We would like to invite you to the 27^th conference with international participation Current Problems in Rail Vehicles 2025, which will be held from September 17 to September 19, 2025 in the Cultural Center in Česká Třebová, Czech Republic (GPS: 49.8993103N, 16.4460892E).

The conference is organized by the Association of Mechanical Engineers, Czech Republic - Česká Třebová Club and the Faculty of Transport Engineering of the University of Pardubice in cooperation with the University of Žilina. The conference is held under the auspices of:

• Mgr. Martin Kupka, Minister of Transport of the Czech Republic,
• JUDr. Martin Netolický, Ph.D., President of the Pardubice Region,
• doc. Ing. Ladislav Řoutil, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty of Transport Engineering of the University of Pardubice.

The general partner of the conference is the company CZ LOKO, a.s.

 

The media partner of the conference is the journal NŽT (New Railway Technique).

 

 

BASIC INFORMATION:

The aim of the conference is to acquaint the participants with new knowledge in research, development, testing, design, production, operation, maintenance and repair of rail vehicles and, of course, to establish new and maintain existing contacts between individual participants of the conference, between the academic sphere and industrial and operational practice. Traditionally, the main topics are:

• design of railway rolling stock, urban rail vehicles and special vehicles,
• theoretical aspects of the development, design and testing of rolling stock,
• practical knowledge from the operation of rolling stock and its implications,
• issues of the vehicle/track interaction,
• materials and technologies used in the construction and repair of vehicles,
• diagnostics, maintenance and repair of rolling stock,
• traction, control and information systems for rolling stock.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:

• prof. Ing. Bohumil Culek, CSc.
  University of Pardubice (CZ), Faculty of Transport Engineering
• Egidio Di Gialleonardo, Ph.D.
  Politecnico di Milano (IT), Department of Mechanical Engineering
• dr hab. inż. Bartosz Firlik, prof. nadzw.
  Politechnika Poznańska (PL), Zakład Transportu Szynowego
• prof. Dr. Ing. Juraj Gerlici
  University of Žilina (SK), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• prof. Ing. Daniel Kalinčák, PhD.
  University of Žilina (SK), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Hecht
  Technische Universität Berlin (DE), Fakultät V - Verkehrs- und Maschinensysteme
• Prof. Dr. Ing. habil. Oldrich Polach
  Neuhausen am Rheinfall (CH)
• doc. Ing. Petr Voltr, Ph.D.
  University of Pardubice (CZ), Faculty of Transport Engineering

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

• doc. Ing. Tomáš Michálek, Ph.D.
  Conference Chairman
• Ing. Stanislava Liberová, Ph.D.
• doc. Ing. Michael Lata, PhD.
• Ing. Martin Kohout, Ph.D.
• Ing. Aleš Hába, Ph.D.
• Ing. Jiří Šlapák, Ph.D.

 

REGISTRATION:

If you are interested in presenting your own paper at the conference (active participation), please register until May 16, 2025 via the registration form, including a brief abstract of your paper (approximately 150 words). If your paper has more than one author, only one of them (the corresponding author) will register it and indicate the names of the other co-authors in the appropriate field of the form. The Scientific Committee will decide on the acceptance of the paper. This decision will be sent to the e-mail address of the corresponding author until May 20, 2025.

It is expected that the corresponding author will present the paper at the conference personally. Papers accepted for the conference program will be presented in the conference hall in the form of a lecture of approximately 15 to 20 minutes (to be specified based on the conference program). Speakers will have a laptop with presenter, data projector, screen and microphone. The conference languages are Czech, Slovak or English (simultaneous translation will not be provided).

We also offer the opportunity to present your paper in the form of a poster in the poster session. If you prefer to present your paper as a poster, please tick this option in the registration form. For the purpose of presenting posters, stands of ca. 700x1000 mm will be available.

If you want to participate in the conference without your own paper (passive participation), you can register via the registration form until August 20, 2025 or until the capacity of the conference hall is exhausted.

Two conference proceedings will be published - the official electronic proceedings of peer-reviewed papers, which will be published online via this website, and the printed proceedings of all papers accepted into the conference program.

As part of the paper registration process, the corresponding author can choose whether to request submission of the paper in the official electronic conference proceedings or only in the printed proceedings, which will be distributed to all conference participants. However, only those papers that successfully pass the peer review process (i.e. receive two positive peer reviews) will be included in the official electronic proceedings. These papers will also be given a DOI. The organising committee will seek to index the official electronic conference proceedings in Clarivate's Web of Science database.

The full text of the paper of 4 to 8 pages must be prepared in the prescribed format using the MS Word template, which can be downloaded here. The full text of the paper can be written in Czech, Slovak or English. The full text of the paper must be submitted until June 15, 2025; the binding instructions for preparing and submitting the paper are given in the template.

 

CONFERENCE FEE:

The registration fee is EUR 220 and includes participation in the conference, one copy of the printed proceedings of all papers, lunches on September 17 and 18, participation in the conference banquet on September 18, refreshments during the conference and participation in the technical visit on September 19. No refunds will be granted in case of the registered participant’s absence. However, substitute delegates may be accepted.

While lunches on September 17 and 18, as well as participation in the conference banquet on September 18 and the technical visit on 19 September, are included in the registration fee, please indicate on the registration form whether you are interested in these so that we can adequately size the lunches and banquet.

Accommodation during the conference is arranged and paid for by the conference participants (not included in the registration fee). In Česká Třebová and the surrounding area we can recommend the following accommodation facilities:

• Hotel Bravo in Česká Třebová,
• Pension, restaurant and brewery Faltus in Česká Třebová,
• Accommodation "Za bazénem" in Česká Třebová,
• Hotel UNO in Ústí nad Orlicí,
• Hotel Aplaus in Litomyšl.

The registration fee should be paid by bank transfer to the account of the Association of Mechanical Engineers, Czech Republic - Česká Třebová Club, maintained at ČSOB, a.s., no later than June 15, 2025 in case of active participation, or August 24, 2025 in case of passive participation. Detailed payment information will be sent to you upon completion of the registration form via e-mail.

• Account number: 112757446/0300
• IBAN: CZ2703000000000112757446
• BIC (SWIFT): CEKOCZPP
• Variable symbol: registration identification number