Keynote Lectures

As a part of the CETRA 2026 conference, 6 keynote lectures will be held:

  • DIGITISATION OF DIAGNOSTICS FOR CRITICAL PARTS OF THE TRACK SUPERSTRUCTURE

presented by Assoc. Prof. Otto Plášek, PhD

  • NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF URBAN NOISE DYNAMIC MAPS

presented by Prof. Gaetano Licitra, PhD

  • TOWARD SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT ROADWAY INFRASTRUCTURE

presented by Prof. Hao Wang, PhD

  • DATA-DRIVEN BRIDGE ANALYSIS USING TRAFFIC LOAD MEASUREMENTS

presented by Prof. Aleš Žnidarič, PhD

  • CIRCULAR ECONOMY CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ROADWAY INFRASTRUCTURE: SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCH-TO-PRACTICE

presented by Prof. Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri, PhD

  • ONBOARD MONITORING FOR INTELLIGENT ASSESSMENT OF RAILWAY TRACKS

presented by Assoc. Prof. Abdollah Malekjafarian, PhD

You can find more information and details about the authors and lectures below.

DIGITISATION OF DIAGNOSTICS FOR CRITICAL PARTS OF THE TRACK SUPERSTRUCTURE

by Assoc. Prof. Otto Plášek, PhD

Head of the Institute of Railway Structures and Constructions, University of Brno, Slovakia

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NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR IMPROVING THE ACCURACY OF URBAN NOISE DYNAMIC MAPS

   by Prof. Gaetano Licitra, PhD

Director of the Pisa Department of Environmental Protection Agency of Tuscany Region, Department of Physics "E.Fermi", University of Pisa, Italy

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TOWARD SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT ROADWAY INFRASTRUCTURE

by Prof. Hao Wang, PhD

Professor and Graduate Program Director of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University, United States of America

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DATA-DRIVEN BRIDGE ANALYSIS USING TRAFFIC LOAD MEASUREMENTS

by Prof. Aleš Žnidarič, PhD

Director of the Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute; President of FEHRL, the Forum of European National Highway Laboratories

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CIRCULAR ECONOMY CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ROADWAY INFRASTRUCTURE: SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCH-TO-PRACTICE

by Prof. Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri, PhD

Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India; Director of the Boards of Rubberized Asphalt Foundation and International Road Federation (Global)

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ONBOARD MONITORING FOR INTELLIGENT ASSESSMENT OF RAILWAY TRACKS

by Assoc. Prof. Abdollah Malekjafarian, PhD

Associate Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at University College Dublin (UCD; Head of the Structural Dynamics & Assessment Laboratory (SDA-Lab)

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