| General Programme 11th UIC ERTMS World Conference Istanbul April 2014 | |
| Tuesday 1 April 2014 | |
| 12:30 Meeting point at Haliç Congress Center (HCC) Technical visit by TCDD will be followed by the inauguration Opening Cocktail Party at the HCC Centre. | |
| Wednesday 2 April 2014 | |
| HCC Haliç Congress Center, Istanbul Golden Horn | |
| 08:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 | Opening of the Conference: Session 1: Speeches by Keynote Speakers:Welcome by UIC _Mr. Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Director-General, UICThe role of UIC – technical body to the ERTMS progress in the respect of railway efficiency and values unity, solidarity, universality _Mr. Süleyman Karaman Director-General TCDD, Chairman of UIC Middle-EastWelcome, conference importance for TCDD and world _Mr. Marcel Verslype Executive Director, European Railway Agency ERA _Mr. Philippe Citroën General Director, European Rail Industries UNIFEHow innovation can contribute to achieve interoperable, high performance, cost effective Advance Traffic Management and Control Systems _Mr. Libor Lochman Executive Director, CERERTMS on its way towards the standard implementation along European corridors _Mr. Luc Lallemand CEO, Infrabel, EIM Vice Chairman _Mr. Kari Kapsch, CEO Kapsch CarrierCom, GSM-R Industry GroupThe increased role of railway telecommunications _ Mr. Lütfi Elvan, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications of Turkey |
| 10:30-11:00 | Official Cutting Ribbon Ceremony Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 2: User requirements Chairman : ERA, Executive Director, Mr. Marcel Verslype _FWK, Mr. Gottfried Winter / KAPSCH, Mr. Evanghelou :Enhanced reliability, stability and interoperability of the GSM-R system _ SNCF, Mr. Pierre Messulam:The ERTMS Life Cycle in a complex view of cost, maintenance and migration _ERTMS Users Group, Mr. Michel Ruesen:From High Speed to Conventional Rail: Development of the Users’ Requirements for ETCS in Europe _SNCF/UIC , Mr. Marc Antoni:ERTMS software advanced testing _Open ETCS – ITEA team, Dr. K-R Hase: OpenETCS – an evolution to formalized specification for non-interpretable application _SBB, Mr. Ingo Wendler: Introduction of GPRS for ETCS |
| 12:30-13:00 | Q&A on the topic “Requirements for ERTMS“ |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 | Session 3: State-of-the-art – target situation Chairman: CER Executive director, Mr. Libor Lochman _ERA, Mr. Pio Guido and Mrs. Begona Domingo:From ETCS Baseline 2.3.0d to Baseline3 – why and what is new / GSM-R Baseline 0 – what does it bring; future plans _GB ERTMS Programme, Mr. Simon Whitehorn:Baseline 3 Challenge,an Infrastructure Manager’s and Railway Undertaking’s Perspective _UNISIG / Siemens, Sibylle Maier:Baseline 3 Challenge, the Suppliers perspective _CAF, Mr. Manuel Villalba:ERTMS state of the art and evolution of the applications considering customers’ orientations _Huawei, Mr. Norman Frisch:The road of success for implementing a multi-vendor GSM-R ERTMS network _Systra, Mr. Robert Sarfati:GSM-R is becoming IP-ready Q&A on the topic: ETCS on a stable and performing specification |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30-18:00 | Session 4: Suppliers’ experience Chairman : CEO RFI, Mr. Michele Mario ELIA _Ansaldo STS, Mr. Alfredo Drago:ERTMS deployment experience in Turkey: Mersin – Toprakkale and Gebze – Kosekoy lines _Siemens, Mr. David Sanz Garcia:ERTMS – A Solution for High Speed and Cross Urban Applications in Turkey _AZD Praha, Mr. Ivan Tuháček:Experience earned from its on-going project on ETCS L2 on the line sections Kolín-Břeclav (a TEN-T corridor) _UIC/DB AG, Mr. Dirk Schattschneider:Interference to GSM-R _Sierra Wireless, Mr. Philippe Branly:Solutions for interferences-industry _NSN, Mr. Ola Bergman:GSM-R State of the art and close future trends |
| 19:00 | Official Gala Diner |
| Thursday 3 April 2014 | |
| HCC Haliç Congress Center, Istanbul Golden Horn | |
| 08:00-09:30 | Session 5: Reducing costs – return of experience and future perspectives Chairman: Prof. Yarman -Istanbul University _UIC, Piero Petruccioli:ERTMS cost benchmarking: driving costs and their actual evolution / Presents the conception and main results of the UIC benchmarking study _MERMEC, Mr. Vito Caliandro:Modern testing methodologies and their added values _CEDEX, Mr. Jaime Tamarit:Complex interlaced infrastructure – onboard testing: how much real scale testing should be needed? _ERA, Mrs. Begona Domingo:Certification and Assessment to GSM-R _RFF, Mr. Jean Cellmer:GSM-R Quality of Service for Voice and ETCS applications _OBB, Mr. Christian Sagmeister:GSM-R Quality Performance Tools |
| 09:30-10:00 | Q&A with panel of speakers |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session 6: Implementation strategies Chairman: Director ERTMS Users’ Group, Mr. Michel Ruesen _EC, Mrs Isabelle Vandoorne:ERTMS on the European core network by 2015, 2020, 2030 – strategic approach _DB Netz, Mr. Manfred Petzendorfer:ERTMS on corridor-challenges and expected benefits, conditions for building seamless corridors from fragmented national applications _Alstom, Mr. Vincent Passau:Seamless Migration to ERTMS_TCDD, Mr.Mükerrem Aydogdu / Mr. Hasan Hüseyin Güney:ERTMS on lines – safety and efficiency – experience of TCDD testing / ERTMS-ETCS Applications for HSL & The Problems _DB, Mr. Vrielink:GSM-R – Interconnection & Roaming situation, Future plans _Infrabel, Mr. Dirk Taeleman:Impact on GSM-R of nationwide introduction of ETCS |
| 12:00-12:30 | Q&A with panel of speakers |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:15 | Session 7: Technological progress of ERTMS Chairman: UNISIG General Manager, Mr. Michel Van Liefferinge _UIC, Mr. George Barbu / GSA, Mr. Daniel Lopour:Absolute positioning, enhanced odometry with GNSS – an evolution of tomorrow with immediate applicability on low traffic density lines – SATLOC _Bombardier, Mr. Andreas Jonas:ERTMS Regional development status _Thales, Mrs. Ruth Hierzer, OeBB Mr. Manfred PisekETCS Level2 operational concept in Austria _UIC, Mr. Dennis Schut / UNIFE, Mr. Peter Gurnik:EU funding and migration possibilities for ERTMS and GSM-R projects _ERA, Mr. Chiel Spaans / UIC Piero Petruccioli:Evolution of the Railways Communication System _TCDD, Mr. Mehmet Turşak & Mr. Murat Güncan / Mr. Ramazan Ceylan & Mr. Ali BaşpınarThe Evaluation of the ETCS/ERTMS Harmonization of the Signalization Systems which have different Coupling Softwares/Marmaray Project Mixed Traffic Operation |
| 15:15-15:30 | Q&A with panel of speakers |
| 15:30-17:00 | Closing Session: Ending Session with speeches and opinions of prominent specialists of railways, signaling industry and radio-communication industry Chairman: UIC, Director Rail System Department, Mr. Hans Günter Kersten _ UNISIG, General Manager, Mr. Michel Van Liefferinge:The response with technology in a mondialized world _ UIC, Mr. Dan Mandoc:Telecom in support of ERTMS _ TCDD, Mr. Fatih Sarıkoç / Mr. Nuri Hakan Ekmekçi:ERTMS Implementations in Turkey / GSM-R Applications in Turkey’s High Speed Train Lines |
Final speech & remarks
_ UIC, TCDD:
Conclusions of the Conference