6:30 AM – 6:00 PM
Registration
6:30 – 7:00 AM
Continental Breakfast/Winning Student Posters' Display (AREMA)
7:15 – 11:30 AM
General Session (AREMA)
7:15 – 7:30 AM
AREMA Welcome, Safety Briefing & President's Address
AREMA President: James K. Kessler, PE, VP Engineering, North Carolina Railroad Company
7:30 – 7:40 AM
Dr. William W. Hay Award for Excellence
7:40 – 7:50 AM
Educational Foundation Scholarship Winners
7:50 – 7:55 AM
Member-Get-A-Member Winners
7:55 – 8:00 AM
Program Chair Introduction
Edward D. Sparks, II, PE, Assistant Chief Engineer of Structures, CSX Transportation
8:00 – 10:00 AM
Exhibit Hall Breakfast & Coffee Break
8:00 – 11:30 AM
Exhibition Open
8:00 – 8:30 AM
Engineering Services Presentation: Railway Resilience - Experience from the Kaikoura Earthquake, Daniel Headifen, Kiwirail Network (New Zealand Railways Corporation)
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Communications & Signals Presentation: Safety and Security of Movable Rail Bridges, Duminda Wijesekera, George Mason University and Francesco Bedini Jacobini, Federal Railroad Administration
9:00 – 10:30 AM
Railyard Breakfast
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Technical & Educational Sessions (RSI)
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Railyard Exhibits Open
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Maintenance-of-Way Presentation: Utilizing Surface and Subsurface Trackbed Inspection Techniques to Help Plan and De-risk Undercutting Operations on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, Amanda Kessler, PE, Amtrak and Asger Eriksen, Zetica Rail
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Track Presentation: Remediation of Untestable Rail Due to Surface Conditions, Daniel W. Hampton, CSX Transportation and Charles P. Rudeen, Loram Maintenance of Way, Inc.
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Structures Presentation: Upgrades to Bridge Management Practices, Jeremy Koonce, PE, SE, Collins Engineers, Inc., William S. Riehl, III, PE, F.SAME and Philip M. Ogram, Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Services, Inc.
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Passenger & Transit Presentation: CTrail Hartford Line: Rail Passenger Revival in New England, Jeffrey T. Schultz, PMP and Richard Bertoli, PE, PMP, WSP USA
Noon – 2:00 PM
Railyard Lunch
11:45 AM – Noon
Railway Interchange General Session & LRW Woman of the Year Award Recognition (All Invited)
Noon – 1:00 PM
Railway Interchange Main Stage (All Invited)
Keynote Speaker: Vernice Armour, America's First African American Female Combat Pilot
1:00 – 2:30 PM
Lunch in Exhibit Hall
1:00 – 5:00 PM
Headshot Lounge
1:00 – 6:00 PM
Exhibition Open
2:00 – 3:00 PM
Meet the Next Generation Panel Discussion
3:00 – 5:00 PM
Meet the Next Generation Networking Event
2:00 – 4:30 PM
Committee Meeting
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Railway Interchange Oktoberfest Reception (Exhibit Hall)