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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 <strong>IN</strong>FSO 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. 14 <strong>RailNewcastle</strong> E R A S M U S I N T E N S I V E R A I L W A Y P R O G R A M M E I N N E W C A S T L E U P O N T Y N E June 25 th - July 13 th, 2012 3 RAIL AND LOGISTICS
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