The University of Delaware (UD) is seeking presentations for its “Big Data” in Railroad Maintenance Planning 2025 conference, to be held Dec. 10-11, 2025, in Newark, Del.
This year’s event “focuses on new and emerging applications of ‘Big Data’ analytics, to include infrastructure and rolling stock maintenance planning and railroad operations,” according to the organizer, UD’s Railroad Engineering and Safety Program, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. It will expand on previous years’ conferences, introducing new and emerging analysis techniques and showing how they can be applied to the large volume of inspection and operational data collected by railways to improve their planning of critical capital and maintenance programs.
Each 20-minute presentation may cover one of the following areas:
- Big Data Problems and Issues in Railroad Engineering, Rolling Stock and Operations.
- Applications of Big Data Solutions to Railroad Engineering, Rolling Stock and Operations Problems.
- Big Data Theory as Applied to Railroad Engineering, Rolling Stock and Operations Problems.
- Problems and Solutions: Case Studies in Big Data in Railroad Engineering, Rolling Stock and Operations.
A 200-word description of the presentation topic must be submitted by June 30, 2025, to Dr. Allan M. Zarembski, Professor and Director of the Railroad Engineering and Safety Program, UD at dramz@udel.edu. Selections will be announced by Aug. 30, 2025. Dr. Zarembski is also soliciting 2025 conference sponsorships.
UD’s Railroad Engineering and Safety Program website will provide more details on the annual event or click here.
