Organizing instructions

Seminar objectives:

The International Seminar SETRAS 2005 is organized for railway workers, urban transport and factory transport workers, manufacturers and users of track maintenance machines and its components, research, development workers, designers, universities staff and people interested in research, development, design, testing, technology, operation and maintenance of track maintenance machines.

The aim of the Seminar is to bring information to participants about state and perspectives of development in the field of track maintenance machines, small and heavy machinery for track construction and maintenance, track measurement devices and cars etc.

This year the preferred topics of the Seminar are machinery for modernised railway track, rail/road vehicles, equipment for diagnostics of railway track (track recording cars, rail profile measuring equipment, rail flaw detection systems, measuring of rail support stiffness etc.), machines for re-profiling of the rail head on the track and measuring and guiding systems for track maintenance machines.

Further aim of the Seminar SETRAS 2005 is to offer to the firms possibility of presentation its products and services.

Deadlines:

April 15, 2005 Sending of application of the papers including summary,

May 9, 2005 Notifying the participants about qualification of papers for publication,

June 20, 2005 Submitting of full text papers,

July 15, 2005 Submitting detailed information about program and final invitations,

August 26, 2005 Sending application forms for participation on the Seminar,

September 21 - 22, 2005 Seminar.

If you wish to contribute to the Seminar see Call for papers and send Registration form. If you wish to advertise your firm in the Seminar please send to us filed in the form Advertising. If you wish to obtain final invitation form (it will be printed out on July) please send to us filed in Application.

This year participants of the Seminar will visit International railway exhibition ZEL-RAIL 2005.

Information about place of the Seminar you can find at information map and information about urban transport at http://www.dpmz.sk/.

Further information about the Seminar will be continuously updated.

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@fstroj.utc.sk