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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. 4 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. 13
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. University Principal Point of Contact: 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 Local programme coordinator: 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 12 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. 5
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