2009 sponsors included:
SNCF, operator of a 20,000 miles (including 1,200 miles run from 190m/h to 200 m/h) network serving both passenger and freight transport. SNCF runs 13,917 trains daily and carries 160 million passengers and 106 million metric tonnes of freight per annum. Although the French Railway are most well known and appreciated as the operator of the TGV ("train à grande vitesse") high-speed, fixed-consist trainsets, (one of which holds the world record for speed on rails), it also offers its customers a whole range of services, from local, urban and suburban/commuter services to international long-distance carriage. In addition, it handles the maintenance of both the infrastructure and railway fixed plant (which belongs to Réseau Ferré de France) and that of almost 7,000-strong fleet of motive stock, of 424 TGV trainsets and 110,000 goods wagons. This high competence in industrial maintenance is perhaps best illustrated by the 92% availability rate achieved for the TGVs.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is an international law firm with 2500 lawyers based in 28 offices across America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Freshfields has an extensive global rail practice, and is an acknowledged leader in the US infrastructure market.
JDA Service Industries Group helps companies in the service-based Travel, Transportation, Hospitality and Media industries balance supply and demand through innovative forecasting, pricing, and revenue management, and capacity optimization solutions. The result is a dramatic increase in revenue, margin, and efficiency. JDA has specific expertise with passenger rail and cargo/freight operators. A sample list of JDA clients in these specific industries include Eurostar, First Great Western, National Express, Continental Air Cargo, Delta Air Cargo, and DHL. JDA Service Industries Group is a focused business unit within JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), the world’s leading supply chain solutions provider. JDA drives business efficiency for its global customer base of more than 5,800 retailers, manufacturers, wholesaler-distributors and services industries companies through deep domain expertise and innovative solutions.
Already the market leader in light rail vehicle manufacturing in North America, Siemens Transportation Systems (STS) recently completed a $26 million expansion of its Sacramento plant to serve the burgeoning public transit market. The larger plant will also allow STS to bring new products to the U.S. market – namely, high speed rail. With one megawatt of solar energy already in place, Siemens is entering the second phase of its solar project and is adding an additional megawatt, bringing the total solar power to 2 MW at the Sacramento facility.
Ansaldo STS USA (ASTS USA) brings over 125 years of innovation and leadership experience to the design, manufacture, and service of signaling automation and control systems for the railroad and mass transit market. ASTS USA was started by George Westinghouse in 1881 as Union Switch & Signal, and continues to build upon Westinghouse’s foundation of traditional signaling system technology. ASTS USA’s advancements in technology have created a new generation of products, from advanced electromechanical and microprocessor based hardware to complex, software intensive command and control systems.
Invensys Rail is a multinational leader in delivering state-of-the-art railway control and communication solutions. We enable the world’s railways to meet the ever-increasing demand for rail services by providing a range of solutions that safely increase the capacity of their networks by increasing frequency and maximising operational effectiveness. Our broad offering ranges from highly complex integrated control centre solutions that supervise and control complete railways to sophisticated train based systems that automate train operation and protection, interlocking systems that ensure safe running across a network and a complete range of trackside products.
Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) operates high-speed and conventional passenger rail services that transport more than 530 million passengers annually between many of Japan’s most populous cities, such as Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka. JR Central’s newest high-speed rail platform, the “N700 Bullet”, has a global reputation for being fast, safe, quiet, reliable and environmentally friendly. The N700 routinely travels at speeds of 168 to 186 miles per hour. JR Central has also developed a Super conducting MAGLEV system capable of traveling 363 miles per hour. The commercially-proven N700 high-speed rail system and MAGLEV system (fully developed for commercial deployment) are engineered and operated by JRC, based on technologies and business practices managed by JR Central and its partner companies.
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