Committee
Conference Chairman
Professor Joao Pombo, Institute of Railway Research, University of Huddersfield, UK and LAETA, IDMEC, IST-University of Lisbon and ISEL-Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Portugal
Editorial Board
Prof. João Abdalla, Brazil
Dr. Aoife Ahern, Ireland
Dr. Pedro Aires Montenegro, Portugal
Prof. Makoto Akama, Japan
Prof. Babakalli Alkali, UK
Dr. Leon Allen, USA
Prof. Paul Allen, UK
Dr. Hamid Alturbeh, UK
Dr. Pedro Alves Costs, Portugal
Prof. Jorge Ambrósio, Portugal
Dr. Andréas Andersson, Sweden
Prof. José Maria André, Portugal
Dr. Pedro Antunes, UK
Mr. Rakesh Athukattu, UK
Dr. Lutz Auersch-Saworski, Germany
Dr. Ilhan Aydin, Turkey
Dr. Brian Bachinilla, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Luis Baeza, Spain
Dr. Morteza Bagheri, Iran
Dr. Marco Baldeiras, Portugal
Prof. Sami Barmada, Italy
Dr. James Bell, Germany
Prof. Liedi Bernucci, Brazil
Dr. Yann Bezin, UK
Dr. Joanna Binstead, UK
Prof. Liviu Bocii, Romania
Prof. Nicola Bosso, Italy
Prof. Nebojsa Bojovic, Serbia
Prof. Ralf Borndörfer, Germany
Dr. Peter Brooks, UK
Prof. Stefano Bruni, Italy
Prof. Nikhil Bugalia, India
Dr. Alexander Burrows, UK
Dr. Mark Burstow, UK
Prof. Xiaopei Cai, China
Prof. Rui Calçada, Portugal
Prof. Ricardo Carrazedo, Brazil
Dr. Armando Carrillo Zanuy, Belgium
Prof. José Casado, Spain
Prof. Serge Chaumette, France
Prof. Francesco Corman, Switzerland
Dr. Sofia Costa d’Aguiar, France
Dr. Brian Counter, UK
Prof. Catalin Cruceanu, Romania
Prof. Cassio de Paiva, Brazil
Prof. Geert Degrande, Belgium
Dr. Antonio de Santiago Laporte, Spain
Prof. Cláudius de Sousa Barbosa, Brazil
Prof. Luigi Dell´Olio, Spain
Dr. Amine Dhemaied, France
Prof. Efrén Díez Jiménez, Spain
Dr. Florian Dignath, Germany
Prof. Zuzana Dimitrovová, Portugal
Prof. Denis Duhamel, France
Dr. David Edwards, USA
Prof. Jose Escalona, Spain
Prof. Morteza Esmaeeli, Iran
Dr. Alan Facchinetti, Italy
Prof. Mingjing Fang, China
Prof. Patrícia Ferreira, Portugal
Dr. Bartosz Firlik, Poland
Dr. Valenti Fontsere Pujol,Spain
Prof. Eduardo Fortunato, Portugal
Prof. Pedro Galvín, Spain
Prof. Liang Gao, China
Dr. Marinaldo Gaspareto, Brazil
Dr. Xiaocheng Ge, UK
Prof. Juraj Gerlici, Slovak Republic
Prof. José Goicolea, Spain
Prof. António Gomes Correia, Portugal
Prof. Michael Hartnett, UK
Dr. Hassan Hemida, UK
Dr. Stuart Hillmansen, UK
Dr. Leos Hornicek, Czech Republic
Dr. Bowen Hou, China
Prof. Chris Johnson, UK
Dr. Stasha Jovanovic, Serbia
Dr. Makoto Ishida, Japan
Dr. Ignacio Jardi, Spain
Prof. Guoqing Jing, China
Prof. Shen-Haw Ju, Taiwan
Prof. Young-Hoon Jung, South Korea
Dr. Sakdirat Kaewunruen, UK
Dr. Jan Kalivoda, Czech Republic
Prof. Raid Karoumi, Sweden
Prof. Elias Kassa, Norway
Dr. Georges Kouroussis, Belgium
Prof. Piotr Koziol, Poland
Prof. Sinisa Krajnovic, Sweden
Dr. Naim Kuka, France
Prof. Omar Laghrouche, UK
Prof. Yung-Cheng Lai, Taiwan
Dr. Louis Le Pen, UK
Prof. Martin Lehnert , Germany
Prof. Roger Lewis, UK
Dr. Stephen Lewis, UK
Prof. Zili Li, The Netherlands
Dr. Riccardo Licciardello, Italy
Prof. Yujin Lim, South Korea
Dr. Niels Lindner, Germany
Dr. Richard Loendersloot, The Netherlands
Prof. Zhigang Liu, China
Prof. Rosário Macário, Portugal
Dr. Hugo Magalhães, UK
Prof. Jacek Magiera, Poland
Prof. Ashwin Mahalingam, India
Dr. Valeri Markine, The Netherlands
Prof. María Martínez Rodrigo, Spain
Prof. Akira Matsumoto, Japan
Prof. Traian Mazilu, Romania
Dr. Guiming Mei, China
Dr. Enrico Meli, Italy
Prof. Andrei Metrikine, The Netherlands
Dr. Yohei Michitsuji, Japan
Dr. Milos Milenkovic, Serbia
Prof. Sudhir Misra, India
Dr. Yoshitsugu Momoya, Japan
Dr. Miquel Morata Royes, Spain
Dr. Susana Moretto, Portugal
Dr. John Morris, UK
Dr. Pedro Museros Romero, Spain
Prof. Hideo Nakamura, Japan
Prof. Chris Nash, UK
Dr. Petter Navik, Norway
Dr. Florin Nemtanu, Romania
Dr. Sérgio Neves, UK
Dr. Margarita Novales, Spain
Prof. Yonggul Park, South Korea
Prof. Michael Pecht, USA
Dr. Giovanni Pio Pucillo, Italy
Dr. Oldrich Polach, Switzerland
Prof. Adam Prokopowicz, USA
Prof. John Preston, UK
Prof. Carsten Proppe, Germany
Dr. Luca Pugi, Italy
Prof. Christos Pyrgidis, Greece
Prof. Yanjun Qiu, China
Prof. Yi Qing Ni, China
Prof. Ravi Ravitharan, Australia
Prof. Pradip Ray, India
Prof. Alex Remennikov, Australia
Dr. Diogo Ribeiro, Portugal
Prof. Stefano Ricci, Italy
Prof. Clive Roberts, UK
Prof. Mark Robinson,UK
Prof. Anders Rønnquist, Norway
Dr. Javier Royo, Spain
Dr. Roberto Sañudo Ortega, Spain
Dr. Gilles Saussine, France
Prof. Werner Schiehlen, Germany
Prof. Christian Schindler, Germany
Dr. Thomas Schlechte, Germany
Dr. K. E. Seetharam, Japan
Prof. Ahmed Shabana, USA
Dr. Rakesh Sharma, India
Prof. Xiaozhen Sheng, China
Prof. Marek Sitarz, Poland
Dr. Klaus Six, Austria
Prof. Andrew Smith, UK
Dr. Anastasiia Solodovnyk, Germany
Dr. Yang Song, Norway
Prof. Roberto Spinola Barbosa, Brazil
Dr. Michaël Steenbergen, The Netherlands
Prof. Sebastian Stichel, Sweden
Prof. Salvatore Strano, Italy
Dr. Hiroyuki Sugiyama, USA
Prof. Makoto Tanabe, Japan
Prof. Constantine Tarawneh, USA
Prof. Yoshiaki Terumichi, Japan
Dr. Denise Thölken, Brazil
Prof. David Thomson, UK
Prof. Takahiro Tomioka, Japan
Dr. Daniel Toth, UK
Prof. Hans True, Denmark
Prof. Hitoshi Tsunashima, Japan
Prof. Mauro Tucci, Italy
Mr. David Vamplew, UK
Mr. Ruud van Bezooijen, The Netherlands
Dr. Karel van Dalen, The Netherlands
Dr. José Varandas, Portugal
Dr. Leonardo Vianna, Brazil
Dr. Joachim Winter, Germany
Prof. Peter Woodward, UK
Prof. Tianxing Wu, China
Dr. Xinbiao Xiao, China
Dr. Ziquan Yan, China
Prof. Guowei Yang, China
Prof. Yeong-Bin Yang, Taiwan
Dr. Zhen Yang, The Netherlands
Prof. Jabbarali Zakeri, Iran
Prof. Nicolò Zampieri, Italy
Dr. Jason Zheng Jiang, UK
Prof. Jian-Yong Zuo, China