Conference programme 17 February 2012

09:30 - 11:00 Session 8 - Professional - Analysing future technologies

Chair: Paul Gwynn, UITP Chairman of IT & Service Industry Committee and Director Business Development, INIT GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany

• IP-COM - Internet Protocol-based communication services in public transport
  Jürgen Greschner, CEO, INIT GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany

• Intermodal Transport Control Systems (ITCS) - Requirements for planning, operating and optimizing public transportation.
  René Zeller, Head of Business Development, Trapeze ITS Switzerland, Neuhausen, Switzerland

• Interoperability in complex ticketing - economically feasible? Ways to achieve interoperability without strong impacts on existing base and huge investments in relatively short time.
  Matthias Augustyniak, Managing Director, Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH, Mönchengladbach, Germany

• Indoor navigation and orientation. Navigate inside stations + professional use cases (emergency/ tracking/logistics)
  Sander Van der Meer, Marketing & Product Strategy Manager, NAVTEQ, Veldhoven, Netherlands

09:30 - 11:00 Market Update 10

Chair: Udo Steinmeier, Sales Manager DACHL, Trapeze Group Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

• Demand Response Service - the flexible way for public transport
  Udo Steinmeier, Sales Manager DACHL, Trapeze Group Deutschland GmbH, Hamburg, Germany
  
  
• An Open, Standard Approach for Transit Fare Collection
  Laurent Cremer, Executive Director, OSPT Alliance, Munich, Germany
  
  

11:30 - 13:00 Market Update 11

Chair: Jürgen Kaiser, Vice President Transport Consulting, PTV AG, Karlsruhe, Germany

• SMART-WAY: never get lost in public transport.
  Olivia Ratajzak, Account Manager, the agent factory GmbH, Jena, Germany
  Andreas Küster, Projektleiter, Fraunhofer Institute IVI, Dresden, Germany
  
  
• Eco-Driving: the magic triangle.
  Volker Greitzke, International Sales Manager, Trapeze ITS Switzerland GmbH, Neuhausen, Switzerland
  
  
• Successful deployment of mobile ticket solutions in the Nordics.
  Drew Bryan, Unwire, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  
• Computer based Planning system to support workflow in a Transit Association.
  Peter Mott, Director Support & Training, PTV AG, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Frieder Zappe, Netzplaner, Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
  
  

11:30 - 13:00 Market Update 12

Chairman: René Rothe, Director Sales, PSI Transcom GmbH, Berlin, Germany

• 100% process optimisation at the depot.
  René Rothe, Director Sales, PSI Transcom GmbH, Berlin, Germany
  
  
• RFID low memory ticketing.
  Tanja D’Intino, Verkauf/Export, RFIDentic, Kempen, Germany
  
  
• Public Transport Intelligence: get the most out of your Fare Management System.
  Jean Costantini, Senior Business Advisor, Thales, Bretigny-sur-Orge, France
  
  
• SIPA - security-critical IP applications.
  Reinhard Wegener, Director Technical Center, telent GmbH, Backnang, Germany
  
  

14:15 - 16:00
Visiting the east depot of the local transport operator (VBK)

The VBK transportation authority is offering a chance to see the heart of the organisation with a one-hour tour through the new depot on Gerwigstraße in eastern Karlsruhe. Cavernous parking halls with tracks and points, an ultramodern maintenance centre for the technical upkeep of low-floor trains and light rail cars, as well as sophisticated control technology. There will also be an opportunity to see the central control room of Verkehrsbetriebe Karlsruhe and Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft, where all the lines between the vehicles in the far-reaching network of trams, light rail vehicles and buses interlink.

Address and meeting point: VBK depot, Gerwigstraße 65, 76131 Karlsruhe. Shuttle services will be provided from Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center.

14:15 - 16:00
Tour of the construction sites for the "combined project" (combination of a tram tunnel in Kaiserstrasse and a road tunnel in Kriegsstrasse)

Karlsruher Schieneninfrastrukturgesellschaft (KASIG), which is constructing the combined project for the centre of the city, is offering the opportunity to quite literally gain a deeper insight into what will eventually be the city's underground stations with a one-hour tour through the current construction site. Since the beginning of 2010, work has been underway. Construction will start with the walls before then moving on to the ground and ceiling of the stations. Proper footwear is recommended for the tour, helmets will be provided.

Address and meeting point: Informationspavillon K., Ettlinger-Tor-Platz, 76133 Karlsruhe. Shuttle services will be provided from Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center.

14:15 - 17:00
The Karlsruhe intermodal tram-train system

Roughly 30 kilometres outside the city of Karlsruhe lies the untamed beauty of Murgtal, one of the most fascinating areas of the Black Forest. The roughly 2-hour tour begins at Karlsruhe Central Station and proceeds with the S 41 tram into Murgtal through to picturesque Forbach in the northern Black Forest. The renowned Karlsruhe intermodal tram-train system can be experienced along this route; the connection between the tram network and Deutsche Bahn railway is a moving testament to engineering, in the truest sense of the word. In order to make it possible for a single vehicle to run in both systems, VBK and AVG developed an intermodal vehicle capable of switching systems, allowing it to change from the 750 volts DC of a tram to the 15,000 volts, 16 2/3 hertz AC of the railway.

Meeting place: Central Station; time to be announced. Shuttle services will be provided from Karlsruhe Trade Fair Center.