Organizing instructions

Conference languages: Slovak, Czech, English.

Objectives:

The aim of the Conference is to present new achievements in the research, development, design, operation and maintenance of rail vehicles.

The Conference will be held under the framework of the week's activities in the railway area named RAILINFORM 2007. RAILINFORM 2007 also includes other events as:

§ ZEL-RAIL 2007, 9^th International Railway Exhibition, Vrutky September 18 - 21, 2007,

§ 15^th International Conference „VRT - modernization of railway tracks“, Žilina, September 18 - 19, 2007 etc.

In the programme of the Conference will be included also visit of the exhibition ZEL-RAIL 2007.

The main Conference topics are:

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

§new legislation and standards (Directives of EC, TSI, EN, UIC Codes, etc.) regarding of the rail vehicle,

§ 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 (REPLY07.DOC), which should be posted not later than April 23, 2007 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.

Preliminary instructions for the authors of papers:

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 7, 2007.

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 June 28, 2007.

ª We ask you to submit your paper by e-mail or CD written in WordPerfect or MS Word and one printed copy of the paper.

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, 2007.

ª Please, send the filled in Reply Card by e-mail or to the following address not later than April 23, 2007.

Assoc. Prof. Ing. Daniel KALINČÁK, PhD.

VTS pri ŽU

Univerzitná 1, 010 26 ŽILINA, SLOVAKIA

Tel.: +421 (0)41 513-2650, Tel./fax: +421 (0)41 5254 440, Mobil: +421 (0)907 586 005

e-mail: daniel.kalincak@fstroj.uniza.sk

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