Symposium on Advanced Train Control and Safety Systems for Indian Railways

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
May 26-27, 2017

With participation of Indian Railways, Industry and Academia under the aegis of IRSTE, IRSE and IEEE

Programme

Venue: Kalidas Auditorium

  
Programme for 26 May 2017
09:00 AMRegistration for the Event
Opening ceremony
10:00 AMWelcome Address and Opening of Event by Prof C Mandal, IIT Kharagpur
10:05 AMInvite for Inauguration of Event by Guests of Honour (Lamp Lighting)
10:10 AMAddress by Director, IIT Kharagpur, Prof P P Chakrabarti
10:20 AMAddress by the Advisor (Signal), Shri Arvind Mital
10:40 AMAddress by CSTE/SER, Shri S K Das
10:50 AMAddress by the PIC, CRR, Prof S Roy
10:55 AMAddress by IRSE respresentative, Dr M R Verma
Session 1
11:00 AMImplementation of TPWS in Indian Railways, Raviprakash Karcherla, Thales
11:45 AMTPWS Implementation- Challenges and Expectation, Bijoy Das Quatro Rail Tech Solution Ltd
12:30 PMTea Break
Session 2
12:40 PMTrack and monitor trains, assets and personnel over existing trackside fibre network using distributed acoustic sensing system, PVK Subramanian, Frauscher Sensor Technology India
01:25 PMCentralised Traffic Control and Train management, V G Ramesh Kumar, Gaurav Srivastava, Ansaldo STS India
02:10 PMNetworking Lunch Break
Session 3
03:00 PMTool for Modelling and Validation of Interlocking for Railway Signalling Systems, Chittaranjan Mandal, Dept of Computer Sc and Engg, IIT Kharagpur
03:45 PMMANTRA – Digitisation for TTE Operations, V. Vishwanath, Synergy Software system (invited talk)
04:30 PMERTMS and ETCS – Indian Railways Perspective, Venkata Ramana
05:15 PMAfternoon Tea Break
Session 4
05:25 PMSimulation and analysis of mixed traffic on railway sections, R Vidyadhar, Soumya Dutta, Narayan Rangaraj, Mudit Anand, Madhu N Belur, IIT Bombay
06:30 PMWorkshop session for tool
 
Networking Dinner and cultural event 08:00 PM Onwards
 
Programme for 27 May 2017
Session 5
09:00 AMCab-Signalling with Automatic Train Protection Communication-based IDDM System, Lalit Kumar Mansukhani, South Central Railway
09:45 AMA case study of installing electronic interlocking at  Kharagpur, S V Rao, SER
10:30 AMRailway junction simulation and analysis for mixed rail traffic, Deepak Miglani, Ashish Dogra, Madhu N Belur, Narayan Rangaraj, IIT Bombay
11:15 PMTea Break
Session 6
11:25 PMEnsuring Safety of Communication based Signalling Systems, M R Verma
12:10 AMCommunication Based Train Control System- Urban Mobility, CK Prasad IRSSE, Railtel (invited talk)

Committees

General Chair

  • Chittaranjan Mandal, IIT Kharagpur
  • Sharad Kr Srivastava, DRM/Adra
  • Alok Sinha, CMD, Frauscher, India

Organising Chair

  • Nikhil Swami, EE (S&T), KMRCL, Kolkata
  • S K Das, CSTE/SER
  • Sudip Misra, IIT Kharagpur

Technical Programme Committee

  • Chittaranjan Mandal, IIT Kharagpur
  • Dharmendra Singh, IIT Roorkee
  • Sandeep Mathur, ED/Signal/RDSO
  • Dipankar Sarkar, IIT Kharagpur
  • Subhransu Roy, IIT Kharagpur
  • Ravi-Prakash Karcherla, Thales Group
  • Amitabha Bhattacharya, IIT Kharagpur
  • Soumyajit Dey, IIT Kharagpur
  • Raj Singh, VC, Rayat Bahar University, Mohali

Publications Chair

  • Debdoot Sheet, IIT Kharagpur
  • Bhaskar, SrDCM/SER/Adra

Finance Chair

  • Amitabha Bhattacharya, IIT Kharagpur
  • Ravi-Prakash Karcherla, Thales Group
  • A S Tomar, SrDSTE/SER/Kharagpur

IEEE Liason

  • Alok Kanti Deb, IIT Kharagpur

IRSE Liason

  • Anshul Gupta, DRM/Adra
  • Nikhil Swami, EE (S&T), KMRCL, Kolkata

Industry Liason

  • Anshul Gupta, DRM/Adra
  • Nikhil Swami, EE (S&T), KMRCL, Kolkata
  • M L Sah, SrDSTE/SER/ADRA