Conference Day One: Tuesday 9 November 2010 Conference Day One: Tuesday 9 November 2010
8am Breakfast & Registration9am Chairman’s opening remarks NEW HIGH SPEED RAIL DEVELOPMENTS9.10am Keynote address: High Speed Rail in Russia, Moscow to St. Petersburg and beyond
9.50am Keynote Address: Building a National High Speed Network in Brazil
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How is the Rio de Janeiro – São Paulo – Campinas line developing?
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How is Brazil planning to ensure their network will be passenger focussed?
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How will they achieve their goal of completing the line in time for the FIFA world cup 2014?
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What is the strategy beyond 2015/2016 when this line will be in operation?
Secretary for Transportation National Policy, Ministry of Transportation Brazil
10.30am Q&A with morning keynote speakers10.45am Morning refreshments and speed networking11am Is private investment in high speed rail projects a realistic strategy for financing?
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How did the UK’s HS1 secure private sector financing?
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Will shifting risk to the private sector increase profitability and efficiency?
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Analysing HS1’s financial performance, can sustainability be achieved?
11.30am Case Study: Innovative financing model leveraging from the European experience
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Adapting financing strategies for national economic realities to ensure success
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Strategies for dividing PPP contracts within the project’s business model
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Can PPPs successfully form the basis of a high speed rail funding strategy?
1pm Private Finance Panel – What elements make for an attractive high speed rail investment?
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What are the risks that private investors look to as an indicators for investment in high speed rail projects
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What are the opportunities for private investment?
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Will alternatives to PPP models emerge for high speed rail?
Executive Director, Infrastructure Investment, Macquarie Capital Advisors Head of Transport & Social Infrastructure Europe, Middle East and Africa, Fitch Ratings Directeur d'investissement, CDC Infrastructure Executive Director, Investment Banking, UBS
1.45pm Panel discussion: PPPs, how can you ensure their success?
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Will PPPs be the solution for financing future high speed rail projects?
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What are the strategies for success and how can funding gaps and teething problems be avoided.
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How can a PPP agreement be structured efficiently avoiding bureaucratic inefficiencies between organisations?
Founding President, International PPP Platform Turkiye
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES OF INTERNATIONALISATION2.15pm European Legislation: “the” key issue for high speed rail developments
- Infrastructure, track access charges, operations… can we speak of a true European high speed network?
- Intermodal fair playing field: when can progress be expected?
- Intramodal competition: what are the next necessary steps towards an efficient single market?
- Interoperability, safety, and certification: is there enough ambition?
Permanent EU representative, SNCF
2.45pm Afternoon refreshments and networking3.15pm Playing to your strengths: using strategic partnerships to succeed in the liberalised market
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Using strategic partnerships to increase network coverage
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Setting competitive strategies for the major corridors
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How to forge intermodal alliances to improve competitiveness
Head of International Lines & Alliances, Deutsche Bahn
3.45pm Competition or Cooperation, can airlines and high speed rail forge alliances to improve services and increase ancillary revenue?
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Is it possible to increase airline networks through partnerships with rail?
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Can alliances be struck beyond the airport link?
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How to integrate with passenger services
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Is cooperation only possible at international hubs?
Vice President, High Speed Rail Director, AECOM
4.15pm Successfully integrating high speed rail services into the urban fabric
- What are the main design challenges for integration?
- What difficulties appear during project realisation?
- How can these challenges be addressed to improve high-speed to urban transport links?
4.45pm Intermodal Passenger Transit: Maximising efficiency and capacity through partnerships, planning, and infrastructure development
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Shifting the paradigm of competition to collaboration, how can operators benefit from intermodal partnerships?
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Aligning investment with seamless passenger mobility in mind
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How can partnerships help increase capacity strategically?
Chairman, International Air Rail Organisation Vice President, Society for Transport Integration Researcher, Institut d'Estudis Territorials, Generalitat de Catalunya (Institute for Regional Studies, Government of Catalunya) Project Coordinator, Link (European Intermodal research organisation)
5.30pm Chairman’s closing remarks5.45pm Networking drinks reception |
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