Status: Past event
Low-carbon mobility: making modal shift desirable
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About
UIC actively promotes at international level a multimodal vision shared with public transport and supply chain stakeholders.
Based on its members’ expertise, UIC is developing the technical enablers to transform this concept into reality. In order to share the initiatives already taken and to find the ways to make modal shift desirable, UIC is pleased to invite you to a one-day conference on 13 February 2020 in Brussels. It will also be an occasion rediscover an unexpected advantage inherent to railway, the virtue of frugality.
Programme
09:00-09:30 Registration
09:30 Opening François Davenne, Director General of UIC
09:40-11:00 Keynote Speakers 09:40 Francesco Dionori, Chief of Transport Networks & Logistics Section, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe 10:00 Umberto Guida, Senior Director for Knowledge & Innovation, UITP 10:20 Karen Vancluysen, Secretary General, POLIS 10:40 Judit Sandor, Programme Manager for the Cross-Cutting Activities, Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking
11:00 – 11:15 – Networking Coffee Break
11:15-13:15 Round table 1 Moving towards low carbon mobility: the initiatives already taken Moderator: Simon Fletcher, UIC 11:10 Omi Iryo, Deputy General Manager of Corporate Planning Headquarters, JR East 11:35 Mohamed Rabie Khlie, Director General of Moroccan Railways (ONCF) 12:05 Thomas Möhring, Policy advisor Environment & Sustainability & Eva Dijkema (ProRail) 12:30 Paul Hegge, Director Public Affairs & CSR, Lineas, Vision “30 by 2030” 12:55 Discussion and Q&A with the audience
13:15-14:15 Lunch break
14:15-16:15 Round table 2 How to make modal shift desirable: Rediscovering the virtue of frugality Moderator: Carole Escolan-Zeno, SNCF Voyageurs 14:15 Bertrand Minary, Chief Innovation & Digital Officer Rail Freight & Multimodal Division / Fret (SNCF) 14:40 Enrico Stefàno, President of the Committee for Mobility of the City Council of Rome 15:05 Dr Stefan Tobias, Head of Economics and Tax Policy (CER) 15:30 Laurent Castaignède, BCO2 Ingénierie 15:55 Discussion and Q&A with the audience
16:20 Conclusions and closing François Davenne, Director General of UIC
Networking Coffee Break
