Feb 20 2025

Leveraging Emerging Railway Track Health Data for Railway and Rail Transit Track Condition Assessment

UTC Spring 2025 Seminar Series

February 20, 2025

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Online event to present rail track safety and condition.

Location

Online Webinar

Cost

No cost

Calendar

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Online event to present rail track safety and condition.

In Spring of 2025, the UTC online Seminar Series will address a broad scope of topics centered on rail transportation.

The debut presentation addresses a practice to better address how to keep railroad tracks that serve freight, passenger and transit in operational condition.

To ensure safe and efficient operations, railroads and rail transit agencies perform frequent track inspections, some of which generate substantial amounts of track health data using automated platforms.  This seminar will cover the use of such datasets and how data science and machine learning can be leveraged to quantify track health, track strength, and its resistance to axial rail buckling – with the objective of increasing safety and state of good repair.

 

Contact

Edward Bury
ebury@uic.edu

Date posted

Feb 6, 2025

Date updated

Feb 6, 2025

Speakers

J. Riley Edwards, Ph.D., P.E. | Assistant Professor in the Rail Transportation and Engineering Center (RailTEC) | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Edwards obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Vanderbilt University, and his MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are railway infrastructure track system and component design and performance and failure modes associated with infrastructure components. Dr. Edwards has published over 100 conference proceedings and over 70 journal articles related to the design, analysis, performance, and failure modes of railway infrastructure and its components. Riley also serves as the Deputy Associate Director for the National University Rail Center of Excellence, a US DOT transportation center funded by the Federal Railroad Administration.
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