Organizing instructions

 

The main Conference topics are:

§   the new concepts of transport systems with regard to rail vehicles,

§    design of rail vehicles and their main systems (e.g. engines, power transmission, control systems, braking systems, auxiliaries, equipment for passenger compartments, etc.),

§    technical means of combined transport,

§    theoretical problems in the development and design of rail vehicles,

§    safety of rail vehicles,

§    experimental methods and testing of rail vehicles,

§    materials and technologies in construction of rail vehicles,

§    systems and rail vehicles for mass urban transport,

§      information systems of rail vehicles,

§    operation of rail vehicles,

§    diagnostics, maintenance and servicing of rail vehicles,

§      environmental aspects of rail vehicles,

§      road/rail vehicles,

§    special vehicles (rail cranes, catenary inspection vehicles, track maintenance machines, track recordings cars, bi-modal vehicles etc.).

 

The programme and organizing committee looks forward to your papers in the areas mentioned above. The papers will be published in the Proceedings of the Conference. Please, mark your interest in the enclosed participation form (REPLY03.DOC), which should be posted not later than May 12, 2003 to our address. You will get detailed information about the Conference in the invitation form at the end of July.

      We offer to firms a possibility of advertising on this Conference. If you are interesting in advertising, please mark it in Reply Form and we will send you detailed information.

 

Conference languages: Slovak, Czech, English

 

Instructions for the authors of papers:

 

(New: Guidelines for writing papers, Template of the paper - see sectiondownload)

 

ª    The reply card has to contain authors' and co-authors´ names, title of the paper and abstract of the paper.

ª     The decision of the programme committee regarding the acceptance of your paper, together with detailed instructions will be sent to you by May 31, 2003.

ª     The full text of papers must be sent to us in camera ready form up to 8 pages in format B5 (including pictures and graphs) not later than July 7, 2003.

ª     We ask you to submit your paper also on a diskette (or by e-mail) written in WordPerfect, Word etc. and pictures in suitable format (e.g. *.pcx, *.bmp, *.jpg, *.cdr., *.wpg etc.).

ª     The programme of the Conference and the invitation form with detailed information about the Conference, room and board etc. will be sent by the end of July, 2003.

ª     Please, send the filled in Reply Card by e-mail or to the following address not later than May 12, 2003.

Assist. Prof. Ing. Daniel KALINCAK, PhD.
VTS pri ZU
Moyzesova 20,  010 26 ZILINA, SLOVAKIA
Tel.: (+421 419) 513-2650
Tel./fax: (+421 41) 5254 440
e-mail: daniel_kalincak@kkvmz.utc.sk