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PARALLEL SESSIONS - final programme


Thursday, 24 October 2002

9.00-11.00
Session A1
Session B1
Session C1
High speed rail's contribution to reconciling mobility and the environment
High speed rail's role in enhancing the overall competitiveness of rail services
High speed rail as a driving force for a truly global market for the railway supply industry
Chairmen
Andrés Lopez Pita Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
Enrique Fernández
Chairman of the UIC Passenger Commission
José María Lasala
Chairman AEIF

Speakers

Peter Wiederkehr OECD, Environmental Sustainable Transport (EST)
Takashi Endo
East Japan Railway Company (EJRC)
Antonio Savini Nicci Amministratore Delegato Treno Alta Velocità (TAV)
Nick O'Riordan Director Ove Arup & Partners Ltd
Werner Rothengatter
IWW
Lars B. Johansson - Banverket

 

 

Mathias Emmerich - Directeur Adjoint Grandes Lignes SNCF
Massimo Ghenzer - Trenitalia
Hiromasa Tanaka - Director Central Japan Railway Company (CJRC)
Juan Luis Martín Cuesta RENFE
Jörg Sandvoß Angebotsmanagement Personenverkehr, DB AG
Leo Pardon - Administrateur Directeur SNCB
Sven Flore - Bombardier
Juan Antonio Ridruejo - Arquitecto
Theodore G. Weigle Jr - HSGTA Chairman

François Lacôte - Senior Consultant ALSTOM
Jaime Tamarit - Director General ERTMS
Rik Dobbelaere - President IntercityTrains Bombardier Transportation
Gustavo González Fernández - Talgo
Frank Walenberg - KEMA
Jesus Lastra - Director de Instalaciones, GIF
Dietrich Moeller - Siemens Transportation Sytems Germany
Takazumi Ishizu - Kasado Transportation Systems, Hitachi Ltd

11.30-13.30
Session A2
Session B2
Session C2
The European high speed network: forecasts, reality and prospects
High speed rail and air transport
Proven technologies, new developments and magnetic levitation
Chairmen
Alfonso González Finat
European Commission
DG TREN
A. Reinhardt-Lehmann
Frankfurt/M Airport
Hiroumi Soejima
President RTRI, Japan
Speakers

Reinhard Mück - Intraplan
Jean François Benard Directeur Général RFF
Anders Lundberg Secretary General Nordic Rail Group
Carl-Henrik Lundstrøm - Deputy General Manager - CER

Dietmar Lübke - Leiter TV Koordination Systemverbund, DB AG
Leonardo Torres Quevedo - Manufacturing Director GIF
Julio Lobo da Costa President of the executive commission RAVE

Michel Leboeuf
Directeur du Développement, SNCF
Andrew Sharp- General Director International Air-Rail Organization
Wolfgang Weinert
Project Manager Intermodality - Lufthansa
Martina Priebe - ATAG
José Eladio Seco - General Director AENA
José Eladio Seco
General Director AENA

Frank Bernard - Directeur Général Thalys International

 

Asim Smailagic* Carnegie Mellon University
Marcel Journet - Directeur Technique, SNCF
Akio Seki - Central Japan Railway Company (CJRC)
Wolfgang Dörries Ministry of Transport, Germany
Bernhard Lichtberger Plasser & Theurer
Anthony Eastham - Hong Kong University
Gerhard Wahl
Transrapid, Germany

 

15.30-17.30
Session A3
Session B3
Session C3
Financing new infrastructure and quantifying socio-economic benefits
Towards the creation of new high speed products.
The high speed network and "specialisation" of rail infrastructure
Liberalisation of rail transport - public private partnerships
Chairmen
Antonio López Corral Ministerio de Fomento, Spain
Juan Villaronte
RENFE
Manuel Niño
Ministerio de Fomento, Spain
Speakers

Philippe Ayoun - RFF
Eduardo Molina Ministerio de Fomento, Spain
Jean Pierre Arduin Systra
Lanfranco Senn
Bocconi University Milan
Christian Careaga European Investment Bank
Ricardo Bolufer Nieto - Director de Finanzas, GIF

 

 

 

 

 

Alain Richard- SNCF
Eckhard Kuhla - Ekonsult
Andrés Lopez Pita Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
Claudio Dunkel - Bombardier Transportation
Artur Stempel - DB Netz
Rudolf Koller - ÖBB
Francisco Melo Parente REFER
Josef Fischer - Siemens, Spain

 

 

 

 

Bart-Jan Kouwenhoven Ministry of Transport, The Netherlands
Mag. Igor Zajec - CEO Slowenian Railways (SZ)
Marcel Verslype Administrateur Directeur Général SNCB
Rafael Izquierdo Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
Roger Picard - Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL)
Hans Leister Geschäftsführer Connex Deutschland
Mauro Moretti
- Administratore Delegato RFI
François Lépine - Lyon Turin Ferroviaire
Johannes Ludewig - CER


Friday 25 October 2002

9.00-10.30
Session A4
Session B4
Session C4
Experience with, and prospects for, high speed rail in America and Australia
Experience with, and prospects for, high speed rail in Asia and Africa
Safety and Security
Chairmen
Mark Yachmetz
Federal Railroad Associate Administrator, USA
Yoshitaka Ishii
Chairman Kyushu Railway Company (KRC)
Roland Heinisch
Vorstand Fahrweg / Verbundbetrieb, DB Netz
Speakers

Albert Perdon - President, A. Perdon & Associates, California
Nazih Haddad- Director Florida HSR Authority

Mark Dysart - CEO High Speed Ground Transport Association (HSGTA)
William Millar - President American Public Transit Association
Mehdi Morshed - Executive Director California High Speed Rail Authority
Peter Thornton - General Manager TMG International
Marc Le François - Chairman & CEO, Via Rail Canada

 

Dominique Simonneau - Alstom Korea
Daniel Dutoit - Systra
Hisashi Tarumi - Railway Technical Research Institute (RTRI)
Yanzhao Zhang* - Head International co-operation Ministry of Railways, China
Jae-Yol Kang*
- Executive Director Construction Division, KTX Korea Train Express
Jack van der Merwe* - South Africa
Dinesh C. Mishra* - Managing Director, Rites Ltd
Peter Winter - Senior Consultant, SBB Consulting

Hideo Miura - West Japan Railway Company (WJRC)
Bernard Shaer- SNCF
Ramón Escribano - RENFE
Donna Carty* - Federal Road Administration USA.
Anthony Perl - University of Calgary
Edward W. Pritchard* - Office of Safety US DoT
Mario Elia - Technical Director of RFI

 

 

 

* subject to confirmation

Working languages: simultaneous interpretation will be provided in
Spanish, English, German and French

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ROUND TABLES

 

23 October 2002
24 October 2002
25 October 2002
Opening round table
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Round table
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Closing round table
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Prospects for the high speed rail network in Europe
European Union rail transport policy
(liberalisation, etc.)
Prospects for high speed rail around the world
Speakers

Juan Carlos Barrón Benavente - Chairman GIF
Krzysztof Celinski - Executive Officer PKP SA
Giancarlo Cimoli
- Chairman CER
Miguel Corsini - Chairman RENFE
Alfonso Gonzalez Finat - DG TREN
Hartmut Medhorn - Chairman DB AG

Ewald Nowotny - Vice President EIB (transeuropean networks)
Herbert Steffen - Chairman UNIFE
Dalibor Zelený - Chairman East West Task Force

Bo Bylund - Chairman EIM
Francisco José Cardoso dos Reis
* - Chairman REFER/RAVE
Louis Gallois - Chairman SNCF
Alex Kremer
- Administrateur Directeur Général CFL
Antonio López Corral - Ministry of Fomento
Johannes Ludewig - Executive Director CER
Claude Martinand
- Chairman RFF
Jean-Arnold Vinois - DG TREN

 

Rod Diridon* - Executive Director, MTI - USA
Nitish Kumar
* - Minister of Railways, India
Pierre Lortie - Chairman Bombardier Transportation
Masatake Matsuda - Chairman EJRC
Michel Moreau - Chairman Managing Director Alstom Transport
Lucas de Oriol - Chairman Patentes Talgo
Etienne Schouppe - Chairman UIC
NN* - Chairman Amtrak
Sun Yongfu - Vice-Minister of Railways, China

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