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SHOW REVIEW: RAIL NETWORK SOLUTIONS 2008
ERTMS: the key
to European
interoperability
On 9 April 2008, the city of Warsaw in Poland was the location for the 4th annual
Rail Network Solutions conference, organised by European Railway Review.
The conference continued to broaden the Railway Review for organising the event are going, so it is up to everyone to
knowledge of ERTMS and highlighted and said it will be “a perfect opportunity move forward.”
the industry growth and lessons learned for PKP PLK to talk about new solutions Mr. Kazimierz Fra
c
k, Project Director
across Europe. in Poland, plus giving everyone the chance in the Telecommunications Department at
Hosted by PKP PLK S.A, RNS 08 gave to hear about the implementation of PKP PLK was next to present to delegates.
delegates the opportunity to meet the GSM-R in Europe.” Mr. Fra
c
k gave a good general and broad
implementors and experienced operators Next to take the stand was Mr. Karel overview of the situation in Poland and
for a chance to share views and opinions Vinck, ERTMS Coordinator at the explained the infrastructure currently
about ERTMS: the key to European European Commission. He said to the under operation.
interoperability. delegates that it was “a pleasure to Mr. Bohuslav was next to take the
The conference began with a keynote participate in this conference” and he stand and he is from the Department of
welcome from Mr. Krzysztof Celin´ski, declared that the time is “now or Infrastructure at ŽSR. Mr. Bohuslav
President of the Management Board of never…the sector has made a big step focused his presentation on the experience
PKP PLK. He gave thanks to European forward and the industry knows where we with preparation of ETCS Level 1 at ŽSR.
He explained that ŽSR uses ETCS to
achieve higher line speeds and important
route selections enable the company to
describe exactly the track parameters
related to a certain train route that
has been set.
Mr. Poul Frøsig, UIC Project Manager
ERTMS/ETCS & ERTMS Regional was
the Chairman of the morning session and
he commented on Mr. Bohuslav’s
presentation by reiterating the fact that
“braking issues are important and the EU
has been in discussions about this aspect
for many years.” Mr. Frøsig continued to
say, “We hope that braking issues will be
resolved soon – tests have been carried out
RNS 08 continued to broaden the knowledge of ERTMS and highlighted the industry growth and
but we still have certain aspects to solve.”
lessons learned across Europe
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