| Positive Train Control Systems Symposium March 2-3, 2005 Ashburn, Virginia |
Steven J. Alleman
Program Director High Speed Rail
With Amtrak for 28 years
Past 6 Years:
General Manager New England Division
Program Director of Fire & Life Safety/Capital projects
Leonard W. Allen III
Leonard Allen is the Program Manager of Intelligent Railroad Systems
in the Office of Research and Development at the Federal Railroad
Administration. He is responsible for development of sensors, digital
communications, computer systems, and the Nationwide Differential Global
Positioning System (NDGPS). These systems are use to improve the safety,
security, and operational effectiveness of U.S. railroads. He also
manages the contract for the operation of the FRA's R&D test center in
Pueblo, Colorado. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Allen served in
the United States Coast Guard for over 20 years in a variety of
assignments including two ships, a communications station, a major
shipbuilding contract, international negotiations, and various electronics
engineering positions.
Brian Caine
Brian Caine holds the position of Business Development Manager at
Lockheed Martin Corporation in Manassas, Virginia. Brian has 20
years of experience in the information technology industry, including
IBM and Lockheed.
Brian has worked in the transportation industry since 1992 — initially
as industry Program Manager on the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Intelligent Transportation Systems National System Architecture Program.
Since 2000, Brian has been working in Lockheed Martin's Rail Systems group,
focusing on development of communication based train control systems and
related industry technology applications.
Ron Hynes
Currently: Associate Director - Railroad Division
Began railroad career at the age of 18. Twenty-five years in the
railroad industry, before joining the NTSB 7 years ago.
Positions held include:
Has also held the positions of:
Has worked for Class 1's and regional railroads. Had a key role in
the design and start-up of two shortlines and two regionals. While
self-employed, he has designed and built the track layout of a loading
facility for unit coal trains. He has also designed and built locomotive
layover heaters and lubrication systems.
Education:
Bob Kollmar
Bob Kollmar is a graduate civil engineer and has been involved with
the railroad industry for 29 years.
Bob worked for Conrail on the Mohawk-Hudson and Allegheny Divisions in
the Engineering Department and served in project management for major
track and signal system programs at the corporate headquarters.
Bob served in the railroad consulting industry for 10 years before being
asked to join Amtrak as Special Assistant to the Vice President of
Engineering and Mechanical.
Since joining Amtrak in 1991, Bob has served in numerous capacities including:
His current responsibilities also include such diverse elements as:
Mr. Kollmar currently serves as President of the American Association of Railroad
Superintendents.
Rick Lederer
Education:
Experience:
Ron Lindsey
Ron began his professional career with IBM in 1970. He subsequently joined the Trustee
Staff of the Penn Central Bankruptcy and has spent the last 30 years evenly split between
railroad management and independent consulting.
As management, he has held positions of Chief Engineer of Communications at Conrail
and Director of Advanced Train Control at CSX. In this latter role, he was the architect
for Communication Based Train Management (CBTM), a PTC system, as implemented
in non-signaled territory.
As an independent consultant, Ron represents no suppliers and focuses on the strategic
deployment of technologies in the rail, intermodal, and utility industries. His primary
services are market studies, customer surveys, and strategic technology planning
sessions. Ron has a 2-day Railroad Immersion Course which has been given to suppliers
to address their markets for current and new products and services. Clients for the course
include Cisco, Union Switch & Signal, Alstom, Bombardier, Qualcomm, and Vanu.
Complimenting his rail domain expertise, Ron recently completed two major strategic IT
architecture studies relative to the intermodal industry, one each at the macro (industry)
and micro (organization) level.
Aligned with his consulting services, Ron publishes a quarterly journal, Full Spectrum,
which addresses the philosophical, strategic, and functional issues relative to the
deployment of technologies in the rail and intermodal industry. Ron has had numerous
articles published in Wireless for the Corporate User and Progressive Railroading as
well an article on PTC in the Journal of Transportation. He has recently accepted a
Contributing Editor assignment with Railway Age.
Ron holds a BS in Metallurgy from Penn State and a MBA from the University of Pittsburgh.
Denise Lyle
Denise Lyle is Director, Advanced Engineering for CSX Transportation. She joined CSXT
in 1981, where she has held various positions of increasing responsibility in the areas
of Train Control and Dispatching. Ms. Lyle has a bachelor's degree in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Alabama.
Ms. Lyle's current responsibilities include project management for the development and
testing of Communications Based Train Management (CBTM). In addition, she is also
responsible for finding and developing technology solutions to improve safety and
derailment performance, decrease cost, and increase productivity.
Ms. Lyle represents CSX Transportation as a member of the RSAC PTC Working Group and
participates in other PTC initiatives such as the NAJPTC Program. She is also a member
of the Transportation Research Board's High Speed Rail IDEA committee.
Tom McFarlin
Tom McFarlin was appointed as the Staff Director for the Signal and Train Control (S&TC)
Division (Federal Railroad Administration - Office of Safety Assurance and Compliance)
headquartered in Washington DC in October 2004. The S&TC division promotes an
understanding of and compliance with Federal maintenance, inspection, and testing
standards for railroad signal and train control and highway-rail grade crossing warning
systems. Mr. McFarlin has more than 35 years of experience in the rail industry.
Mr. McFarlin has more than 20 years of experience working for the Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA). He had been a Deputy Regional Administrator in the FRA's Kansas
City regional office since early 2000 where he was responsible for the management of
the safety inspector resources in the region in all aspects of rail safety. From 1993
to 2000, he served as the S&TC specialist in Kansas City. In 1984, he had accepted a
position with FRA as an S&TC safety inspector in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Mr. McFarlin began his railroad career in 1969. He had graduated from a technical college,
the Youngstown (Ohio) College of Business and Professional Drafting, and started as a
signal helper on a signal gang on the Erie Lackawana Railroad. He held positions with the
railroad of signalman, signal gang foreman, assistant supervisor Communications & Signals,
and supervisor of signal construction.
Jordan Multer, Ph.D.
Dr. Jordan Multer is a human factors engineer with Operator Performance and Safety Division
of the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center. He is currently, the manager of the
Railroad Human Factors Program. This research program supports the Federal Railroad
Administration efforts to create safer rail transportation systems. This program covers
three areas: train control system design, railroad operating practices, and highway-railroad
grade crossings.
Dr. Multer spent the past twenty years investigating human factors issues in the
transportation industry. During that time, he earned his doctorate in experimental
psychology at the University of Connecticut. In addition to rail transportation, he worked
on human factors projects in several transportation modalities. He worked with the FAA to
improve the design of aeronautical charts used by pilots and studied the communications of
Air Traffic Controllers for the purpose of reducing communication errors. For the Federal
Transit Administration, he evaluated specifications for designing detectable warning surface
to assist the visually impaired using public transportation systems. He also worked with
the Coast Guard to identify factors contributing to the improved design of waterway navigation aids.
In working with the Federal Railroad Administration, he supervised several projects
evaluating warning devices for use at highway-railroad grade crossings. These projects
include: an evaluation of alerting devices for making locomotives more conspicuous,
investigating the use of retroreflective markings for making rail cars more visible, and
an evaluation of a wayside audible horn. He is currently working with the railroad
industry to develop and evaluate the use of a close call reporting system as a tool to
manage safety risk and is supervising several projects examining the role of information
and communication technology on railroad operations.
Robert Denny Pascoe
Denny is the Vice President of Technology, Union Switch & Signal, Inc. He has worked
for Union Switch & Signal for the past 30+ years. Before joining the Switch he taught
at West Liberty State College and Jefferson College for 9 years.
He holds a BS degree in Physics from West Liberty State College and a Master's Degree
from Marshall University. He holds Professional Engineer licenses in six states.
Denny is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
a Fellow of the Institute of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE), and a member of the National
Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE).
Alan L. Polivka
Profession: Assistant Vice President, Communications
and Train Control Technologies, Transportation Technology Center, Inc., (TTCI), a wholly
owned subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
Key Qualifications:
Education:
Patents:
Publications:
Eileen Reilly
Eileen Reilly is Vice President, Projects, Engineering, Technology and Signals for the
Alaska Railroad Corporation in Anchorage, AK. Eileen has 23 years experience in
technology initiatives with 10 years as an IBM System Engineer and 13 years of railroad
experience in Information Services, Telecommunication and Signal design and
implementation. She has served as the railroad Project Director for ARRC PTC
initiative since 1998. During her tenure with the railroad she has served in the wide
range of capacities including Management of Information Services, Telecommunications,
Signals and Operations. She holds a Bachelors of Science from Rutgers University.
Randolph R. Resor
Randolph R. Resor is the Vice President, Costing and Economic Analysis,
ZETA-TECH Associates, Inc.
Mr. Resor has 25 years of experience in railroading and rail rapid transit. He
started his career as special assistant to William Dempsey, the incoming president
of the Association of American Railroads, in 1977. In this position, he was involved
in a number of issues of interest to the railroad industry, including waterway user
fees and deregulation of the railroad industry.
After two years at the AAR, Mr. Resor moved to the U.S. Railway Association's
Facilities and Equipment group, where he analyzed Conrail's expenditures for
improvements to its physical plant. This was the period during which Conrail's
viability was in question, so USRA was studying alternatives to Conrail. This
required multiple runs of USRA's Operations Cost Model, for which Mr. Resor
developed cost data.
In 1982 Mr. Resor moved to the New York City Transit Authority, and was assigned
the job of building an operations cost model that would enable NYCTA to assess
budgetary impacts of proposed service changes. After 21 track-caused derailments
in 1983, Mr. Resor was assigned to head a group of analysts studying the extent
of track maintenance deferrals. Their recommendation for a $350 million, five-year
track rehabilitation program was accepted by the Metropolitan Transportation
Authority board (the funding agency for the NYCTA). Mr. Resor and a staff of 22
were assigned responsibility for planning and scheduling the work.
In 1987 Mr. Resor joined ZETA-TECH Associates. His first consulting engagements
were studies of the economics of increased axle loads for rail movements of coal
and other commodities. In 1992, Mr. Resor shared the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers' Rail Transportation Award for this work.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Resor was involved in several studies of the
economic benefits of Positive Train Control (PTC) for railroads, a trade industry
association, suppliers, and the Federal Railroad Administration.
In 1995 a cost allocation model developed by ZETA-TECH was found to be "best
available" by the Interstate Commerce Commission for the purpose of determining
payments by Amtrak to freight railroads.
Mr. Resor is the author of thirty published papers covering transportation cost
analysis, rail operations, and the use of computers in railroading. He is national
treasurer of the Transportation Research Forum, and a member of Transportation
Research Board Committee AT010, Surface Freight Transport Economics and Regulation.
Andrew Schiestel
Andrew Schiestl is Assistant Vice President, Operating Rules & Control Systems for
the Alaska Railroad Corporation in Anchorage, AK. Andrew has 39 years of railroad
experience with 20 years in specification, design, implementation, application,
and safety evaluations of concepts and technologies pertaining to railroad on-board,
wayside, and office systems. He has served in a wide range of capacities in
personnel, research and development, technical training, network design, transportation
and operations. He was director of the Burlington Northern Railway ARES program, and
has partnered with the AAR, and FRA on strategic initiatives such as PTS, PTC, and
safety overlay systems such as the Hy-Rail Limits Compliance system. He holds a Bachelor
and Masters degree from the University of Wisconsin, Superior.
Terry Tse
Terry Tse joined FRA in May 2001 as the program manager, advanced train control
systems for the Next Generation High Speed Rail Program in the Office of Railroad
Development. He started his railroad career when he received a research fellowship
from the Association of American Railroads when he was a graduate student at
Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. After he received his Master of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering degree in 1974, he continued to work for the
AAR in the Track Train Dynamics Program developing computer mathematical models
simulating vehicle dynamics, train dynamics and track/train interaction in order
to reduce derailments and accidents. He joined Conrail Mechnical Department in
1978. In his capacity as Director - Mechanical Engineering, he was instrumental
in developing Locomotive Speed Limiter with Harmon Electronics to fulfil the mandate
of equipping freight trains with ATC in the Northeast Corridor after the infamous
Chase Maryland collision in 1987. After Conrail was acquired by CSXT and NS in
1999, he briefly worked in CSXT as Director-Engineering Analysis in the Mechanical
Engineering Department. During his employment with the railroads, Terry served for
a number of years including a three year term as the chairman in AAR Car Construction
Committee, later known as Equipment Engineering Committee.
Robert C. VanderClute
Bob VanderClute joined the Association of American Railroads as their Senior Vice
President - Safety and Operations in July 2003. His department's responsibilities
include the oversight of the industry's homeland security plan, equipment interchange
standards, car service rules, quality assurance programs, safety initiatives and
issues in environmental, hazardous materials, communication and signals as well as
exercises authority for tank car safety standards and design. In addition he is the
industries liaison with the FRA, NTSB, EPA, FCC and other regulatory bodies.
In 1997 he joined Parsons Brinckerhoff as the Vice President and Program Area
Manager - Rail after a 30-year career with the US rail industry. During his 5 ½ years
with PB he was for 3 years Program Manager, in London UK for the West Coast Route
Modernization Project which encompassed the rebuilding and upgrading of the rail line
between London and Glasgow and Edinburgh Scotland. In addition he spent time in the
China (PRC) as well as being project manager for the implementation plan of the Taiwan
High Speed Railroad, headquartered in Taipei.
His responsibilities with Parsons Brinckerhoff included the development of a railroad
industry strategic plan both for the domestic and international markets, providing
continual internal technical rail support, and provide a professional presence in the
Rail Industry network.
Prior to PB, Bob was Vice President - Operations and Chief Operations Officer of Amtrak.
Reporting directly to Amtrak's President and Chairman, he was responsible for the day to
day operations of the company including the customer service, transportation, procurement
and material management, safety, environmental, engineering and mechanical service centers
and other key corporate responsibilities.
Prior responsibilities with Amtrak included Vice President of Customer Service, Vice
President of Transportation, General Manager of National Operations and General Manager
of the Northeast Corridor. During his career the corporation implemented a high-speed
rail program; embarked on a 6 billion dollar infrastructure improvement program, replaced
virtually its entire motive power and car fleet, and became the largest contract carrier
of commuter services in North America.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee where he majored in transportation, Bob then
joined the New York Central Railroad where he managed several major operations. He
completed various graduate school programs both at the Darden Graduate School of Business
at the University of Virginia, as well as the Harvard Business School. He is a "Fellow"
with CILT and is active in several professional organizations, serving on the board of
both professional and public organizations. Bob resides in the Annapolis, Maryland area
with his wife Carol.
John F. Vogler, Jr.
A native of New Jersey, John F. Vogler, Jr. received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering Degree from Drexel University and is a licensed Professional Engineer. He now
lives along the Atlantic coast with his wife and two daughters.
Upon graduation from Drexel, he entered Conrail's first Communications & Signal Department
Engineering Training program bouncing around the Eastern & Atlantic Regions in New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and New York in various assignments. Since being assigned to Hoboken, New
Jersey, as Signal Supervisor 25 years ago, he has remained with the commuter territory,
joining NJ TRANSIT when it took over passenger service from Conrail in 1983. In 1986 he
was named Engineer of Signal Maintenance and since 1993, he has been Chief Engineer-Signals
& Communications for NJ TRANSIT Rail Operations at its headquarters in Newark, NJ, directing
planning, estimating, design, construction, inspection, and maintenance of the signals and
communications section of the Infrastructure Engineering department. NJ TRANSIT Rail now
operates more than 650 daily trains over a 525 track-mile system in three states.
He represents the American Public Transit Association and NJ TRANSIT on the Federal Railroad
Administration's (FRA) Rail Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC) Positive Train Control (PTC)
Working Group that after almost six years of rail-industry-wide effort, developed recommendations
and proposed rules for PTC systems. A member of IEEE, he is participating in the Rail Transit
Vehicle Interface Standards Committee Working Group #2 that is continuing development of
standards for Rail Transit Communications-Based Train Control systems. He has just recently
begun participation in a voluntary advisory subcommittee to the University of Virginia (UVA)
Center of Rail Safety-Critical Excellence, whose mission is to support a unique collaboration
of UVA's School of Engineering and Applied Science with the Association of American Railroads,
FRA, railroads, APTA, maglev, rail labor, and rail suppliers. The Center is developing validated
and verified tool sets for the probabilistic behavior of processor-based control systems, which
is supported by FRA in the RSAC PTC Working Group.
Today's presentation is about the multi-year project underway throughout NJ TRANSIT Rail to
improve safety by implementing an Advanced Speed Enforcement System (ASES). ASES meets RSAC's
guidelines for PTC by combining conventional cab-signal based automatic train control (ATC)
technology with an intermittent transponder-based Speed Enforcement System (SES). Since 1997,
NJ TRANSIT has completed the portion of the project that equips over 285 additional track miles
of its system with ATC; the initial 23 miles of SES-only has been in service since 2001. Design
and installation is well under way to so that by 2008, it will have its entire commuter rail
system equipped with ASES. Mr. Vogler is directing this project that is budgeted at approximately
$140 million.
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