Global Railway Review Issue 4 2022

• 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.