08:00 - 09:00Welcome coffee and registration

09:00 - 09:30Welcome address and introduction by Michaël Steenbergen, Chair R&E2010, TU Delft NL

09:30 - 10:30 Session 1: Rail as a transport modality: infrastructural benchmark

Rail compared against other transportation modes and environmental hindrance by different train types

Chairman: Libor Lochman, Deputy Executive Director, CER ^BE

"A level-of-service comparison of rail, air and road transport systems: a qualitative and quantitative approach"
• Surface and air transport passenger systems are compared. The comparison focuses on parameters/ characteristics that deal with the level of service provided to the users of such systems (Travel time, transport time, frequency of service, fare, transport safety, transport capacity etc.) and on the effects on the environment.  “Evaluation indicators” are defined for each of the above parameters.
• The level of service provided to the users is defined by the extent to which the above specific parameters/ characteristics of the system are satisfied.
• Four cases are compared : Case 1: Very long-distance travel (500-1500 km). Airplanes and high-speed trains are compared.Case 2: Average distance travels (100-500 km). Conventional speed trains, interurban buses and private cars are compared.Case 3: Travels in an urban environment. Metros, the tramway, urban buses, trolleys, private cars and taxis are compared. Case 4: All distance travels. All the examined modes are compared to each other.
Christos Pyrgidis, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki ^GR

"Potentials for road to rail substitution in freight transportation and their environmental benefits"
• Potentials for road to rail substitution in freight corridor
• Available data, what-if scenarios and modelling
• Quantified environmental pros and cons
Jaap Vleugel, Senior researcher, Delft University of Technology ^NL

10:30 - 11:00Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30Session 2: Environmental footprint of railway systems: LCC and sustainability

Economic evaluation of rail systems in LC perspective; new developments in sustainability and maintenance

Chairman: Simon Iwnicki, Professor and manager Rail Technology Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University and editor Vehicle Systems Dynamics / Rail & Rapid Transit ^UK

"Economic evaluation of urban track systems: integration of LCC and socio-economic assessment"
• Carrying out LCC and socio-economic calculations for installation and maintenance of urban rail projects is often not standardized within a country and certainly not within Europe which makes it difficult to compare the overall economic costs of existing and newly developed technologies.
• The LCC-SEC methodology developed within Urban Track has resulted in a controlled methodology to assess the life cycle costs and benefits of innovative technological solutions and facilitates joint development between network operators/infrastructure managers and the supply industry.
• Incorporating monetisable (e.g. noise, turnover compensation, loss of time, emissions and public transport costs) and non-monetary socio-economic effects (e.g. and environmental impacts, vibrations, quality of the surface) in the decision-making process increases the change of implementing high quality rail systems that are favourable for urban areas.
Marjolein de Jong, Researcher, Uhasselt, Transportation Research Institute IMOB ^BE

"Towards a global carbon efficiency management system for rail investment in France"       
• Comparing carbon footprint impacts due to infrastructure construction and operations is now a major issue to confirm the environmental benefit of rail transportation
• New assessment methodologies experienced on the French network result in a global challenge of design and Construction processes
• These methods also lead to a new environmental driver to put together a GHG-oriented investment policy
Sébastien Gourgouillat,  Head of Performance and Sustainability, RFF ^FR

"Scheduling tamping by an integer programming approach" 
• The paper presents a mathematical programming model formulated as a nonlinear mixed problem for scheduling tamping on ballasted tracks.
• The maintenance model takes into account four aspects, namely: the evolution over time of the standard deviation of the longitudinal level, the track's layout, the dependency of track quality recovery on the quality at the moment of maintenance operation and also the limits of the standard deviation of the longitudinal level that depend on train speed.
• The application of a global optimization technique for scheduling preventive maintenance in railways is relatively new and the proposed maintenance model is able to produce useful results in terms of optimal schedules in a reasonable time.
Cecília Vale, Auxiliar Professor, Faculty of Engineering University of Porto ^PT

12:30 - 13:30Lunch

13:30 - 15:30Session 3: Emission of noise and vibration from railways and environmental quality

Rail in densely populated areas: integral design; measurement, prediction and reduction of noise & vibration 

Chairman: Andrea Bracciali, Professor of railway engineering, UNIFI - University of Florence ^IT

"Efforts undertaken by Canadian Railways to reduce noise, vibration and emissions associated with railway operations in proximity to urban residents"
• The paper will investigate and provide a detailed overview of the suite of technologies and infrastructure that has been developed and deployed by railways that reduced the noise, vibration and locomotive emissions, associated with railway activities, in urban centers across Canada.
• The paper will investigate the current and future research priorities of railways to further mitigate the impact of their operations within urban centers. 
• The paper will provide a series of case studies of how railways have resolved specific complaints, by local residents, associated with railway operations.
Robert McKinstry, Manager, Policy and Economic Research, Railway Association of  Canada ^CA

"Noise protection and urban design"
• Noise protection walls at railway tracks are rarely compatible wirt the urban design or the landscape. Therefore innovative solutions are necessary to get a hogh level of protection, economic fficiency and good urban design.
• The autor will present the affection of people and innovative solutions of different projects. These will be decribed and compared wirth different indicators.
• At least a combination of sound absorbing and minimazing vibrations will give good results. Examples will be presented.
Dirk Vallée, Chair and Head of Institute for Urban and Transport Planning, Aachen University ^DE

"Ground vibrations due to high speed, passenger, and freight trains"
Geert Lombaert, Associate professor, K.U. Leuven ^BE

"Hybrid predictions of environmental vibrations due to railway traffic"
Vibrations in buildings due to railway traffic are predicted numerically or empirically. Experimental predictions require the knowledge of several parameters but can be applied for any new situation, while empirical predictions inherently takes into account all parameters but strongly relies on accurate experimental input data. This presentation explores the possibility of predicting the vibration velocity with a hybrid empirical – experimental prediction, combining the advantages of both approaches.
Hans Verbraken , Research assistant FWO, K.U. Leuven ^BE

15:30 - 16:00Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00Session 4A: Natural conditions of railway systems and bio-effects

Mutual influence of natural conditions and rail transport 

Chairman: Geert Lombaert, Associate professor, K.U. Leuven ^BE

"Early warning system for railways"
• The presentation will discuss principles (earthquake detection) of earthquake early warning and how they can be mapped to railways (risk and damage assessment for the railway infrastructure).
• Secondly the presentation will show how an early warning system can be realized using an open service architecture providing access to results created by the early warning workflow.
• Thirdly an online demonstrator will be presented demonstrating the functional early warning principles found by the EWS TRANSPORT project. 
Désirée Hilbring, Software Engineer, Fraunhofer IOSB ^DE

"Effects of railways on biodiversity and the role of management practices: the case of the Paris/Ile-de-France region"
• Railway networks have a strong impact on biodiversity: they are responsible for biodiversity loss but contain green areas that may play a role as refuge and corridor for native flora and fauna.
• It is then important to better understand the ecological role of railways and their edges as species habitat, refuge, corridor and barrier
• And to develop biodiversity indicators for railway systems by selecting target species and
develop biodiversity-respectful and economic management solutions for railways.
Jean-Christophe Vandevelde, Research Analyst / PhD Student, RFF ^FR

17:00 - 18:00Session 4B: Renewability of railway systems and waste management

Crucial points: start and end of the railway life cycle

Chairman: Geert Lombaert, Associate professor , K.U. Leuven ^BE

"European recycling guideline for railway equipments"
• Adaptation of the ISO standard on recyclability and recoverability for the automotive sector to the railway requirements considering the complexity and the long lifetime of railway products,
• Calculation method  mainly covered by the ISO standard with customised pretreatment and dismantling requirements,
• The railway specific material information / declaration template,
• Good practices and expert recommendations on the recyclability technologies considering the current legislations and standards. 
Walter Struckl, Speaker of the Life Cycle Assessment Topical Group, UNIFE ^BE

"Redevelopment of railway sites"
• Former industrial use of railway sites
• Redevelopment of railway sites with case Amersfoort
• New developments on railway sites
Jan Fokkens, Manager department of sustainable land use, Foundation for Soil Remediation Dutch Railways ^NL

18:00 - 19:30Networking reception

08:00 - 09:00Welcome coffee and registration

09:00 - 10:30Session 5: Rail emissions and air quality

Air pollution from rail transport; quantification, prediction and reduction

Chairman: Thierry Legrand, Programme manager industry & technology, CEN CENELEC ^BE

"Greenhouse gas emissions from rail services – present and future"
• Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for different types of rail services
• Options for further reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions
• The role of electricity – in particular with reduced carbon content
Evert Andersson, Prof. Emeritus, KTH Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering ^SE

"A field investigation of the size, morphology and chemical composition of airborne particles in rail transport"
• What is the elemental composition of wear particles from train traffic?
• What is the size distribution of wear particles from train traffic?
• What is the shape of wear particle from train traffic?
Saeed Abbasi, Phd student, Royal institute of technology ^SE

"Emissions from braking phases : methodology for characterisation"
• highlight the importance of protocole in order to consolidate the customer needs and technical restrains
• identify key points to achieve the representative characterization of emissions from braking
• establish analytical method fifted to concentrations level of emissions generated in the bench test
Miguel Cruz-Garcias, Chargé d’affaire,  CETIM ^ES

10:30 - 11:00Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00Session 6: Noise and vibration emission from railway systems: measuring and influencing

Chairman: Michael Dittrich, Senior consultant, TNO Science and Industry ^NL

"On-board noise measurements - noise emission along the network"
• Instead of local noise measurements, noise can be measured along the track by on-board equipment.
• The noise picture created contains more details. Hot spots can be measured and complaints can even be predicted.
• A monthly scan of noise emission along the network can save a lot of money.
Margreet Beuving, Consultant/project leader, DeltaRail ^NL

"Mitigation measures for structure-borne noise generated by railtraffic vibration"
Michael Vanstraelen, Manager B&I engineering dept, CDM ^BE

12:00 - 12:30Poster presenation session

12:30 - 13:30Lunch

13:30 - 15:30Session 7: Energy consumption of railway systems and optimisation

Energy in relation to high-speed; how to measure and to optimise energy consumption

Chairman: Andrea Bracciali, Professor of railway engineering, UNIFI - University of Florence ^IT

"The effect of high speed on energy consumption"
The comparison with traditional railway systems reveals that high-speed trains consume the least energy, followed by long distance, regional and commuter trains, which consume the most. On seven of the ten routes considered, the high-speed train consumes less energy than the conventional train (and on average requires 29% less).

As regards the effect of speed on consumption in a corridor, it is shown how speed enables the train to capture plane and private car users: high speeds lead to larger market shares and, therefore, to lower energy consumption in the corridor (in this case with a multiplier effect on emissions due to the railway’s more favourable emission factor). Within the high-speed system, higher speeds, all other factors being equal, may increase the train’s energy consumption, but also its market share, especially in cases where distances range between 400 and 700 kilometres and journey times between 2 and 3 hours.
Alberto García Álvarez, Director of Research, Training and Scientific Collaboration,  Spanish Railway Foundation ^ES

"Railways energy measuring, managing and billing"
• How can we measure the energy consumption on board of trains running in an international context?
• What is the actual level of standardization?
• What are the results of the already implemented meters?
Bart Van der Spiegel, Energy Management, Infrabel ^BE

"ECO-driving – the implementation challenge"
• What are the challenges one has to face when implementing ECO driving
• How to structure such a program to be able to motivate train drivers to structurally change their day-to-day behavior
• What results have been achieved during two pilot implementations
Ralph Luijt, Manager Energy & Environment, NS Reizigers ^NL

"Modular thermodynamic modelling of a light rail vehicle"
• Why is a dynamic modelling approach neccessary and is quasi-stationary not sufficient?
• What is the advantage of both analytical modelling and blackbox identification?
• How to enhance the performance of the current controller.
Raphael Hofstädter, Doctoral candidate, Vienna University of Technology ^AT