Infrastructure & Signalling
About
The Infrastructure and signalling focused panels during the Railway Pro Technology & Services Forum helps decision makers to establish the right strategy for the railway market.
The event fosters novelty in railways and encourages collaboration between companies, academia and government specialists. Every year, this event brings together organisations interested in developing new railway projects and identifying new partners, project generators presenting current opportunities and future plans, investors looking for new railway business opportunities.
The participants will benefit from the latest information on the market and will have the chance to take part in fruitful discussions, during which they will be able to offer their insight and contribution towards developing projects.
The debated topics during the forum:
- Integration into the Single European Railway Area – policies and strategies;
- Cross-border interoperability for seamless transport
- Investments for rail infrastructure development in the EU (EFSI, CEF, public and private investments)
- ERTMS deployment – challenges and solutions in CEE
Programme
9:30 – 10:00 Opening speech
10:00 – 11:30 Panel 1
12:00 – 13:30 Panel 2
14:30 – 16:30 Panel 3
Technical visit
The technical visits, on the 2nd day of the forum, will take place at:
- RailPort Arad
- Arad County Council - Rolling Stock Exhibition
- Arad Rail Station and Arad Control & Command Centre
- Astra Rail Industries
- Astra Vagoane Călători
Partners
Platinum Partners: | |||||||
Fiind un promotor al transportului durabil, Alstom dezvoltă şi comercializează cea mai completă gamă de sisteme, echipamente şi servicii din sectorul feroviar. Alstom administrează sisteme complete de transport, de la material rulant, sisteme de semnalizare şi infrastructură oferind soluţii la cheie. Compania Alstom este nr. 1 în domeniul feroviar de mare viteză şi de foarte mare viteză. |
Grupul Grampet este cel mai mare grup feroviar privat din România şi din Europa de Sud-Est. Înfiinţat în 1999, Grupul Grampet include mai multe companii cu activităţi în toate sectoarele de cale ferată, de la transportul de mărfuri, fabricarea materialului rulant şi reparaţii până la management logistic. Grupul Grampet reuneşte programe complexe pentru dezvoltarea şi modernizarea companiilor-membre şi este responsabil pentru controlul strategic al tuturor diviziunilor sale. În ultimii ani, grupul şi-a extins activitatea şi, în prezent, oferă servicii în România, Bulgaria, Ungaria, Germania, Austria, Serbia, Muntenegru, Ucraina şi Republica Moldova. Promovând un nivel extrem de competitiv şi mereu concentrat pe nevoile clienţilor, cu o cotă de piaţă mereu în creştere în fiecare an, Grupul Grampet a devenit o prezenţă puternică în Europa Centrală şi de Sud-Est. În perioada următoare, Grupul Grampet îşi va extinde activitatea pe pieţele din Cehia, Slovacia şi Grecia. În acelaşi timp, procedurile de înfiinţare a două case de expediţii în Kazahstan şi China au fost iniţiate. În acest fel, Grupul Grampet poate furniza transport feroviar şi servicii logistice clienţilor pe rutele care leagă Marea Nordului de Marea Adriatică şi Marea Neagră. |
Domeniul nostru de activitate cuprinde o gamă largă de soluţii, începând de la automatizarea şi alimentarea cu energie electrică a instalaţiilor feroviare, continuând cu producţia de material rulant şi extinzându-se până la livrarea de instalaţii feroviare la cheie şi dezvoltarea unor concepte moderne de service. |
Cu o experienţă de peste 30 de ani, voestalpine VAE APCAROM şi-a consolidat în tot acest timp poziţia pe piaţa românească, fiind singura companie românească care fabrică şi furnizează aparate de cale ferată pentru căile ferate, metrou şi un partener de încredere pentru tramvai şi companii cu linii industriale proprii. |
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Networking Partners: | |||||||
Kapsch CarrierCom se adreseaza clientilor din România in calitate de integrator si furnizor de solutii complexe, din domeniul informaticii si comunicatiilor. Kapsch ste integrator de sisteme și furnizor global de soluții de telecomunicații complete pentru operatori publici și feroviari, transport urban și companii în căutare de soluții de asset management în timp real. |
Ronside Steel performs a series of specific railways works including: construction, repair, maintenance of power lines, bridges and railroads consolidations. Ronside Steel is proud of the accomplishments of its employees who have chosen to put their skills and experience in the execution of construction works such as bridges, viaducts, overpasses, steel structures. |
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Gold Partners: | |||||||
A firm of engineering consultants which is closely involved in the very complex procedures to furnish safety proofs, verification and homologation for the rolling stock troughout Europe. Our aim is a safe, reliable and economic railway system. |
Alfred Net is a Romanian company established in 2004, ISO9001 and ISO27001 certified, that is acting as systems integrator and solutions provider for the following domains: security & intelligence, telephony & telecommunications, ITS – intelligent transportation systems and Digital Signage. |
With more than 100 years experience, FCC Construcción is the infrastructure division of FCC Group, an international leader in, the international environmental services, water management and construction. |
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ISAF S.A. is a company specialized in the field of manufacturing and mounting of railway installations and equipments, for electrified railway and urban transport, as follows: automation, signalling, telecommunications, radiocommunications and high voltage installations. |
SPIACT CRAIOVA is a company operating in the field of railway industrial production, equipment, centralization and remote control, whose products, services and works are designed mainly for the railway infrastructure. |
Due to a continuous experience of almost 80 years in railroad construction, SWIETELSKY became one of the leading railway contruction companies in Europe. In railway sector, SWIETELSKY provides civil construction services related to railway buildings, metro construction-special civil and underground engineering, municipal underground construction, civil and underground construction. |
ÜNTEL KABLO is one of the leading cable manufacturers in Europe, with its modern, innovator, high technology factory and has been established in 1972 to manufacture specialty rubber and PVC cables. ÜNTEL KABLO aims to be become one of the leading cable manufacturers in the world keeping the customer services and the product quality as most important. |
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Vossloh is a leading global rail technology company. Rail infrastructure is the core business of the Group. We offer our customers throughout the world integrated solutions from a single source. We make an important contribution to the mobility of people and the transport of commodities – safe, sustainable and environmentally friendly. |
Wiebe România SRL is registered as Romanian legal person since 2003 as subsidiary of the German holding H.F. Wiebe GmbH & Co.KG. Wiebe România has constantly consolidated its position in the market of railway and tram infrastructure constructions and civil engineering. The perserverence, professionalism and experience of the staff has encountered a fertile expression environment in the technological environment promoted by the company’s management policy. |
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Silver Partners: | |||||||
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The ASTALDI GROUP is one of Italy’s leading Contractors, and one of the top 25 in Europe in the construction segment. Active for more than 90 years internationally, it addresses the market by developing complex, integrated projects in the field of designing, developing, and operating public infrastructure and large-scale civil engineering works, mainly in the segments of Transport Infrastructure, Energy Production Plants, Civil and Industrial Construction, Facility Management, Plant Engineering, and Management of Complex Systems. |
TPF ROMANIA has already affirmed itself as one of the leaders in the engineering and consulting fields, working both with private companies and major international organisations (World Bank, EBRD, EU). |
Speakers
He worked as Engineer in Signalling Centralization Blocking, Head of Centralisation Remote Control Department, Installation Manager CFR SA (1998-2000, 2003-2005) and Service Manager AFER (2001-2003, 2005-2009). Since 2009 until 2012 he has been Executive Manager AFER and since 2012 he has been occupying the position of Scientific Secretary within the same company. |
Jean-Pierre Loubinoux was born in 1956. A graduate of the Ecole Centrale Paris, he worked at the French Foreign Trade Delegation to Hong Kong (1977-1978) before joining French railways SNCF in 1978, where he held various responsibilities including Director of the SNCF General Delegation in North-America and Chief Executive of French Railways UK Ltd in Britain. He then joined the SNCF Freight Department where he successively managed the Coal-Steel Business Unit and the Human Resources, Data Processing and Finance Department before being appointed Chief Executive of SNCF Freight International (2001) and from 2001 to 2009 Chairman and CEO of SNCF International and SNCF Director of International Development. |
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Mr. Chiper graduated in 1994, from the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest, Faculty of Transport - Rolling Stock Section, and has a diploma in mechanical engineering. |
After working 5 years at SNCFR, in 1999 he joined the team of inspectors at the Romanian Railway Authority – AFER, in the field of railway safety. |
His scientific career started in 2002 when he joined the Institute for Railway Engineering at Vienna University of Technology. In 2005 he graduated as a Ph.D. by submission of his thesis “Choice of Location for Wayside Train Monitoring Systems”. He was involved in several studies for Infra Managers to cover their network by WTMS in a safe and economic way. Finally, he became a Docent for the area of railway operation in 2011. Moreover he carried out many studies by simulation of railway operation to compare headways between conventional signalling and the new European Train Control System (ETCS). |
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Mr. Frumosu has more than 30 years experience of railways development in an international environment. Graduated as a Transport Engineer in Romania, developed his education with an MBA from Oxford Brookes University and a PhD in Development Strategy at the Academy of Economics, currently studying Commercial Law at University of London. In UK he worked on the first PPP initiative in urban transportation – privatisation of Norther Line passenger services of London Underground. Subsequently his career spanned for more than two decades on railways projects in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. Since 2014 he joined the EIB as Senior Transport Expert for project implementation support to the SOP-T beneficiaries. |
Born on 8 November 1961, Mr Oţoiu Marcel is now the General Manager of the Romanian National Centre for Railway Qualification and Training (CENAFER). He ensures the general manager of the institution and he represents CENAFER in the relationships with third parties. He also deals with communications issues and maintains collaboration regarding the design, implementation and finalization of projects. |
Mr. Robson is a time-served railway man having worked in the industry for 39 years. During this time he has held various senior positions both in the UK and in Europe including that of Secretary General of the European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM). In the UK Michael Robson has experience of working at a senior level in an integrated railway, British Rail, a private stock market listed infrastructure company, Railtrack, and a company limited by guarantee and privately financed, Network Rail, where he was responsible for developing and implementing the Network Rail policy on European issues. |
Corneliu Luscalov graduated from the Civil Technical University of Bucharest, Faculty of Railways, Roads and Bridges, Specialization: Railway Superstructure. He is a M.Sc, candidate for a Doctor in Science - D.Sc. degree and a invited lector of the Faculty of Railways, Roads and Bridges, Railway Superstructure. |
Sergiu Giorgian Rădulescu was born on 16 July 1958. He graduated from the University of Brasov, the Technological Faculty of Machine Construction. He has graduated from a CODECS course including the following: management of change, driving art, mentoring, project management, negotiation techniques in acquisitions. Until 2007, he was section engineer, design engineer and head of designing. |
Claudiu Valentin Stoilescu was born on 4th Octomber 1989 in Buzau. He graduated from the University of Agronomic Science and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, the Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering, Geodesy Engineering specialization. Since he graduated in 2013, he worked in the sales domain, promoting topographical services. He graduated from courses such as Lean 6 Sigma and Successful Communication in organizational environment. He currently is a marketing specialist in voestalpine VAE APCAROM. |
Jacques de Liniers was born in 1969. He graduated the Université de Nantes in France, with a degree in civil engineering. |
He graduated from the University of Galati, Romania, in 1989, afterwards he continued his training at Ecole de Technologie Supérieure (Montréal, Canada) – 1995 – 1996; Universite de Montreal (Montreal, Canada) – 1994; George Washington University (Washington D.C.) – 1995, FGT Montreal, Canada - 1994 – 1996; University of Chicago Graduate School of Business – 1999; International Faculty of Finance – London – July 2010. |