The railway industry faces increasing pressure to improve system safety, to decrease production costs and time to market, to reduce carbon emissions and running costs, and to increase the capacity of the railway. Railway systems are now being integrated into larger multi-transport networks. Such systems require an even higher degree of automation at all levels of operation. These trends dramatically increase the complexity of railway applications and pose new challenges in developing novel methods of modelling, analysis, verification and validation to ensure their reliability, safety and security, as well as in supporting novel mechanisms and procedures to help make the case that development processes meet the mandated standards.
This conference will bring together researchers and developers working on railway system reliability, security and safety to discuss how all of these requirements can be met in an integrated way. It is also vital to ensure that advances in research (in both academia and industry) are driven by the real industrial needs. This will help ensure that such advances are followed by effective industrial deployment. Another particularly important objective is to integrate advances in research into the current development processes and make them usable and scalable. Finally, a key goal is to develop advanced methods and tools that can ensure that the systems meet the requirements imposed by the regulatory standards and help in building the supportive arguments. This will be a working conference in which research challenges and progress will be discussed and evaluated by both researchers and engineers, focusing on their potential to be deployed in industrial settings.
Important Dates
Abstract submission (papers/tutorials): 6 June 2025
Paper submission: 13 June 2025
Notification (tutorials): 18 July 2025
Notification (papers): 1 August 2025
Camera-ready version: 12 September 2025
Abstract submission (posters): 26 September 2025
Notification (posters): 10 October 2025
Conference: 26-28 November 2025
Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above.
Topics of Interest
Safety in development processes and safety management
Combined approaches to safety and security
System and software safety analysis
Formal modelling and verification techniques
System reliability
Validation according to the standards
Safety and security argumentation
Fault and intrusion modelling and analysis
Evaluation of system capacity, energy consumption, cost and their interplay
Tool and model integration, tool chain
Domain-specific languages and modelling frameworks
Model reuse for reliability, safety and security
Modelling for maintenance strategy engineering
Paper Categories
RSSRail 2025 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports as well as tutorials and posters related to the Reliability, Safety, and Security of Railway Systems.
We accept contributions in the following five categories:
Regular papers (limit 16 pages) on
original scientific research results
tools, their foundation, and evaluations
applications, including rigorous evaluations
Short papers (limit 8 pages) on
any topic of interest that can be described in sufficient detail within the page limit
Journal-First papers (limit 4 pages)
summarising recently published papers in high-quality journals on any topic of interest
Tutorial proposals (limit 2 pages)
describing the topic and intended audience, the plan for conducting the tutorial (content/schedule
and duration), and the backgrounds of the presenters (experience) and the tutorial (first iteration?).
Posters on any topic of interest
All page limits exclude the references. Appendices may be included, but they will only be read by a reviewer at their discretion.
Regular and short papers submitted in categories (1) and (2) must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers in these two categories will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality and clarity.
The aim of journal-first papers in category (3) is to further enrich the RSSRail program and to provide more visibility in the community to already published journal papers. Authors of published papers in high-quality journals can submit a proposal to present their journal paper during RSSRail. The published journal paper must adhere to the following four criteria:
It should be clearly within the scope of the conference.
It should be recent: published in a journal after RSSRail 2023 (October 2023).
It should report completely new research results or novel contributions that were not previously presented at the RSSRail conference.
It has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first tracks of other conferences.
The 4-page submission to RSSRail for category (3) should provide a concise summary of the published journal paper, which makes it clear
why its topics fit the conference's scope, and
why a presentation of its results would enrich the conference program.
Journal-first submissions must explicitly include full bibliographic details (including a DOI) of the journal publication they are based on. Submissions will be judged on the basis of the above criteria, but also considering how well they would complement the conference program.
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