Prominent railway experts and professional research workers presented at the ‘8th World Congress on Railway research’ in Seoul their new railway technologies (18-22 may 2008). The congress offered international possibilities for all participating companies and experts in railway area.

Movares sended a number of delegates with divergent subjects to Seoul:

Frits Makkinga - Timetable Analysis of the Netherlands Railways (NS), A new systematic analysis method for the causes of timetable punctuality deviations

John Wassenaar - Transfrontier route triggering, Efficiently linking the train control systems of two neighbouring countries

Maurice Janssen, Erwin Smulders - Simulations and measurements on electrical resonances on the Portuguese 25 kV network

Jeroen van Waes, Erwin Smulders - EMC aspects of voltage changeover areas

Further information: www.wcrr2008.org.