Main topics
Railway in the era of liberalization
- No room for error: policy of the responsible state on the development of rail sector
- Deregulation and liberalization in the railway industry: expectations and impact on the country’s economic growth
- New industrialization in railway engineering: challenges and solutions of technological catch-up
- Tomorrow today: mobility as a service, alternative models for the future railway
Locomotive saga – public and private history
- Who and under what conditions is ready to build locomotives in Ukraine? Partnership for development: attracting investment, technology and experience
- Solvent demand: who is going to invest in rolling stock
- Inducement to shifting from Russian components: launch of dual-use items, selection of foreign suppliers
- Energy efficiency of vehicles – latest technologies of reasonable energy consumption: hybrid and battery locomotives
- Ecology of rolling stock and transport infrastructure facilities
- Production infrastructure and engineering systems of up-to-date car building
Car building
- Carriers’ needs: how to build what will carry goods. The planning horizon expanded to a 5 to10-year period
- Let`s set to arithmetic: deficit or surplus of rolling stock
- Age-related changes: extended life of a wagon and a rolling stock upgrading program as both a life buoy and a noose for car builders and railway workers
- Buying rush: grain boom and elevators on wheels
- Design of wagons: new models of grain carriers with increased body volume
- The era of containerization – what a multipurpose wagon of the future will look like
- Export wagons – compatibility, safety and certification of vehicles
- Smart Wagon – status sensors, the possibility of repair as required
Maintenance and repair – from competition among companies to competition of technologies
- Faster repair of private rolling stock with Ukrzaliznytsia acting as a service company
- Private repair business: expensive in the beginning, but cheaper in the end
- Modernization of the industrial park of traction rolling stock – manufacturers’ strategy and tactics
- Existing challenges while using the rolling stock: maintenance, dekitting, responsibility of the parties
- Predictive maintenance of vehicles and artificial intelligence
- Diagnostics and forecast of residual life of rolling stock
- Transport safety upgrade
- Availability of repair facilities, repairs on call
Infrastructure
- Rationalization of Ukrzaliznytsia’s railway network – existing capacities, upgrades, throughput improvement, inactive sections for privatization, development of heavy-traffic lines.
- Private railway infrastructure and concession approach to cut the Gordian knot
- Lviv-Kyiv-Odessa high speed link: to be or not to be?
- Scenarios for future successful compatibility of 1435 and 1520 mm gauge tracks
- Integration of Ukrainian railway system into the European network: how to create an integral railway space. Focus on interoperability, signaling, automation and telecommunications
- Development of a strategic transport corridor between Europe and Asia: cross-border rail communication, development of transport corridors running westwards, economic feasibility of such projects
- Rail electrification strategy: economic benefits and environmental advantages of lower polluting emissions
- Development of logistics infrastructure: internal dry ports, terminals, hubs
Digitalization
- Digital infrastructure: Intelligent Transport Systems
- Digital logistics as a way to automatized transportation of goods, predictable processes and higher throughput
- Digital service for cargo tracking, remote monitoring, timely delivery
