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Day One - Thursday, November 6, 2008
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8.15am | Registration opens
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9am | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| | Olivier Perraud, Vice President Market Development & Tendering, Alstom Transport Information Solutions
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| SUSTAINING THE SUBWAY AS THE CITY’S HEARTBEAT |
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9.10am | Keynote: rail connection to Miami International Airport
- Breaking ground with a 2.4-mile Metrorail extension
- Project funding from voter-approved sales surtax for transportation
- What challenges are we facing, and how can we overcome them?
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9.40am | Keynote: the increasing importance of the metro in Latin urban development
- The modernization of Rio’s metro, and the parallels with our Latin neighbors
- Methods to attract investment to fund future growth
- How to improve the quality of service in the coming years
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10.10am | Project snapshot: the expansion of Santiago’s subway system to face an increase of twice its demand
- Integrating the Subway in the ‘Transantiago’ public transportation system
- Combining rubber-tyred and steel-wheel track Systems in South America’s largest network
- Overcoming the challenges in extending of Line 1 and 5
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10.40am | Refreshments & networking
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| SAFETY AND SECURITY – IMPROVING YOUR STATEGY |
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11.20am | Safety: are you ready for an evacuation? Are you really ready?
- The value of drills and exercises - lessons learned
- Training for enhanced communication
- Evacuate to where?
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| | Cynthia Gallo, Director of Safety, Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority
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| MAKING BIG PROJECTS HAPPEN |
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11.50am | Project snapshot: revamping to CBTC – delivering the promise
- The CBTC promise
- Delivering revampings within tight budget and deadlines
- Olympic Challenges: the Beiijing Metro Line 2 renovation
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| | Marc Gouyon-Rety, Director, Transit Market Development & Tendering, Alstom Transport
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12.20pm | Networking lunch
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2pm | Telecommunications: delivering “real time” CCTV to operators and security agencies
- The need for real time video on board the train
- The technical demands and challenges
- Alcatel-Lucent experiences with metros around the world
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| | Bob Herritty, Transportation Market Director, Alcatel-Lucent
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2.30pm | Speed Networking
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3.20pm | Refreshments & networking
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3.40pm | Rolling stock panel: state of the art vehicles – what are transit authorities looking for?
- How can we reduce our total energy consumption to improve efficiency?
- Dynamic breaking on our new fleet and re-using the energy for auxiliary systems
- Replacing original railcars with state-of-the-art vehicles that can better withstand a subtropical environment
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4.20pm | Closing address: increasing productivity without compromising service level
- How may metro systems increase staff productivity and still keep plans robust?
- Approaches and experiences in the customization of a planning and management product for different rail companies.
- Presentation of several case studies where dramatic cost reductions were achieved
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4.50pm | Chairman’s closing remarks
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| | Olivier Perraud, Vice President Market Development & Tendering, Alstom Transport Information Solutions
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5pm | Cocktail reception
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6pm | End of day one
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Day Two - Friday, November 7, 2008
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8.15am | Registration opens
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9am | Chairman’s opening remarks
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| REHAB CLINIC FOR METROS IN DENSE URBAN ENVIRONMENTS |
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9.10am | Keynote: moving Mexico’s millions – the vision for Mexico City’s metrorail in 2020
- Current status of the revised Master Plan
- Addressing the complications in integrating the metro with light rail
- Operations and maintenance needs for the future metro growth of the western hemisphere’s largest metropolitan area
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| FULLY AUTOMATED METROS – MAN VS. MACHINE |
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9.40am | Project snapshot: construction of the Rome line C unattended metro
- Current tenders and projections for the future of the project
- What are the key challenges that the project has faced, and how have they been overcome?
- Archaeological constraints in metro development in a historical city
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9.40am | Keynote: using performance management to transform a transportation agency
- Dealing with a dense urban population experiencing continual growth
- The metro as the heart of the city – getting people off the roads and on to trains
- The realistic capabilities and potential of the metro system
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10.10am | Presentation
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10.40am | Refreshments & networking
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| SPECIAL SESSION – YOU CREATE THE PANEL DISCUSSION |
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11.20am | U-turn
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12.10pm | Keynote: discussing subway challenges in the current economic climate
- Overview of rail operations in Los Angeles
- Maintaining service amid cutbacks
- The challenges presented by technology solutions
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| | Mike Cannell, General Manager, Rail Operations, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation
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12.40pm | Networking lunch
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| FINANCING NEW PROJECTS OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS |
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2pm | Project snapshot: innovative finance strategies for Dallas’ ambitious plans
- Light rail – bridging the gap between bus and metro
- Innovative funding methods and strategies for investment
- Total coverage by 2030 – the steady expansion of the DART rail network
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2.30pm | Project snapshot: financing Vancouver’s Olympian challenge – risk and reward discussed
- The Winter Olympics as the catalyst, and gaining the buy-in of Federal and regional government
- Why transfer risk to the private sector?
- Successfully implementing the procurement process of the fleet of trains, signaling and control, mobile telecommunications and operations
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| | Jane Bird, CEO, Canada Line Rapid Transit Inc.
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3.10pm | PPP panel: how transit authorities can make PPPs work successfully as a mechanism to improve public services
- Key success factors for PPPs
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| | Navin Sagar, Snr. Director Engineering, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Jane Bird, CEO, Canada Line Rapid Transit Inc.
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3.40pm | Chairman’s closing remarks
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3.50pm | End of conference
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Pre-conference workshop - November 5, 2008
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| Pre-conference Masterclass: Fully Automated & Driverless Metros
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About the Masterclass:
Dr. Rumsey will lead through a day of presentations, discussion panels and brainstorming sessions focused on the benefits of fully automated metro systems. The class will consider challenges and lessons learned, will be briefed on latest technological trends and will look to the European and Asian market to gain a truly global perspective.
About your Masterclass leader:
Dr. Rumsey, Parsons' Rail & Transit Systems Sector Manager, is a Fellow of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE) and is the Chair of the IEEE Rail Transit Vehicle Interface Standards Committee, Working Group #2, responsible for establishing consensus standards for Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) systems. Dr. Rumsey is also the US representative on Working Group #40 of the IEC TC9 committee, developing international standards for Urban Guided Transit Management Systems.
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