<p>Keynote Papers(K)  STRATEGIC RAIL MAINTENANCE BY GRINDING ON HIGH SPEED LINES, Dr W Schoech, Speno International SA, Geneve, Switzerland  TECHNICAL & SUSTAINABILITY ASPECTS OF HIGH SPEED RAIL, Prof R Smith, Future Rail Research Centre, Imperial College, London, UK  THE TRACKBED ASSET : IMPLICATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE AND RENEWAL STRATEGIES, Dr M Brough, URS/Scott Wilson, Nottingham, UK  HIGH SPEED RAIL GEOTECHNICAL ISSUES, Prof PK Woodward + Team, Heriot-Watt Univ & Prof MC Forde + Team, Univ of Edinburgh, UK</p><p>High Speed Rail(HSR)  SKY IS THE LIMIT: JL4: WUHAN-GUANGZHOU, G v.d. Werf, ARCADIS, The Netherlands  BRIDGE SOLUTIONS FOR HIGH-SPEED RAILWAYS, JS Lane, Rail Safety & Standards Board, London, UK  VIADUCTS FOR HIGH-SPEED RAILWAYS, A Low, Arup, London, UK  VERTICAL STIFFNESS AS A DESIGN PARAMETER OF A TRANSVERSE SECTION IN HIGH SPEED LINES, I Gallego, J Mu~noz, A Rivas & S Sanchez-Cambronero, ETSI Caminos, Ciudad Real, Spain  3-D FE MODELLING OF GROUND DYNAMICS FOR HIGH SPEED TRAINS, Dr A El-Kacimi, Dr O Laghrouche, Prof PK Woodward & Dr G Medero, Heriot-Watt Univ, Edinburgh, UK  DESIGN OF SINGLE-TRACK HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY LINES FOR RELIABLE OPERATION, Dr O Lindfeldt, Vectura Consulting, Solna, Sweden  ALTERNATIVE METHODS TO PREDICT GROUND BORNE VIBRATIONS ON STRUCTURES ON DIFFERENT SOILS, D Connolly, Dr A Giannopoulos & Prof MC Forde, Univ of Edinburgh, & Prof PK Woodward, Heriot Watt Univ, Edinburgh, UK  RAIL TRACK ANALYSIS USING FE MODELLING TECHNIQUES, P Belchamber, LUSAS, Kingston upon Thames, UK</p><p>Railway Management & Operation(RMO)  SPEED & PRECISION IN RAILROAD BALLAST DELIVERY & DUMPING SYSTEM: USING GATESYNC AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGY, Dr WT Wamani, Georgetown Rail Equip Co, Georgetown TX, USA  BY HOW MUCH COULD TRACK MAINTENANCE WORKS BE DECREASED? P Joksimovic & Gerard v.d. Werf, ARCADIS, The Netherlands  CRITICAL RAIL FAILURES AFTER 10 YEAR TRAFFIC AT LRT SYSTEM & COMBATTING PROBLEMS & IMPROVING PASSENGER COMFORT, I Candemir, Izmir Metro AS, Mersinli-Izmir, Turkey  INVESTIGATING IMPACT OF TIMETABLE PROPERTIES ON DELAY PROPAGATION ON A DOUBLE- TRACK LINE SIMULATION, A Lindfeldt, Royal Inst of Tech, Stockholm, Sweden  GENERALISED INFRASTRUCTURE CONDITION DATA ANALYSIS TOOL, M Byrne & T Parry, Univ of Nottingham, UK  INVESTIGATION OF INFLUENCE OF RAILWAY SYSTEM PARAMETERS ON TRACK CAPACITY, Dr C Pyrgidis & A Stergidou, Aristotle Univ of Thessaloniki, Greece  AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION & ANALYSIS FOR RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE, P Pace & G Aurisicchio, MERMEC Group, Monopoli, Italy  APPLICATION OF A MODIFIED FUZZY-AHP METHODOLOGY TO RAILWAY RISK DECISION MAKING PROCESS, Y Chen & M An, Univ of Birmingham, UK  PROCEDURE FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS BY MEANS OF TRAIN MONITORING Dr R Insa, Univ Poli de Valencia, Spain  CALIBRATION OF TIMETABLE SIMULATION MODEL ON SOUTHERN MAIN LINE IN SWEDEN, H Sipilä, Royal Inst of Tech, Stockholm, Sweden  EFFECT OF OUTSOURCING ON COST OF RAILWAY TRACK MAINTENANCE & REPAIR, JA Zakeri & K Jadidi, Iran Univ of Sci & Tech, Tehran, Iran  A METHODOLOGY FOR ROLLING STOCK RAM TARGET SETTING DEMONSTRATION, M Park & M An, University of Birmingham, UK</p><p>Trackbed(TB)  MECHANICAL CHARACTERISATION OF THE BLANKET LAYER IN OLD RAILWAY TRACKBEDS, N Calon, L Lambert, A Robinet, SNCF, La Plaine Saint-Denis, VN Trinh, AM Tang, YJ Cui, J Canou, JCDupla, UR Navier/CERMES, Marne-La-Vallée ,O Schoen, Réseau Ferré de France – RFF, Paris, France  NORWAY HEAVY HAUL IRON LINE OF OTBANEN INWARD TRACK SHIFT INCIDENTS, H Gasemyr, Jernbanverket, Norway.  SOUNDNESS EVALUATION OF SLAB TRACK BY IMPACT ELASTIC WAVE TESTING, S Fuchigami, T Takahashi, E Sekine, Railway Tech Res Inst, Tokyo, Japan  LIFE ASSESSMENT OF SLABTRACKS, O Crisp, URS/Scott Wilson, Nottingham, UK  CYCLIC LOADING TEST WITH FULL-SCALE MODEL FOR PRE-STRESSED BALLAST TRACK, T Sakurai, T Nakamura, K Muramoto, Railway Tech Res Inst, Tokyo, Japan  LONG-TERM MONITORING OF ANTIVIBRATION MATS FROM RUBBER RECYCLATE, L Hornicek, Czech Tech Univ in Prague, Czech Republic  TIME-DEPENDENCY IN DEFORMATION OF UNIFORMLY-GRADED CRUSHED GRAVELS USED AS BALLAST, S Ahmad & Prof Y Kohata, Muroran Inst of Tech, Muroran, Japan  OPTIMIZING THE TRACK BED MODULUS, KB Gatzwiller, RockDelta a/s, Hedehusene, Denmark  RESTORATION TECHNIQUES OF SETTLED CONCRETE TRACK, Il Wha Lee, Korea Railroad Research Inst, Kyonggi Do, Korea  3D-DEM SIMULATION DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS OF BALLASTED TRACK UNDER IMPACT LOADING, A Kono & T Matsushima, Railway Tech Res Inst, Tokyo, Japan  DAMPING & MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DRY ASPHALT RUBBER FOR SUBBALLAST, Prof G Di Mino & Dr CM Di Liberto, Univ of Palermo, Italy  STUDIES ON IMPROVEMENT OF TC-TYPE LOW-MAINTENANCE TRACK, T Kumakura, East Japan Railway Company, Saitama, Japan  IMPLICATION OF TRACKBED ON BALLAST CLEANING OPERATIONS, D Kite, URS/Scott Wilson, Nottingham, UK  SYNTHETIC REPLACEMENT FOR SAND-BLANKETS TO PREVENT PUMPING FAILURE, A Leech, GEOfabrics Ltd, Leeds, UK  SANDBLANKET REPLACEMENT LAYERS IN RAILWAY TRACK FOUNDATION, GS Ghataora, M Burrow, P Musgarve & A Franklyn, Univ of Birmingham, UK  CASE STUDY IN CONSTRUCTION COST OPTIMISATION FOR SUB-BALLAST LAYER, E Fortunato, S Fontul, A Paixão, LNEC, F Martins, Rede Ferroviária Nacional, Portugal  EXPTL INVESTIGATION ON DRY ASPHALT RUBBER FOR SUBBALLAST, Prof G Di Mino & Dr CM Di Liberto, Univ of Palermo, Italy  NDT TO DETERMINE STIFFNESS & FOULING OF BALLAST & TRACKBED ON HIGH SPEED RAIL ALIGNMENTS, R De Bold, D Connolly & MC Forde, Univ of Edinburgh, UK  DESIGN OF BALLASTED RAILWAY TRACKS TO COMPLY WITH STIFFNESS REQUIREMENTS, R Nålsund, Norwegian Univ of Sci & Tech, Trondheim, Norway</p><p>Rail(R)  OUR COMMITMENT IN REALIZING EFFICIENT & EFFECTIVE RAIL GRINDING, E Mochii, East Japan Railway Co, Tokyo, Japan  DETERMINING TRAIN PARAMETERS INFLUENCING RAIL-TRACK WEAR TO REDUCE TRACK MAINTENANCE COSTS - CASE STUDY IN SWITZERLAND, Dr WJ Zwanenburg, Zwanenburg Transport Consulting, Lausanne, Switzerland  STRESSES ANALYSIS ON A RAIL PART, CEL Paiva, JLAO Sousa, LC Almeida, CF Peixoto, PR Aguiar, LFM. Correia, JS Watanabe, RM Carvalho, UNICAMP, Campinas & DP Paschoalin VALE, Belo Horizonte, Brazil  DEVELOPMENT OF INSPECTION EQUIPMENT FOR BOTTOM EDGES OF A RAIL UNDER LEVEL CROSSINGS USING ULTRASONIC GUIDED WAVE, H Matsuda, JR East Group, Saitama, Japan  INFRASTRUCTURAL, AUDIBLE & FINANCIAL BENEFITS OF TOP OF RAIL FRICTION MODIFIER APPLICATION ON UK RAILWAY NETWORK, Dr K Dobney, QHi Rail, Harpenden & A Lucas, Network Rail, London, UK  CONTINUOUS NON-DESTRUCTIVE OPTICAL MONITORING OF IN-SITU FISHPLATED JOINTS, S.J. Buggy, S.W. James & R.P. Tatam, Cranfield University, R. Carroll, Stagecoach Supertram Maintenance Limited , Sheffield, P. Kitson, TATA Steel, Middlesborough UK</p><p>Rail-Wheel Interaction(RWI)  STUDY FOR CONTROL OF ROLLING NOISE BY REDUCING RAIL VIBRATION, M Takikawa, East Japan Railway Company, Saitama, Japan  EXPTL STUDY OF VEHICLE-TRACK-BRIDGE INTERACTION BEHAVIOR, MH Chen, CH Wang, MH Chien, JY Shih, CY Wang, China Eng Cons, Inc, Taiwan, ROC  RESILIENT MAT STIFFNESS PARAMETERS: 45673 PARTS 5 & 7, KB Gatzwiller, RockDelta a/s, Hedehusene, Denmark  GAUGE WIDENING IN RAILWAY WHEELS DUE TO THERMAL LOAD, RK Upadhyay, Rail Wheel Factory, Bangalore, India  INFLUENCE OF COVERED MILEAGE ON TRAM WHEEL WEAR, S Lakusic, I Haladin, M Ahac, Univ of Zagreb, Croatia  VEHICLE-TRACK-BRIDGE INTERACTION ANALYSIS BY VECTOR FORM INTRINSIC FE METHOD, JY Shih, CY Wang & RZ Wang, China Eng Cons, Inc, Taipei, Taiwan</p><p>Metro & Light Rail Systems(MLRS)  NECESSITY FOR URBAN RAILWAY STANDARDS, C Charles, F Le-Corre, ALSTOM Transport, Saint- Ouen France  TRAM TRACK IN CITY CENTERS MINIMUM HINDRANCE, MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE, Dr AP de Man, edilon)(sedra bv., Haarlem, The Netherlands  PRESTON PROCESS - DERELICT RAILWAY INTO TRAMWAY, Prof LJ Lesley, Tram Power Ltd, Liverpool, UK  PRACTICAL ISSUES OF ATC IMPLEMENTATION ON DIFFERENT ROLLING STOCK IN DELHI MRT SYSTEM, DK Sinha, Addl GM, DMRC, India  MTR TRACK UPGRADING PROGRAMME, TWK Wong, MTR Corp, Hong Kong, China</p><p>Track Geometry, Sleepers/Ties(TGST)  ALIGNMENT DESIGN FOR DOUBLE TRACKING HALLSBERG – DEGERÖN, Dr B Kufver, Ferroplan, Linköping, Sweden  INTRODUCTION OF NEW RIDING QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, H Fujimori, East Japan Railway Co, Tokyo, Japan  HIGH ATTENUATION SLEEPER –VALIDATION ON SITE, L Pesqueux, F Le-Corre , ALSTOM Transport, Saint-Ouen & C Petit, SATEBA, Paris La Defense, France  DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF TRACK LENGTH PROVIDED WITH Y SLEEPERS, J Smutny, L Pazdera, V Tomandl, I Vukušič, Brno Univ of Technology, Czech Republic  FIELD INVESTIGATION ON DISTRIBUTION OF CONTACT PRESSURE BETWEEN SLEEPER & SATURATED BALLAST WITH FLOWING SAND, JA Zakeri & R Abbasi, Iran Univ of Sci & Tech, Tehran, Iran Points & Switches(PS)  APPLICABILITY OF PREDICTION METHODS FOR CONDITION OF RAILWAY POINTS, T Böhm, German Aero Center, Inst of Transportation Systems, Braunschweig, Germany  INVESTIGATION OF FAILURE STATISTICS WITHIN SWITCHES & CROSSINGS, A Cornish, Imperial College London & E Kassa, Network Rail, London, UK  INFLUENCE OF USP ON DYNAMIC LOAD IN TURNOUT, U Gerber, TU Dresden, Germany, M Hruzíková, Dr O Plášek, Brno Univ of Tech, Czech Republic  DEVELOPING HIGH FIXITY CONDITION USING 3-D POLYMER GEOCOMPOSITES, Prof PK Woodward, J Kennedy, Dr M Banimahd and Dr G Medero, Heriot-Watt Univ, Edinburgh, UK</p><p>Electrification & Signalling(ES)  SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ON EAST LONDON LINE, A Shepherd, Parsons Brinkerhof, Godalming, UK  TRACTION POWER MODELLING FOR POWER SUPPLY AND NETWORK ENHANCEMENTS OF DC METRO SYSTEMS, Dr RS Raghavan, R Hankey, Ove Arup and Partners International Limited, Manchester, UK  COST EFFECTIVE EARTHING SYSTEM FOR UNDERGROUND RAILWAY STATIONS, Dr PS Bansal & Dr S Goh, Mott MacDonald Ltd, Croydon, UK  OBJECTIVE TESTING PROCEDURES TO MAXIMISE RELIABILITY IN TRACTION SUPPLY PROTECTION, C Langridge, Riker Ltd, Beanacre, UK  MAGNETIC FIELD VISUALIZATION FOR CROSSRAIL 25-0-25KV AUTOTRANSFOMER TRACTION POWER SYSTEM, Dr S Goh & T Situ, Mott MacDonald Ltd, Croydon, UK  INVESTIGATION OF ARCING ACROSS INSULATED RAIL JOINTS AT INTERFACE BETWEEN NEW & EXISTING DC TRACTION POWER SYSTEMS, TW Palfreyman, Parsons Brinckerhoff Ltd, UK  EARTHING & BONDING OF 25-0-25 KV AUTOTRANSFORMER TRACTION POWER SYSTEM IN A HIGH CAPACITY UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS SYSTEM, A Swanson, Dr S Goh, Mott MacDonald Ltd, Croydon, UK  STUTTGART SIGNALBOX SIMULATOR A UNIQUE TOOL TO PLAN, TRAIN, & OPTIMIZE TRAIN PROTECTION SYSTEMS, R Schröter, Stuttgarter Strassenbahnen AG (SSB), Stuttgart, Germany  RIGID CONDUCTOR BAR FOR 25-0-25 KV AUTOTRANSFORMER TRACTION POWER SYSTEM, Dr S Goh, Mott MacDonald Ltd, Croydon & R Moulang, UK</p><p>Railway Tunnels(RT)  APPLICATION OF SAFETY IN RAILWAY TUNNELS TSI FOR GB INFRASTRUCTURE, JS Lane, Rail Safety & Standards Board, London, UK  EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF A FIRE DETECTION SYSTEM CONFIGURED AS A MULTI-FUNCTION PORTAL AIMED AT PROTECTING RAILWAY TUNNELS, M Cigolini, RFI spa, Rome, Italy  GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF JABLUNKOV TUNNEL COLLAPSE, Dr F Kresta, ARCADIS Geotechnika a.s., Ostrava, Czech Republic  PRIORITIZING RETROFIT INTERVENTIONS FOR OLD RAILWAY TUNNELS: A METHOD BASED ON COST- BENEFIT ANALYSIS, M Cigolini, RFI spa, Rome, Italy</p><p>Railway Bridges(RB)  RISK-BASED DESIGN OF STRUCTURES FOR IMPACT FROM RAILWAY VEHICLES, JS Lane & K Thompson, Rail Safety & Standards Board, London, UK  REHABILITATION OF “VADU CRISULUI” RAILWAY BRIDGE PILE, TA Hulpus , TU Cluj-Napoca & O Tirla, SC Mavo Transilvania SRL, Romania</p><p>Railway Earthworks(RE)  EFFECTS OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC ON EMBANKMENT STABILITY, R Tan, GR Taylor, AS O’Brien, Mott MacDonald Ltd, Croydon, JS Lane, Rail Safety Standards Board & E Evans, Network Rail, London, UK  VOLUMETRIC IMAGING OF EARTH EMBANKMENT INTERNAL STRUCTURE & MOISTURE MOVEMENT AS A TOOL FOR CONDITION MONITORING, JE Chambers, DA Gunn, PI Meldrum, RD Ogilvy, PB Wilkinson, E Haslam, S Holyoake & J Wragg, BGS, Keyworth, UK  APPROACH OF UNDER-TRACK SURVEY OF EAST JAPAN RAILWAY, T Naito, East Japan Railway Company, Saitama, Japan  EMBANKMENT STIFFNESS CHARACTERISATION USING MASW & CONTINUOUS SURFACE WAVE METHODS, DA Gunn, M Raines, JE Chambers, E Haslam, PI Meldrum, S Holyoake, M Kirkham & J Wragg, BGS, Keyworth, UK</p>