The Research Center for Wheel-Rail Relations and Maintenance has recently carried out a number of international exchanges and cooperation.

Under the leadership of Zhai Wanming, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the wheel-rail relationship and maintenance research center of Tianjin High-end equipment Research Institute of Tsinghua University (hereinafter referred to as "wheel-rail center") has always regarded international cooperation in the field of rail transit technology as one of its key tasks. Recently, the wheel-rail center has carried out a number of international exchanges and cooperation.

On October 5-8, 2017, academician C. Michael Walton of the American Academy of Engineering visited, and the relevant person in charge of the wheel and rail center received academician Walton and his party in Beijing. On the evening of October 7, Wang Xingming, deputy chief engineer of China Railway Corporation Limited, and Feng Quanbao, deputy director of the wheel-rail center, met with Academician Walton. The two sides exchanged views on the recent technical cooperation between China and the United States in the field of rail transit.

On October 18-21, 2017, the person in charge of the wheel and rail center once again docked with the US exchange and cooperation project and received the visiting Kumares C. Sinha, academician of the US Academy of Engineering, and his party. The two sides made preliminary contact on the possible direction of cooperation in the future, which also laid the foundation for the follow-up docking cooperation.

Wang Xingming, Deputy Chief Engineer of China Railway Corporation Limited, and Feng Quanbao, Deputy Director of Wheel/Rail Center, met with Academician Walton

C.Michael Walton, a member of the American Academy of Engineering and a tenured professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has served as the executive chairman of the Transportation Committee of the American Academy of Engineering and the chairman of the Transportation Development Research Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineering. In the past 40 years, he has been engaged in the research of intelligent transportation, cargo transportation, transportation planning, transportation economy and policy for a long time. He has a high international reputation in the industry and is a top scholar with great influence all over the world.

Academician Kumares C. Sinha is a well-known expert in the field of international transportation engineering. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 and is an important figure in the field of transportation engineering research and education in the United States. Sinha has also served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transportation Engineering, a journal of the American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE), and has made important contributions in the fields of transportation asset management, transportation policy, planning, operations, and intelligent transportation systems.

Academician Sinha Visits China

Report of the Research Center for Wheel-Rail Relations and Maintenance/Guan Mingfei Chart/Lu Yajin