San Diego Meeting

The Spring 1997 INFORMS National Meeting was held in San Diego, May 4-7, 1997. RASIG organized a roundtable discussion and three paper sessions. Cluster Chair for the meeting was Bruce Schinelli of First Union Rail Corp. For more information contact Bruce at 847-384-5348 or by e-mail at bruce.schinelli@capmark.funb.com.

Roundtable Discussion

Coordinator: Michael Gorman, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, 817-333-6107. The RASIG roundtable focused on new and emerging technologies in railroad hardware, and on systems for improving equipment distribution.

12:30 Welcome - Adriene B. Bailey, Chair, RASIG

12:40 BNSF Railroad Exploration into Emerging Railroad Technologies

Guest Speaker: Nick Marsh, Assistant Vice President, Technical Research and Development, BNSF

1:40 Question and Answers

2:00 Break

2:20 Panel Discussion: Equipment Distribution Methodologies: Current Practices and Future Directions Panelists will include representatives from major North American Class I railroads:

Dave Bell, CSX
Roger Baugher, NS
Mike Gorman, BNSF
Bella Haasz, CN

4:00 Open Discussion

5:15 Business Meeting

Session 1: Railroad Applications I

Chair: Scott B. Smith, PTCG. 22 Third Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803, (617) 229-1565, Monday, 08:00-09:30.

OR Applications: Getting Users Onboard

John H. Gradek, CP Rail.

Locomotive Planning & Utilization

Gordon Trafton, Illinois Central Railroad.

An Overview of a Real-Time Decision Support System for Locomotive Management

Ajith B. Wijeratne, Norfolk Southern Corporation.

A Real-time Optimization System for Locomotive Management

Robert Muenz, CSXT, Noha Tohamy, Scott B. Smith.

Session 2: Operations Research Applications in Passenger Rail

Chair: Chip Kraft, 25 East C Street, Brunswick, MD 21716, ChipKraft@aol.com, 202-906-4330, Monday, 13:00-14:30.

Washington Union Terminal Simulation

Karl W. Ginther, Amtrak

Simulation of Northeast Corridor Operations

Thomas W. Morgan, Amtrak.

Strategic and Tactical Support Tools for Passenger Scheduling

Nejib Ben-Kheder, SABRE Decision Technologies.

Revenue Management on the Tracks

Bellur N. Srikar, Amtrak.

Session 3: Train Scheduling Algorithms

Chair: Bruce Schinelli, First Union Rail Corp., One O'Hare Centre, 6250 River Road, Suite 5000, Rosemont, IL 60018, (847) 318-7575 bruce.schinelli@capmark.funb.com, Monday, 14:45-16:15.

Current & Future Directions in Computer Support for Freight Train Scheduling

Carl D. Van Dyke, MultiModal Applide Systems, Inc.

Predicting On-Time Performance in Scheduled Railroad Operations

An Example of Application to Train Scheduling

Susan F. Hallowell, USAir, Patrick T. Harker

On the Necessity of realistic Benchmark Data for Integrated Planning & Operations Systems

Frank Boyle, Union Switch & Signal Inc, Joe Profeta.

A Train Scheduling Model for Reducing Locomotive Requirements

Min Luo, Conrail, Marc Meketon, US Airways