Transport industry leaders create a common voice on critical Communications Based Train Control challenges and solutions on March12th 2014 in London. Addressing implementation, cost and maintenance, risk assessments and interoperability challenges from an engineering, technical and strategic planning perspective, you wont want to miss this highly informative networking opportunity

1. THE IMPLEMENTATION
CHALLENGE FOR FUTURE RAIL
12th March 2014 - The Hatton London
INDUSTRY LEADERS INCLUDE:
Thales Canada, David Dimmer, Technical Project Leader
NGTC project Unife
London Overground and Crossrail, Duncan Cross, Deputy
Operations Director
GTT Metro, Alberto Forchino, Technological Project
Innovation Manager
London Underground, Hugh Bridge, SUP ATC
Engineering Manager
Captial Programme, London Underground, George
Clarke, Engineering Director
DB Netz AG, Klaus Rüdiger Hase, Project Leader open
ETCS
SNCF, Said El Fassi, Manager of System Engineering
Projects
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transparency in procurement and supplier
relationships
Learn how Communications Based Train
Control can increase capacity and safely
reduce time interval
SNCF, Dr. Pierre Messulam, Director of Technology,
Strategy and Regulation
Duncan
Cross, Deputy
Operations
Director,
London
Overground
and Crossrail
David Dimmer,
Technical
Project Leader
NGTC project
Unife, Thales
Canada
Mott Macdonald, Elaine Thompson, Principal Human
Factors Engineer, Karl King, Head of Rail Control Systems
TPD Technologies, Paul Cheeseman, Director
ITCertifer, Gino Di Mambro, International Business
Manager
B.C. Rapid Transit Company, Ian Graham, Manager,
Operations Planning, Expo/Millennium Lines, Manager,
Operations Planning
George Clarke,
Engineering
Director, Capital
Programme,
London
Underground
Dr. Pierre
Messulam,
Director of
Technology,
Strategy and
Regulation,
SNCF
Delcan Corporation, Dr Alan F Rumsey, Vice President,
Rail and Transit Systems
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2. CONFERENCE AGENDA
8:35
Chairman’s Opening remarks
8.45
Increasing Railway efficiency: Next generation of train control
systems for urban and main line European railway systems
• Introduction of new technologies in the ERTMS
• Further development of Urban train control systems, onboard and
and wayside equipment and associated standard interfaces.
• Technical and operational synergies between the control systems
of the two domains
• Expected impact, delivery, development and harmonizations
Technical leader of the UNIFE coordinated project NGTC, David
Dimmer, Thales Canada
9.15
9.45
14.15
Challenges of implementing Communications Based Train Control
• Trial operations due to commence for Crossrail in 2018; three
stages during 2018-19
• How to interface ETCS Level 2 signalling
• Migrating from CBTC to ETCS Level 3, when expected and what
to consider in design and implementation phase now
• Trial and errors of managing interoperability
• Procurement challenges and supplier relationships
London Overground and Crossrail, Duncan Cross, Deputy
Operations Director
CBTC from the start, 28 years of Unattended Train Operation at
SkyTrain in Vancouver
• Brief orientation and context of Vancouver (location, size, growth);
• The 1980 decision to build an automated line (very daring!); some
of the basis for that decision;
• Reference to the technology (Thales CBTC SelTrac inductive loop;
linear motor propulsion, etc.);
• Initial opening in 1986 for Expo 86 (21 km, 15 stations);
• Extensions through today, including Canada Line (separate P3
operation, but still UTO/CBTC), and Evergreen extension (11 km to
open in 2016);
• Implications of UTO – more than the obvious; the positive and the
negative;
• Public perception and acceptance (people don’t complain directly
about the automation and UTO, but they still complain about
service);
• Canada Line – different but the same;
• Recent and future upgrades – sustaining a technologically
dependent system
B.C. Rapid Transit Company, Ian Graham, Manager, Operations
Planning (Expo/Millennium Lines)
14.45
Planning for the railway of the future
• Strategic planning: an holistic approach to upgrading the railway
• Meeting the growth in demand
• Providing for a 24 hour metro
• The constraints of an ageing infrastructure
• Seeking to deliver demanding performance targets
• The role of CBTC in the future railway system & what price
standardisation?
London Underground, George Clark, Capital Programmes
Directorate, Engineering Director
ERTMS Bridging the gap between technology and adoption: a
Human Factors case study
• Establishing the operational requirements for the transition
between ETCS Level 2 and the Class B train control systems
• Establishing the technology requirements for the ERTMS/ETCS
DMI and investigated technology options and the factors that
would need to be considered when choosing specific technology
• Identifying the risks and benefits for the integration of AWS/
TPWS with the ERTMS/ETCS DMI
Mott Macdonald, Elaine Thompson, Principal Human Factors Engineer
15.15
Coffee and Networking
10.15
Coffee and Networking
15.45
10.45
Undertaking major signalling upgrades without impacting on the
travelling customers: London Underground case study
• Implementation strategies (overlay/dual fit)
• Technical solutions
• Migration approaches
• Minimising service impact
• Lessons learnt from existing LU upgrades
London Underground, Hugh Bridge, SUP ATC Engineering Manager
Challenges and successes of Independent Safety Assessment of
new CBTC railways
• Cost and time effective roll out of multiple CBTC metros – the Chinese
experience
• Effective cross acceptance of existing systems
• Using the iESM guidance for roll out on a “reference system” approach
• Identifying appropriate safety-related constraints
TPD Technologies, Paul Cheeseman, Director
16.15
11.15
How could openETCS help to integrate modern CBTC technology
into the European Train Control System
• More and more regions in Germany are looking for combined
mass transit, suburban,and regional traffic solutions
• CBTC could be considered just as another “Class B System”
• Integrate those functions on a mainly software bases with far
less additional hardware than conventional “Dual Mode” or “BiStandard” solutions
• open CBCT as an open Class B solution for openETCS?
DB Netz AG, Dr. Klaus-Rüdiger Hase, Project Leader open ETCS
The new European railway world
• Liberalization and interoperability concepts
• Reasons and the expected benefits
• The new process to certify components and systems for ETCS
• Situation several years after the first Directives
ITALCertifer, Gino Di Mambro, International Business Manager
16.45
A Recipe for Success in Implementing CBTC on an Operating
Transit System
• CBTC technology is well established as both “service-proven”,
and “safety-proven”, offering operational benefits that cannot be
achieved with prior generations of signalling technology
• One of the challenges facing the rail transit industry, however, is
how to upgrade to CBTC on an existing, operating transit system.
• Drawing on the lessons learnt from a number of case studies,
this presentation will provide “a recipe for success” in
implementing CBTC on existing transit lines.
Delcan Corporation, Dr. Alan F. Rumsey, Vice President, Rail and
Transit Systems
17.45
Roundtable networking
11.45
System modeling and holistic simulation
• Optimising the design in interface with existing infrastructure
systems
• Identifying and confirming performance targets
• Optimisng cutover plan
• Mitigating project risks
SNCF, Said El Fassi, Manager of System Engineering Projects
12.15
ERTMS, the SNCF experience
• The tuning of the system
• Operational feedback
• Driving ergonomic
• Return of experience in cross border traffic
• Thalys trains
• Paris-Barcelona trains
SNCF, Dr Pierre Messulam, Director of Strategy, Innovation,
Research and Regulation
12.45
Risk, Requirements and development: GTT case study
• Risks in implementation and development
• ata communication systems
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• Human integration and development
• Communications failures
• afety and security
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GTT Turin Metro, Alberto Forchino, Technological Innovation Project
Manager
Table 2
Human Factors - RSSB (to be confirmed)
Table 3
Fall back system roundtable
Dr. Alan F. Rumsey, Vice President
Rail and Transit Systems, Delcan Corporation
Paul Cheeseman, Director, TPD Technologies
Networking Lunch
13.45
Table 1
Interoperability led by Karl King, Head
of Rail Control Systems, Mott MacDonald
18.30
End of conference closing remarks
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3. SPEAKERS
George Clarke,
Engineering
Director, Capital
Programme,
London
Hugh Bridge, SUP
ATC Engineering
Manager, London
Underground
Said El Fassi,
Manager of System
Engineering
Projects, SNCF
Elaine Thompson,
Principal Human
Factors Engineer,
Mott Macdonald
Underground
Responsible for the engineering across all disciplines
within the Capital Programme of London Underground
and the technical assurance as defined in the ROGS
legislation, he has undertaken rail engineering roles in
both the public and private sector during a career of
over 30 years.
In his early years he designed, tested and
commissioned central control systems for mass transit
railways before leading the acceptance of modern
processor-based signalling interlocking systems into
the Tube and leading an international standards
initiative to harmonise signalling interlockings
and principles. More recently responsible for the
Engineering and Delivery management of major Line
Upgrades with modern Communication based Train
Control Systems at their heart.
He has published many technical papers on the
deployment of modern train control systems and the
lessons to be learnt. Currently a member of the IET
Railway Knowledge Network and an IRSE Council
Member.
Duncan Cross,
Deputy Operations
Director, London
Overground and
Crossrail
Duncan is a railway operations professional, with over
25 year’s expertise in the safe operation of freight and
passenger rail systems. He is currently leading the
development of passenger train services for Crossrail
and the creation of a World Class railway. He is
also responsible for the safe operation of London
Overground’s East London Line and for the operational
expansion of the London Overground network.
Hugh Bridge MBA CEng FIMechE has over twenty
years of rail experience working for Interfleet
Technology on major railway programmes, in the
UK and overseas. For the last 8 years he has
been working with London Underground in senior
engineering management roles for the line upgrade
programmes, including the Victoria Line, Deep Tube
and Sub-Surface ATC upgrades.
Dr. Pierre
Messulam, Director
of Technology,
Strategy and
Regulation, SNCF
Pierre Messulam graduated in 1983 from « Ecole
Normale Supérieure ». He holds a doctorate in the
control of systems and a research masters in applied
mathematics. He is an engineer within the « Corps
des Mines ». Member of the national nuclear safety
authority, he was in charge of safety inspection
systems and security doctrine. He joined SNCF in
1989 and held progressively different positions of
management within the group: director of the TGV
workshop Chatillon, Director for infrastructure “Paris
Rive Gauche”, Director of the Region Paris South-East.
He then became Deputy Director General of the freight
wagon Group “ERMEWA” in Geneva. Following to this,
he was nominated Director of the High Speed Line
Project “Rhine-Rhône” while being in charge at the
same time of the rail signalling system ERTMS. Since
the 1st of December 2010, Pierre Messulam is Director
for Strategy, Innovation, Research and Regulation of
SNCF Group.
David Dimmer,
Technical Project
Leader NGTC
project Unife,
Thales Canada
David Dimmer holds a B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering
Science from University of Toronto. He has been
working in urban train control systems for 25 years,
and has been a major contributor to the design of
Thales’ SelTrac Communication Based Train Control
system. He has had over 10 years experience in
standardisation activities, participating in IEEE and
IEC working groups. He was the lead representative for
Thales in the MODURBAN (FP6) project.
Tom Lee, Head
of New Systems,
RSSB
Tom is an experienced railway signalling engineer
with a demonstrable successful track record in
maintenance, projects, specification development,
engineering safety management, national and
international standards and business leadership.
Tom is a UK Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of
the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET)
and a Fellow of the Institution of Railway Signal
Engineers (FIRSE).
Gino Di Mambro,
International
Business Manager,
ITCertifer
Born in 1949, degree in Electronics Engineering, I
started my career in 1970 at FS (Italian Railways)
as Trains Traffic Manager; afterwards I moved to
the FS Information Centre as Responsible for user
requirements of different projects, i.e. Automatic
Timetable, Inno-vative Traffic Control Systems, Vehicle
tracing & tracking, Fleet Management.
Since 2001, I have participated to the Safety
Assessment activities regarding the ETCS-ERTMS
implementation on the high speed network in Italy
and to the EU Group in charge to review the ETCS
operational rules.
In 2005 have joined Italcertifer, the European Notified
Body where I am still working: this Company perfors
certification activities of components, subsystems
and systems for railway use, in Europe and mainly in
non-European Countries (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, India,
China, Australia, Arabian United Emirates,….)
Since 1990 I have been also continuously involved,
as Manager or Responsible, in working groups and
projects regarding the railway sector within the
UIC (Union International des Chemins de Fer), the
European Commission, the ERRI (European Rail
Research Institute) and the ESA (European Space
Agency)
All the above mentioned activities have allowed me to
know deeply all technological systems used in the rail
sector, the relative utilization norms (included TSI and
CENELEC) and the applications in different Countries.
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He is graduated from ENSEEIHT INP Toulouse,
France, in 1977. After working in radiowave link data
communication system he joined design teams to
develop driverless automatic train control system. He
worked in particular on vital equipment and defined
the vital computer and software technology. Frol
2007 to 2011 he was, head of the advanced studies
department of Siemens Transportation Systems, he
was in charge to develop innovative solutions among
them the onboard energy storage system. Since 2011
he is head of the technical direction IG-T & IG-sys of
SNCF, French Railway company.
A Chartered Occupational Psychologist with over ten
years experience as a Human Factors consultant in
safety critical industries, specialising in rail. Skilled in
leading projects and managing teams to deliver robust
and practical solutions. Experience of working in a
client role as intelligent customer, building consensus
on HF issues and managing HF integration through the
engineering design and build lifecycle.
Paul Cheeseman,
Director, TPD
Technologies
Alberto Forchino,
Technological
Project Innovation
Manager, GTT
Metro
PROJECT MANAGER GTT – Gruppo Torinese Trasporti
S.p.A. 2004 – Present (9 years) Technological
Innovation Project Manager for the group as a whole.
Responsibilities cover all projects in the areas of
Talacommunications, Video Surveillance, Security,
Infomobility and R&D, such as EU funded projact
as CARETAKER (FP6), VANAHEIM (FP7), SMARTWAY(FP7).
Klaus Rudiger
Hase, Project
Leader open ETCS,
DB Netz AG
PAUL CHEESEMAN BSc (Hons), MIET, FIRSE, MSaRS
is a career railwayman and Railway Systems Engineer
specialising in engineering & safety management, and
in particular the development and assessment of safety
critical systems.
He has more than 30 years experience of working
on international railway projects including the
development and application of computer-based
technology. Paul enjoys playing a key role in system
safety and independent assurance, especially in cross
cultural environments. Previously he was the Global
Technical Director of the Lloyd’s Register Rail business
where he developed certification scheme against
the requirements of the CENELEC family of railway
application standards.
He is now a director of the Technical Programme
Delivery Group who are based in the UK and Hong
Kong and operate worldwide. TPD provides technical
consulting services on high profile, technically
challenging projects involving complex safety
critical signalling, communications and rolling stock
technologies including CBTC, ERTMS, ETCS & GSM-R.
Dr. Hase is working for Deutsche Bahn since 2002,
currently at DB Netz AG in charge of the “openETCS”
project. Until 2007 he was managing DB’s regional
EMU/DMU engineering group. Between 1987 and
1998 he used to work for AEG Transportation in
Berlin and Pittsburgh, PA, (USA) before he became
head of R&D for on-board electronics at Knorr-Bremse
AG, Munich. In 2008 he launched DB’s international
openETCS initiative, which has resulted in an ITEA2
project within EU’s EUREKA R&D program.
Ian Graham,
Manager, Operations
Planning, B.C.
Rapid Transit
Company, Manager,
Operations
Planning, Expo/
Millennium Lines
Ian Graham is Manager, Operations Planning (Expo
/ Millennium Lines) for B.C. Rapid Transit Co. Ltd.,
the TransLink subsidiary responsible for the operation
and maintenance of the SkyTrain automated metro
system in Greater Vancouver, Canada. With a B.A.
in Urban Geography, and further studies in Business
Administration at the University of British Columbia, Ian
has been involved with operational planning for SkyTrain
since early project design in 1982, continuing in the
Operations department since opening for revenue service
in 1986, when it became the first full scale driverless
metro in North America, and one of the early pioneers
globally. Responsibilities include planning and timetabling
for regular and special event service, analysis of service
delivery, operational documentation of ATC functionality,
involvement in the specification and acceptance of
several stages of ATC upgrades, and planning liaison with
the regional transit authority (TransLink).
Dr Alan F Rumsey,
Vice President,
Rail and Transit
Systems, Delcan
Corporation
“Dr. Rumsey is a Fellow of the Institution of Railway
Signal Engineers (IRSE), a Senior Member and
Distinguished Lecturer with the Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and was the Chair
of the IEEE Rail Transit Standards Committee,
Working Group #2 that developed industry consensus
standards for Communications-Based Train Control
(CBTC). He is also a Canadian representative on
Working Group #40 of the IEC TC9 committee
developing international standards for Urban Guided
Transit Management Systems. Dr. Rumsey leads
Delcan’s rail and transit systems business in Canada
and internationally and has spent his whole career in
the rail and transit industry with 40 years’ experience
in all phases of rail/transit system planning, design,
implementation, test & commissioning and safety
certification. He has extensive project management
experience for advanced technology projects in
rail transit, having worked on major projects in
North America, Europe and Asia. Dr. Rumsey is a
recognized industry leader in CBTC for both new-start
and re-signaling applications, including driverless
systems, and is regularly called upon to provide expert
advisory services to major rail transit projects around
the world.”
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