UIC and NRA organised the 3rd UIC High Speed Interaction Workshop in Beijing on 12 – 13 May 2016.
This workshop focused on Safety & Quality Standards of High Speed Rail Passenger Service, which was an innovatiive topic for a workshop organised by UIC. Over 120 staff from UIC Asia-Pacific members, including Korea, Japan, China, Russia, attended the meeting.
Mr Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Director General of UIC and Mr Zhang Qun, Director General for Transportation Supervision at NRA (National Railway Administration) introduced this workshop and underlined the importance of such a workshop for the development of High Speed in the world.
Six sessions were organised:
- Service Quality of High Speed Railway Passenger Transport. This session focused on the development of standard of high speed railway passenger service in China, Concept of service in Switzerland
- High Speed Railway Passenger Transport – Service Planning. The main subjects focused on a general approach to design an HSR system in accordance with the UIC vision: the UIC handbook, the innovative experience of Lisea for the implementation (financing, construction, operation and maintenance) of a new HSL South East Atlantic route between Tours and Bordeaux in France, the performance evaluation study of Yichang-Wanzhou railway project in the People’s Republic of China, Integrated High Speed Passenger transport service
- Railway stations. SNCF presented the French style of stations (sustainability, services, business), CARS presented simulation of fluidity in stations and UIC presented intermodality in Australia. UIC stressed the current studies carried out by the SMGG (Station Manager Global Group) concerning information in stations, sustainable stations and security of stations. UIC announced Next Station, the next international conference on railway stations which is to be held in Madrid in October 2017
- Supervision on service quality of high speed railways. This session focused on the quality concept in Japan, the quality concept in French railway stations, the supervision on the service quality of China’s high speed railway passenger transport, the UIC “High Speed handbook”, and services provided to the passengers in Russian high speed trains
- Ticketing and distribution. Chinese ticketing was described. Korail presented yield management in Korea. Japanese Rail presented the types of tickets in Japan. UIC presented the current standards and the studies carried out in Europe.
- Safety standards for HSR Passenger Transport. This session focused on safety approach and safety standards in France in the framework of the LISEA (Tours – Bordeaux), a study on the operation safety of CTC used in China, new technical regulations on high speed rolling stock in Korea, and the traffic management system on RZD lines with high speed connections
In conclusion, the members present at the workshop successfully validated the need to work on three projects proposed for 2017, regarding security and safety in stations and trains, as well as to focus on the particular features of the safety concept in the Asia-Pacific region. Those projects will be proposed for approval at the next Regional Assembly of UIC Asia-Pacific in November 2016.
