Railway Interiors Open Technology and Ideas Forum

Day 2

10:30 : 13:25
Fire safety, standards, requirements and crash worthiness
Day 2 Wednesday 25 November 2009

EU railway regulation - a harmonised approach
Mr Bass Leermakers, Project Officer-Interoperability, European Railway Agency

Usage of fire safety engineering (FSE) techniques in railways
Mr Alain Sainrat, fire safety expert and consultant, LNE

The new TS prCEN 45 545 and the impact on the material design
Mr Franck Poutch, Technical director, CREPIM

Meeting smoke, toxicity & flame retardancy requirements for railway cable applications
Ms Siobhan Ahern, LSFOH Market -Product Mgr, PolyOne
Ms Maryline Desseix, LSFOH Market -Product Mgr, PolyOne

Easy process UP Systems fulfilling the new EU Norm TS 45545-2 Classes HL1,HL2,HL3 introduced in 2011
Mr Paul Wartenweiler, Marketing and Sales Manager, Walter Mäder AG

Water mist fire protection systems - concept, performance, future
Mr Sebastien Cailliau, Manager, Rolling Stock, Marioff Corporation

Optimisation and verification of absorption of kenetic energy during a collsion
Mr Jovan Tanaskovic, Research Associate, Institute GOSA d.o.o.

13:30 : 16:00
Rail communications - the benefits of connectivity
Day 2 Wednesday 25 November 2009

Something to Twitter about - Virgin Trains has passenger WIFI
Mr Jay Saw, Commercial Director, Nomad Digital

On board railway communication solutions - a valued proposition
Mr Michael Tremmel, Account Manager CT Railways West Europe, Nokia Siemens Networks

Next generation networks for on-train communications
Mr Frederik Gustafsson, Executive VP, Icomera AB

Advantages of using network video to improve safety and security on board
Mr Jonas Andersson, Director, Axis Communications AB

Competition and new customer behaviours calls for new arguments and business models - SJ will "infotain" Sweden
Mr Johan Mägi, Business Development, SJ Rail

IP network backbone upto 1 GBit/s over automatic couplers for rolling stock vehicles
Mr Dr.Thomas Paral, CTO, era-contact