Safety webinar on “Resilient Railways”

Overview

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humankind this century. Companies in naturally exposed regions could see a significant share of their capital destroyed if natural hazards/disasters materialise or increase, especially in the long run.

On the operational side, climate change will significantly increase the number of disruptions and breakdowns: stronger and more frequent storms can affect infrastructure, heat waves can affect rolling stock, and strong and gusty winds can move train loads. It is important not to forget other natural hazards such as earthquakes and leaves on the tracks, which increase braking distance.

All of these threats pose a challenge to railways safety and must be considered in the Safety Management System of railway operators: for example, high temperatures will affect workers and passengers, and decreasing reliability of systems will lead to more degraded operations.

UIC is committed to improving the sector’s resilience to climate change and will lead a number of projects to this end. The webinar on safety will focus on how to maintain safety performance against climate change and natural hazards.

Programme

UIC is pleased to host this webinar on resilient railways. Or rather, how the sector is working to improve its resilience in the face of climate change and other natural and non-natural hazards.

The webinar will be divided into three blocks. The first will be about a general approach with other transport modes, and a financial approach. The second one will talk about what UIC, and its members, are doing to improve their resilience to different hazards. And finally, there will be some real and recent examples of experiences in dealing with contingencies.

The webinar features 20 speakers from different backgrounds, and we at UIC hope that it will be of interest and useful to those who are also facing these challenges of maintaining safety and operations in the face of so many threats.

Keynote:
Lucie Anderton (UIC), Esther Mateo (Adif, UIC) & Frédéric Henon (UIC)

14:00 Webinar Opening
Lucie Anderton (UIC), Esther Mateo (Adif, UIC) & Frédéric Henon (UIC)

Block I: Resilience in other transport modes

• 14:15 PIANC (Maritime Navigation)
  Jan Brooke

• 14:30 How can we make more resilient the Financial System
  Mercedes Gutierrez (World Bank)

• 14:45 Economic impact of climate change on transport (all modes)
  Benoit Lagardere & Felix Rannou (Commissariat Général au Développement Durable. France)

Block II: What is UIC doing on Resilience?

• 15:15 RERA Family projects
  Francisco Cabrera (UIC)

• 15:20 Data forecast and Vulnerability Assessment
  Pablo Vallhonrat & Concepción Toribio Díaz (CEMOSA)

• 15:35 RERA Rain
  Jesus Palma & Rosa Casquero (UIC)

• 15:50 RERA Temp
  Mertk (SAR) & Carole Escolan Zeno (SNCF) & Katrin Neuhaus (SBB)

• 16:05 RERA Wind
  Giancarlo de Marco (UIC)

• 16:15 RERA Quake
  Franco Iacobini (RFI) & Andrea Vecchi (RFI)

• 16:20 RERA Cyber
  Esther Mateo (Adif, UIC)

Block III: Examples on Railways resilience

• 15:00 Proportionate Risk Response to Implementing Mitigating Speeds to Assets
  Chris Knowles (RSSB)

• 16:25 Contingency Management
  Raffaele Zurlo (Med RFC) + Manuel Besteiro (ADIF)

• 16:40 Q&A
  Moderator: Francisco Cabrera (UIC)

• 16:55 WEBINAR CLOSE
  Lucie Anderton (UIC), Esther Mateo (Adif, UIC).

17:00 END OF THE WEBINAR

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