The document outlines the agenda for a conference on railway efficiency scheduled for March 12, 2014, featuring industry leaders from organizations like Thales Canada and London Underground. Key topics include the implementation of new train control technologies, the challenges of communication-based train control, and the integration of human factors into railway systems. It also presents opportunities for sponsorship and networking for companies involved in the rail industry.

1. THE IMPLEMENTATION
CHALLENGE FOR FUTURE RAIL
12th of 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
London Underground, George Clarke, Engineering
Director
DB Netz AG, Klaus Rudiger Hase, Project Leader open
ETCS
SNCF, Said El Fassi, Head of the Technical Direction IG-T
& IG-sys
SNCF, Dr. Pierre Messulam, Director of Technology,
Strategy and Regulation
Coventry University, Dr Alexeis Garcia-Perez, Lecturer in
Business Information Systems
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, Operations
Planning
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Duncan
Cross, Deputy
Operations
Director,
London
Overground
and Crossrail
George Clarke,
Engineering
Director,
London
Underground
David Dimmer,
Technical
Project Leader
NGTC project
Unife, Thales
Canada
Dr. Pierre
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Director of
Technology,
Strategy and
Regulation,
SNCF
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2. DAY ONE MARCH 12TH
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
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
9.45
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
10.15
14.15
14.45
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
CBTC from the start, 28 years of Unattended Train Operation at
SkyTrain in Vancouver (needs updating this below is correct)
• 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)
Coffee and Networking
15.45
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
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
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
16.15
Reserved
16.45
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
17.15
Reserved
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, Head of the technical direction IG-T & IG-sys
17.45
Roundtable networking
11.45
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
Table 2
Human Factors - RSSB (to be confirmed)
Table 3
Fall back systems - TPD Technologies,
Director, Paul Cheeseman
18.30
End of conference closing remarks
Networking Lunch
13.45
Table 1
Interoperability led by Karl King, Head
of Rail Control Systems, Mott MacDonald
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
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3. SPEAKERS
Hugh Bridge,
SUP ATC
Engineering
Manager,
London
Underground
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.
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.
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.
George Clarke,
Engineering
Director,
London
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.
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.
Klaus Rudiger
Hase, Project
Leader open
ETCS, DB Netz
AG
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).
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 onboard 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.
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Said El Fassi,
Head of the
Technical
Direction IG-T
& IG-sys, SNCF
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.
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), SMART-WAY(FP7).
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.
Elaine
Thompson,
Principal
Human Factors
Engineer, Mott
Macdonald
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
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.
Ian Graham,
Manager, Operations
Planning, B.C.
Rapid Transit
Company,
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).
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