Day 12: June 18, 2013

I started the day editing the presentation and incorporating the changes that were discussed yesterday (new maps, change colors, a reorganize graphs). After that I went to the Hay Seminar presentation. Gilles Saussine (Group Head of Soil Mechanics and Infrastructure at SNCF) gave a presentation on "Ballast Flying and Projection Phenomena: Issues and Challenges". I really enjoyed it, especially when he talked about how they faced the different challenges. Moreover, I found very interesting that they are already planning on change the operation speed of some segments of the high speed lines, based on their modelling results.

After the presentation, Jesus explained us how to look for certain information in the timetables and how to use them to double check the RCRMS data.

Today:

-Work on the changes of the risk analysis presentation (done)
-Continue reading Athaphon kawprasert's dissertation (no time)
-Read some articles to start deciding about my specific research topic (to be finished)
-Literature review on Railroad Hazmat Transportation (to be finished)
-Attend the weekly RailTEC meeting (Hay Seminar Presentation) (done)

Next day:

-Continue reading Athaphon kawprasert's dissertation
-Read some articles to start deciding about my specific research topic 
-Literature review on Railroad Hazmat Transportation