2021 Rail Transit Sessions Speakers
Abstracts and Biographies
![]() Greg ShivyBay Area Rapid Transit District |
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Making the Best of it: Maintenance Productivity During the Pandemic |
![]() Wesley ThomasSentient Science |
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Utilizing Software to Accelerate the Adoption of Preventive Maintenance at NYCT |
![]() Mark ReimerAdvanced Rail Management |
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Improving Rail Grinding Specifications and QA/QC Procedures for Transit |
![]() Russell WalkerTransportation Technology Center Inc. |
![]() Yuqing ZengTransportation Technology Center Inc. |
Enhancing Instrumented Wheelset Data To Better Predict Derailment Risk |
Special Focus:
Addressing Wheel/Rail-Generated Noise and Vibration in Rail Transit
Session Chair and Moderator: Briony Croft, Principal Acoustical Consultant, SLR Consulting (Canada)
![]() Briony CroftAcoustic Consultant |
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Rail Damper Trials – Noise Reduction Outcomes from Ottawa and Vancouver |
![]() Peeter VesikBritish Columbia Rapid Transit |
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Characterizing the Effect of Rail Hardness on Corrugation Formation, Grinding Cycles, and Noise |
![]() Karoline AltenTransportation Infrastructure Technologies at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology |
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Vibro-Acoustic Inspection of Vienna‘s Tram Network |
![]() Rashid DorjCity of Ottawa |
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Effects of a Conformal Frog Retrofit on Wayside Noise and Vibration on the Ottawa Trillium Line |
![]() Shankar RajaramSound Transit |
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Controlling Grinding-Induced Corrugation to Maintain Lower Wayside Train Noise Levels |