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A Systems Approach to Developing a new Metro for Megalopoleis

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  • Thursday, 12 May 2016
  • 17:12 - 17:12
  • Duration: 25 mins
  • Publication date: 06 Jul 2016
  • Location: NA, Hotel Metropole, Brussels, Belgium
  • Part of event ICRE 2016

About the session

The organising committee are pleased to announce that the 5th instalment of the IET International Conference on Railway Engineering (ICRE) will be held from the 12th to the 13th of May 2016 in Belgium. The 2016 event, which will be the first time the conference has been held in Europe, will centre on the theme of “Enhancing Railway Operations” and will include a mix of keynote speeches, technical sessions, and site visits. The ICRE is held every two to three years and aims to provide a forum for sharing knowledge and experience, promoting collaboration among practitioners, and reporting applications of new technologies in railway engineering. The previous instalment of the conference, ICRE 2014, was held in Hong Kong and brought together railway professionals from around the world to discuss the theme of “Integrating Customer Experience in the Railway”.

Keywords:
  • Metro
  • energy
  • rail network
  • transport link

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    Marcelo Blumfield

    Marcelo Blumenfeld is a PhD candidate at the at the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education at the University of Birmingham, where he is using systems engineering and back-casting methods to develop an optimised Metro system for megalopoleis. With an MSc in Transport Planning and a BA in Industrial Design, his main areas of interest are the design of complex systems and the application of future technologies in sustainable transport. Marcelo was a speaker at the TEDx University of Leeds 2012, and has since written various articles on the future of sustainable mobility for organisations such as JMP, EMBARQ, and Mobilize.
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