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Transport Expertise will attend the “European Rail Forum: Freight Without Frontiers” organised by Réseau ferré de France (RFF, French railway infrastructure owner and manager) and the Ministry for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Town and Country Planning (Ministère de l’écologie, de l’énergie, du développement durable et de l’aménagement du territoire, MEEDDAT).

This rail event of the French Presidency of the European Union will be held on October 29, 2008 at the International Union of Railways (UIC) headquarters in Paris.

Références

• Website: French Presidency of the European Union, Présidence Française de l’Union Européenne, PFUE: here
• Website: Réseau Ferré de France, RFF: here
• Website: Ministry for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Town and Country Planning, Ministère de l’écologie, de l’énergie, du développement durable et de l’aménagement du territoire, MEEDDAT: here
• Website: International Union of Railways, Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, UIC: here
• English program “European Rail Forum: Freight Without Frontiers”
• French program “Forum du rail Européen : fret sans frontières”

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Everybody knows summer is a “slow” period. Thus we have not been writing a lot in the last couple weeks on Transport Expertise, but we did quite a bit of thinking to improve the services we provide, and to choose what we will write about in the future.

After six month of successful activity, we needed to figure out where to go and why. Also, some organizational questions have been raised, and we needed time to work on certain things like “How to market our work and the website?”, “How to promote the documents we produce?”, “What do the readers want to read about?”, etc.

To answer the last questions, we analyzed the site statistics and decided that we will mainly concentrate on five particular topics that have been interesting most of Transport Expertise visitors, since the website’s opening:

• High Speed Rail;
• Public Transport: infrastructure, rolling stock, operation;
• PPP / Toll Roads / Infrastructures investments;
• Green Logistics / Green Supply Chain; and
• Freight Rail and Waterways.

Also, in order to better integrate all the services we provide, we chose that we will publish directly the Transport Information Group Newsletter from a “transport-expertise.org” email address. The Google Group that we have been using until now will be abandoned. Working on the new tools will however take time, and we hope the new delivery system to be ready by September 2008. We will thus be able to send other materials such as new study released to our subscribers.

Activity will resume at full rhythm in the next couple days; our goal now is to publish two daily articles, one in French at 2:00 PM Paris time (6:00 AM EST), and one in English published at 12:00 PM EST/9:00 AM PST.

We are still working on two studies that will be released soon (delayed because of the previous reasons):

• French Offer in Urban Mobility;
• High Speed Rail in France.

We hope to see you on Transport Expertise in the next couple weeks/months. We thank you for your support, and wait for your feedback and comments.

Matthieu Desiderio, Transport Expertise Editor

Transport Expertise today released a new study “Deutsche Bahn, Implementing a Successful Strategy”. Published in English, a partial version is available here, and the full version may be sent to your email address upon demand through the website’s contact form.

The Deutsche Bahn (DB) has been a pace maker on the European rail market. After many years of reforms the national railway company now appears as a model for all European railroads to stick to.

It is noteworthy that, over time, the DB managed to make its freight rail operations profitable and seems to have made the appropriate choices. Therefore, other national railway companies such as SNCF are now attempting to adapt similar strategies.

This document strives to analyse the path followed by the DB and gets back on the national railway company strategy’s key points that led to success.

HH

Transport Expertise will attend the 3rd European Road Congress on June 25, 2008 in Brussels. For more information about this event, please visit the European Union Road Federation website: http://www.irfnet.eu/en/3rd-european-road-congress/

If you want to meet with a Transport Expertise representative during this event, please contact us and we will set up a meeting on site.

3rd European Road Congress

25 June 2008, Brussels (Belgium)

The European Union Road Federation (ERF), the Brussels Programme Centre of the International Road Federation (IRF), will be hosting the “3rd European Road Congress” in Brussels on 25 June 2008, under the title “Making Roads Ready for the Future”. Following the successful accomplishment of the “1st European Road Congress” (Lisbon – November 2004) and the “2nd European Road Congress” (Brussels – November 2006), the third edition of the European Road Congress comes at a moment of paramount importance in the European agenda. Major challenges such as climate change, urban congestion, traffic safety and increasing demand for passenger and freight transport require adequate and innovative solutions. The third edition of the European Road Congress will provide a unique opportunity for sector leaders – both public and private – to identify the strategies, measures and trends which will be essential in addressing the future needs of the road sector. The Congress will offer a state-of-the-art overview of European road policy issues, through interactive sessions with high-level specialists. Information: info@europeanroadcongress.com

MATTHIEU DESIDERIO - Transport Expertise Founder Joins HSRC - Friday, May 30, 2008

High Speed Rail Canada is very proud to announce that MATTHIEU DESIDERIO from Paris France has joined High Speed Rail Canada as our International Representative. Mattthieu is the founder of the organization and website Transport Expertise. For more background on Mattthieu check out the Who Are We page.

Source: High Speed Rail Canada, http://highspeedrail.ca/

Working with High Speed Rail Canada will be definitely a great way to share information about high speed rail, and bring French and European best practices and experiences across the Atlantic Ocean to Northern America.

I really look forward to working with HSR Canada Team.

MD