09:00 | Registration | | | | |
10:30 | Opening speech of the prime partner of the conference (ŽSR) | Ján Juriga | ŽSR | Slovakia | |
| Opening speech of the Ministry of Transport, Construction, and Regional Development of the Slovak Republic | Denisa Žiláková | MDVRR SR | Slovakia | |
| Session 1 – Efficient development of the European railway network | | | | |
| The current and upcoming issues of the European railway legislative | Libor Lochman | CER | Belgium | |
| Czech railway industry and its role within the development of the European railway network | Danuše Marusičová | ACRI | Czech Republic | |
| The development strategy of the Slovak railways ŽSR and intents to change to 25 kV AC | Peter Šišolák | ŽSR | Slovakia | |
| Position of Raaberbahn (GYSEV) as an independent infrastructure manager in the European railway network | Csaba Székely | GYSEV | Austria | |
| Active role of an operator of the regional lines within the railway network | Jiří Pavel | JHMD | Czech Republic | |
| Dynamic network statement as a powerful tool for the railway undertakings to access the railway network | Jiří Černý | SŽDC | Czech Republic | |
| The development strategy of the Czech railway infrastructure of SŽDC | Radek Čech | SŽDC | Czech Republic | |
13:00 | Lunch | | | | |
14:00 | Kosovo Railways – progress and challenges | Sejdi Hoxha | INFRAKOS | Kosovo | |
| The role of a modern energy supplier for future railways | Harald Jony | ÖBB | Austria | |
| Session 2 – Information and communication technology as a tool to boost efficiency of a railway organisation | | | | |
| Planning of the freight transport in the system DISC | Luděk Ehrenberger | ČD Cargo | Czech Republic | |
| Common Components in the framework of TAF TSI and TAP TSI | Stephan Breu | DB Netz AG | Germany | |
| Current issues of the TAF TSI development | Rodrigo Gutierrez | ERA | France | |
15:30 | Coffee-Break | | | | |
16:00 | Bringing the new marshalling yard of Žilina–Teplička into operation | Jozef Dudák | ŽSR | Slovakia | |
| Train-led traffic control as a chance for regional railways | Otfried Knoll | KNOLL TTS | Austria | |
| Activating train paths as an important condition for flexible controlling the railway traffic | Marek Neustadt | SŽDC | Czech Republic | |
| A new era of the company Microsoft has started last week | Vlastimil Tesař | Microsoft | Czech Republic | |
| Conception of managing the business relationships | Miroslav Hajžuš | AutoCont | Czech Republic | |
19:30 | Informal reception with networking | | | | |
| Session 2 – Information and communication technology as a tool to boost efficiency of a railway organisation | | | | |
09:00 | Supporting the European railway transport: TIS – Train Information System | Harald Reisinger | RNE | Austria | |
| IS DOMIN (Infrastructure Restriction Notices Database) – the database of all the railway infrastructure restrictions as to the current TAF TSI | Jiří Pálka | SŽDC | Czech Republic | |
| Train Position Vehicle (TPV) as a tool for an instant rendering of the current traffic | Pavel Pinkas | OLTIS Group | Czech Republic | |
| IS KAPO – the information system for calculating the railway access fees | Martin Havránek | SŽDC | Czech Republic | |
| Web portal of an infrastructure manager | Tomáš Andrýs | SŽDC | Czech Republic | |
| Technical documentation of line structures as a basis for asset maintenance | Roman Prokeš | Logica | Czech Republic | |
10:30 | Coffee-Break | | | | |
11:00 | Session 4 – Intelligent railways – innovative solutions for the future of the rail infrastructure | | | | |
| Weather alert systems for railways | Martin Koen | UBIMET | Austria | |
| The Argos® System as a component of the wayside monitoring of the railway | Wolfgang Zottl | ÖBB Infrastruktur | Austria | |
| Monitoring of the quality of the railway network in connection with the dispatching control and with the communication towards RUs | Aleš Zeman | OLTIS Group | Czech Republic | |
| Cross-border data exchange from the wayside monitoring devices and its exploitation by RUs | Alexandr Chloupek | RDSA | Austria | |
| Operational Control Centres on MÁV network – Considerations | Attila Cseh | BME | Hungary | |
12:30 | Lunch | | | | |
13:30 | Session 3 – Electric and fossil traction energy – a significant source of cost and savings for the railway transport | | | | |
| Ways to saving the traction energy within controlling the train traffic | David Krásenský | OLTIS Group | Czech Republic | |
| Eress and its Erex de facto standard solution | Dyre Martin Gulbrandsen | Eress | Norway | |
| Energy demand of a shift plan based on the activated train paths | Jiří Janšta | OLTIS Group | Czech Republic | |
| RailwayBox – the metering system for the railway of the future | Michael Bares | ÖBB | Austria | |
| Redesign of the application ISI (Information System of Infrastructure) for electrotechnics and energy (EE) of ŽSR in connection with establishing diagnostics methods into the maintenance system of the EE devices | Juraj Černohorský | ŽSR | Slovakia | |
| Railway route Margecany – Červená Skala, engineering demanding part of the Mid-Slovakian Transversal | Ivan Wlachovský | ŽSR | Slovakia | |
15:00 | Coffee-Break | | | | |
15:30 | Session 4 – Intelligent railways – innovative solutions for the future of the rail infrastructure | | | | |
| ETD – onboard electronic timetable | Petr Vacek | OLTIS Group | Czech Republic | |
| Vehicle-based part of ETD | Antonín Felber | UniControls | Czech Republic | |
| Exploiting diagnostics for an efficient infrastructure maintenance | Ladislav Kovář | STARMON | Czech Republic | |
| Elastomeric “eco-friendly” material based on end-of-life tyres blended with organic bind resin for railway applications | Eleanor J. Sillerico Mayta | ACCIONA Infraestructuras S.A. | Spain | |
17:00 | Closing the conference | | | | |
9:00 | Parallel Session on International R&D Projects (in English only) | | | | |
| Transport Research Challenges of the New EU Member states | Stane Bozicnik | University of Maribor | Slovenia | |
| Preventing derailments – Project D-RAIL (FP7) | Andreas Schöbel | TU Wien | Austria | |
| Cracow University of Technology – Cooperation on international R&D projects | Grzegorz Kaczor | Cracow University of Technology, Institut of Rail Vehicles | Poland | |
| Projects RAILMAP and ERWIN (EUREKA) for greener and cost-effective transport | Petr Kroča | JERID | Czech Republic | |
| EUREKA Program – INNOLOGI Project Presentation | Murat Ozemre | Bimar Information Technology Services | Turkey | |
10:30 | Coffee-Break | | | | |
11:00 | Current research activities at the Department of Railway Transport | Martin Kendra | University of Žilina, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications | Slovakia | |
| Project MERLIN (FP7) – Intelligent energy management for a smarter railway in Europe | Miroslav Škota | OLTIS Group | Czech Republic | |
| EUREKA and projects of OLTIS Group | Kristýna Ježová | OLTIS Group | Czech Republic | |
| RETRACK (FP7): Setting up an innovative rail freight service between North Sea and Black Sea | Tariq van Rooijen | TNO | Netherlands | |
| International R&D Projects of Instytut Kolejnictwa | Karolina Wisniewska | Instytut Kolejnictwa | Poland | |