Plateway has proudly been a regular participant and presenter at nextRail for over 10 years. This year Phillip Imrie Managing Director of Plateway presented a paper on Advanced Freight Train Simulation using OpenTrack alongside David Lassen Manager Network Capability at Queensland Rail who presented on Queensland Rail’s OpenTrack Journey as part of the nextRail17 Conference in Lausanne Switzerland.

The conference attended by over 200 international delegates included a significant number from Australasia. Other presenters at the same forum included world leading transport agencies and consulting firms including the Transport Authority of Paris(RATP) on the modernisation of the RATP
Railway network, TTK on the upgrades to the Karlsruhe Tram Train Network.

Delegates from Australasia included David Lassen (Queensland Rail), David Bond (KiwiRail), David Caldwell (SNC-Lavalin), David Lewis (sole trader), Phillip Imrie and Ian Imrie (Plateway)