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Proposed Schedule for Railways Workshop 2015

 Sr  From  To  Title  Speaker  Organization
 01

 09:30

 09:45

Introduction to workshop

Prof. Narayan Rangaraj

IIT Bombay

 02

 09:45

 10:00

Capacity and infrastructure investment decision making process on Indian Railways

Mr. Mukul Mathur

Railway Board
 03  10:00

 10:15

Issues/challenges facing IR in freight ops

Mr. Rinkesh Roy

CRIS
 04  10:15  10:30

Signalling requirements and developments on IR

Mr. Arun Saksena

Railway Board
 05  10:30  10:45

Issues/challenges facing IR in passenger ops

Mr. S. K. Prasad

CRIS
   10:45  11:00 Q&A

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   11:00  11:30

Tea Break

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 06

 11:30

 11:45

Railway research at IIT B

Prof. Narayan Rangaraj

IIT Bombay

 07

 11:45

 12:00

Scheduling in transportation networks

Prof. Abhiram Ranade

IIT Bombay
 08

 12:00

 12:15

Container operations

Prof. Nomesh Bolia

IIT Delhi
 09

 12:15

 12:30

Railway timetabling and infrastructure planning

Prof. Raghavan / Prof.  Prasanna

IIIT Bangalore
 10

 12:30

 12:45

Simulation of rail traffic (suburban operations)

Mr. Devendra Shelar

MIT
 

 12:45

 13:00

Q&A

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 13:00

 14:00

Lunch Break

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 11

 14:00

 14:15

Railway research at TCS

Dr. S. SenGupta

TCS
 12

 14:15

 14:30

Railway crew management

Mr. Arun Lila

IBM
 13

 14:30

 14:45

OR in railways

Dr. Manish Kumar

Mathologic
 14

 14:45

 15:00

Railway focus at TCS

Mr. Sunil Joshi

TCS
 15

 15:00

 15:15

Konkan Railway experience

Mr. Harsh Kumar

NIFM
   15:15  15:30

Q&A

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   15:30  16:00

Tea Break

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 16  16:00  16:15 TBD

Mr. A. K. Srivastava /   Mr. Pankaj Uke

Western Railway

 17  16:15  16:30 TBD

Dr. Amitabh Ojha

Central Railway
 18  16:30  16:40

Operational management of petroleum rakes

Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan

Railway Board
 19  16:40  16:50

Railway pricing

Mr. K. N. Singh

Central Railway
 20  16:50  17:45

Panel discussion

Moderator - Dr. S. SenGupta

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 21  17:45  18:00

Concluding remarks

Prof. G. Raghuram

IIM Ahmedabad