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RailNewcastle - Intensive Railway Programme 

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NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY, June 25 th - July 13 th, 2012 

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Technische Universität Braunschweig 

Dr. Jörn Pachl is a full professor and head of the Institute of Railway Systems Engineering and Traffic Safety at the 

TU Braunschweig. Before joining the university, Dr. Pachl was an infrastructure manager in the Hamburg region of 

German Railways. While his areas of teaching cover railway infrastructure, railway operation, and railway signalling, 

research concentrates on the interface between operation and signaling. Dr. Pachl is author and co-author of several 

textbooks, which were published in Germany and in the USA and have become standard tutorials for academic 

railway programs at many universities worldwide. 

University of Newcastle upon Tyne 

Dr. Marin Marinov is a Research Associate within the Rail Freight and Logistics Group of NewRail. His Ph.D. 

research was on Analysis and Evaluation of Formation Yard Performances. He has worked as a teaching assistant 

and researcher in the Transportation Systems branch of the MIT/Portugal programme, where he lectured on Transportation 

Planning and Performance Assessment, Freight Transport and Logistics Processes as well as Railway 

Engineering. His interests involve: Rail Freight; Logistics; Rail Organization and Management; Rail Performances; 

Rail Yards and Terminals; Urban Freight; Safety and Security in Rail Systems; Rail Marketing; as well as Rail Education 

and Training. 

Thomas Zunder is the Rail Freight & Logistics Group Manager. He has over 22 years experience in supply chain 

management, primarily logistics, procurement and distribution combined with academic research in the field of 

freight logistics. Current Work: He is co-ordinator of the SPECTRUM project. Logistics benchmarking and standards; 

research into satellite navigation and vehicle wayfinding; ongoing research into urban freight and city logistics; 

research into the optimisation of intermodal freight using optimised systems; systems architectures and intermodal 

freight; eLogistics field research and gap analysis; rail freight logistics and operations on a continental cross 

border scale. 

Sapienza Università di Roma – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Edile e Ambientale (DICEA) 

Stefano Ricci, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Civil Engineer, Teaching Transportation Economy and Technics, Railway 

Transportation and Maritime Transportation. Active in European research for European Commission DG TREN, 

Research and INFSO and in many transport sectors in Italy. Areas of specialization for both research and practical 

applications: transport planning, railway operation and safety, environmental assessment of transport systems, 

public transport operation, maritime transport. Recent EU projects: CLEANER-DRIVE, ECORailS, ELEDRIVE, 

EURNEX, HEROE, SELCAT, TILEMATT, UTOPIA. 

Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti - Facultatea Transporturi, Telecomenzi si Electronica in Transporturi 

Florin Nemtanu: He is PhD and senior lecturer at Transport Faculty, Telematics & Electronics for Transport and he 

is involved in ITS from more than 10 years. He is teaching Transport Systems, IT for transports, ITS Architecture 

and is involved in organization of ITS Master Programme. He is General Secretary of ITS Romania, Senior Member 

of IEEE (ITS and Vehicular technologies societies), Deputy chairman of European ICT Expert Group, Vice-president 

of PMI Romanian Chapter and member of faculty's consilium. 

Radu Timnea: He is PhD and senior lecturer at Transport Faculty, Telematics & Electronics for Transport and he is 

involved in ITS from more than 15 years. He is teaching ITS systems for Railway, Electronics and Electronic Devices. 

He is project manager for European and national educational and research projects. 

Universiteit Gent – Afdeling Mobiliteit en Ruimtelijke Planning (AMRP) 

Giuseppe Pace, MSc in Civil engineering. He is researcher at the Italian National Research Council since 1994, 

and visiting researcher at the AMRP since 2008. His main field of research are sustainable transport, regional and 

urban planning, and regional economy. Currently, he’s involved in a research on “Learning Ports for Developing 

Sustainable Cities”, and in other projects on sustainable mobility and applications of renewable energy in the transports. 

As National Seconded Expert, he was responsible at the European Commission for the evaluation and 

monitoring of the TEN-T programme and for questions of management of large infrastructure projects (2003-2007). 

Yıldız Technical University 

İsmail Şahin: Dr. Şahin received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Yıldız Technical University 

(YTU) in 1985. He started his academic carrier as a research assistant in the Transportation Division of the Department 

of Civil Engineering of YTU, where he received his master’s and Ph.D. degrees. Dr. Sahin currently is the 

head of Transportation Division and lectures various railway engineering courses particularly in planning, design 

and operations fields. His research interests fall into the subject matters in planning and operations of ground 

transportations systems. 

Gökçe Aydın: Mr. Aydın graduated from the Department of Environmental Engineering of Middle East Technical 

University in 2002. He completed his master’s degree in Transportation Programme at the Yıldız Technical University, 

where he is currently working as a research assistant. Mr. Aydın is presently enrolled in the Transportation 

doctoral degree programme at YTU, in which he will focus on train timetabling and re-scheduling problems. 

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RailNewcastle 

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RAIL AND 

LOGISTICS

RailNewcastle is an Erasmus Intensive Programme whose main objective is to improve the quality 

of railway and logistics higher education and increase the volume of the students and teaching staff 

mobility by bringing together Students and Professors from ten European Higher Education Institutions 

(HEIs) from nine different countries into one class room to discuss and produce a valuable 

outcome based on knowledge sharing, innovative thinking and creativity joined in a plausible way to 

stimulate a vital multilateral collaboration in the railway and logistics education and training. 

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Teaching Team 

Athens University of Economics and Business 

Professor Konstantinos G. Zografos is the Director of AUEB-RC/TRANSLOG Laboratory and an expert in the 

area of Application of Operations Research and Information Systems in Transportation Systems and Logistics 

Management. He has published more than 100 papers and has been involved as a Principal Investigator in more 

than 60 R&D projects funded by the European Commission and the Greek Government. Professor Zografos has 

been awarded the Edelman Laureate Honorary Medal of INFORMS in 2008 for significant contributions to Operations 

Research and the 2005 President's Medal Award of the British Operational Research Society. 

Dr. Michael A. Madas is a Senior Researcher in AUEB-RC/TRANSLOG. He holds a B.S. in Operational Research, 

a M.Sc. in Decision Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Management of Air Transport Systems from AUEB. He has substantial 

expertise in transport modelling and performance assessment, air transport and airport operations, transport policy, 

as well as development and validation of Decision Support Systems. He has participated in a number of projects 

funded by the European Commission and the Greek Government. 

Higher School of Transport - Sofia 

Dr. Nikolay Georgiev is an Associate Professor at the Higher School of Transport - Sofia. His Ph.D. research was 

on Analysis and Evaluation of Railway Traffic Reliability and Safety. Before joining the university, Dr. Georgiev 

worked as traffic manager and dispatcher for the Bulgarian State Railways. His teaching and research interests 

involve: Railway Operational Reliability and Safety, Health and Safety, Accidents Modelling and Investigation, 

Reliability Engineering, Man-machine Systems Reliability. As author or co-author he has published more than 70 

scientific papers. Dr. Georgiev is an independent expert for the European Railway Agency. 

Dr. Anna Dzhaleva-Chonkova has a considerable experience in the field of history and current problems of railway 

research and staff training. She is Senior Lecture in Economic History and European Economic Integration and has 

over 30 papers on history of railways and international relations on railway connections in Europe. She has participated 

in a number of projects under FP6, FP7, Erasmus and other programmes. She is Institutional Erasmus Coordinator. 

Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon 

Dr. Vasco Reis has a degree in Civil Engineering, 2001, Master in Road Infrastructure, 2005, and Ph.D. in Transportation, 

2010. He is a researcher at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, since 

2010. He is member of the Freight and Logistics Committee of the Association for European Transport and AP045 - 

Intermodal Transfer Facilities Committee of the Transportation Research Board (TRB); and friend of the Intermodal 

Freight Committee of the TRB. He has considerable experience in participation and coordination of research and 

consultancy projects, including, funded by the European Commission: HERMES, STRAIGHTSOL, EURNEX, 

RAILENERGY, EDUCAIR, SKILLRAIL or TUNRAIL; funded by the PNSF: AIRDEV, LOGURB or AIRNETS, and 

funded by third parties: Bus Rapid Transit Centre of Excellence (funded by the Volvo Foundation) or Urban Transport 

Assessment in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (funded by the Asian Development Bank). He is author of several 

papers in scientific journals and conferences. He is also an invited lecturer at the IST and the University Alas Peruanas 

(Peru). He has also supervised several master and doctoral thesis. 

Paulo F. Teixeira is Professor and Researcher in Railways at IST since 2005 and was until 2008 the Head of the 

Railway Division of the Center for Innovation in Transport (CENIT) of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). 

He is author of more than seventy papers in railway engineering and participated in numerous studies and research 

projects in the area of high-speed railway infrastructure design, life cycle cost modelling and infrastructure pricing, 

both for national entities (leader of several projects for the Portuguese and Spanish Railway Administration and for 

the Portuguese and Spanish Ministries of Science) for Railway International Organizations (leader of UIC studies on 

railway infrastructure pricing) and for the European Commission (leader of the RAILCALC project, responsible for 

INNOTRACK WP6.2, member of EURNEX pole 8 “Infrastructure”). He is since 2011 Member of the Railway Expert 

Council named by the Spanish Ministry of Public Works (Railway Experts Council of the Spanish Railway Foundation). 

Technische Universität Dortmund 

Sascha Wohlgemuth is working at the Institute of Transport Logistics at the Technische Universität Dortmund 

since 2006 and is leading the research group logistics and operations research. He received a master degree in 

logistics from the Georgia Institute of Technology as well as a diploma degree in industrial engineering and a Ph.D. 

from the TU Dortmund. His teaching and research interests have a focus on logistic problems like optimizing transportation 

networks and hubs as well as vehicle routing, which are solved using either discrete and combinatorial 

optimization or efficient metaheuristics. 

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Ghent University offers high-quality, research-based education in a wide range of academic 

disciplines, spread over 11 faculties. It attracts 30,000 students, with a foreign 

student population of 1,100 EU citizens and some 1,000 students from non-EU countries. 

It appoints about 4900 scientific staff members. The university provides training opportunities 

to young researchers through its five Doctoral Schools and awards around 400 Ph.D. 

degrees per year, of which over 20% go to international young researchers. The Civil 

Engineering Department (EA15) consists out of 6 research units where one of them is the Research Unit Mobility 

and Spatial Planning (AMRP). Sustainable mobility is one the main fields of AMRP’s research activity. Publications 

in national and international scientific magazines, regular courses, Master thesis, PhDs, 

lectures, seminars, congresses have been dedicated to it. AMRP provides education on the 

master level focussing on: planning theory, regional design, mobility and spatial infrastructure 

design, spatial management and spatial governance. 

Universiteit Gent – Afdeling Mobiliteit en Ruimtelijke Planning (AMRP) 

University Principal Point of Contact: 

Vrijdagmarkt 10/301, B-9000 Gent 

Phone: (+32 9) 3313251 - 3313255 

Fax: (+32 9) 3313269 

Email: giuseppe.pace@ugent.be 

Web page: www.planning.ugent.be 

Local programme coordinator: 

Georges Allaert,. Prof., AMRP Director, Universiteit Gent, Gent, 

Belgium 

Phone: (+32 9) 3313250-3313251 

Email: georges.allaert@ugent.be 

Yıldız Technical University (YTU), founded in 1911, is one of the leading higher state education 

institutions in Turkey with over 20.000 students enrolled in a vocational school, ten 

faculties, and two post graduate institutes situated in three campuses. Research and education 

in various disciplines of natural and social sciences, engineering, architecture and, art 

and design are conducted. Undergraduate educations are provided throughout the year in 

fall, spring and summer terms in daytime programmes, and evening programmes in some 

departments. With a bilateral agreement between YTU and any other foreign 

institute of higher education, student exchange for a maximum of two semesters is possible 

between these two institutions subject to the approval of authorized committees. 


Yıldız Campus 34349 Beşiktaş / İstanbul, 

Turkey 

Phone: +90 (212) 383 32 08 (International 

Office) 

Fax: +90 (212) 227 69 90 

Web page: www.yildiz.edu.tr 

Email: intoffice@yildiz.edu.tr 

Yıldız Technical University 


İsmail Şahin, Assoc. Prof., PhD: Yıldız Technical University, 

Davutpasa Campus, Department of Civil Engineering, Transportation 

Division, İstanbul, Turkey 

Phone: +90 (212) 383 51 80 

Personal URL: www.yildiz.edu.tr/~sahin/ 

Email: sahin@yildiz.edu.tr 

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THE AIM OF THE PROGRAMME 

The specific objectives of the three week intensive programme are: 

♦To encourage efficient and multinational teaching, training, learning and research 

exchange in the field of railway and logistics which will contribute to a more consistent 

education in European universities; 

♦To enable lecturers, students and researchers to work more closely on railway and 

logistics problems within multinational groups which will help to gain new perspectives on 

the topics discussed; 

♦To allow lecturers and trainees to exchange views on teaching, training and learning 

contents and to test teaching approaches in an international classroom environment; 

♦To foster the mobility of students, researchers, and faculty; 

♦To develop a variety of educational and research materials which could be used in 

the production of the programme and in future research in the area of railway and logistics; 

♦To collect teaching materials on various aspects of rail and logistics systems to be 

used not only for lecturing but also to further knowledge and experience sharing with external 

institutions wishing to collaborate with the programme’s teaching staff; 

♦To encourage a multi-disciplinary understanding of a complex system involving engineering, 

managerial, economic issues, etc; 

♦To collect a set of articles to promote the intensive programme and similar activities; 

♦To examine future possibilities for multinational master’s and PhD study and research 

programmes. 

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE 

The intensive programme RailNewcastle will use an innovative multidisciplinary blended 

learning approach that combines a number of learning and training methods, such as: 

lectures, project-based learning, web conferences, thematic seminars and technical visits. 

The methodological approach employed by RailNewcastle will be a combination of dynamic 

teaching schemes by lectures and a strict fixed schedule of activities for students 

and teaching team. 

During the first week within each thematic day five lectures on specific topics will be 

delivered by lecturers from the participating universities. Each lecture will last for 45 minutes 

plus 15 minutes for questions. Each thematic day terminates with a 30 minute discussion 

on the main topics lectured on during the day followed by time for mentoring. Facilitators 

are allocated to each discussion. At the end of each discussion short summary reports 

will be produced to record the obtained results and progress achieved. 

During the second week Professors and Students will work in groups on research projects 

on specific topics. 

At the end of the intensive programme each group (formed within the second week) will 

produce a short research report and prepare a PowerPoint presentation. The PowerPoint 

presentation will be delivered during a thematic seminar in the 3rd week of the programme 

in front of the Programme Progress Committee (PPC). 

Two workshops will be organized to provide an overview and discuss historical facts 

to help explain the milestones in evolution of railway freight and passenger systems in 

Europe and other continents. 

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Period Topic of the lecture Lecturer 

9:00 - 9:15 Introduction of Participants 

9:15-10:00 Introduction to Logistics T. Zunder - NewRail, Newcastle University 

10:15-11:00 Supply Chain Management 

K. Zografos - Athens University of 

Economics and Business 

11:15-12:00 Logistics and Transport 

S. Wohlgemuth - Technical University of 

Dortmund 

14:00-14:45 Logistics Action Plan & Green Corridors T. Zunder - NewRail, Newcastle University 

15:00-15:45 

Principles for Sustainable Development 

of Transport Systems 

G. Pace - Universiteit Gent 

16:00-17:00 Discussion and Mentoring 

T. Zunder - NewRail, Newcastle University 

(facilitator) 

Day 2: Rail and Multi Modal Transport 


9:15-10:00 Multi Modal Transport V. Reis - Instituto Superior Tecnico 

10:15-11:00 Rail – Road 

S. Wohlgemuth - Technical University of 

Dortmund 

11:15-12:00 Rail – Air 

K. Zografos - Athens University of 

Economics and Business 

14:00-14:45 Rail - Sea G. Pace - Universiteit Gent 

15:00-15:45 Energy Use for Sustainable Rail 

Roberto Palacin - NewRail, Newcastle 

University 


V. Reis - Instituto Superior Tecnico 

(facilitator) 

Day 3: Rail Infrastructure and ITS 


9:15-10:00 Rail-Wheel Contact 

F. Franklin - NewRail, Newcastle 

University 

10:15-11:00 Accident Investigation and Analysis N. Georgiev - Higher School of Transport 

11:15-12:00 Access Charging P.Teixeira - Instituto Superior Tecnico 

14:00-14:45 Inspection and Maintenance of Rail 

15:00-15:45 ITS for Rail 


WORK PROGRAMME 

Week 1: Lectures and Discussions 

Day 1: Logistics and Supply Chain Management 

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F. Franklin - NewRail, Newcastle 

University 

F.Nemtanu - Universitatea Politehnica din 

Bucuresti 

P. Teixeira - Instituto Superior Tecnico 

(facilitator) 

The University of Newcastle upon Tyne is a member of the elite Russell 

Group, an association of the top 20 leading research-intensive UK universities 

and has one of the largest EU research portfolios in the UK. NewRail is a 

railway research centre based in the School of Mechanical and Systems Engineering at Newcastle University. 

NewRail delivers quality rail research and has developed wide experience in the coordination and participation of 

collaborative research within a number of EU funded projects under FP4, FP5, FP6 and FP7 including Erasmus 

curriculum development projects and transatlantic co-operations. NewRail acts as an interface between rail industry 

and academia, provides a focus for railway research activities across Europe, and undertakes 

university research that is of relevance to the rail industry. Core competencies include; the design, 

development, analysis and testing of novel materials, processes and structures for transport 

applications. 

University address: 

Newcastle University, Newcastle upon 

Tyne, United Kingdom, Tyne and Wear 

NE1 7RU 

Phone: +44(0) 191 222 6000 

Web page: www.ncl.ac.uk 

“Sapienza” Università di Roma - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e 

Ambientale DICEA is the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental 

Engineer of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rome “Sapienza”. 

The Transport Area of DICEA is one of the largest of the Department’s eleven 

areas. Its teaching and research are mainly in the field of planning and management 

of passenger and freight transport systems. In addition to teaching, the Department’s 

laboratories and personnel are also engaged in numerous experiments, research projects, and 

consultancies in Italy, Europe, and elsewhere. Important research themes are railway and road 

safety, freight transport, and public transport systems. 

Sapienza Università di Roma – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Edile e 

Ambientale (DICEA) 


Italy, Rome - Via Eudossiana, 18 – 00184 

Phone: (+39 06) 44585-144 

Fax: (+39 06) 44585-144 

Email: stefano.ricci@uniroma1.it 


Stefano Ricci, Assoc. Prof., PhD: Sapienza Università di Roma, 

Italy 

Phone: (+39 06) 44585-144 

Email: stefano.ricci@uniroma1.it 

Politehnica University of Bucharest is the greatest technical university in Romania, it has 10 

faculties which are organized in departments. One of the most important faculty is Faculty of 

Transports (an unique faculty with this specialization in Romania) and it is organized in 4 

Departments: Telematics & Electronics for Transport, Traffic&Logistics, Automotive 

and Railway Vehicles. Department of Telematics & Electronics for 

Transport was established in 1970 and is covering all transport modes (the 

main areas of studies are focused on rail and road transport). 

Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti - Facultatea Transporturi, 

Telecomenzi si Electronica in Transporturi, Romania 


Splaiul Independentei nr. 313, sector 6, 

Bucuresti, Cod Postal: 060042 

Phone: + 4 021-402 91 00 

Fax: + 4021-318 10 01 

Web page: www.upb.ro 

University of Newcastle upon Tyne 


Dr Marin Marinov (Dr. in Transportation, Eng., International Economist), 

NewRail - Newcastle Centre for Railway Research Rail 

Freight and Logistics Group 

Phone: +44 (0) 191 222 3976, 

Fax Number: +44 (0) 191 222 5821 

Email: marin.marinov@ncl.ac.uk 


Florin Codrut Nemtanu, Senior lecturer, PhD: “Politehnica” University 

of Bucharest 

Phone: 004-021-4029653 

Fax: 004-021-3169600 

Email: fnemtanu@yahoo.com 

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Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is the largest school of engineering in Portugal. Today IST has about 

8500 undergraduate students and over 1500 graduate students in different areas of studies. The 

faculty of IST includes over 700 Professors with Ph.D. in different areas of specialization. In 1975 the 

Centre of Urban and Regional Systems (CESUR) was founded, which is a group of teachers from 

scientific areas of Operational Research and Urban and Regional Planning, from various schools of 

the Technical University of Lisbon. Included in CESUR is the Transport Infrastructure, Systems and 

Policy Group (TISP). TISP has competences on multiple domains of transport research, spanning all 

the modes of transport, with particular emphasis in the domains of policy decision making, modeling 

and optimization. In the domain of freight and urban logistics, TISP is also involved in several national and European 

projects. TISP has experienced a strong development in the last decade, more than doubling its membership, 

having currently 10 permanent members covering research and teaching, plus 15 students, 

covering 6 nationalities (Portugal, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, India and Pakistan) who receive scholarships 

to continue their Master and PhD thesis in transport at IST. Several of the PhD researches 

are in the domain of freight and urban logistics. 


DECivil – Instituto Superior Técnico 

Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, 

Portugal, Phone: (+351) 218 417 000 

Fax: (+351) 218 499 242 

Email: nmci@ist.utl.pt 

Embedded in the Faculty Mechanical Engineering about 30 scientists 

research, work and teach at the Institute of Transport Logistics 

of TU Dortmund, in the fields of traffic and transportation 

logistics, distribution logistics and logistics management. The institute is dealing with a broad range of issues of 

traffic logistics with different characteristics. Here the logistic system (e.g. intermodal transport-terminal, distribution 

center or forwarding system) with its strategic, tactic and operative issues often is in the 

center of our interdisciplinary research activities. This variety of strategic and operative issues is 

reflected in the three fields of work: 1) planning, process design and simulation; 2) mathematic 

optimization; 3) strategies, concepts and studies. 


Institute of Transport Logistics, Leonhard- 

Euler-Straße 2, 44227 Dortmund, 

Germany, Phone: +49 231 755-7335, 

Fax: +49 231 755-6338 

Web page: www.itl.tu-dortmund.de 

Email: wohlgemuth@itl.tu-dortmund.de 

Instituto Superior Técnico, 


Vasco Reis, Researcher, PhD: Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, 

Portugal 

Phone: (+351) 218 418 424 

Email: vreis@civil.ist.utl.pt 

Technische Universität Dortmund 


Sascha Wohlgemuth, Dr.-Ing., Group leader Mathematical Optimization, 

Institute of Transport Logistics, Dortmund, Germany 

Phone: +49 231 755-7335 

Fax: +49 231 755-6338 

Email: wohlgemuth@itl.tu-dortmund.de 

Web page: www.itl.tu-dortmund.de 

Founded in 1745, TU Braunschweig is the oldest institute of technology in Germany. 

The university is a precursor in the field of interdisciplinary courses of study 

that combine different fields of technology. The first course of this kind was established 

in 1980. In 2006, following this tradition, a full study program of “Mobility and 

Transportation” with bachelor’s and master’s degree was started. TU Braunschweig is now one of the leading 

academic institutions in the field of transportation engineering. There are two full professor positions 

with associated teaching and research groups exclusively working in railway science. These 

groups offer a very comprehensive course program covering many aspects of the railway system. 


Pockelsstrasse 3, 38106 Braunschweig, 

Germany, Phone: +49 531 391 3381, 

Fax: +49 531 391 5595 

Email: j.pachl@tu-bs.de 

Technische Universität Braunschweig 


Jörn Pachl, Prof. Dr.-Ing.: TU Braunschweig, Institute of Railway 

Systems Engineering and Traffic Safety 

Phone: +49 531 391 3381 

Email: j.pachl@tu-bs.de 

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9:15-10:15 Typical Rail Vehicles 

R. Davidson - NewRail, Newcastle 

University 

10:30-11:30 Rail and the Environment S. Ricci - University of Rome “Sapienza” 

11:45-12:45 Truck-Trains 

P. Mortimer - NewRail, Newcastle 

University 

14:00-15:00 High Speed Rail P. Teixeira - Instituto Superior Tecnico 

15:15-16:15 Safety and Security of Rail Vehicles C. O’Neill - NewRail, Newcastle University 


N. Georgiev - Higher School of Transport 

(facilitator) 

Day 5: Rail Operations, Time-tabling and Control 


9:15-10:15 Railway Operations and Technologies 

J. Pachl - Technische Universität 

Braunschweig 

10:30-11:30 DSS for Railway Traffic Control I. Sahin - Yildiz Technical University 

11:45-12:45 Rail Terminals S. Ricci - University of Rome “Sapienza” 

14:00-15:00 Time-tabling 

J. Pachl - Technische Universität 

Braunschweig 

15:15-16:15 Rail Network Policy 

M. Mairnov - NewRail, Newcastle 

University 


S. Ricci - University of Rome “Sapienza” 

(facilitator) 

Weekend 2: Cultural Activities for Saturday and Free Time on Sunday 

Week 2: Project/Research Learning 

During the second week Professors and students work in groups on research projects. 

Seven groups will be identified and each of them works on a specific topic. Topics for 

projects are as follows: 

� Comparative Assessment (among different countries) of the Impacts of Rail Deregulation 

on Rail Transport Performance 

�Barriers for Intermodal transport system development 

� An efficient city logistics system development 

�Rail Vehicle Design 

Week 1 

Day 4: Vehicles, Environments and High Speed Rail 

�Urban Freight Movement by Rail 

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�Analysis of Life Cycle Costs in Rail Infrastructure Development 

�Analysis of Access Charging in Europe 

�Analysis of Rail Yard and Terminal Performances 

�Analysis of the Causes for Rail Cracks and Fatigue 

�Evaluation of Rail System Capacity 

�Analysis of the Obstacles to cross-border rail freight in the European Union 

�Efficient energy use for sustainable rail transport 

�Logistics Principles for Efficient Rail Systems 

�An economic feasibility study for an urban light rail line: a comparative cost-benefit 

analysis with a bus transit service 

Seven of mentioned above topics will be selected by students for their research projects. 

Research project work is from 9:00 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 17:00 each day of the second 

week. 

Week 3: Technical Visits, Workshops and Seminars 

Period Activity 

Day 1: Rail Transit Systems 

Lecturer 

9:00–13:00 

Technical Visit : Visiting Tyne and Wear 

Metro Depot 

14:00–17:00 Workshop : Rail in Urban Areas G. Aydin -Yildiz Technical University 

9:00–13:00 

14:00–17:00 

Day 2: Railway History 

Technical Visit : Visiting Stephenson 

Railway Museum in North Shields 

Workshop : History of Railway Transport 

by Continents and Regions 

9:00–13:00 Thematic Seminars Set 1 and Set 2 



14:00–17:00 

10:00-13:00 

Thematic Seminars Set 7 followed by 

Executive Summary 

Day 5: Closing Ceremony 

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A.Dzhaleva - Higher School of Transport 

Day 4: Thematic Seminars and Executive summary 

Certificate, Next Steps, Wrap-up 

Day 3: Thematic Seminars 

The TRANsportation Systems and LOGistics Laboratory (TRANSLOG) is a Research Laboratory 

that belongs to the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens 

University of Economics and Business (AUEB). Its main research interests are focused on 

logistics and transport modelling and simulation, performance evaluation and benchmarking, 

transport intermodality and co-modality, as well as transport policy and pricing. AUEB-RC/ 

TRANSLOG has developed substantial expertise in logistics and transport related research 

through its participation in more than 50 R&D projects funded by the European Commission 

as well as public and private bodies. Besides its research activities, the laboratory is involved in the educational 

activities of the Department of Management Science and Technology and the Graduate Programs: 1) MBA- 

International (specialisation Logistics and Transport) and 2) Executive MBA, supporting a series of courses related 

to Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Management of Transportation and Distribution 

Systems, as well as Project and Programme Management. In addition, the laboratory supports 

postgraduate and doctoral students in research topics covering Transportation Systems, 

Logistics and Supply Chain Management. 

Athens University of Economics and Business / Transportation Systems 

and Logistics Laboratory (AUEB-RC/TRANSLOG) 

University Principal Point of Contact 

76, Patission Str., 10434, Athens, Greece 

Phone: +30 210 8203673-5 

Fax: +30 210 8203684 

Email: kostas.zografos@aueb.gr 


Professor Konstantinos G. Zografos, Director of AUEB-RC/ 

TRANSLOG, Department of Management Science and Technology, 

AUEB, Phone: +30 210 8203673-5, Fax: +30 210 8203684 

Email: kostas.zografos@aueb.gr 

The Todor Kableshkov Higher School of Transport (VTU) is a public university of 

applied sciences with state accreditation, ISO 9001-2008 certificate, extended Erasmus 

Charter, a system for е-learning and ECDL certificates. It was established in 

1922 and throughout the years has proved to be an important national training and 

research centre in the field of surface transport. The VTU is a unique institution of this 

type in the Balkans that educates students for the university degrees of BSc, MSc and PhD in 

engineering and economics specified in the field of land transport. It also performs a wide-scale 

research in the field of transport and is involved in important national and international projects. 


Bulgaria, Sofia 1754, 158 Geo Milev Str. 

Phone: (+359 2) 9709-211, Fax: (+359 2) 

9709-242; (+359 2) 9709-407 

Web page: www.vtu.bg 

PARTNER ORGANISATIONS INVOLVED IN 

RAILNEWCASTLE INTENSIVE PROGRAMME 

Higher School of Transport - Sofia 


Nikolay Georgiev, Assoc. Prof., PhD: Higher School of Transport, 

Sofia, Bulgaria 

Phone: (+359 2) 9709-355 

Email: safetyniky@mail.com 

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Local programme coordinators

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