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Sponsor list
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If you are interested in sponsorship opportunities at this event then please contact:
Rowan Mackie, Sponsorship Manager
Email: rowan.mackie@terrapinn.com
Tel: +44 (0)207 827 5983 Fax: +44 (0)207 242 1508
Official legal sponsor
Simmons & Simmons is a world-class law firm
with over 950 legal staff in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. We have one of the largest dedicated rail practices in the world with a core team of 40 lawyers all of whom have extensive rail industry and rail law experience. We advise clients internationally in all sectors of the railway industry and on all legal aspects of the business. We have a track record acting for governments, public bodies and private operators on railway projects of national and international importance, and we have been consistently ranked 1st for rail in the UK in the Legal 500. Please visit www.simmons-simmons.com
Gold sponsor
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Carmen Systems market, develop, and implement resource optimisation solutions within the transportation industry, in particular railways, airlines, maritime ports, and distribution logistics companies. Through making use of Carmen’s world-leading optimisation products and services, clients gain substantial performance improvements, either in terms of improved profitability, increases in delivery capacity, or both. Carmen lead the market in rail and airline crew management.
The Carmen Systems solutions feature state-of the art optimisation technology that allow railway operators and airlines to schedule and manage their crew for railways and airlines, as well as ground staff at airports, maintenance depots, and maritime container terminals, at the lowest possible cost. Resource balancing is also a key area, with Carmen making deliveries to clients covering just-in-time positioning of rail freight wagons for their customers’ use, as well as the optimal allocation and positioning of locomotives and passenger cars to reduce the capital investments required. Carmen’s offerings include services for development of clients’ business processes, simulation work, solution implementation, and development of new applications as requested by clients. Carmen also deliver solutions for network analysis and optimisation of surface and air delivery routes for logistics operators.
Carmen Systems have five of Europe’s largest railways, as well as 22 of the world’s largest airlines, as clients. These include SNCF (French National Railways), Deutsche Bahn (German Railways), Amtrak (USA), RailCorp in New South Wales (Australia), CityPendeln (Sweden), Rail Gourmet (Spain), Green Cargo (Sweden), National Rail Enquiries (United Kingdom), DSB (Danish Railways), as well as Delta Air Lines, British Airways, Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, Northwest Airlines, SAS, Singapore Airlines, and Virgin Atlantic Airways, to name a few others.
With the acquistion of the Australia-based resource optimisation company Opcom Pty Ltd during March 2005, Carmen Systems have established their position as the frontrunner within transportation resource optimisation. Carmen’s staff of over 260 professionals work at development and sales centres in Scandinavia, Australia, Europe, USA, Canada, and Asia. Headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Carmen Systems may well have the most powerful research and development facilities in the business, with experts coming from the operations research, transportation business, and computer science fields. Carmen’s staff are also prolific contributors to the optimisation community’s total knowledge base, through their participation at key conferences, forums, and alliances with major academic centres around the world.
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Gold sponsor
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Alcatel Transport Automation Solutions
To meet the challenges of globalization, deregulation and increased mobility, Alcatel offers a host of advanced main line railway solutions to ensure safe, reliable and comfortable transportation of passengers and freight through the network. Drawing on a wide international experience in all aspects of transport automation, Alcatel is a leading worldwide supplier of signaling - train control, train routing, control centers - and integrated rail communications. For main lines operators around the world, Alcatel's offering includes AlTrac (in compliance with ERTMS/ETCS specifications) for train control, NetTrac for network management, LockTrac proven electronic interlocking system, and FieldTrac field equipment (axle
counters, point machines, signals?). For more information, visit us on the Internet: www.alcatel.com/tas
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HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended July 31, 2004, HP revenue totaled $78.4 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.
Silver sponsor
Workshop sponsor
PricewaterhouseCoopers provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients. More than 120,000 people in 139 countries connect their thinking, experience and solutions to build public trust and enhance value for clients and their stakeholders.
As the leading provider of financial, procurement, tax and accounting advisory services to the public and private sectors on PPP projects around the world, PwC continues to lead the Project Finance International league tables for the total value of successful deals won. To date this includes advice on over 240 signed projects around the world, with a total capital of over US $44 billion.
Our experience in the global PPP/ project finance market over the last ten years includes advising public sector bodies on projects in a wide range of sectors such as transport (e.g. London Underground PPP, the largest PPP created to date), defence, prisons, education and health. Within the international market PwC has established PPP frameworks in countries including Ireland, South Africa, Japan and Germany, and advised on a range of projects in other territories including Canada and Australia.
For further information about how our expert team can help you or to download a copy of our recently published thought leadership entitled The trans-European transport network – from aspiration to reality, please visit www.pwc.com/igu
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Thales is one of the world’s largest international high technology electronics companies, delivering critical infrastructure systems and services in the aerospace, defence, commercial and security markets.
Thales enjoys substantial international market presence with a €10.5 billion turnover. It employs over 60,000 staff worldwide and invests more than €1.8 billion every year in research & development.
Thales has been providing the world’s leading transport organisations with hi-tech solutions for over thirty years. In addition to the rail and freight market, our clients come from a range of sectors including metro, light rail, bus operators, airports and airlines. Thales is committed to using its wealth of transport experience to support the changing European commercial, operational and regulatory requirements.
Thales expertise covers an innovative range of products, services and solutions including:
SERVICES
•Design consultancy
•Engineering Programme Management
•Professional Services
TURNKEY SOLUTIONS
•Revenue Management
•Asset Management & Optimisation
•Product Lifecycle Management
•Simulators and Training Services
•Passenger Information Systems
•Station Management Systems
•IT Outsourcing
•Business Process Outsourcing
•Telecommunications Projects and Maintenance Solutions
PRODUCTS
•Fare collection, smart-card and ticketing solutions
•Fleet Management & Maintenance including tracking and positioning solutions
•Rail Vehicle Safety – Train Protection and Warning Systems (TPWS)
•Track to Train (in-cab) video communications
•Communication and Data Recording Solutions
PFI/PPP
European Rail customers include: Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC), Atkins Rail, Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), English, Welsh and Scottish Railway (EWS), Eurostar, London Underground Ltd (LUL), Netherlands Public Transport system, Network Rail, RATP, SNCB, SNCF, Transport Direct and many train operating companies.
For further information see: www.thalesgroup.com
Breakfast Briefing sponsor
Founded in 1914, Booz Allen Hamilton ranks among the world’s largest and most widely respected international management and technology consulting firms. Booz Allen has over 16,000 employees in over 100 offices and at client sites on six continents, providing strategy, operations, systems, and technology services on many large-scale international projects.
Booz Allen's European Transportation practice, centred in London but with offices across Europe, delivers high impact solutions for transport businesses in both the private and public sectors. In the rail sector, our work for many prestigious private operators, banks and suppliers is complemented by high profile assignments undertaken for numerous national railways, public bodies such as infrastructure managers (Infrabel, Réseau Ferré de France, Network Rail), government agencies (the Netherlands Ministry of Public Works, German Federal Ministry of Transport, the UK’s Strategic Rail Authority and Office of Rail Regulation, Transport for London). Current railway challenges our clients have asked us to advise on include competitive strategy, performance improvement, market assessment, asset management, programme management, technology implementation and evaluation (e.g. ERTMS), vehicle maintenance and reliability improvement, advanced passenger revenue/ticketing systems, among many others.
With over 450 professionals, the global transportation practice includes specialists in virtually every aspect of the transportation business, as applied to airports, airlines, ports, highways, railways and mass transport operations. Our staff are senior transportation professionals, with academic backgrounds in finance, economics, engineering, operations analysis, public policy, and management sciences. Most staff have worked in the transportation industry prior to joining the firm.
www.boozallen.com/transportation
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Associate sponsor
Workshop sponsor
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VECTRA - RAIL SAFETY, COMPLIANCE, RISK AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Vectra provides a full spectrum of consultancy services to the railway industry, from specialist advice to total project capability, and is committed to assisting clients find quality solutions. The services we offer are comprehensive and practical, provided by a team with extensive expertise working for a diverse range of operators, manufacturers and regulators within the rail industry.
Our clients include the industry's leading names: London Underground, Tube Lines, Metronet, Network Rail, SRA, Alstom, Westinghouse, DLR, GE Transportation, Infraspeed and ProRail.
Our engineers offer the benefit of their experience in areas including rail systems engineering, safety and risk management, Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) analysis and strategy planning. The company skills include:
- CONTROL ROOM DESIGN SOLUTIONS
- SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Evaluating system performance measures
Managing changes brought about by the system
Securing systems delivery
- SAFETY MANAGEMENT, RISK ASSESSMENT AND HAZOP STUDIES
Safety case preparation and management
Quantified risk assessment (QRA)
Hazard identification and analysis
Human factors
Assessment of safety culture
- RISK MANAGEMENT
- RAM ANALYSIS AND ALARP STUDIES
- AUDIT, REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT
- MAINTENANCE STRATEGY PLANNING
For further information please visit www.vectragroup.co.uk.
For the past six years Vectra Group Limited (Vectra) has provided Network Rail with strategic support on the planning and management of activities on the West Coast Route Modernisation (WCRM) project.................for rest of article please click HERE.
Associate Sponsor
Lunch Sponsor
Steer Davies Gleave is a leading independent transport consultancy providing services to government, operators, regulators, financiers and other interest groups. With continued growth over our 25 years in operation and more than 300 consultants worldwide, Steer Davies Gleave has an unparalleled breadth of specialist expertise available for our clients. Our aspiration is to provide clients with the insight needed to make sound decisions and significant progress in what is often a complex planning and operating environment. Our clients include the Strategic Rail Authority, Network Rail, European Commission, Department for Transport, Association of Train Operating Companies, Rail Passengers Council, Laing Rail, Trenitalia, Bombela, Virgin Trains, ScotRail and Swiss Rail, amongst others.
www.steerdaviesgleave.com
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