOCATION:Queensland
CATEGORIES:New South Wales and ACT Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Railway Technical Society of Australasia":MAILTO:memberservices@engineersaustralia.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20200922T123000
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SUMMARY:RTSA NZ Chapter Event (Webinar): Innovating in response to the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: Modular rockfall protection wall development
DESCRIPTION: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. \nA new type of rockfall protection wall was designed to be used within these narrow spaces. This modular rockfall protection wall uses readily available components\, including a modified version of the concrete sea wall blocks used on the NCTIR project together with an upslope\, energy-absorbing layer of sand and rock-filled gabion baskets. \nTo satisfy engineering design requirements\, a series of impact tests were carried out at a vehicle crash-test facility to demonstrate the capacity and performance of the wall. It performed successfully\, and two walls have since been constructed to provide rockfall protection for the road and rail north of Kaikōura. \nSpeaker: Rori Green \nRori Green is a Geological Engineer with 25 years’ experience in rock mechanics and slope stability. Since 2011 she has worked primarily on rockfall hazards in response to the 2011 Christchurch and 2016 Kaikōura earthquakes. She is the lead author for the MBIE guidance document “Rockfall: Design considerations for passive protection structures”. Rori is an independent consultant. \nClick on the link below to register (link will be shared once you have registered):
URL:https://www.rtsa.com.au/events/rtsa-nz-chapter-event-webinar-innovating-in-response-to-the-2016-kaikoura-earthquake-modular-rockfall-protection-wall-development/
LOCATION:Queensland
CATEGORIES:New Zealand Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200924T110000
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SUMMARY:Qld Chapter RTSA Event (Webinar) - Supercomputing in Train and Track Analyses
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOverview\nComputer 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 sets that require a huge number of simulation cases. Both aspects require innovative computing strategies and significant computing powers\, posing challenges to conventional simulation methods using Personal Computers (PCs). \nThis presentation introduces the basics of supercomputing and a review of supercomputing in railway train and track analysis. Several supercomputing cases\, successfully conducted by research teams\, will be presented to show the powerful capability and versatility of supercomputing in railway analyses. These cases involve parallel co-simulations\, optimisations\, model advancements and batch simulations for rolling stock design\, train dynamics\, track dynamics\, train-track interactions and standards development. \nKey takeaways for attendees: \n\nSupercomputing uses many computer cores to process many tasks concurrently to save computing time\nSupercomputing can be enabled by many techniques such as MPI and OpenMP on supercomputers or clusters\nSupercomputing improves conventional railway analyses such as train-track interaction simulations\nSupercomputing unlocks the next level of railway analyses such as three-dimensional full train simulations\n\nSpeaker: Dr Qing Wu | Research Fellow – Centre for Railway Engineering\, Central Queensland University (CQU) Rockhampton \nDr Qing Wu’s research expertise and interests include track dynamics\, train dynamics\, supercomputing and multi-objective optimisations. Dr Wu has authored more than 100 academic publications including more than 60 journal articles and has led and conducted several railway research and consultancy projects ranging from track dynamics to vehicle and train dynamics. His education background includes a Bachelor of Engineering in 2010 about heavy haul wagon brake designs and a Master of Engineering in 2012 about heavy haul locomotive derailments and a PhD in 2016 about heavy haul train dynamics and draft gear designs. Before joining CQU in 2013\, Dr Wu worked for one year in State Key Laboratory of Traction Power in China. He has been studying and researching in the railway industry for 14 years\, since 2006. \nClick on the link below to register:
URL:https://www.rtsa.com.au/events/qld-chapter-rtsa-event-webinar-supercomputing-in-train-and-track-analyses/
LOCATION:Queensland
CATEGORIES:Queensland Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200928T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200928T180000
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SUMMARY:RTSA Webinar Series on Management of Railway Operations - Part 1
DESCRIPTION:This webinar will look at the management of the Australian Railway Industry and the elements involved in the management of railways. \nThis includes: \n\nSafety legislation and implementation\nEconomic regulation of Australian railways\nAsset management for railways\nEmergency response and accident prevention\nElements of engineering in railways.\n\nThe speaker will provide working examples and case studies so that listeners can relate to their own railway circumstances and also provide references that the listener can follow up in their own reading time. \nSpeaker: Martin Baggot \nMartin Baggot is one of Australia’s most experienced rail engineers and his 42 years’ experience spans safety investigation & regulation\, track infrastructure\, railway operations\, commercial feasibility and infrastructure due diligence. From 2008 to 2010\, Martin was the National Executive Chair of the RTSA.  He has successfully managed train operations\, introduced new train services\, electrification and enhanced network configurations. Martin is currently consulting in technical assistance to emerging nations on behalf of the World Bank and as part of World Bank and Asian Development Bank initiatives. These civil engineering and management duties contain a multi-disciplinary history looking at all aspects of rail networks. \nClick on the link below to register:
URL:https://www.rtsa.com.au/events/rtsa-webinar-series-on-management-of-railway-operations-part-1/
LOCATION:Queensland
CATEGORIES:New South Wales and ACT Events,New Zealand Events,Queensland Events,South Australia Events,Victoria and Tasmania Events,Western Australia Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Railway Technical Society of Australasia":MAILTO:memberservices@engineersaustralia.org.au
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