''RailFreight Without Borders"

RETRACK Final Conference Budapest June 11 & 12th 2012

The RETRACK project started in May 2007 and is now in its final phase. This conference is both a final summation of the RETRACK project's findings and successes and a launch event for synergy and interaction between the new research initiatives in this field. Hosted in the historic city of Budapest, at the Hungarian Railway Museum, the event will run over two days and will appeal to policy makers, operators, researchers, infrastructure managers and potential customers of future rail freight.

This free event covers rail freight operations, policy, infrastructure, new concepts, longer remote controlled freight trains, shorter faster trains, refrigerated goods, synergistic hub planning and the opportunities to ship by rail through Europe-Asia to China by Siberia and TRACECA. The Conference features contributions from other associated RailFreight Projects such as SUSTRAIL; D-Rail; Twin Hub; Marathon and SPECTRUM.

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"RailFreight Without Borders" Budapest June 11 & 12th 2012

RETRACK CONFERENCE 2012

11 & 12 JUNE, BUDAPEST

DAYl

08:30 Departure from Budapest Nyugati Station for National Railway Museum, by chartered vintage train

09:00 Registration & Coffee

09:30 Chairman's Welcome: Thomas Zunder - NewRail, Newcastle University, UK

09:45 Keynote Speech: Theodore Schlickmann, Project officer -Research and Innovative Transport Systems, EU

10:15 Keynote Speech: Zoltan Schvab - Deputy State Secretary for Transport, Hungary

10:45 COFFEE

11:15 Overview of RETRACK Project: Tariq van Rooijen, Project Co-ordinator - TNO, NL

11:45 RETRACK as a commercial operation: Johannes Marg - Transpetrol, DE

12:15 LUNCH

13:15 TWIN HUB: a model to optimize mass rail freight traffic from ports: Ekki Kreutzberger - TU Delft, NL

13:45 RETRACK training & simulation systems: Remco Arnoldus - Delta RaiL NL

14:15 COFFEE BREAK

14:45 SUSTRAIL, the Sustainable Freight Railway: Donato Zangani - DAppolonia, IT

15:15 RETRACKHeadingEast.Eurasianrailfreightopportunities: Arnaud Burgess - PANTEIA, NL

15:45 Summary of Day 1: Theodore Schlickmann, D.G.Move, BE

16:30 Chartered vintage train departs for Nyugati station

DAY 2

09:00 EU Railfreight Policy: Thomas Zunder - NewRail, Newcastle University, UK

09:30 SPECTRUM: Innovative railfreight concepts seizing lost and new markets: Ross Jackson - NewRail, Newcastle University, UK

10:00 Flexible RailFreight ICT: handling dynamic railway undertaking relationships: Markus Brozio - SOPTIM, DE

10:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 D-Rail: proactively preventing freight wagon derailment: Thomas Zunder - NewRail, Newcastle University, UK

11:30 MARATHON: Long, remotely controlled trains: Armand Toubol - ex-S.N.C.F Fret, FR

12:00 The RETRACK Railway Corridor Knowledge Base: Paul van de Lande - TNO, NL

12:30 LUNCH

13:30 Development of cross-border rail freight transport in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe: Marcin Foltynski - Instytut Logistyki i Magazynowania, PL

14:00 Round Table: The future for "Railfreight without borders": Theodore Schlickmann [European Commission], Johannes Marg (Transpetrol), Hartmut Gassen

15:00 Chairman's Summary of Day 2 & Closing Remarks

RETRACK SIMULATOR AND KNOWLEDGE BASE:

Demonstration of the RETRACK Simulator and the RETRACK Knowledge Base wil l be running throughout the day in a separate building, please do take the opportunity to visit them.

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