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April 15^th – 16^th, 2010
Communicating Good Practices workshop

The European Commission with support from the European Level Crossing Forum is organising a high-level workshop focused on the communication of good practices between member states. The workshop is to be held in Brussels, Belgium. It is intended that education of road users and pedestrians will be an important sub-theme within the workshop.

April 21st, 2010
Railway Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA), Queensland Chapter

The speaker at the RTSA local meeting and annual lunch is Larry Matters, Senior Transport Investigator (Rail), Australian Transport Safety Bureau who will speak on the subject of the Rungoo level crossing accident which occurred in November 2008.

The meeting and lunch which starts at 12.30 is to be held at the Mercure Harbourside Hotel in Cairns, QLD. For further information please contact:
qld@engineersaustralia.org.au

April 27th - May 2nd, 2010 8th Annual Operation Lifesaver Canada Rail Safety Week
Canada’s Operation Lifesaver is developing plans for the 8th Annual Rail Safety Week. To discuss how you can participate to make Rail Safety Week a truly memorable event, please contact Dan Di Tota, National Director, Operation Lifesaver Canada at dand@railcan.ca

April 27th, 2010
Let’s save lives: Operation Lifesaver Estonia’s international conference

Operation Lifesaver Estonia is organising a one-day conference with international input to promote knowledge transfer and spread of good practice measures to reduce risk at level crossings. The conference will offer simultaneous translation between Estonian and English.

Registration for the conference to be held at the Meriton Grand Hotel in Tallinn is free. For further information contact Tamo Vahemets at ole@ole.ee or by telephone at +372 61 56 777

April 27th – 29th, 2010
Joint Rail Conference 2010

The Joint Rail Conference 2010 is entitled “High-Speed and Intercity Passenger Rai”. This conference is being held at the University of Illinois in Champaign - Urbana.

For more information contact: Kim Hagemann at the University of Illinois on (217) 244-0841 or by emailat: jrc-2010@illinois.edu

May 4th – 5th, 2010
Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Safety Course

The University of Wisconsin is holding a two day training course addressing level crossing safety. The course teaches the basic principles of level crossing safety and applies them to existing and new projects. Topics covered are

Programme roles of state and local governments, including funding
US DOT national grade crossing inventory
Traffic control devices
Geometric design and grade separations
Level crossing roadway surfaces
Crossing closures and consolidation strategies
Public education and outreach programmes
Train detection and warning systems
Traffic signal pre-emption
Interconnection of level crossing warning devices and traffic signals
Quiet zones
Wayside horns

Further information on the course which is to be held on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus is available at http://epd.engr.wisc.edu/webL377

June 22nd, 2010 European Level Crossing Awareness Day
The second pan-European Level Crossing Awareness Day (ELCAD) is being organised by the European Level Crossing Forum in association with stakeholders at European and national levels. Further details are available from Ilyas Daoud at the International Union of Railways (daoud@uic.org)

June 22nd – 24th, 2010
2010 Rail Corridor Safety Conference – Working Together for Mobility and Safety.

This conference is to be held in the Hotel Murano, 1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma, Washington 98402. Phone: (253) 627-3167. For more information contact: Helen Bassham, Institute of Transportation Studies – University of California by ‘phone at (510) 665-3628 or email at: hbassham@berkeley.edu

August 29th – September 1st, 2010
16th Operation Lifesaver International Symposium and Training Seminars

The 16th Operation Lifesaver International Symposium and Training Seminars will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.

Operation Lifesaver says that this leadership conference will be packed with helpful information, inspiring speakers, and refresher training for key highway-rail safety and trespass prevention officials.

Registration will begin in January, 2010. For further information, send an email with a subject line of 16th Symposium to general@oli.org

Preliminary Schedule

Sunday, August 29th, 2010
State Coordinators Meeting - (for Operation Lifesaver State Coordinators only)
Monday, August 30th, 2010
8:00 am – Noon
Trainers’ Day - (a ticketed event for Certified OL Trainers only) 1:00 pm Symposium Begins
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Symposium sessions all day
Wednesday, September 1
Symposium sessions end 11:00 am

August 31^st – September 2^nd, 2010
The 12th International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and other Transit Systems (COMPRAIL 2010)

This conference which is to be held in Beijing, China aims to update the use of computer-based techniques, promoting their general awareness throughout the business management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other advanced passenger, freight and transit systems.

The meeting provides a forum for engineers, planners, designers, manufacturers and operators, to discuss how they can benefit from the latest developments. It will also provide a forum for transit and rail operators.

The conference will be of interest to all have an interest in the development and application of computer techniques for the solution of problems in the railway and other mass transit systems.

The conference organisers have announced that level crossings and obstacle detection will be a topic area to be addressed at COMPRAIL 2010. More information is available at: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/10-conferences/comprail-2010.html

September 29th, 2010

The Du Page Rail Safety Council will hold its biennial symposium at McDonald’s Corporate Campus (aka Hamburger University) in Oak Brook, Illinois. The symposium is entitled “Prevent Tragedy on the Tracks: New Frontiers in Rail Travel”. Contact Carole Messana for more information at carolemessana@ameritech.net

October 26th – 29th, 2010
11th Global Level Crossing Symposium

The 11th Global Level Crossing Symposium, organised by East Japan Railway (JR East) is to be held in Tokyo, Japan. Key dates are

February 28th, 2010: Deadline of the submission of the abstract of papers
June 30th, 2010: Confirmation of accepted abstracts
August 31st, 2010: Deadline for conference registration
September 30th, 2010: Deadline of the submission of the full paper

Contacts are:

For further information on the symposium
Mr.Koei Gemba, International Department, East Japan Railway Company Tel: +81-3-5334-1150 Fax: +81-3-5334-1110 E-mail: k-genba@jreast.co.jp

For submission of abstract
Mr. Koichiro Suzuki C/O UIC, 6th Floor Avenue des Arts 53, B1000 Brussels, BELGIUM Tel: +32-2-213-0828 E-mail: suzuki@uic.org

May 22nd – 26th, 2011
9th World Congress on Railway Research

The 9th World Congress on Railway Research (WCRR) is to be held in Lille, France. The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 14th, 2010 with confirmation of their acceptance scheduled for November 2nd, 2010.

For more information on WCRR visit www.wcrr2011.org