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CONFERENCE DAY ONE: 20 March 2007 Tuesday
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| 08.00 | Registration
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| 08.45 | Opening remarks
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| 08.55 | Chairman's introduction
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| | Chuck Wills, Industrial Marketing Manager & Railway Power Systems Manager, Caterpillar
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| RAIL INNOVATION: INTEGRATION OF HONG KONG WITH CHINA |
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| 09.00 | Keynote address:
Promoting regional economic development through rail infrastructure expansion - What are Ministry of Rail's strategies for growth in China?
- Overview of Ministry of Rail's operations in China
- Strategies to meet with the expected commuter growth and public transport demands
- Connecting the commercial cities across provinces
- Putting in place a rail infrastructure in lesser developed provinces
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| | Min Huang, Chief Economist, Ministry of Rail, China
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| 09.30 | Keynote address:
Directions for rail infrastructure planning - The MTR's perspective
- Planning the appropriate transport mode to serve a high-density city
- Assessing the stakeholders: governments, operators, infrastructure authorities, commuters and the public
- Determining future trends and developing the next generation of railways
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| 10.00 | Keynote address:
The current state of play in the Asian railway industry - Outlook, development trends and drivers for growth
- Understanding the rail business in Asia and examining critical success factors - What are the barriers and how to overcome them?
- Maintaining competitiveness over other modes of transport
- An integrated approach to supporting rail infrastructure development in mainland China
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| | KK Lee, Senior Director, Capital Projects, Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation
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| 10.30 | Morning refreshment
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| 11.00 | Case study:
Asia Pacific rail evolution and trends
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| 11.30 | Keynote address:
Development of high speed rail in Asia – KTX securing its position as the newest and most preferred method of transportation for the next generation
- Enhancing Korea’s railway transportation capacity through the national’s biggest policy project
- An update on KTX’s launch period and early operations
- Understanding Korail’s IRIS system which reliably integrates and operates KTX services in conjunction with the existing railway services
- Conventional rail – Is it a thing of the past?
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| RAIL REFORMS, RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES |
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| 12.00 | Keynote address:
Financing rail infrastructure investment - What are the posible partnership alliances?
- Investing in rail infrastructure development - Where will the money come from?
- Addressing the Asian government's concerns in railway project investment
- How should reforms be regulated to open up the infrastructure sector?
- Private sector investment - A healthy or unwholesome trend?
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| | Manmohan Parkash, Senior Transport Specialist (Railways), Asian Development Bank, Philippines
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| 12.30 | How does rail transportation work hand in hand with city development plans?
- Completion of WA Government's largest public investment railway project
- Examining Perth's future settlement patterns and how to best integrate land planning and rail developments
- Re-modelling of Perth's Central Business District as a result of this project to overcome the results of poor planning in the past
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| | Reece Waldock, Chief Executive Officer, Public Transport Authority - Government of Western Australia
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| 13.00 | Networking lunch and exhibition viewing
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| EFFICIENCY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND PROCESSES |
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| 14.15 | Application of Artificial Intelligence for a computerized maintenance scheduling system
- Business requirements and challenges in engineering works and traffic information management
- Innovative IT solution to meet challenges
- Application of Artificial Intelligence
- Benefits of the solution
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| | Daniel Lai, Head, Information Technology, MTR Corporation Ltd Andy Chun, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
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| 14.45 | Case study:
Operational recovery in CBTC systems
- Causes of failures in metro operations
- Types of failure in attended and unattended metros
- Developing systems to enable quick and effective diagnosis and recovery using remote manual driving
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| 15.15 | Speed networking
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| 15.45 | Afternoon refreshment
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| 16.15 | Risk management in implementing driverless and fully automatic transit systems - Complexities of today’s modern transit systems
- How efficient risk management practices can ensure a safe and cost-effective transit system
- Examining risk management in various stages of the project life cycle; from the onset of contract packaging, tendering, design, site installation, software development etc.
- Overcoming certain risks when implementing a fully automatic and driverless transit system project
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| | Wee Meng SIM, Director (Electrical & Mechanical) Circle Line, Electrical & Mechanical, Land Transport Authority
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| 16.45 | System approach in turnkey packages
- Understanding the approaches, delivery and deployment of a turnkey solution
- The purpose of this paper is to explore when and where the system approach can be successful in a turnkey contract
- Managing and executing a system engineering approach
- Identifying and maximizing benefits from the system approach
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| | Daniel Dunoye, Director, Systems Projects, Asia Pacific, ALSTOM Transport
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| 17.15 | Innovation in rail infrastructure and telecommunications
- What advantages can wireless services bring to railroad
- Where are the actual benefits to be found
- How to manage a quick payback
- What drives a swift implemention in a traditional industry
- How to merge long lasting rail-stock with rapidly changing ICT components
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| | Paul Diercks, ICT Manager, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Rail)
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| 17.45 | Close of Day One Conference, followed by Cocktail Reception
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CONFERENCE DAY TWO: 21 March 2007 Wednesday
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| 08.45 | Chairman's introduction
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| POTENTIAL AND DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH SPEED RAIL IN ASIA |
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| 09.00 | Keynote address:
Brand, loyalty, and customer service in the high speed European market
- Thalys International’s success and challenges in the European market
- Examining HSR business strategies - capturing the target market, customer segmentation, branding and competition
- Infrastructure investment and development - How far ahead to look out?
- HSR operational efficiencies and challenges - Applicability in the Asian market
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| 09.30 | Panel discussion:
The future and profitability of high speed rail in Asia
- Identifying the markets, profiles and customers
- High speed rail and budget airlines - complementing or competing with each other?
- Crossing borders on high speed rail - Interoperability considerations
- What are the prospects for maglev technology in Asia’s high speed rail arena?
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| | Chuck Wills, Industrial Marketing Manager & Railway Power Systems Manager, Caterpillar Sung-Kyun Choi, Director, Trans-Continental Railway Research Team, Korail Research & Development Center Moderator: Gilberto Riccobono, Customer Director, Ministry of Rail, China & BD for Rolling Stock, ALSTOM Transport
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| 10.15 | Morning refreshment
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| METRO DEVELOPMENT & UPDATES IN KEY MARKETS |
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| 10.45 | Case study:
Taipei Metro – Approaches and strategies in managing an extensive and diverse rail framework
- Devising a successful mass transit system to manage traffic congestions in Taiwan
- Understanding the importance connecting rail from the city to the outskirts
- Developing an effective rail maintenance strategy
- Managing increased ridership and maintaining international standards for Metro Taipei
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| 11.15 | Mass transit planning in areas of rapid economic growth
- Understanding how rail development accelerates vis-Ã -vis economic growth
- Devising a mass transit system to manage suburban-city planning
- Plans for the construction of express rail and industrial rail investment
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| 11.45 | Rail infrastructure in a Chinese cosmopolitan city - Managing rail standards in an era of rapid economic growth
- Overview of Shanghai rail development plans and how they have evolved
- Analysing how structural changes to the Shanghai transportation system has impacted railroad development
- Strategies to improve customer service in all aspects of rail service
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| 12.15 | Networking lunch and exhibition viewing
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| 13.30 | Roundtable discussions
Group 1: Prospects and challenges in connecting the Asia rail road
- Enhancing communication and cooperation in global intercity rail development
- Assessing the risks, returns and obstacles
- Cross-border / national investment hurdles
- Spearing-heading and assisting the lesser developed countries
Led by: Pierre Chartier, Transport & Tourism Division, UNESCAP
Group 2: Stepping into the tourism business - Partnering key hospitality and tourism stakeholders
- Positioning the nation’s efficient transport system as one of the key attractions to leisure and tourism destinations
- Leveraging on each other for publicity
- Good example of strategic partnership - The air-rail link
- What are the other opportunities?
Led by: Alok Jain, General Manager, Marketing, Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, Hong Kong
Group 3: Rail maintenance – Examining the journey from rail route planning and track construction, to the replacement of rolling stocks and viaducts
- Evaluating the risks, returns and ROI
- Exploring options for financing rail infrastructure and rolling stock
- How do asset management practices work for rail?
Led by: Sim Wee Meng, Director, Electrical & Mechanical (Circle Line), Land Transport Authority, Singapore
Group 4: Investment opportunities and strategies for the rail infrastructure development in Asia
- Private and government expectations of the freight rail industry
- Market liberalisation - How will Asia benefit from the opportunities offered by privatisation directives?
- What are the limitations to acquiring attractive private financing?
- Acquiring private sector participation - challenges and advantages
Led by: Shri Gajendra Haldea, Adviser to Dy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India |
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| 14.15 | Mass transit planning – The Bangkok Experience
- Devising a mass transit system to improve traffic situations in Bangkok
- Maintaining international standards for MRTA’s underground mass transit - The first mega project of its kind to be undertaken in Thailand
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| 14.45 | Enhancing rail-road transportation capacity – Establishing an integrated network for Metro development in Shenzhen
- Understanding how rail development impacts economic growth
- Construction of Shenzhen Metro Line 3 - Market analysis, project planning, integration of engineering and operation interfaces, traffic and travel safety planning and financial planning
- Managing suburban-city planning and infrastructure development
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| | Min Wang, Managing Director, Shenzhen Metro Line 3
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| 15.15 | Afternoon refreshment
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| NEW REVENUE STREAMS & BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES: NON-BOX REVENUE IN REAL ESTATE & RETAIL |
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| 15.45 | Panel discussion:
Optimising revenue streams for rail operators – Capitalising on real estate development in Asia
- Maximising and complementing rail network potential with property developments
- Business expansion in the development of residential and commercial property projects above or around existing stations
- Optimisation of revenue from in-station retail areas
- Rail as an essential tool in the property development business mix
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| | Victor Chan, General Manager - Property Development, MTR Corporation
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| RAIL MAINTENANCE, SAFETY & OPERATIONAL ISSUES |
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| 16.30 | Efficient track surveying using GPS/Glonass
- Application of Totalstations for high quality track geometry and position for track construction and renewal
- Provide distinct advantages in applications using GPS and Glonass tools
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| | Peter Stegmaier, VP Technology, BU Engineering, Program Director, Rail & Underground Systems, Leica Geosystems AG
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| 17.00 | Business continuity planning on influenza pandemic – The MTR perspective
- The perception and reality of influenza pandemic
- Managing the risks of an invisible yet inevitable threat
- MTR’s perspectives on preparedness and response planning
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| | George Lee, Safety & Quality Manager, MTR Corporation Ltd
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| 17.30 | An integrated approach to safety management – Grasping the big picture in rail safety
- Measures in reducing the risks in rail transportation
- Enhancing the safety of commuters, stakeholders and the public
- Business standpoint - Understanding that unsafe railways do not operate as efficiently and profitably as safe railways
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| | Tony Lee, General Manager, Rolling Stock, Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation
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| 18.00 | End of Conference Day Two, followed by Networking Dinner
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CONFERENCE DAY THREE: 22 March 2007 Thursday (Freight Rail Day)
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| 08.45 | Chairman's opening remarks
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| FREIGHT RAIL DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA |
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| 09.00 | Keynote address:
India’s plan to enhance its freight rail capacity – Challenges and creative strategies to build success
- Improving the rail transportation bottleneck
- Managing freight flows in India and reducing the wagon turn round time
- Putting in place various infrastructure to support the increased freight flow
- Rail linked container depots and integrated logistic parks will have to be created to make the new container policy successful and increase railways’ share in non-bulk freight business
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| | Madhusudan Rao, Executive Director (Planning), Ministry of Railways, India
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| 09.30 | Impact of freight rail development on the Asian economy – Are nations waiting for the Pan-Asian railway to materialise before intensively developing freight rail? Or is it the other way round?
- Key market concerns in the freight sector
- Strategies promote a greater utilization of rail to meet the increasing demand for efficient transport infrastructure and services due to the growing international trade
- State and federal approaches
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| | Pierre Chartier, Tourism & Transportation Department, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and the Pacific
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| 10.00 | Freight rail expansion in Asia Pacific – Indian Railways are poised for rapid growth in capacity expansion
- Review of current routes and networks
- Improving operational efficiency in goods movement
- Positioning railway expansion to a commercially viable business to attract investments
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| 10.30 | Morning refreshment
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| 11.00 | Case study:
Revolutionary growth in Railway Traction Power Technology
- Keep the norm unchanged - reliability
- Improve tomorrow's world - Offering customers with cleaner, more reliable and efficient traction power with maximum power density
- Offer railway piece of mind and profitability - Innovative service
- Solutions to improve product availability
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| | Chuck Wills, Industrial Marketing Manager & Railway Power Systems Manager, Caterpillar
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| RISK AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT |
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| 11.30 | Marrying the preferred freight solutions in a successful multi-modal approach – Strategies to capture a larger share of the freight market
- Improving the synergies of rail, sea, air and road - comparing time, cost and ease of delivery
- Creating opportunities for symbiotic relationships through a joint rail network, logistics and supply chain management
- Challenges in rail access and intermodal transits - standards, regulations and systems
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| 12.00 | Case study:
Overcoming barriers to entry to the freight rail business – Convincing your customers and projecting the right image
- What are some of the barriers to entry to freight rail?
- Improving rail network infrastructure to efficiently support the rail traffic using it
- Developing a customer-friendly business focus strategy
- Building the industry’s trust in freight rail through seamless integration into the logistics supply chain, maintaining cost effectiveness and competitiveness
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| 12.30 | Networking lunch and exhibition viewing
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| 13.30 | Freight rail development in Australia and its impact on the logistics and supply chains – Providing an efficient and seamless logistic network
- Analysing the competitive options for rail freight
- Supply chain management for export commodities
- Delivering intermodal effectiveness
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| | Michael Carter, A/Group GM, Network Access      , Queensland Rail
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| 14.00 | Panel discussion:
Do rail operators face obstacles in obtaining rail investment?
- Excessive government regulations
- Capital intensity and irreversibility of freight rail investment
- Lack of guarantee on an appropriate return on investment - Statistically reflected that the rail industry does not earn its cost of capital
- Profitability is limited due to intense competition in the transport industry
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| | Michael Carter, A/Group GM, Network Access      , Queensland Rail Moderator: Pierre Chartier, Tourism & Transportation Department, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and the Pacific
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| FREIGHT RAIL TECHNOLOGY AND SECURITY |
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| 14.45 | Providing the world railways with the best affordable locomotives
- Ongoing effort in raising production efficiency and transforming the business by embracing advanced management system from abroad
- Sharpening technology through partnership with international leaders in the industry
- Delivering railways with timely quality service by establishing global footprint
- Sustainable growth without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs - that is to meet the challenges of protecting the planet’s ecosystems
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| 15.15 | Speed networking
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| 15.45 | Afternoon refreshment
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| FUTURE OF FREIGHT RAIL – NEW ROUTES AND DEVELOPMENTS |
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| 16.15 | Opportunities for freight rail expansion in India – Where, when and how?
- Review of current routes and networks
- Improving operational efficiency in goods movement
- Regulatory environment for foreign investment
- Prospects for new business - new routes and impacts on economy
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| | K.K. Gokhale, Managing Director, Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd
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| 16.45 | Case study:
Innovation of diesel traction in VN Railways
- Current situation of VNR's loco fleet
- Innovation of diesel traction over the past few years
- Operation of loco fleet
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| | Cao Van Ngo, Director, Locomotive & Rolling Stock Department, Locomotives and Rolling Stock Engineering Department, Vietnam National Railways
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| 17.15 | Closing remarks
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