Trade Fair

ZEL-RAIL

BVV Trade Fairs Brno

Organizers of EUROTRANS fair

agreed on cooperation

Joint statement about EUROTRANS

trade fair concept

Organizers of EUROTRANS fair

agreed on cooperation with organizers of the Slovak ZEL-RAIL exhibition. As a result, they will work
together on the next years edition
of EUROTRANS, when ZEL-RAIL
moves to the Brno Exhibition Centre.
ZEL-RAIL, an information & contracting exhibition of products and
services for railways and transport,
is a traditional Slovak exhibition
title with a history of more than ten
editions over the past 17 years. ZELRAIL is the founder and organizer
of the first exhibition focused on rail
transport in the Slovak Republic and
Central Europe. The edition in 2011
was attended by nearly 80 exhibitors.
A part of the exhibition is also a professional conference.
Following discussions between BVV
Trade Fairs Brno and the organizers
of ZEL-RAIL, it was agreed that
both parties would join their forces

BVV Trade Fairs Brno is currently

preparing a new transport fair titled
EUROTRANS, which will take
place for the first time in September 2013 under the patronage of the
Czech Ministry of Transport and
the Confederation of Industry of the
Czech Republic. This trade fair concept is based on the traditional AUTOTEC and TRANSPORT AND
LOGISTICS shows, which will be
complemented by a railway transport sector exhibition titled RAILTEC. The EUROTRANS fair will
also include a railway technology
exhibition titled EL-RAIL. This
event has a 17-year-long tradition in
the Slovakian town of Vrtky and its
introduction in Brno demonstrates
the partner cooperation documenting
the Czech Slovak character of this
trade show.
Introducing domestic as well as international manufacturers of utility

to develop a trade fair project dedicated to rail transport. In 2013, this

traditional and successful product
will be set into the framework of
the EUROTRANS fair project as
RAIL-TEC/ZEL-RAIL. The project
follows on and refers to the previous
editions of ZEL-RAIL in the Slovak
Republic. The agreement laid a very
solid foundation for the rolling stock
industry branch at EUROTRANS
fair and re-affirmed the Czech-Slovak character of the entire project.
Both parties declare their interest in
a long-term cooperation.
A professional conference on the
theme of rail transport also moves to
Brno. The Brno Exhibition Centre is
an ideal venue for the presentation of
rolling stock and railway topics in general, because in addition to a proprietary railway siding and a marshalling
yard, it also provides plentiful topquality indoor and outdoor exhibition
space and good conference facilities.

Based on discussions within the Exhibition Committee, the schedule

of EUROTRANS was finally set to
Wednesday 11 to Saturday 14 September. The opening on Saturday
deadline will facilitate visit to EUROTRANS for small entrepreneurs
and also the general public, which
is convenient for exhibitors who are
directly involved in rail passenger
transport in the time of competition
entering the Czech railways.
The EUROTRANS International
Transport Fair is a new title at the
Brno Exhibition Center, for the first
time to take place on 11 to 14 September 2013 and then in a two-year
cycle. Its key nomenclatures are
road and rail transport and logistics.
EUROTRANS includes the existing
AUTOTEC and Transport & Logistics fairs, newly adding rail transport under the brand RAIL-TEC/
ZEL-RAIL.

Upcoming Events

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Trade Fair

Intermodes 2013
February 6th
Brussels, Belgium
www.intermodes.com

eurasia rail 2013

March 7th to 9th
Istanbul, Turkey
www.eurasiarail.eu

Signalling and Train Control 2013

March 19 th to 21st
Vienna, Austria
discount-code: STC13PERMVIP
www.signalling-train-control.com

Rail and Metro:

Russia and CIS 2013
April 23th to 25th
Moscow, Russia
www-rail-metro-russia.com

UITP - Connecting the world

of public transport
May 26th to 30th
Geneva, Switzerland
www.uitp.org

EUROTRANS 2013
International Transport Exhibition
September 11th to 14th
Prague, Czech
www.bvv.cz/eurotrans

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vehicles and buses, their groups and

parts and technological equipment for
servicing along with the presentation
of road and railway transport including related logistics and services are
based on the demand and analyses of
the current Czech and European exhibition market. By joining all transport and logistics related sectors in a
single trade fair, the fair can offer a
comprehensive view of the industry,
which is advantageous both for the
exhibitors as well as experts and
other visitors.
The below listed professional organisations and other entities involved
in the preparation committee of the
EUROTRANSfair consider this
new project in the CR as unique and
of priority interest in terms of the
participation. Therefore, they have
decided to provide a public support
to the EUROTRANS fair via this
Statement and recommend the par-

ticipation in this trade fair to their

members as well as all companies
and organisations that are engaged
in the sectors listed in the trade fair
nomenclature.
It is the view of all representatives
of the professional federations and
associations that the
EUROTRANS fair meets all conditions
for offering efficient presentation
to the exhibitors and for creating a
forum for professional exchange of
opinions and incentives for further
development of all transport-related
sectors, automotive industry, logistic processes and related services.
The EUROTRANS fair is the right
place for introducing innovations
and for addressing current sector
related issues including the support
of technical disciplines and technical education as one of the principal
pillars driving domestic economy.

Federations and associations in the automotive industry, transport and logistics that support the EUROTRANS fair:

Automotive Industry Association (AutoSAP)

Car Importers Association (SDA)
Association of Importers and Manufactures of Car Parts and Servicing Equipment (SISA)
ESMAD Bohemia
Czech Association for Motor Trades and Repairs (SAR)
Water Ways Headquarters of the CR
Czech Logistic Association
Association of Forwarding and Logistics of the Czech Republic (SSL)
Czech and Moravian Electrical and Electronic Association (ELA)
Transport Union of the Czech Republic (SD R)
Czech Association of Petroleum Industry and Trade (APPO)

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Trade Fair

Rsum

OECD/International Transport Forum

Translog Connect 2012

The 2nd edition has once again proved that the congress is distinguished as the market leading logistics
and supply chain management event
for a reason. On 28th-29th November, more than 500 senior decisionmakers from 21 different European
countries gathered in Budapest to
exchange ideas and find solutions for
the major challenges in logistics and
supply chain management.
The five-star event took place in the
equally prestigious Corinthia Grand
Hotel Royal, where delegates had the
chance to meet Europes leading solution providers, offering a wide range of solutions from transportation
to printing. Nearly 1500 one-to-one
business meetings were conducted
during the two days, all of which
were pre-scheduled on the online
TEG platform, the Meeting Scheduler. The website has been one of the
most popular and useful features of
the event. As David Cuenca, the Ge-

Trade Fair

neral Manager of CHEP commented

on it: The Meeting Scheduler was
one of the key factors for us to decide to come here. Its very useful to
optimise your time, its brilliant.
The conference programme has been
exceptionally well-received by the
knowledgeable audience. Among the
numerous acclaimed presentations,
one of the most popular was Professor Sebastian Kummers (Vienna
University of Business and Economics), highlighting the importance of
supply chain flexibility in the dynamic, uncertain and volatile business
environment of today. Delegates received practical advice from Miguel
Suarez (former Supply Chain Director of Kotnyi, currently the Global
Supply Chain Director, Center of
Business Excellence at Swarovski),
who compared forecasting challenges and solutions he implemented
at Kotnyi and Swarovski. All other
speakers, such as Rogier van Zon

(Director of Global Warehousing and

Distribution at TP Vision), or Pascal
Mnnche, (Senior Vice President for
Global Logistics at Deutz) provided
delegates with exclusive information, who in addition had the chance to
receive valuable impressions during
the Audi and Coca-Cola plant excursions as well. The chairman of the
first event day, Prof. Kummer summarised it as follows: The format
is very professional, the audience
and the speakers were excellent, the
mixture of presentations was perfect.
So weve received a lot of new ideas
which we can bring back home.
The cocktail reception on the first
day was opened by Jos Marinus,
President of the European Logistics
Association together with Wolfgang
Kubesch, General Manager of BVL
Austria, who praised the strong regional focus, the quality of the venue
as well as the diversity of the delegates at the congress, emphasizing

that these factors make TRANSLOG

Connect a truly unique event among
European congresses. As Iris Ravnihar, Purchasing Logistics Director
of Hella Saturnus Slovenia so accurately expressed the main values of
the event: It opens your windows
to new opportunities. Meetings with
suppliers, networking and getting to
know the practice of other companies
broaden your horizon and make you
see your situation from a whole new
perspective.
A lot of effective business meetings,
hundreds of decision-makers from all
countries of the region and countless
exchange of ideas made the second
edition of TRANSLOG Connect an
outstanding success.
TRANSLOG will be taking place
again in November, 2013 in Budapest. For further information,
please visit the website at www.
translogconnect.eu or contact the
organiser at info@tegevents.eu

Apply now for Young

Researcher Award
A prize of 5 000 Euros and an invitation to the Annual Summit of transport ministers in Leipzig, Germany
on May 22th to-24th 2013 awaits the
winner of the 2013 Young Researcher
of the Year Award for the best paper
analysing interlinkages between financial needs and specific projects in
the transport sector.
The Young Researcher of the Year
Award aims to encourage and reward
creative reflection and analysis by
young academics under 35 years of
age who are investigating the major
contribution of transport to the wellbeing of our societies and their proper functioning.
The Award is being offered by the
International Transport Forum at the
OECD, an intergovernmental organisation that acts as a think tank for
the transport sector and organises an
annual meeting of transport ministers

from its 54 member countries and

beyond. The theme of the 2013 Summit is Funding Transport.
Submitted papers will be examined
by an international panel of experts
from the transport and transport economics research sectors under the
aegis of the International Transport
Forum. The winner will be honoured
at an official award ceremony, attended by ministers of transport, on 23
May 2013 in Leipzig. Additional merit awards may also be presented.
The deadline for submissions is
Friday, February 15th, 2013.
For more information, including the
application form, visit the International Transport Forum website at
www.internationaltransportforum.
org/2013, or contact Michel Violland
(michel.violland@oecd.org).

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Railistics appoints Professor Lademann to its Advisory Board

CER urges Member States to support growth and jobs

Professor Dr.-Ing. Frank Lademann,

railway expert at the Technical University of Central Hessen (THM)
was appointed to the Board of Railistics GmbH of Wiesbaden and Dessau
on October 1st 2012. With his experience from previous planning and
advisory activities, his wide ranging
business activities and long-standing
involvement in the Association of
German Railway Engineers (VDEI)
he will support the future development of Railistics GmbH. For THM
he will intensify the integration of
theory and practice.
Frank Lademann is responsible for
the rail systems and traffic enginee-

The Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies

(CER) urges EU Member States and
the European Parliament to safeguard
the 32 billion EUR budget for transport infrastructure in the 2014-2020
EU budget. Member States should
resist the temptation to protect traditional redistributive policies at the
expense of budget areas that generate
growth and jobs.
Meeting in Brussels on 22-23 November, EU Heads of State will continue their intense negotiations on
the new on the Multiannual Financial
Framework (MFF) which will define
the EUs budget for the years 2014

ring department within the Civil Engineering Department of THM. THM

with locations in Giessen, Friedberg
and Wetzlar is currently one of the
largest universities in Germany with
nearly 14,000 students.
Frank Lademann studied civil engineering with the specialization rail,
road and traffic engineering at the
Technical University of Darmstadt.
He then worked for a large engineering firm in Frankfurt, before returning as a research assistant to TH
Darmstadt and completing his doctorate. His dissertation dealt with the
topic Evaluation of intersections on
single-track S- Bahn lines. After

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another 5 years in an engineering office, he moved to the University of

Applied Sciences Giessen-Friedberg
(today THM) in 2004.
With offices in Dessau; Wiesbaden
and Berlin, together with international offices in Budapest (Hungary),
Bucharest (Romania) and Ankara
(Turkey), Railistics provides professional and independent consultancy
services in the areas of logistics, infrastructure, rail operations, rolling
stock and strategic issues. The combination of technical, economic and
market knowledge to knowledge
system is the basis for the success
of Railistics.

to 2020. Overall, the railway sector

supports the European Commissions
proposal on the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), which
emphasises policies with a high
European added value, such as the
Connecting Europe Facility (CEF),
which is to finance infrastructure
projects in transport, energy and ICT.
In such programmes, investments at
the European level are particularly
useful due to their synergy effects.
Bottlenecks and missing links in the
transport system can be more effectively addressed if investments are
coordinated at EU level.
The budget of EUR 32 billion (or

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about 3% of the overall MFF) proposed by the Commission for transport

under CEF is realistic and necessary
in order to reach the targets the EU
has set itself in the area of transport.
As a minimum, the compromise proposal presented by Council President
Herman van Rompuy, which secures
EUR 29.660 billion for transport,
should be supported.
CER Executive Director Libor Lochman said: Achieving a sustainable,
integrated and multi-modal transport
network, covering and interconnecting all Member States and regions
must be seen as an essential investment in growth and jobs.
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Trade Fair

UITP

makers over the last 34 years, who

come from around the world to network, place orders and discuss the
issues affecting the sector. The UITP
stand will be an opportunity to catch
up on all the latest news from the Association.

Welcome to Geneva
Two years after a highly successful Congress in Dubai, the international public
transport community will meet again in Geneva for the 60th UITP World Congress and Mobility and City Transport Exhibition.
The choice of the Swiss city as host
city for the next World Congress puts
both Geneva and Switzerlands public transport network firmly in the
limelight. Switzerland can boast both
a long and impressive history of public transport; indeed, in June 2012,
the country celebrated the 150th anniversary of what is Europes longest-serving tramway in Geneva.
Its railways are of world renown
thanks to their reputation for punctuality, synchronised timetables, high
quality of service and innovation. In
2017, the Gotthard tunnel, a 57kmlong passage through the Alps (bored
from 1998-2011) and officially the
worlds longest railway tunnel, will
officially open. Its dense and diversified network of post buses, funiculars, cable cars, boats and integrated
urban and suburban public transport
systems means that Switzerland is
the ideal location to play host to the
worlds public transport and sustainable mobility community in 2013.
Transforming urban mobility
Based on well-documented economic and technological development
projections and a partnership with the
International Energy Agency (IEA),
UITP has developed urban mobility
scenarios for 2025 which highlight
the urgent need for more and better
quality public transport. By 2025,
60% of the worlds population will
live in urban environments, leading
to a 50% increase in urban journeys
compared to 2005 levels.
The public transport sector therefore
set itself the objective at the 2009
UITP World Congress in Vienna of
doubling its market share worldwide
by 2025, entailing a tripling of the
number of journeys made by public
transport and a stabilisation of the
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use of private cars. This would mean

the controlling of greenhouse gas
emissions; stabilising urban transport energy consumption; healthier
lifestyles; the saving of human lives
by safer roads and the creation of seven million new green jobs at public
transport operating companies.
One of the main focal points at Geneva will be the i-move 2.0 concept;
in other words, the radical change
required in the sectors business model to meet the ambition of doubling
the market share of public transport
by 2025. Transforming urban mobility is becoming an urgent necessity:
cities with unchallenged car dependency will find themselves losing out
in competitiveness, failing to attract
people and businesses. Sustainable
transport can be delivered by the
green alliance of public transport,
cycling and walking but a radical
overhaul is required in order to offer
services that are not only convenient,
but also fit with peoples lifestyle values.
The development of a healthier business model for the sector - less reliant
on scarce public funding - needs to
be based on sound financing with all
of public transports beneficiaries, direct or indirect, contributing towards
it. Regulatory aspects of this revolution also need careful consideration
too. For example, do all i-move 2.0
services need to be ruled by public
service obligations? While the business model for i-move 2.0 has yet
to be forged, Geneva will serve as a
platform for innovative and collective thinking to help the sector move
forwards.
Geneva: the place to be in 2013
It is within this ambitious framework
of transforming urban mobility that

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the Congress and Exhibition will take

place, its purpose being to share ideas
and offer a platform for idea-sharing
and debate. Keynote speeches at the
Opening Ceremony will be given by
Dr. Joan Clos, Executive Director of
the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT)
and Bertrand Piccard, the scientistadventurer, known for completing
the first-ever non-stop balloon flight
around the world.
More than 150 speakers from over 30
different countries set to take part of
some of the worlds most renowned
public transport operators and authorities. On the agenda is an unrivalled
programme of three days of 44 sessions.
Some of the topics include: future
business models for integrated urban
mobility; combined mobility; the value of marketing and social media;
sourcing capital investment; performance evaluation; delivering megaprojects; achieving excellence in
public transport HR, knowledge sessions from different regions around
the world and much more.
Running alongside this will be the
Mobility and City Transport Exhibition. The Geneva Congress will feature some 300 exhibitors providing
public transport stakeholders with
an insight into the latest innovative
mobility solutions, products and services. The Exhibition continues to
attract the key political, operational,
technical and commercial decision-

The expected 10,000 public transport professionals making the trip

to Geneva for the Exhibition will
also benefit from access to the Expo
Forums. The Forums provide two
dedicated venues where, in seminar
sessions, exhibitors will present the
most advanced technologies and share their expertise and technological
innovations with the Congress delegates and professional visitors.
The final days proceedings will be
given over to technical visits and
offer delegates the opportunity to
witness some of the host countrys
recent and ongoing innovations
in the sustainable mobility field. Participants will be offered the chance
to see the CEVA (Geneva cross-border commuter railway) construction
site, the Ltschberg base tunnel (a
mountain summit tunnel concept),
Switzerlands largest rail hub in Zurich and more. To help delegates get
around in Switzerland, VV-UTP
and Swiss Travel Systems will offer delegates (and an accompanying
person) a seven-day Swiss pass, enabling free use of the Swiss public
transport network.
In challenging economic times and
with the sustainable mobility sector
needing fresh impetus, the 60th UITP
World Congress and Mobility and
City Transport Exhibition, will be the
ideal opportunity for the entire sector
to come together.

Trade Fair

UIC

Brazilian President
honours UIC
Dilma Rousseff, President of the Republic of Brazil, was Guest of Honour at the opening of the 81st General Assembly of UIC, the worldwide
railway association which celebrated
its 90th anniversary last year. The
President of Brazil was welcomed
at UIC Headquarters in Paris with
addresses by Satoshi Seino, Chairman of UIC, Jean-Pierre Loubinoux,
UIC Director General and Guilherme
Quintella, Chairman of the UIC Latin-American Region.
Whilst addressing the heads of the
worlds railways gathered at UIC,
President Dilma Rousseff congratulated participants on the 90-year anniversary of the railway institution.
Brazil has an unbalanced transportation matrix. A continental country
like Brazil cannot be fundamentally
connected by highways. There should
be a way of being able to articulate
different modes: highways, waterways and railways. Since 2007, important steps were the launch of an
Investment Plan for Railways which
was the PAC (Growth Acceleration
Program) with 5,000 km and in 2012
the launch of EPL Enterprise Planning and Logistics responsible for
thinking and planning a modal integration of the Brazilian port system.
10,000 km of railways.are possiblytoo little for Brazil. Brazil is still in
the first stage which basically consists of freight and for passengers. To
modernize and expand the infrastruc-

ture, a bidding process was released

for the choice of the high-speed train
technology and operator. Additionaly
there is also a real need for light rail
systems.
About UICs role, President Dilma
Rousseff stressed: I believe that a
great dialogue is to be established
with Brazil, which will support its
members opportunities, will enable stability and security for investments, and will ensure the conditions
necessary to Brazil not only to structure its transportation system capable
of fitting its challenges for the 21th
century, but rather more to allow its
people to have more efficient transportation, either for companies with
regard to freight where Brazil is
a major producer of food, minerals,
energy (oil) and manufacturing, and
with regard to passengers. And in
conclusion I believe that this partnership between Brazil and UIC has
everything to yield strong results
and I am sure that due to the size
and importance of UIC, our interests
coincide and converge towards a future of opportunities.
The assembly was also attended by
Guest of Honour Mr Jozef Szabo,
Administrator of the Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA) at the US Government Department of Transportation, who was present the previous
day at the UIC High-Level Round
Table marking the UIC anniversary.

Upcoming Events
Intermodes 2013
February 6th
Brussels, Belgium
www.intermodes.com

eurasia rail 2013

March 7th to 9th
Istanbul, Turkey
www.eurasiarail.eu

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UITP - Connecting the world

of public transport
May 26th to 30th
Geneva, Switzerland
www.uitp.org

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Infrastructur

Rsum: Intermodal Europe 2012

Presented at INTERMODES:

Smart container talk

The Canton of Geneva Multimodal

Mobility Strategy

A technology case study about the impact that Smart Containers can have on
global shipping was presented at Intermodal Europe 2012 by Don Miller, the
Director of Globe Tracker.
The Intermodal Europe 2012 conference session took place on Day
Two of the three day event, on 28
November, at the Amsterdam RAI.
Don Miller look at the tracking and
monitoring of all container assets
globally and providing ROI (return
on Investment) for carriers through
daily operations.
Also on the agenda during this conference session were Smart Container Technology, Green Lane Shipping and Global Data Exchange for
Shippers, Agents and Logistics companies.
We are facing a time when Ocean
Carrier profits are being squeezed
and container overcapacity is driving the industry towards improved
operational efficiencies said Don
Miller. More efficient utilisation
of container assets is important and
streamlining global operations also
results in a greener footprint.
Using monitoring systems and technology such as Smart Containers,
companies can track containers,
helping them to gain a better understanding of the shipping movements
across the supply chain and more easily monitor their assets.
Assignment of liability, with billback accountability is one of the
greatest returns on container tracking

and monitoring according to Don

Miller who adds that reefers and high
value cargo are the early adopters of
real-time monitoring and tracking, as
offered by Smart Containers.
A Smart Container is any shipping
container equipped with sensors and
systems to track and report data. For
example, containers equipped with a
GT 801 Communications Unit from
Globe Tracker are able to determine
what, when and how to communicate, using GPS, GSM, Wi-Fi or RF
communications.
GT Smart Containers provide data
regarding location and the condition of the container, and its contents.
Monitoring can include temperature,
motion, G-Force impact damage
events and electronic seal breaches,
as well as other conditions of the cargo such as CO2, humidity, light and
even an imbedded or covert cargo
tracker.
Globe Tracker securely connects
Smart Containers to each other and
to the appropriate customer databases, resulting in visibility throughout
the supply chain. Shippers are able
to track and monitor individual products, pallets and crates in real time,
enabling new services and revenue
models by sharing this data with their
customers.

Don Miller, Director of Globe Trackers

Another monitoring and tracking

tool offered by Globe Tracker is a
shipping concept called Green Lane,
which Don had also discussed at Intermodal Europe. A trusted shipper
loads a container and seals it with a
real time eSeal. Every 60 seconds
throughout the journey, the container receives a report from the eSeal
including container locked/unlocked
status and remaining battery life. At
the port of arrival, Customs can view
the audit trail of that eSeal and, seeing no access to the container from
point of origin to the port, is able to
clear that container faster.
Intermodal Europe is one of the core
events in the ocean freight industry,
bringing together a large number of
key executive decision makers representing ocean carrier container assets
and equipment said Don Miller.
Never before have container asset
utilisation and cargo visibility taken
such an important role in the shipping industry, and Intermodal Europe provides a platform to help companies looking for new technologies
and ways to increase profitability, to
discover these solutions.

Upcoming Events
Transport Logistic 2013
June 4th to 7th
Munich, Germany
www.transportlogistic.de

EUROTRANS 2013
International Transport Exhibition
September 11th to 14th
Prague, Czech
www.bvv.cz/eurotrans

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Transrail Connection 2013

October 22nd and 23rd
Paris Palais Brongniart, France
www.firstconnection.fr

It was a duty for INTERMODES to organize a workshop in Geneva, particularly to discover the work of the future Franco-Valdo-Genevois regional express
train, called CEVA Cornavin-Eaux-Vives-Annemasse: an exemplary project of
cross-border intermodal integration.

portunity, because the territory of the

cross-border conurbation has a potential in terms of infrastructure that
is essential to highlight.

In 2017, the new rail link CornavinEaux-Vives-Annemasse

(CEVA)
will unlock the Franco-Valdo-Genevois basin, an area of nearly a million people showing a rapid growth.
This project was rewarded in 2010
by the INTERMODES price. This
infrastructure is the backbone of a
regional express train that will be organized between the centers of Annemasse and Geneva within a 60 km
radius. This regional cross-border
project (230 km of lines and 40 train
stations), mobilizes two Swiss cantons, one French region, two countries, three railway companies, three
traction currents around a cross-border conurbation that the express train
will help shape and develop.
The direct result of commissioning
the CEVA rail link will be the three
fold increase of public transport use
which is expected to rise from 15 000
to 50 000 passengers daily.

An Unprecedented Growth
Geneva is now facing a crisis of unprecedented growth. The canton should
count more than one million inhabitants in 2030. Its economic competitiveness and its high level of quality
of life are at the origin of considerable
job creation and population growth.
Population projections for 2030
predict an increase of employment
with 70 000 jobs, which will lead to
an increase in demand for mobility
throughout the city. It considers that
each person makes an average of 3.5
trips per day. Thus, 100 000 additional inhabitants in 2030 mean 350000
displacements more to manage every
day.

To Provide A Comprehensive
And Integrated Mobility
Christened Mobility 2030 the
multimodal travel plan deployed by
Geneva in 2030 represents a comprehensive and integrated mobility.
Comprehensive because it involves
all transport modes and all types of
journeys. Integrated, as it aims to coordinate policies that appeared so far
as largely sectoral.
This policy is based on a vision of
mobility in which the user is placed
at the heart of the mobility planning,
New forms of mobility must not necessarily based on the ownership of
vehicles.

To Optimize And Develop The

Existing Asset
Both involved infrastructures allowing the build-up of structuring networks at the regional level and have
considerable potential. However, independently developed and disconnected, it is now time to have them
modernized and adapted in order to
make them work in complementary
across national borders. To do this,
they must master the major impact of
the border effect (differences in political and administrative structures),
which make the implementation of
projects difficult. In this sense, the
implementation of the agglomeration
project is representative of a collective will to overcome the border effect.The cross-border nature is thus
both a constraint and an opportunity.
A constraint, since Geneva cannot
consider responding to the challenges of mobility in 2030 remaining
within the cantonal borders. An op-

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To Promote The Transport

Modes Complementarity
Mobility 2030 is designed to test and
develop the concepts introduced by
the cantonal Draft Master Plan and
the agglomeration Project.
Thus, one of the objectives of the
Geneva cantonal Blueprint 2030
provides for the setting up of a multimodal travel conception at the agglomeration level. To meet the travel
demand of the population, the canton
sets up with its metropolitan partners
a multimodal mobility conception
based on four pillars: eco-friendly
mobility, public transport, individual
motorized transport and parking. The
transport system is planned according to a global vision integrating all
transport modes, with adequate articulation on road which capacity is
limited. The mobility policy aims to
improve multimodal offer, with more
attractive public transport, especially
in terms of commercial speed, developed eco-friendly mobility networks
and quicker individual motorized
transport journeys thanks to a significant decrease in traffic and the realization of missing road connections.
Competition or confrontation between the different transport modes
has marked the Genevan politics in
recent decades and has led to an impasse. It is necessary to break this
logic and consider that everyone is
in turn, depending on the time and
activity, according to the age, motorist, pedestrian, public transport user
or biker. It is a question of developing multimodal practices, encouraging complementary travel modes,
encouraging the most effective ways
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complementary travel modes, encouraging the most effective ways function of the context and the type of
movement: the regional express train
for relatively long distances between
home and work, walking for short
distances in the city center, for example. It also means to stop trying to
do everything everywhere, resulting
in a segmentation of the public space,
where all travel modes somehow
share a road with limited capacity,
causing general dissatisfaction. Instead, it is necessary to find a balance
between the different modes, which
allows each of them to be optimally
used by the travellers.
Clear And Assumed Tradeoffs
From this point of view, the modal
complementarity operates arbitrations by giving priority to certain
transport modes in certain parts of
the territory, rather than trying in
vain to organize the movement of
all modes on all parts of the country. The limited dimensions of road
spaces through which all transport
modes pass leads to neat trade-offs.
The most efficient methods in terms
of passenger volumes and the most
efficient according the ratio time / distance / energy should be preferred.
In the heart of the city, it is a question
of favouring the mean that will allow

the highest number of persons to pass
through in the same place and at the
same time.

An Offer Tailored To The Users

Needs
In order to encourage the change of
behavior of everyone, to opt for public transport, it is essential that the
network structure and its operations
are primarily organized to suit the
user needs. This user oriented offer
must answer a few fundamental principles:
Most of the users must reach their
destination faster and without connection;
Each district must have a direct
connection to the center of the city,
for the journeys continuing to another neighborhood, there must be
only one line interchange ; for this
purpose, each line of the backbone
network (with the exception of the
tangential and the regional express
train feeder lines) must pass through
two of the four main interfaces of the
center;
Each branch of the backbone network (bus or tram) has a direct connection to an interregional level train
station;
The system must be built on a
good legibility and efficiency during
low peak hours ; as needed, additio-

nal routes can be added during peak

hours;
At Lancy-Pont-Rouge and EauxVives Cornavin departure stations,
the urban network must have sufficient capacities towards the center
(heart of the city) to carry a flow of
customers boarding or unboarding
the train;
The urban network and the regional express train must be well interconnected with feeder lines schedules
coordinated with rail lines;
Urban lines schedules must be easily identifiable, with paced frequencies (all 10, 7 or 5 min. Example)
standardized for better readability;
The operating system must minimize the number of lines per axis.

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The Main Stages Of The Structuring Public Transport Network Development

The development of the metropolis
structuring public transport network
in 2030 is planned as follows:
The commissioning of CEVA in
2017 ;
A major change in the quality of
the transport offer by 2022, five years
after the commissioning of CEVA;
The second major stage of deployment of the rail network in 2030
with the completion of the regional
express lines.

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SENER wins Potencia award
SENER has been recognised in the
Potencia awards 2012, delivered
each year by TPI Group, in the Tunnels category.
In the 6th Edition of the Potencia
Awards 2012, SENER competed
in the Tunnels section, against the
companies Dragados in temporary
joint ventures Zartamo and Tolosa,
for the false tunnels project in the
Basque Y high speed stretch of the
Madrid-Basque Country high speed
line (north of Spain); and, on the
other hand against Joca Ingeniera y
Construcciones and Intervas del Levante y Sarco, for the rainwater interceptors of the Northern and Western
districts of Cartagena (Murcia, south
of Spain).
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In this occasion, SENER has won the

final prize thanks to real-time risk
monitoring and controlling of the
tunneling boring machine (TMB) in
the Sants-Sagrera high speed tunnel
in the city of Barcelona.
This project has represented a huge
challenge for the engineering company due to the tunnel passing close to
the heritage sites of La Pedrera and
the Sagrada Familia and the works
have been totally supervised by UNESCO.
SENER, through the real-time supervising of the boring machine operation together with the excavation
parameters measuring, managed to
reduce to minimum the surface setling and achieved to develop the pro-

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ject without any relevant incident.

On the occassion of the project works
execution of the Madrid-BarcelonaFrench Border high speed line,
Adif (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias, Spanish railway
infrastructure manager) awarded
SENER the contract to carry out the
risk management consultancy in the
tunneling boring machines (TMBEPB) operations in the Sants-Sagrera, Montcada and Gerona tunnels.
In concrete, the Sants-Sagrega stretch
awarded in this edition, fully runs in
the municipality of Barcelona and
passes by Provena street, Avenida
Diagonal and Mallorca street. The
executed tunnel total lenght is 5,100
meters, of which 4,849 m are carried
out through a tunneling boring machine (TMB-EPB).

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