08:30 - 09:30Welcome coffee & registration

09:30 - 10:30Benchmarking

Chairman: Roel van den Bosch, BoschSpoor ^NL

Benchmarking European railways technical efficiency

• Why is benchmarking of railways in Europe important?
• What can benchmarking of railways achieve?
• How can we use information derived from benchmarking exercises?

Ernest Godward, European Railway Agency ^FR

Potential and limitations of Life Cycle Costing of permanent way

• How to evaluate track strategies without attached revenues?
• LCC can robustly rank options without being able to predict total costs for long periods precisely
• Interest rates for dynamic economic evaluations have to depend on service lives of assets evaluated

Peter Veit, Graz University of Technology ^AT

10:30 - 11:00Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30Technology and efficiency

Chairman: Roel van den Bosch, BoschSpoor ^NL

Laserscanning for infrastructure and train monitoring

• To maintain the railway infrastructure and the rolling stock, it is necessary to gather data about their present condition
• Optical measurement systems are widely used, because of their inherent advantages like speed, accuracy, and touch-less
• New laser scanner devices to monitor catenary and clearance gauge as well as trains are presented

Heinrich Höfler, Fraunhofer IPM ^DE

Life Cycle Management – State of the Art at the Austrian Federal Railways

• Methodology of Life Cycle Management at the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)
• Technical analysis of track status aiming long term behaviour and defining maintenance alternatives
• Economic LCC evaluation of reinvest projects and the respective maintenance alternatives

Fabian Hansmann, Matthias Landgraf, Graz University of Technology ^AT and Georg Neuper, ÖBB Infrastruktur ^AT

12:30 - 13:30Lunch

13:30 - 15:30Technology and efficiency

 Chairman: Roel van den Bosch, BoschSpoor ^NL

SmartFleet: How remote monitoring improves maintenance efficiency

• SmartFleet empowers improvement of operating performance
• Monitoring your rolling stock real-time enables you to recover defects more quickly and to shorten the down time in order to repair defects
• This requires technical, process and cultural implementation in which Lloyd’s Register plays a role

Mark Palte, Lloyd’s Register Rail Europe B.V. ^NL

Innovations in Track Technology

• Track technology has to handle more and new challenges
• In addition to technical problems also noise emission and energy consumption are becoming more important
• DB Netz Track Technology is developing and searching for solutions, some of them will be shown in the presentation

Jens Hartmann, DB Netz AG ^DE

Connecting technology and people: next step in rolling stock maintenance

• Efficiency improvement programs by operational excellence reaches limits
• Technology developments have high potential
• Connecting people, knowledge and technology is required to grow in maintenance effectiveness and efficiency

 Rob Timmermans, NedTrain B.V. Maintenance Management ^NL

Simulation of Wheel-Rail Interaction Phenomena: a Review

• Wheel-rail contact analysis is about the forces that guide the overall motion of rail vehicles, and about the stresses in the contact interface that bring about wear and rolling contact fatigue
• We present an overview of this field and discuss recent developments, and show that simulation technology is becoming more and more powerful
• Simulation is used to understand and mitigate phenomena like head checks and squats, and enables system optimizations where many criteria and many complex interactions are involved

 Edwin Vollebregt, VORtech BV ^NL

15:30 - 16:00Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00Contract models

Chairman: Roel van den Bosch, BoschSpoor ^NL

Growing towards successful performance based contracting - a growth model for maintenance service providers and asset owners

• Becoming an ideal performance based maintenance service supplier requires changes on various dimensions (from organizational up to cultural). A successful performance based maintenance contract requires a partnership and changes at both the supplier's and asset owner's side.
• Within the frame of a 'World Class Maintenance' project a generic 'performance based logistics' growth model was developed, that can support both suppliers and asset owners to set up a successful performance based partnership.

Paul van Kempen, KEC ^NL

Intelligent maintenance

• Operational maintenance based on output and function-driven contracts in the Netherlands and Sweden
• Critical Performance Indicators to manage and control the delivered services, with high levels of Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety
• Remote and automated inspections to control the operations and status of the rail systems
• Better quality for a better price, obtained results so far

Diederik Schonebaum, Strukton Rail B.V. ^NL

17:00 - 18:00Networking reception

18:30 - 22:00Networking dinner (optional)

08:30 - 09:30Welcome coffee & registration

09:30 - 11:00Availability and reliability

Chairman: Erland Tegelberg, Strukton Rail ^NL

Slow orders – technical needs and economic effects

• Viewing the correlation between track quality and permanent slow orders in the network of the Austrian Federal Railways by comparing its MDZ-a track quality to the average quality level at the whole track section (most of the time these speed reductions result in delayed trains and operational hindrances)
• Displaying the height of costs of operational hindrances in several slow orders
• Showing the technical reasons to order a slow order

Armin Berghold, Graz University of Technology ^AT


Robust railway infrastructure for high frequency operation - the use of simulation tools in the design process

Do more with less:

• A peek into the complex interaction of processes in Dutch heavy rail
• Designing rail and stations for high-frequency operation
• Dealing with malfunctions

Rob van Neerrijnen, DHV Rail & Stations ^NL


Target your track maintenance budget - efficient track maintenance through ride quality assessment

• The presentation will display how by considering vehicle and track as one system this will lead to a significant increase in the efficiency of track geometry maintenance
• An approach is described in which the required track maintenance is fully based on the dynamic response of the railway vehicles considered. This approach is named TTM®  ‘Targeted Track Maintenance’
• The presentation will explain how TTM® is in use by several infra-operators. As a safety assessment-tool it is accepted by the Dutch inspectorate for transport

Martin Hiensch, DeltaRail bv ^NL

11:00 - 11:30Coffee break

11:30 - 12:00Availability and reliability

Chairman: Erland Tegelberg, Strukton Rail ^NL

Risk based optimization of small maintenance intervention

• How to respond to new performance based maintenance contracts?
• How risk based approach can be used effectively?
• How small maintenance intervention plans can be optimized on a risk base?

Predrag Joksimovic, ARCADIS ^NL

12:00 - 12:30Environmental issues

Chairman: Erland Tegelberg, Strukton Rail ^NL

RIVAS – A European project for developing innovative technologies for sustainable vibration reduction

• Early 2011, twenty-six partners from all over Europe formed the RIVAS (Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions) consortium under the patronage of the European Commission (FP 7) to face the challenges of vibration mitigation measures and to come up with implementable solutions after three years of project life time
• The partners, led by the International Union of Railways (UIC), represent Infrastructure Managers, Train Operating Companies, Manufactures and Suppliers as well as Universities, Research Institutes, Consultants and Associations
• The central approach of RIVAS is to develop practical products, technologies and guidelines for optimum use meeting the specific needs of the end users

Bernd Asmussen, UIC c/o DB Systemtechnik GmbH ^DE

12:30 - 13:30Lunch

13:30 - 15:00Capacity management

Chairman: Andrew McNaughton, High Speed Two Ltd. ^UK

HS2 -Britains’s plan for a very high capacity high speed line
Andrew McNaughton, High Speed Two Ltd. ^UK



High Capacity Operations in support of Olympic Games
Steve Hooker, Network Rail ^UK



Concept of time slot management with standardization and fixed time windows for maintenance

• Concept of time slot management for maintenance and renewal at the Swiss Federal Railways
• Possible increase in efficiency through standardized an fixed time slots

Thomas Vogel, SBB Infrastruktur ^CH

15:00 - 15:30Coffee break

15:30 - 16:30ETCS /ERTMS

Chairman: Andrew McNaughton, High Speed Two Ltd. ^UK

What about LCC calculations for compurized interlocking or ERTMS equipment

• The modern signaling systems have a more and more short life. The installation expenses of computerized interlocking systems and ERTMS associate’s equipment are at the same level as the actual signaling technologies
• What dispositions the today’s infrastructure managers can take to make under control the future maintenance and renewal expenses? What strategies can they implement to minimize the operating costs on the cycle of life?
• The presentation wants to answer these questions

Marc Antoni, SNCF ^FR


ETCS and capacity: Chances and obstacles

• How is capacity consumption by a train movement modeled in legacy command & control systems? How can the quality of operation be considered while assessing capacity?
• How does ETCS impact capacity consumption in particular?
• Under which conditions does an ETCS application permit to run a higher number of trains per time at the same quality of service? Vice versa, why does ETCS not always offer a benefit?

Thorsten Büker, VIA Consulting & Development GmbH ^DE