Policy & Research
Committee
EFRTC General Meeting
Sofia, 16 November 2012
Jeremy Candfield
Chairman, & RIA Director General
CONTENT
• Market Strategy event 2 October
• P & R Committee meeting 19 October
- CER Infrastructure Interest Group
- 4th railway package – role of IMs
- Joint Technology Initiative
• ERRAC and future research
• AUTOMAIN workshop
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Market strategy event (1)
• European Parliament breakfast briefing 2
October, and launch of the Market
Strategies Report
– “A win-win strategy for suppliers and customers: What
is the rail sector doing on rail infrastructure
maintenance to become more efficient?”
– Organised by the CER
– Hosted by MEP and Member of the European
Parliament Transport and Tourism Committee, Ms.
Ines Ayala SENDER
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Market strategy event (2)
– Briefing room packed. Decision takers and
influencers: MEPs, two senior Commission officials,
experts from the EU institutions, the EIM,
Infrastructure Managers and Railway Undertakings,
railway industry, well-known consultants and
journalists – about 60 people in all
– Successful event increasing EFRTC visibility with the
European institutions and partnership with other
important railway stakeholders
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Market strategies report
• Introduction to the subject by Mr
Jeremy Candfield as EFRTC P & R
Chairman and RIA Director General
• Presentation of the report by Mr. Steve
Featherstone, Track Programme
Director of NR on behalf of EIM
• CER comments by Mr Rudolf Koller,
Austrian Infrastructure Manager
• Event moderated by CER CEO Mr
Libor Lochmann
• Lively discussion – c40 minutes
• Report on www.efrtc.org “EVENTS”
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Key Message taken from the
Report:
• Collaboration between IMs and
Contractors Saves Money
• Available at www.efrtc.org under the
Events folder
• So where to next?
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CER Infrastructure Interest
Group (IIG)
• At P&R 19 October, EFRTC invited to the next IIG
meeting on 4 December 2012
• Chaired by Mr Rudolf Köller with participation of
integrated IMs such as DB, SNCF, PKP/PLK, ÖBB, and
all CEEC
• EFRTC Chairman and Secretary General will attend
• Work on long-term funding to be discussed; also
believed relevant to EIM
• Very relevant to contractors; hopefully next work
package
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CER Infrastructure Interest
Group
• CER IIG Activities
• Three main streams as shown at P&R
Committee:
– Commission driven issues
– CER driven issues
– Monitoring issues
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Overview CER infrastructure activities
The Voice of European Railways
Commission driven issuesssues
CER driven issues
Monitoring issues
TEN-T Review
Quality and Performance
in rail infrastructure*
Noise Protection
Implementation ot the
Freight Corridor Regulation
Implementation of the
„White Paper“*
Asset Management
(Marketing)
Infrastructure TSI
Future of railway
system*
Weatherproof
Infrastructure
Recast of the First Railway
Package
Infrastructure Financing
Technical Innovation
4. Railway Package
Track Access Charges
Longer and heavier trains
MFF (Multiannual Financial
Framework)
Infrastructure Statistics
Infrastructure & Climate Change
Training EU funding
increasing results*
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*= new CER activity
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CER
Better reliability and punctuality statistics from
IMs and contractors would bring added-value to all
The Voice of European Railways
 In cooperation with UIC, CER is launching a data
Infrastructure
performance
indicators
19 October 2012
collection on the performance, efficiency and quality
of IMs, focusing on:
 Quarterly performance monitoring
 Punctuality of operators
 Reliability of infrastructure
 This data will be used to demonstrate the positive
development of the rail sector over time
 CER also collects data on total expenditure on rail
infrastructure, broken down by running expenditures,
renewals, and new construction
 IMs would also appreciate reliability and punctuality
data from contractors
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CER
Total Public and non-Public Expenditure
on Infrastructure (in EUR million)
The Voice of European Railways
A1+A2+A3 (See Definitions)
RUNNING EXPENDITURES
2006
610.0
599.0
151.0
277.8
1,526.3
226.0
38.4
missing
724.1
187.0
1,835.0
468.3
99.0
1,974.3
127.5
114.8
71.6
1,640.0
755.3
missing
420.0
320.0
101.0
359.7
3,015.7
2007
597.0
632.0
173.0
266.5
1,458.5
266.0
39.1
missing
786.2
197.0
1,887.0
535.3
100.0
1,983.9
139.6
106.1
83.8
1,367.0
848.8
missing
350.0
347.4
99.0
327.1
2,845.9
Non-EU Member Countries:
NO
355.0
407.7
CH
695.0
647.0
BA
8.6
10.5
HR
163.8
143.5
419.7
714.0
16.5
156.6
AT
BE
BG
CZ
DE
DK
EE
EL
ES
FI
FR
HU
IE
IT
LT
LU
LV
NL
PL
PT
RO
SE
SI
SK
UK
2005
559.0
522.0
138.0
270.2
1,501.8
n/a
40.8
missing
717.3
183.0
1,785.0
449.5
94.0
1,956.4
117.8
113.8
64.6
1,208.0
703.2
missing
472.0
313.6
91.0
414.6
3,230.1
2008
missing
2009
missing
2010
missing
2011
missing
201.5
307.0
1.330,9
274.0
40.1
182.0
349.2
1.381,8
272.0
33.8
165.8
338.8
1,470.9
174.7
340.6
1,419.5
32.6
33.8
835.3
213.3
1,900.0
874.6
224.2
1,926.0
888.3
225.0
871.8
227.0
1,910.0
1,938.0
106.8
107.0
115.7
110.0
108.3
105.1
111.1
111.1
1,032.2
823.00
1,012.8
493.8
381.6
79.5
364.0
497.4
380.4
74.0
400.7
806.9
940.2
67.9
81.2
448.8
1458.5*
12.6
187.5
552.3
1456.8*
14.5
171.4
675.8
1502*
728.2
1574.9*
164.7
161.8
B (See Definitions)
C (See Definitions)
INVESTMENT IN EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE
NEW CONSTRUCTION
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
351.5
394.3
401.1
460.0
599.0
515.5
621.6
978.6 1,094.7 1,104.1 1,223.0 1,492.8
328.9
387.4
360.7
545.6
445.7
286.2
27.0
29.0
32.0
57.8
38.3
35.9
32.6
18.0
10.0
13.0
13.7
11.5
577.1
527.1
680.1
918.0
783.2
171.6
116.6
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
4,759.0 5,210.0 4,770.0 5,213.0 5,231.0 5,616.0 5,875.0 missing missing missing missing missing
n/a
96.0
180.0
236.0
242.0
n/a
63.0
36.0
35.0
38.0
22.9
22.2
28.0
21.2
33.9
31.7
32.5
0.0
2.6
missing missing missing
missing missing missing
675.6
564.0
907.0 1,024.0
885.0
981.0
610.1 2,842.5 3,273.0 3,799.0 4,358.0 4,882.9
210.0
203.0
210.0
326.9
329.6
289.0
208.0
71.0
31.0
1.0
0.0
8.3
882 1,034.0 1,056.0 2,038.0 2,320.0
1,367.00 1,183.00 1,355.00
930.0 1,000.0
86.0
156.8
148.2
3.8
5.4
0.7
76.0
98.0
138.0
25.0
25.0
75.0
1,852.4 1,954.4 2,016.0 2,001.4 1,881.0 1,713.0 1,430.0 4,636.2 3,795.9 3,550.4 2,805.5 2,053.5
68.2
50.5
75.3
missing missing missing
37.2
69.9
60.2
64.0
88.4
98.8
83.2
27.6
64.0
88.0
77.3
89.9
28.8
29.2
26.4
20.0
51.9
42.2
26.4
9.3
1.8
0.7
0.0
6.2
706.0
457.0
590.0
964.0
836.0
509.0
173.5
345.7
586.03
769.2
523.7
569.9
0
0
0
0
0
missing missing missing
missing missing missing
158.0
165.0
221.0
290.1
205.7
211.9
336.7
12.0
5.0
2.0
8.1
0.0
176.5
189.4
192.7
217.3
209.4
1,104.0 1,032.8 1,211.6 1,268.7 1,273.8
10.1
2.6
54.3
128.7
100.1
131.0
105.7
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
160.6
214.5
266.2
171.5
174.9
22.0
32.2
21.1
6.7
0.7
4,289.9 3,411.1 3,356.6
missing missing missing
53.1
518.0
23.1
95.9
38.2
526.0
3.0
122.9
50.7
517.0
2.2
90.5
63.4
1118*
0.3
121.4
92.7
1131.4*
0.7
90.4
270.7
958.7*
122.3
1000*
80.8
78
139.4
1,263.0
3.4
-
141.3
1,054.0
1.2
-
233.6
950.0
0.6
3.0
224.1
491.7*
0.6
4.3
266.3
585.0*
0.9
7.9
2010
1,465.0
2011
1,820.9
93.9
0.0
missing
57.4
0.0
missing
2.5
41.9
4,408.6
74.0
4,474.3
63.0
82.4
36.0
79.3
27.2
0
1.7
0.0
0.0
0.0
211.9
612.8*
420.1
746.1*
2.6
2.4
Source: CER 2012
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And much focus on....
• The 4th Railway Package
• Is about market opening – ‘competition in
rail’
• Vital for contractors to be aware of key
issues affecting their major customers
• Some of the key issues recently identified
by the European Commission:
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Problems identified in the governance of
infrastructure managers: Efficiency
Efficiency challenge:
• Railway infrastructure is a natural monopoly
• The current governance does not provide sufficient
incentives to respond to the needs of users
• No incentives for European and intermodal
cooperation
• The current EU rules allow a splitting up of functions
which does not allow infrastructure managers to
fulfil their tasks
Examples: - path allocation vs maintenance and development
- charging and maintenance
Transport
Problems identified in the governance of
infrastructure managers: Equal Access
• Existing separation requirements do not prevent
conflicts of interests
• Discrimination potential from functions not currently
defined as essential functions
• Competitive advantages flowing from information
asymmetries
• Persistent risk of cross-subsidisation without
complete financial transparency
NB.: If properly designed, no evidence that separated structure is
more expensive than integrated model
Transport
Objectives of the Commission's proposal
• On the efficiency issue:
- Encourage appropriate cooperation beteween IM and RUs, but
on an equal basis
- Ensure IM has all functions needed to run the infrastructure in an optimised, efficient and non–discriminatory manner
• On the equal access issue:
- Define the minimum appropriate degree of separation of the
IM from rail operators
- Ensure that all IM activities which are potential sources of
conflicts of interest are subject to separation requirements
Transport
•
Defining which additional functions must be
under the responsibility of a unified IM
Subject all IM functions to separation
requirements
Separation which guarantees at least legal,
economic and financial independence from RUs
and sets as objective institutional independence
Transport
IM functions
• a) Infrastructure development (planning, financing and
building)
• b) Infrastructure marketing and charging (determination
and collection of charges, relations with customers)
• c) Infrastructure operations (path allocation, timetabling,
traffic management, control command and signalling as well
as traffic information services).
• d) Infrastructure maintenance (infrastructure upgrade and
renewal, asset management activities).
Transport
Joint Technology Initiative
• UNIFE will report later on this proposal to EU for
funding railway research
• Total project costs will be up to 800 million Euro for 4
years i.e. 200 million/year with 50 % funding from EU
• Project has 5 main streams – one on Infrastructure
i.e. up to 20 million EU funding for infrastructure
research/year
• Another 20 millions shall be from industry and IMs as
in kind contribution by resources allocated to project
• EFRTC and its members/companies are invited to
join
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ERRAC and EC research
• ERRAC structure is changing and new Terms of
Reference shall be submitted to the next Plenary
meeting on 23.11.2012
• EFRTC Board support the appointment of EFRTC
Secretary General in the future ERRAC strategic body
• ERRAC shall play an advisory role to JTI by forming
ERRAC Pre-“Requirements and Implementation groups”
for SHIFT²RAIL Innovation Programmes
• SG will consult EFRTC members/companies for joining
the implementation group for infrastructure project
• Proposal for the new EU project on infrastructure
developments in horizon up to 2050 is under preparation
• More by SG on proposal and AUTOMAIN workshop
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Policy & Research
Committee
Thank you
for your attention