1. Coherence and Resilience: Towards
Comprehensive Railway Protection
José Pires
Senior Security Advisor
International Union of Railways (UIC)

2. Rail security : coherence and
resilience
José Pires
International Union of Railways (UIC)

3. Coherence in the definitions
Security is to act against negative wills
But organize an objective level of security or/and create a
feeling of security ?
Human factors, technologies, strategy and regulation
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4. Coherence in the responsibilities and roles
of each relevant actor
> National authorities : protect security of people and goods
on the territory
> Railway companies : protect clients, staff, and facilities
infrastructure managers
undertakings
incumbents and new comings
national and foreign
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5. Coherence in a same place
Multi-role of the important stations
place of transport
place of city
place of life
Presence of various railway actors at the same time
Who has what to do ? How to be sure of each ?
Global request of the clients
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6. Coherence beyond the borders
> Development of the international traffic
> European Commission : Regulation 2007 - 1371 (3/12/2007)
art 26 : right to security of the travellers
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7. Coherence for the future : current research
projects involving UIC security
> PROTECTRAIL
> RESTRAIL
> SECRET
> CIPRnet
> PREDICT
> GRAFFOLUTION
> INFRARISK
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8. Coherence of policies :
towards integrated protection
> Security
> Safety
> Civil protection
> All hazards
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9. Resilience
> Crisis management
> Crisis communication
> Emergency exercises
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10. Thank you for your kind attention
José Pires, Senior Security Advisor,
International Union of Railways (UIC)
On behalf of
Jacques Colliard, Manager of the UIC security division
colliard@uic.org
security@uic.org
www.uic.org : security
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