Scandinavian Rail Development 2010

When: 27-28 April 2010
Where: Operakällaren, Stockholm, Sweden

Following the tremendous response to Nordic Rail Infrastructure, the event returned to Stockholm as Scandinavian Rail Development 2010. This biennial conference has established itself as the meeting place for rail operators, infrastructure owners, consultants and suppliers throughout the region.

Hosted by SJ, the conference featured:

A focus on the much talked of high speed opportunities for Sweden
Rail market Liberalisation
Major infrastructure projects
Development plans from the operators’ perspective
Transport Ministry investment plans
The latest technologies from the leading equipment manufacturers

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Conference agenda

The conference programme contains details of speakers and topics, sponsors and exhibitors.

Conference speakers

Speakers at Scandanavian Rail Development 2010 included:

Mr Gunnar Alexandersson,
Senior Policy Advisor,
ASTOC (Association of Swedish Train Operating Companies)

Mr Sam Berggren,
Head of Machinery,
Banverket

Mr Sven-Hakan Nilsson,
ERTMS Programme Manager,
Banverket

Andreas Wik,
ERTMS Wayside Program Manager,
Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB

Mr Klas Wåhlberg,
President,
Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB

Mr Lennart Westberg,
Managing Director/Project Director,
Botniabanan AB

Mr Michael Robson,
Secretary General,
EIM – European Rail Infrastructure Managers

Mr Jan Schneider-Tilli,
Project Director,
Femern A/S

Mr Sören Belin,
Future Rail Sweden

Professor Chris Nash,
Professor of Transport Economics,
Institute of Transport Studies

Mr Martinus Grimsmo,
Technology Manager,
Jernbaneverket

Mr Stefan Knittel,
Technical Director,
Rhomberg Bahntechnik

Mr Jan Forsberg,
Chief Executive Officer,
Swedish State Railways (SJ AB)

Dr Florian Bussert,
Business Manager Northern Europe,
Tensar International Ltd

Mr Carsten Falk Hansen,
Director General,
Trafikstyrelsen (Denmark Public Transport Authority)

Mr Gunnar Malm,
Director General,
Trafikverket (The Transport Administration)

Mr Jan-Eric Nilsson,
Professor in Transport Economics,
VTI

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Attendees

Some of the companies attending Scandanavian Rail Development 2010 included:

AF Infrastruktur AB
ALTRO
Arriva Skandinavien A/S
ASTOC (Association of Swedish Train Operating Companies)
Banverket
Banverket/Trafikverket
Bombardier Transportation Sweden AB
Botniabanan AB
Construcciones Y Auxiliar De Ferrocarriles, S.A.
ECG AG
EIM
EKE-Electronics Ltd.
ERTMS Solutions Scandinavia
EuRailCo
Europakorridoren AB
Fehmarnbelt
Future Rail Sweden
General Electric AB
Heitkamp Rail GmbH
Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds
Jernbaneverket
Kcw GmbH
Knorr-Bremse GmbH Division IFE
Koltech Poland
Koltech Sp z.o.o
LKO Teknik AB
Ministry of Transport
Molytex A/S
Rhomberg Bahntechnik GmbH
Rock Delta A/S
Scandpower AB
Siemens A/S
Siemens AG
SJ AB
Skandistål AB
SNCF
Stadler Bussnang AG
Swedish State Railways (SJ AB)
Talgo Deutschland GmbH
Teltronic
Tensar International Ltd
Thales Rail Signalling Solutions
Trafikstyrelsen (Denmark Public Transport Authority)
Trafikverket (The Swedish Transport Administration)
Travel Design AB
Vectura Consulting
Vialis BV
Voith Rail Services B.V.
Voith Turbo Scharfenberg GmbH & Co. KG
VR – Group Ltd (Finish Railways)
VR-Track Ltd
VTI

Conference sponsors

Platinum sponsor: Bombardier

About Bombardier Transportation

As the global leader in rail technology, Bombardier Transportation offers the broadest portfolio in the rail industry and delivers innovative products and services that set new standards in sustainable mobility. BOMBARDIER ECO4 technologies – built on the four cornerstones of energy, efficiency, economy and ecology – conserve energy, protect the environment and help to improve total train performance. Bombardier Transportation is headquartered in Berlin, Germany and has a presence in over 60 countries. It has an installed base of over 100,000 vehicles worldwide.

About Bombardier

A world-leading manufacturer of innovative transportation solutions, from commercial aircraft and business jets to rail transportation equipment, systems and services, Bombardier Inc. is a global corporation headquartered in Canada. Its revenues for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2009, were $19.7 billion US, and its shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD). Bombardier is listed as an index component to the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America indexes. News and information are available at www.bombardier.com.

About Bombardier Transportation Sweden

Bombardier Transportation in Sweden employs approximately 2000 people at sites in Västerås, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Hässleholm, Gävle and Nässjö. Bombardier offers a complete product portfolio to the Swedish market and has operations in Sweden that carry out design, manufacturing, project management and after-sales activities. Sweden also serves as a technology hub for Bombardier, developing signalling equipment and propulsion & controls for the global market.

Assosiate sponsors:

Tensar International

TENSAR International has led the world in the design and manufacture of trackbed reinforcement, ground stabilisation and soil reinforcement solutions since the early 1980s. Continuous development and innovation of geogrids and geotextiles, including many patented designs, have led to their use in railways across Europe and the world, as well as road, bridge, embankment, runway and many other applications.

Tensar ground stabilisation and reinforcement solutions are backed by EU and international certification, in-situ performance testing and certification by major rail authorities internationally. Tensar’s technical design solutions enable installation of ballast and sub-ballast to meet specified bearing capacity requirements. Millions of square metres of trackbed ballast and sub-ballast have been stabilised with improved bearing capacity throughout Europe.

As well as improving bearing capacity over poor ground, use of Tensar geogrids has been shown to reduce trackbed maintenance time and cost requirements by a factor of up to 3, with long term durability and stability performance.

In addition to reinforcement in poor ground conditions, use of Tensar geogrids has been shown to reduce differential settlement and trackbed maintenance requirements across transition zones, where trackbed crosses over variable stiffness substructures such as at underbridges , road crossings, tunnel inverts and through rail stations. Tensar geogrids offer a sustainable approach through efficient material usage by extending ballast life, reducing sub-ballast thickness and resulting in less demand for quarried new material, waste disposal and transportation.

Further railway applications for Tensar uniaxial, biaxial and TriAx™ geogrids include the stabilisation of temporary access roads, working platforms for cranes and piling rigs and embankment foundations, where the 1m deep Tensar Geocell mattress can provide stability and help control over poor ground. Tensar reinforced soil trackside structures include retaining walls, noise barriers, bridge abutments and steep slopes which generally offer quicker, cheaper and more environmentally sympathetic solutions compared with more traditional methods.

Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia Siemens Networks is a leading global enabler of telecommunications services. With its focus on innovation and sustainability, the company provides a complete portfolio of mobile, fixed and converged network technology, as well as professional services including consultancy and systems integration, deployment, maintenance and managed services. It is one of the largest telecommunications hardware, software and professional services companies in the world. Operating in 150 countries, its headquarters are in Espoo, Finland.

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RockDelta

As a member of the Rockwool Group of companies, RockDelta a/s specialises in anti-vibration products for the railway industry based upon full-contact, stone wool resilient mats.

With track anti-vibration experiences dating back to 1974, RockDelta has over the years amassed in-depth track anti-vibration knowledge which has been carefully used in the development of every RockDelta product.

The result today is two distinct product lines of high-efficiency and extremely durable anti-vibration mats providing constant vibration isolation for decades: the RockXolid® product line for floating slab tracks and the RockBallast® product line for ballasted tracks. Both product lines offer a number of truly unique and unsurpassed features, advantages and benefits to suit even the most demanding track anti-vibration application

Most importantly – especially when comparing stone wool based track anti-vibration solutions with other materials – stone wool mats maintain virtually unchanged dynamic and static stiffness under harsh environmental conditions.

It is safe to say that RockDelta® stone wool based track anti-vibration solutions offer superior material characteristics that enable known and constant levels of vibration isolation for decades with minimum track deflection and with a reduction of track maintenance costs.

Environmental responsibility is vitally important to RockDelta. As part of the Rockwool Group, RockDelta follows the strict, award winning, group environment policy that includes, for example: environmental analysis of all projects involving new production equipment or new products, an elaborate environmental management system and audits at the plants to assist the environmental work of the manufacturing companies.

RockDelta vibration isolation products are marketed world wide – through own sales representatives or local co-operation partners.

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Conference exhibitors

AnsaldoSTS

Ansaldo STS is a Railway & Mass Transit Transportation Solutions business.

It acts as lead contractor and turnkey provider on major projects worldwide of traffic management, planning, train control and signaling systems and services.

Ansaldo STS brings together the know-how, excellence and technological expertise of pioneering companies like Ansaldo Signal, Ansaldo Trasporti Sistemi Ferroviari, Union Switch & Signal and CSEE Transport.

Ansaldo STS is headquartered in Genoa, Italy, and employs over 4,200 people in 28 different countries.

Business Lines:

High Speed
Main Lines & Freight
Mass Transit & Light Rail
Computer-based Interlocking
Planning, Supervision & Traffic Control
Components
Operation & Maintenance

Teltronic

Cactus

Project ESTER – CTC system for ERTMS based signaling system

The CTC system is the manoeuvre tool in ESTER ERTMS Level 2 system. It supports the dispatcher in operation of train traffic.

The base for the CTC is Cactus CSX, used as a SCADA platform in a wide range of applications.

For railway operation Cactus TMS controls regional lines in Stockholm and in Denmark.

The CTC-system: controlling and remotely operating the traffic

The system also serves as a protocol converter for distributing and reading information to and from external systems.

Flexible workstations can be configured local or remote. The system can also be fully operated from an external CTC system.

CMI overview
is a graphical user interface of the CTC workstation to control the traffic. The layout and appearance of the CMI is very flexible and can be configured to suit different users.

Functionalities

General CTC functions for train and line control.
Integrated part of ERTMS subsystems like RBC and interlocking
General SCADA functions
General communication interfaces to any external sub systems

Constraints

The equipment is off-the-shelf equipment. The software is adapted to Banverket’s requirements. The global architecture is based on a client-server model.

System behavior

The CTC system is designed to achieve a high grade of availability. The foundation concept is redundancy with dual servers and workstations. If one component fails, the redundant component takes over. Each server and workstation has two network interfaces. If one interface fails, the other takes over.

The cluster solution is designed to protect applications from a wide variety of failures by monitoring the health of each server. The cluster solution increases service uptime, maintains data integrity, reduces downtime, and protects against disasters and major site outages for physical servers in an open industry-standard operating environment.

Rhomberg

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