Urban Rail Transit

For practical professional experiences in railway systems, Dr. Kirawanich is an EMC specialist and consultant coordinating EMC matters at system level across all M&E subsystems and establishing EMC compliance of the whole railway as a complete system, and preparing the management plan to ensure the earthing, bonding, stray current and lightning protection activities carried out over all M&E disciplines.

Dr Anna Fraszczyk has been investigating travel behaviour research and community engagement over the last 13+ years. She has co-authored a number of papers and book chapters focused on various issues, from public perception of driverless trains in Sydney to barriers to digital learning in rail to women in transport issues globally, with statistical analysis as her primary method of interest. She has worked at universities in the UK and in transit simulation modeling Thailand and presented her research outcomes at various international transport conferences.

Dr Marin Marinov is a lecturer at Aston University who specialises in rail transport, simulation modelling and logistics. His expertise include rail operations studies, baggage handling systems, metro performance and expansion of urban rail networks, simulation modelling methodologies, urban freight by rail and logistics. Dr. Marin's recent work on sustainable rail systems and decarbonisation looks at developing terrorist threat mitigation strategies for the railways, reviewing mechanisms for obstacle detection and analysing and comparing different methods used for calculating emissions of rolling stock based on their types and modes of operation (diesel, electric and bi-mode), a comparison between conventional, freight and high speed rail and alternative fuels for diesel and bi-mode locomotives compared based on their environmental impact.