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Simon Fletcher joins our Editorial Board
Global Railway Review is pleased to announce that Simon Fletcher, Coordinator Europe at the International Union of Railways (UIC) has joined our Editorial Board...
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International Union of Railways (UIC)
The International Union of Railways (UIC) is the worldwide professional association representing the railway sector and promoting rail transport. The UIC’s mission is to promote rail transport globally with the objective of responding effectively to current and future challenges relating to mobility and sustainable development.
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Track Systems supplement 2014
In our latest free-to-view Track Systems Supplement, read articles about the CAPACITY4RAIL project, track maintenance facilities in Portugal, plus switches and crossings research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology...
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IRU and UIC join forces to raise awareness of transport professionals on level crossing safety
14 May 2014 | By IRU / UIC
In the framework of the Anniversary of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020, the International Road Transport Union and the International Union of Railways joined forces to initiate a Level Crossing Safety Checklist...
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Foreword: Developing the vision and strategy for Europe’s future rail system
11 April 2014 | By Simon Fletcher, Coordinator – Europe, UIC
The rail sector’s vision is that railways, already vital to Europe’s social and economic well-being, will contribute even more in the future; an efficient rail system that is the backbone for the growth and competiveness of the European economy. Europe’s rail companies and stakeholders have collaborated to develop and publish…
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Safety & Security supplement 2014
Libor Lochman, Executive Director at the CER provides an article about how the industry should work together to combat metal theft, Jacques Colliard from the UIC covers ways that railways can safeguard their infrastructures and Christian Schang from SNCF details safety management operations for the French railway network...
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Coherence and resilience: towards comprehensive railway protection
Throughout their history, railways have built their reputation and efficiency by ensuring that operational safety is their topmost responsibility, and as such a key constraint and core concern. Over the last 20 years or so, they have also had to deal with security challenges in the sense of preventing and…
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GSM-R achievements and its technological evolution
2013 was a busy year for GSM-R. System implementation in Europe is progressing well with very few European railways left that have not reached at least one of the implementation stages. New tenders in Slovenia and Hungary have successfully been finalised and GSM-R continues its expansion worldwide including, among others,…
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Noise & Vibrations supplement 2013
In this Noise & Vibrations supplement: Reducing vibrations near railway lines – ways for finding effective measures; Industry cooperation needed for a less noisy railway; Speech intelligibility in trains...
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Level Crossing Safety supplement
In this Level Crossing Safety supplement: Improving on improvements; Reducing fatalities – a high priority for Lithuanian Railways; Reducing fatalities – a worldwide issue (Isabelle Fonverne, Safety and Interoperability Projects Officer, UIC)...
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Track Systems supplement 2013
In this Track Systems supplement: Under Sleeper Pads in Track – the UIC project (Florian Auer, Past Project Manager for ‘USPs in Track’ / Rodolphe Potvin, Head of Track Laboratories, SNCF / Paul Godart, Deputy Director of Infrastructure at Infrabel and Chairman of the UIC Track Expert Group / Laurent…
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Rail Sector publishes high level vision of rail transport in 2050
27 February 2013 | By UIC
Rail is vital to the well-being of Europe’s society and the strength of its economy...
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Signalling & Telecoms Supplement 2012 (free to view)
In this supplement: Infrabel installing ETCS step-by-step on Belgian railway network (Luc Lallemand, CEO of Infrabel); Railway telecommunications and traffic safety (José Pestana Neves, Adviser to the Board of Directors, Refer Telecom and Member of the UIC European Radio Implementation Group (ERIG))...
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High Speed Rail supplement 2012
In this High Speed Rail supplement: Russia’s future high-speed plans (Vladimir Yakunin, President, Russian Railways); Fast forwarding to a high-speed future (Alistair Gordon, CEO, Keolis UK); Show Preview: UIC HIGHSPEED 2012...
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Bombardier unveils new signalling solution for cost effective regional rail traffic management
19 April 2012 | By Bombardier
Bombardier has delivered the world’s first application of a ERTMS regional solution...
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Wider benefits of high speed rail confirmed in new studies
9 December 2011 | By CER
The carbon footprint of high speed rail can be up to 14 times less carbon intensive than car travel...