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Special Session #1: - VPPC 2020

VPPC 2020 > Program > Special Sessions – Closed > Special Session #1:

IEEE VTS Workshop on Electrical Railway Systems

Co-chair: Zedong Zheng (Tsinghua University) – China
Co-chair: Zhongbei Tian (University of Birmingham) – UK

Call For Papers

This special session intends to be the seed of an Electrical Railway Workshop inside the VPPC Conference. The full day workshop would be organized by the IEEE Ad’hoc Committee for Electrical Railway Systems.  The workshop will consist on a Keynote speaker, several special sessions (oral/poster) (depending on the number of papers received) and a panel session.  The workshop will be focused in the technology and systems relating to high speed rail, urban transit, heavy haul freight, metro, fixed guideway transit, and electric railway systems, including the components and systems used in both automated and non-automated systems. The workshop will cover topics such as: communications, Train control, cybersecurity, simulation and modeling, traction power and distribution, Overhead Contact Systems and other feeding systems, power systems, system safety, reliability, environmental and system requirements.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to technologies and systems for high speed rail, urban transit, heavy haul freight, metro, fixed guideway transit, and electric railway systems such as:

  • Simulation and modeling
  • Power Systems (Traction Power and Distribution, Overhead Contact Systems, and Other Feeding Systems)
  • Communications
  • Train Control
  • Cybersecurity
  • System Safety
  • Reliability
  • Environmental and System Requirements

Applications of interest:  This workshop will try to activate the networking within the railway community inside the VPPC conference in particular and also at IEEE VTS level.

Zedong Zheng Bio: Zedong Zheng，IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, Associate Professor and deputy dean of the of Dept. Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China. He also serves as the Conference Activities Chair of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Technical Committee on Transportation Electrification, Secretary of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Ad’hoc Committee of Electrical Railway Systems. His research interest includes High Performance AC motor control, Power electronics transformer, Multi-level converter, Electric traction system, Electric propulsion system. He has more than 150 research papers peer-reviewed top ranked journals and top class international conference.

 

Zhongbei Tian Bio:  Dr Zhongbei Tian received the BEng degree at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and PhD degree at the University of Birmingham. He is currently a Research Fellow in Railway Power Systems within the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include railway traction power systems modelling and analysis, energy systems optimization, advanced traction power systems design, energy harvesting, and ‘Rail to Grid’ energy systems integration and management. His research has been published in a number of international journals and implemented in projects across the world, including the Edinburgh Tram in the UK, the SMRT in Singapore and the Beijing and Guangzhou Metro in China. He was the winner of the prestigious 2016 European Partnership for Railway Energy Settlement Systems (ERESS) Award for Best Energy Efficiency Project for Railways.

Submission Deadline: 8 June 2020
Acceptance notification: 17 July 2020
Final paper submission deadline: 7 August 2020

To submit papers for this Special Session, please visit:
https://vppc2020.trackchair.com/track/1890