The Institution of Railway Signal Engineers look forward to welcoming you to their premier biennial technical conference, ASPECT 2025 in Yokohama, Japan

The ASPECT 2025 conference provides a fantastic knowledge-building and networking opportunity for professionals to discuss the latest developments in the field of railway signalling and communications.

Fifty one technical papers will be presented over three days by industry experts, including dedicated sessions presenting Japanese railway signalling, followed by an optional day of technical visits.

We invite global professionals and specifically younger engineers to share and expand their knowledge and lessons learned regarding ongoing projects, technological innovations and new concepts, focussing on train control, data communication and data analytics. 

The event has consistently attracted a wide of range of people in the industry with over 250 delegates from across the globe attending the last ASPECT conference. 

2 to 5 December 2025

Yokohama, Japan

ASPECT 2023

ASPECT 2023 was held in Melbourne Australia in November 2023 and delivered fifty two technical papers from global industry experts on the theme of Global Integration and also featured several related workshop sessions. 

Delegates were drawn from aroundthe world and brought an amazing spread of expertise, knowledge, skills and experience. There was a range of industry experts, specialists and generalists as well as graduates and those who were new to the industry. They included representatives from the rail operators (private and public), equipment and techology suppliers, government delivery organisations, regulators, academic institutions, contractors and consultants.

Read more about it here (extract from IRSE News February 2024).

Watch the presentations and read the papers from ASPECT 2023 (IRSE member login required)