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Topic 1 – High Speed Rail and Society

Session 1.A – Impact of expected developments in terms of the environment, available resources and security, etc. on high-speed transport.

Session 1.B – Competition and complementarity between transport modes

Session 1.C – High-speed rail and regional development

Topic 2 – High Speed Rail in Practice

Session 2.A – Undertaking a high-speed project

Session 2.B – Ongoing projects

Session 2.C – Recent achievements in Europe

Session 2.D – High Speed Rail outside of Europe

Topic 3 – From Single Lines to a High Speed Network

Session 3.A – From single HS line to HS network in Europe.

Session 3.B – ETCS

Session 3.C – Bringing together various standards and technologies into a single network

Topic 4 – Strategic Issues in High Speed Rail

Session 4.A – Optimal speed

Session 4.B – Multi-purpose high speed lines

Session 4.C – Competition and infrastructure access

Session 4.D – Public/Private financing and risk-sharing.

Topic 5 – Meeting Customer Expectations

Session 5.A – High speed rail and lifestyle

Session 5.B – Where does added-value come from?

Session 5.C – The stations in the transportation chain.

Session 5.D – The Stations for high speed

Topic 6 – Innovations in Fixed and Mobile Equipment

Session 6.A – Manufacturing Rolling Stock

Session 6.B – Technical developments in rolling stock

Session 6.C – Technical Developments in infrastructure.

Session 6.D – Technical developments in superstructure

Session 6.E – Innovations and interface between rolling stock and infrastructure

Session 6.F – Technical developments in Maglev Systems