6:45 AM – 4:00 PM
Registration
6:45 – 7:15 AM
Breakfast
7:30 – 9:25 AM
General Session
7:30 – 7:40 AM
Safety Briefing & President's Address
AREMA President: Michael P. Freeman, II, PE, Union Pacific
7:40 – 8:00 AM
Keynote Speaker
Lance M. Fritz, Chairman, President and CEO, Union Pacific
8:00 – 8:45 AM
Engage with AREMA Panel
8:45 – 8:55 AM
Technical Committee Leaders Recognition & Young Professionals Experience Winners
8:55 – 9:00 AM
AREMA Educational Foundation Scholarship Winners
9:00 – 9:05 AM
REMSA Award
9:05 – 9:10 AM
Engineer of the Year Award
9:10 – 9:25 AM
Dr. William W. Hay Award for Excellence
Michael W. Franke, Amtrak (Retired), Chair, Hay Award Committee
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Coffee Break in Expo
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Expo
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Communications, Signals & Information Technology Presentation: Use of Train Control Systems for Incident Management in Tunnels, Bernd Hagenah, PhD, and Sean Cassady, HNTB Corporation, and Hans-Peter Vetsch, Vetsch Rail Consulting GmbH.
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Engineering Services Presentation: Solving the EOWA crossing of the CP Bensenville Yard Puzzle, Manar Nashif, PE, Illinois Tollway, Chris T. Keckeisen, Union Pacific Railroad, and Daniel Sabatka, PE, Canadian Pacific Railway
11:00 - 11:30 AM
Maintenance-of-Way Presentation: MTA Metro-North Commuter Railroad: Building of a Track Geometry Vehicle, Lariza Stewart, ENSCO, Inc., and Anamaria Bonilla, PE, Metro North Railroad
11:30 AM – Noon
Track Presentation: Class I Demonstration of LRAIL 3D Laser Scanning and Change Detection Technology and Development of Track Component Heath Indices (TCHIs), J. Riley Edwards, PE, Arthur de Oliveira Lima, and Ian Germoglio Barbosa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Noon – 12:30 PM
Structures Presentation: Repair of Collapsed BNSF Gateway Sub Tunnel #4 in Keddie, California, Carol A. Ravano, PE, McMillen Jacobs Associates, Hal Lewandoski, Jr., BNSF Railway, and Brett Mainer, Drill Tech Drilling and Shoring, Inc.
12:30 – 1:00 PM
Passenger & Transit Presentation: Eglinton Crosstown West Extension: Leveraging Technology to Enhance Program Management and Collaboration, Luv Sehgal, PE, Alexa Hinves, and Peter R. Guest, PE, Arup
Noon – 2:00 PM
Lunch in Expo
1:00 – 4:00 PM
Headshot Lounge
Meet the Next Generation Events Coming Soon
2:00 – 4:30 PM
Committee Meetings