New Technology and Logistics on the Railway

Abstract

The conference New Technology and Logistics on the Railway was held in Prague, in May 5, 2022.

The 5th year of the Student Scientific Conference 2022 follows up on the previous Student Scientific Conferences with railway topics organized by the Faculty of Transportation Sciences in 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021. The main topic of this year's Student Scientific Conference is again the railway digitization, which is the main content of the Intelligent Transport Systems on Railways (ITS-R) project and the technological development of ITS-R in the Railways 4.0 project. Digitization, in addition to the management and security part, concerns passengers (internet access, etc.), information and check-in technologies, logistics and dispatching applications. The field of logistics is associated with the optimization of timetables and schedules, especially dynamic optimization responding to current anomalies and delays on the railway network, requiring the application of information technology such as big data, artificial intelligence, massive parallel (distributed) calculations and simulations etc. With the deployment of new technologies, it will be necessary to change the approach to training of dispatchers and drivers, so an integral part of the railway system is training based on the principles of simulators (e.g. locomotive simulators, of course with the ETCS system). Vehicle maintenance, infrastructure and their innovation, whether conventional lines or planned VRT, must also be an important part of the railway system.

Main participants were students of master's and doctoral study programs from CTU in Prague, BUT Brno, University of Pardubice, VŠB-TU Ostrava and the University of West Bohemia, who are engaged in research in the field rail transport. The announced thematic areas of the conference covered the above-mentioned issues: Railways 4.0 - ETCS, digitization, Optimization in railway traffic management, Railway infrastructure innovation, Modern rolling stock, Environment and railways, New directions in maintenance, Logistics and management.

The Student Scientific Conference in 2022 was held under the patronage of the Dean of the Faculty of Transportation Sciences prof. Ing. Ondřej Přibyl, Ph.D.

Scientific committee:
Josef Jíra (Czech Technical University in Prague - Faculty of Transportation Sciences)
Tomáš Brandejský (Czech Technical University in Prague - Faculty of Transportation Sciences)
Antonín Blažek (Enteria a.s.)
Martin Jacura (Czech Technical University in Prague - Faculty of Transportation Sciences)
Aleš Hába (University of Pardubice – Faculty of Transport Engineering)
Zdeněk Kaufmann (SIZI)
Martin Král (SŽ, s.o.)
Petr Kolář (SŽ, s.o.)
Jaroslav Grim (SIZI)
Martin Leso (Czech Technical University in Prague - Faculty of Transportation Sciences)
Petr Nachtigall (University of Pardubice – Faculty of Transport Engineering)
Otto Plášek (Brno University of Technology – Faculty of Civil Engineering)
Jindřich Sadil (Czech Technical University in Prague - Faculty of Transportation Sciences)
Richard Svoboda (Brno University of Technology – Faculty of Civil Engineering)
Lukáš Týfa (Czech Technical University in Prague - Faculty of Transportation Sciences)
Jaroslav Vašátko (VUZ, a.s.)
Jakub Vágner (University of Pardubice – Faculty of Transport Engineering)
Jan Řezníček (Czech Technical University in Prague - Faculty of information technology)
Jiří Chludil (Czech Technical University in Prague - Faculty of information technology)

Local organizing committee:
Vít Fábera, Ph.D. - předseda
Jitka Řezníčková
Jitka Jírová
Jan Zelenka
Lukáš Svoboda
Jitka Řezníčková Jr.
Jan Řezníček

Guarantor of the peer review process:
prof. Ing. Josef Jíra, CSc.