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UNIFEAssociation of the European Railway Industries

WelcomeEFRTC

Roma, 01/12/2006

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Agenda

• Welcome

• General Introduction

• EU Railway Policy

• European Railway Agency

• Standardisation

• Research

• Market Study

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Agenda

• Welcome

• General Introduction

• EU Railway Policy

• European Railway Agency

• Standardisation

• Research

• Market Study

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UNIFE Mission Statement 2006/2010

“UNIFE’s mission is to enhance the competitiveness of the railway

industry and promote the development of rail as the

preferred mode of transportation in Europe and beyond”.

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Railway Infrastructure

Sub-system suppliers

Signalling

                                  

System Integrators

& RS

                                    

UNIFE Members

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National Associations

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UNIFE - Achievements 2000/2005

• UNIFE Achievements 2000/2005

• The Voice of the Railway supply industry in Brussels establishing well appreciated relations with the EU institutions and EU railway organisations

• Prominent role for EU Railway Policies in the EU transport White Paper bringing political support to the railway industry

• Implementation of the EU railway Packages I-II-III• Separation railway services & infrastructure 91/440• Liberalization of Rail Freight services 2007• Liberalization Rail Passenger services 2010

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UNIFE - Achievements 2000/2005

• Meetings with all the relevant EU Commissioners

• Meetings with many relevant Railway CEO’s

• Proposal for Financing of Rolling Stock in New Member States (joint UNIFE/CER Initiative)

• Proposal for Cross Acceptance of Rolling Stock (Joint UNIFE/CER/VDB/FIF Initiative)

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UNIFE - Achievements 2000/2005

• European Railway Agency Counterparts• 10 active ERA working group• 8 active UNIFE – ERA Mirror groups

• AEIF– Organizational & Finance Management– Development and Implementation of 12

Technical Specifications for Interoperability• High Speed• Conventional Rail• Revisions

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UNIFE - Achievements 2000/2005

• Development and implementation of about 500 Railway Standards

CEN/CENELEC/ETSI

• Development of a UNIFE Rolling Stock Life Cycle Cost Manual

• ERTMS Deployment Plan & ERTMS Baseline Specifications 2.3.0

• UNISIG Management Center

• Development of IRIS Certification (International Railway Industry

Standard)

– IRIS Management Center

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UNIFE - Achievements 2000/2005

• Integration of the Wheel Suppliers (ERWA) into UNIFE

• Co-operation with The European Rail Trackwork Contractors (EFRTC)

• Organization of events• Annual Reception

• General Assembly

• Participation in events• Eurailspeed (UIC)

• UITP WC

• Eurailfreight (CER)

• ERTMS (UIC)

• WCRR (UIC)

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UNIFE - Achievements 2000/2005

• Establishment of the European Research Advisory Council – ERRAC

• The 6th Framework Program• Modtrain• Modurban• Integrail• Railenergy• EUDD+ 250 Million Euro• EURNEX• New Opera• Others…

• UNIFE Research Management Center – ONLY co-ordination of joint rail research projects!

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UNIFE evolution (Summary)

• Membership development:

• 40 to 70 members

• Income increased:

• From 1M€ to 2.8 M€

• Staff: from 7 to 16 persons operating with the latest technical support of

UNIFE members

• New Business Areas

- IRIS

- UNISIG (from 2006)

- Research

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UNIFE Vision 2020

• The European rail supply industry is a profitable, flexible and high-tech sector, actively contributing to jobs, economic growth and the development of sustainable transport in Europe and beyond.– A Europe in which the high-speed train has become the standard

transport mode connecting cities…– A Europe that has succeeded in achieving a modal equilibrium in freight

traffic for the benefit of the environment, economy, industries and citizens of Europe. …

– A Europe in which local travel within and around large cities takes place mainly by environmental friendly modes, using rail transport, and integrating metro, light rail and heavy rail…

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UNIFE Priorities 2006/2010

1. Dialogue with EU Institutions to influence EU railway policies and to promote the rail transport mode in a level playing field

2. Co-ordination with National Rail Supply Industry Associations to influence and support implementation of EU rail policy

3. Achievement of railway interoperability & standardisation in co-operation with the ERA, CEN, CENELEC, ETSI

4. Development of Joint EU-Railway R&D Programmes & Projects

5. Coordination and co-operation between UNIFE & CER, EIM, UIC and UITP

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Agenda

• Welcome

• General Introduction

• EU Railway Policy

• European Railway Agency

• Standardisation

• Research

• Market Study

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EU Railway Policy

• EU Railway Policy

• Adoption 3rd Railway Package

• Midterm Review EU Transport White Paper

• Trans European Network Transport (TEN-T)

• European Rail Traffic Management System

• EU Railway Funds (Cohesian Funds/European regional development Funds)

• Dedicated Rail Freight Corridors

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EU Railway Policy: 3rd Railway Package

• Adoption 3rd Railway Package

• 1. Proposal for a Directive on the liberalisation of international passenger transport– Liberalisation of international passenger by 2010

• 2. Proposal for a Regulation on the rights and obligations of international rail passengers

• 3. Proposal for a Directive on the certification of train drivers– Towards certificates for locomotive drivers and train crew responsible for security

aspects valid throughout the Community.

• 4. Proposal concerning the quality of rail freight (frozen until end 2007)– Establishes a framework for compensation in rail freight (cases of loss, damages

and delays), and rules for responsibilities for both carriers and customers.

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EU Railway Policy: 3rd Railway Package

• Agenda– 24 July 2006: EU Council of Ministers adopted a Common

Position

– 28 September: Council common position to be officially submitted to the EP in Strasbourg

2nd reading at the Parliament:

– 10 October: Exchange of views in EP (TRAN Committee)

– 21-22 November: Amendments discussed in EP (TRAN Committee)

– 18-20 December: vote in TRAN Committee

– January 2007: Act to be adopted by EP Plenary in Strasbourg

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EU Railway Policy: White Paper

• Mid Term Review EU Transport White Paper

• The WP aims at revitalising the railways to shift the balance between modes of transport by creating an internal market in rail transport.

– Open Rail Market/Infrastructure Development/level playing field for all modes of transport

• The 2006 Mid-term review stresses the following points:

– A greater emphasis on ‘co-modality’– Optimise each transport mode – The modal shift has lost its central place in the EC’s

strategy.

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EU Railway Policy: White Paper

• Main actions from the White Paper:

• 2006: promote rail freight corridors; freight transport logistics strategy; action plan for energy use in transport.

• 2007: Green paper on Urban transport; logistics action plan; rail market monitoring including a scoreboard; Multiannual Investment programme up to 2013 for TEN to be identified; first call of 7th RTD Framework Programme

• 2009: ERTMS implementation on certain corridors

• September 2006: the EP TRAN Committee started an own-initiative report on the subject (rapporteur Ms. Etelka Barsi-Pataky, EPP-European Democrats)

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EU Railway Policy: TEN-T

TEN-T Corridors

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EU Railway Policy: TEN-T

• TEN-T: Trans-European Network-Transport

• In total €225 Billion will be needed just for completing the 30 TEN-T priority projects by 2020, and from this amount. €140 Billion are requested for the period 2007-2013.

• At the same time the EU Transport White Paper declares that the level of investment in transport infrastructure has fallen in all EU Member States to less than 1 % GDP.

• € 8 Billion allocated budget for 2007-2013 for the TEN-T

• Recently the six EU Corridor Co-ordinators presented their reports to the European Commission. The cost of only 3 of these projects in the period 2007-2013 is of around € 60 Billion, and the allowed TEN-T funding in only these is 3 projects will empty the TEN-T budget 2007-2013.

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EU Railway Policy: TEN-T

• UNIFE therefore calls upon the EU Transport Ministers to mobilise and secure all sources of financing for these projects, following the recommendations of the EU Corridor Co-ordinators:

concentration on cross-border sections, bottlenecks, interoperability projects, providing a rate of support that give enough incentive for the

project to start and be completed in the planned schedule.

• The EU Financial Regulation for the TEN-T needs to be adopted by the Council. UNIFE calls upon the EU Transport Ministers to support the European Commission’s proposal and increase the co-financing rate for the TEN-T.

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EU Railway Policy: TEN-T

• 1. Rules governing the EU funding for Trans-European Transport and Energy Network projects are being revised: The percent of funding set by the Commission raises debates:

– EC proposes to rise the funding up to 20% for priority projects– EC proposes to co-finance 30% of priority cross-border transport network

sections– The level of maximum co-financing for setting up the European Rail Traffic

Management System (ERTMS) has been set at 50%

• Agenda– 24 May 2006: EC adopted a revised proposal for the TEN financial regulation.– 20 July 2006: EP Working Document on the EC proposal (rapporteur Mario

Mauro)– 12 September 2006: 1st exchange of views at the EP (Budget Committee)

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EU Railway Policy: TEN-T

The implementation of the Trans European Railway Network – including ERTMS- are crucial for the further development of the railways in Europe.

UNIFE therefore calls upon the EU Transport Ministers to decide to implement ERTMS on the 6 main rail freight corridors in Europe and make the necessary national funds available.

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EU Railway Policy: ERTMS

• European Rail Traffic Management System

• The call for proposals is due to be issued in February next year with a deadline for submitting applications by mid April.

• A mechanism will be introduced in order to ensure that all funds are not

used in the first year.

• The Commission underlined that the amount of 500 millions euro is indicative and not "secured for ERTMS": this amount will only be granted if projects of sufficient quality are submitted.

• If ERTMS does not demonstrate that it can deliver – due to the scarcity of TEN funds - part of the amount will be re-routed towards other projects and "use the money with high EU added value project"

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A Rotterdam – GenovaB Naples- Berlin – StockholmC Antwerpen – Basel/LyonD Valencia- Lyon – Torine – Trieste - LjubljanaE Dresden – Prague – Brno – Vienna - BudapestF Duisburg – Berlin - Warsaw

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EU Railway Funds

EU Railway Funds:

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EU Railway Funds

• July: UNIFE asked a consultancy to collect the figures related to EU budget allocation to rail projects to have a clear overview of the rail financial possibilities in the new EU MS – only these countries can benefit of the Cohesion Fund

• Summer/Autumn: the allocation of these funds to 2006• April: the EU financial perspectives for the 2007/2013 period were

agreed in Brussels• projects (including rail) is being negotiated, still not 100% decided

in some countries.

2007• The implementation of the rail projects is the key priority.

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Cohesion Funds allocated in the new EU Member

States (in brackets the rail allocation in b€)

Poland 20,0 b€ (5-3tbc) Baltic States 4,3 b€ (1,3) Czech Republic 8,0 b€ (2,2) Hungary 7,5 b€ (2,2) Slovakia 3,4 b€ (1,2) Slovenia 1,2 b€ (0,3) Bulgaria 2,0 b€ Rumania 6,0 b€ (1,3)

Cohesion Fund Allocation EU 10+2(Summary)

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Freight Dedicated/Oriented Network

• Freight Dedicated/Oriented Network

• 22 May 2006 EC produced a Consultation Document on the implementation of a rail freight-orientated network.

• UNIFE issued a position paper on Freight in September

• Input from the UNIFE Infrastructure Committee

• End February 2007: publishing of EC Draft Communication

• July 2007: publishing of EC Official Communication

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Agenda

• Welcome

• General Introduction

• EU Railway Policy

• European Railway Agency

• Standardisation

• Research

• Market Study

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European Railway Agency

European Railway Agency

– Evaluation of the ERA activities and setting up a new UNIFE technical support structure for infrastructure after liquidation of the AEIF

• UNIFE railway infrastructure technical committee

• UNIFE co-ordination integrated systems group

• UNIFE Standardisation issues/CEN

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Agenda

• Welcome

• General Introduction

• EU Railway Policy

• European Railway Agency

• Standardisation

• Research

• Market Study

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European Railway Agency (mainline)

Future urban rail directive ?

Harmonised standards provided by CEN,

CENELEC and ETSI (volontary based)

Definition of the key elements of the

European specifications via joint

research

STANDARDISATIONREGULATION RESEARCH

Harmonised standards provided by CEN,

CENELEC, IEC and ETSI (volontary based)

STANDARDISATION RESEARCH

Availability and harmonisation of all necessary

reference documents

Standardisation - 3 Pillar Approach

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Decision making flowchart

EC Directive

Mandate

Technical Specs. ForInteroperability (TSI’s)

CENELEC

Euronorms (EN)

European Standardisation

Bodies

ETSI

ERA ___________________

(Previously AEIF)

CEN

JPCRail

TSISufficient

Need forEN?

RATIFIED

(e.g. by ART 21

Committee for M275)

Published in OJEC

Published in OJEC

Funded by

EC

NSB’s, EFTAFunded by

EC, UNIFE

UIC, UITP

Coordinates

= organisations

= documents

= decisions

Yes

No

Funded byEC

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Agenda

• Welcome

• General Introduction

• EU Railway Policy

• European Railway Agency

• Standardisation

• Research

• Market Study

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Research

Research

-progress Innotrack

-Progress Urbantrack

-UNIFE FP 7 Brainstorming – Infrastructure possible subject Results

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Progress Innotrack

• Progress Innotrack

• Jointly funded research project with the aim to develop cost-effective high performance track infrastructure for heavy rail systems

• 3 year project – 18.6 million euro – kick off September 2006 at Innotrans in Berlin

• SP 5 meeting held in Mainz on 16 Nov 2006

• EFRTC leads WP 5.1: -preparation questionnaire and developing an evaluation system to establish current best

practice

• Draft questionnaire presented by Carillion

• Next SP 5 meeting on 6 December 2006 In Paris Alstom Office

• Next SP1/SP5/SP6 meeting on 17 January 2007 in London

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Progress Urbantrack

• Progress Urbantrack

• Jointlly funded research project aimed at developing, testing and validating innovative products and methods for urban rail track infrastructure.

• 4 year project – 18 million euro – kick off September 2006 in Brussels

• SP 2 meeting 2/11/06 London

• Internal website has been set up

• Public website to be finalized

• UNIFE to set up and manage a “Network of Industries” under SP6 to include companies that are not directly represented in the Consortium, but who agree to be involved in the project at different steps of development, allowing a broad knowledge outside of the project on Users requirements and opening technology solutions.

• Network of Industries formed by:

• UNIFE members Network (infrastructure system integrators, track suppliers and track workers)

• UNIFE 4+1 ( formed by the 4 industries members of UNIFE participating in INNOTRACK and by EFRTC)

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UNIFE FP 7 Brainstorming – Infrastructure possible subjects

• UNIFE FP 7 Brainstorming

• Name and general scope: SMART INFRASTRUCTURE

• Overall objectives and deliverablesReduce maintenance cost through predictive and condition based maintenance of infrastructure components and

sub-systems

• Timing: launch date (until 2013) and duration?2008 – 2011

• System approach: Interaction with other main subsystems (RS, signalling, infrastructure….)

RS

• Identify where it fits with objectives 7.2.1 – 7.2.5 (slide No2)7.2.4 ; 7. 2.5

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UNIFE FP 7 Brainstorming – Infrastructure possible subjects

• Name and general scope: GREENTRACK

• Overall objectives and deliverablesUsing more renewable / waste materialGiving a 2nd Railway life to some material (ballast)

• Timing: launch date (until 2013) and duration?2007 – 2010

• System approach: Interaction with other main subsystems (RS, signalling, infrastructure….)

RS

• Identify where it fits with objectives 7.2.1 – 7.2.5 (slide No2)7. 2.1

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UNIFE FP 7 Brainstorming – Infrastructure possible subjects

• Name and general scope: INFRANORMS

• Overall objectives and deliverablesRevisiting the technical foundations on which norms are based

• Timing: launch date (until 2013) and duration?2007 – 2010

• System approach: Interaction with other main subsystems (RS, signalling, infrastructure….)

RS

• Identify where it fits with objectives 7.2.1 – 7.2.5 (slide No2)7. 2.5

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Agenda

• Welcome

• General Introduction

• EU Railway Policy

• European Railway Agency

• Standardisation

• Research

• Market Study

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UNIFE World Rail market Study

Rail Market Study

Results to be presented at the UNIFE annual reception on the 29th of January 2007

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Conclusion

• The railway industry is a modern and high potential industry capable of meeting the mobility challenges of the 21st Century !

• Quote, Louis Armand, UIC President 1956:• “Railways can become the transport mode of the 21st

Century if it survives the 20th Century” and they did. • UNIFE is available to support it’s members on this mission

into the 21 Century:

• One Team• One Mission• One Objective

“Develop railways as a modern, efficient, affordable and essential part

of the global transport system“

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Thank you for your attention!

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