Global Railway Review Issue 4 2022
30 August 2022
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Packed full of exclusive content, including our InnoTrans 2022 preview, plus features from: Germany’s Federal Minister for Digital and Transport; the European Commissioner for Transport; Canadian Pacific; Norfolk Southern; the Association of American Railroads; the ERTMS Users Group; and many more!
- MINISTER STATEMENT
A race against time to deliver change for rail in Germany
Volker Wissing, Federal Minister for Digital and Transport, Germany
- EUROPE
The EU’s plans for attractive, efficient, and competitive rail
Adina Vălean, European Commissioner for Transport
- HIGH-SPEED RAIL & SUSTAINABILITY
Superconducting Maglev: Speeding toward sustainability
Wayne Rogers, Chairman and CEO, Northeast Maglev
- CYBER-SECURITY
Rail’s need for cyber-resilience and digital solutions in the face of rising cyber-threats
Dimitri van Zantvliet, Chief Information Security Officer and Joseph Mager, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at NS (Dutch Railways)
- RESOURCE & SUPPORT
RSSB affiliation: the rail industry’s collective expertise at your fingertips
Rail Safety & Standards Board (RSSB)
- STATIONS
Changing the way we look at street homeless people in railway stations
Lucie Anderton, Head of the Sustainability Unit, UIC
- RESOURCE & SUPPORT
Tap into the best rail expertise as an RSSB affiliate
Rail Safety & Standards Board (RSSB)
- EVENT PREVIEW & COMPANY PROFILES
InnoTrans 2022
- IN-DEPTH FOCUS: TECHNOLOGIES FOR GREENER RAIL FREIGHT OPERATIONS
Opportunities for environmental progress for U.S. rail freight
Ian Jefferies, President & CEO, Association of American Railroads (AAR)
- IN-DEPTH FOCUS: TECHNOLOGIES FOR GREENER RAIL FREIGHT OPERATIONS
Norfolk Southern: Sustainability with every shipment
Josh Raglin, Chief Sustainability Officer, Norfolk Southern
- IN-DEPTH FOCUS: TECHNOLOGIES FOR GREENER RAIL FREIGHT OPERATIONS
Canadian Pacific’s journey towards operating hydrogen freight locomotives
Kyle Mulligan, Assistant Vice-President, Operations Technology, Canadian Pacific (CP)
- IN-DEPTH FOCUS: SIGNALLING, COMMUNICATIONS & TRAIN CONTROL DEVELOPMENT
Supporting on-board European ERTMS deployment
Matthias Ruete, European Coordinator for ERTMS, European Commission
- IN-DEPTH FOCUS: SIGNALLING, COMMUNICATIONS & TRAIN CONTROL DEVELOPMENT
ERTMS next level: evolving from ETCS to a genuine European Rail Traffic Management System
Michel Ruesen, Managing Director, ERTMS Users Group (EUG)
- IN-DEPTH FOCUS: SIGNALLING, COMMUNICATIONS & TRAIN CONTROL DEVELOPMENT
Unleashing the potential of FRMCS together
Nicholas Shrimpton, Technical Affairs Manager, UNIFE
- IN-DEPTH FOCUS: SIGNALLING, COMMUNICATIONS & TRAIN CONTROL DEVELOPMENT
How to take forward ERTMS for a modern Italian railway system
Fabio Senesi, Chiara Iommazzo and Gaspare Antona, RFI
- IN-DEPTH FOCUS: SIGNALLING, COMMUNICATIONS & TRAIN CONTROL DEVELOPMENT
Signalling: back on track and moving at pace to modernise UK rail
Fraser Greenwood, Engineering Director for Signalling, Atkins
- IN-DEPTH FOCUS: SIGNALLING, COMMUNICATIONS & TRAIN CONTROL DEVELOPMENT
The future of railway communications: first steps
Karsten Oberle, Head of Rail, Nokia, and Pierre Cotelle, Telecom Networks Solution Director, Alstom
- ROUNDTABLE: PASSENGER EXPERIENCE
With participation from: Judit Sandor, Programme Manager, Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking; Christopher Irwin, Board Member, European Passengers’ Federation (EPF); Mark Eastwood, Commercial Strategy Lead, Heathrow Express; Mike Butler, Head of Innovation, Nomad Digital.
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