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• Safety on Track: CCS | ATO | ETCS | SSO.

  • ​How to achieve a high level of safety in train control (CCS - Control, Command and Signaling), considering cost-efficiency, innovation and interoperability? – in general and in specific for regional railways/secondary lines.

  • Is the ongoing global transformation/technological development (CCS, ATO) addressing the future needs, demands and challenges, from the perspective of operators/customers/authorities?

  • How sufficient are the ongoing efforts towards the corresponding harmonization of operational procedures/rules in particular to safety aspects?

  • New vision: what would the best solution look like today, when considering maximum security, costs, available technology, expected leaps in technology, …?

  • Safety in transition? What are the requirements, fields of application, challenges and potentials of ATO?

  • What is the classification of signal passed at danger (SPAD) / stop signal overrun (SSO) and what approaches, methods, technologies and innovations can prevent the precursor to train collisions and train derailments?

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• Safety Culture | Safety Performance | Safety in Transition.

  • How safety culture and leadership help to improve safety performance?

  • How to measure the effectiveness of safety culture?

  • One term, one hundred meanings: variety of different safety culture approaches.

  • Just culture: responsibility, underlying cause (e.g. HOF), safety behavior, risk perception.

  • Lessons learned: best practices, real experiences, strengths, weaknesses, difficulties, accident investigations.

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• Level Crossing | Safety on Rail & Road.

  • What innovative concepts and potential will there be in the vehicle configuration?

  • How to benefit from the interaction between road and rail. (e.g. virtual vehicle)

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• Tunnel Safety.

  • Ideas and approaches for creating the resilience of an efficient railway network - possible relocations in the event of system failure and/or failure of a main transport axis (tunnel).

  • How could a tunnel be protected in the best possible way to minimise the impact of an accident? (e.g. tunnel safety strategies, efficient and target orientated emergency management, …)

  • Lessons learned: best practices, real experiences, strengths, weaknesses, difficulties, accident investigations.

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• Occupational Safety | Shunting.

  • Which technologies can be implemented in order to stepwise support or release occupational safety?

  • How can innovative concepts support or release the daily work-life? (e.g. drones, robotics, exoskeleton, smart glasses, VR/AR, DAC digital automated coupling, etc.)
     

• Rail Freight | Performance and Safety.

  • Innovative concepts for the freight train of tomorrow, how can safety be improved? (e.g. RID)

  • How to ensure the permanent (technical) monitoring of relevant conditions?

  • How to prevent derailment (risk, new technologies)?

  • How can the protection of the environment be ensured?

  • How can the impact on the environment be decreased?

  • Liberalization: risk or chance? What division of responsibility between railway undertakings and infrastructure managers is expedient in terms of safety? (e.g. In Europe: challenges posed by the 4th railway package)

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• Urban Mobility meets Safety.

  • What risks and opportunities can alternative drives generate?
    (e.g. e-mobility, hydrogen, …)

  • What influence do alternative drives have during transport? 

  • How can accidents to persons be prevented? (e.g. by technological innovations, …)

  • Exchange of experience from various industries/sectors.