Abstract

Marc Antoni
Director of the Rail System Department and the Rail System Forum of the UIC

Presentation title:
International maintenance from international perspective

Quote:
“It is important to meet and to build brotherhood in railway. We have more and more computerised systems and it is important to exchange knowledge and our data and to find a common language.”

Summary
Antoni earlier has emphasized that rail professionals should take the opportunity at the RailTech Europe Conference to share their ‘best practices’ so they know which technologies can reduce costs of the exploitation of rail and which can enhance security. At the conference he will focus on several key issues including asset management, the safety of signaling and maintenance of ERTMS. He will discuss the issue of cyber security on railways, especially with the use of new technology in the security system ERTMS.

Antoni’s view is that the systems which operators must develop, he added, should be ‘complicated, but not complex’. “Security is safety and safety is security – the two have to be considered together. The UIC is working on different guidelines that international railway undertakings can use in their daily operation.

Bio:
Direction of the Rail System Department and the Rail System Forum of the UIC
The field of the rail System Department convers all the Technical aspeçts of infrastructure (track, Signalling, over headline, traffic, S&C) and Rolling stock (structures, motorisation, braking) including Asset Management, Traffic Management, Safety and Security management and Innovation Management. Direction of the UIC Railway Professional standardisation (IRS for International Railway Standardisation) in cohérence and complementarity with the other Normalisation Bodies (ISO, IEC, CEN) and Régulation Bodies (ÉRA, OSJD). Building bridges between continents for more brotherhood in railway.

Since 2007 SNCF – Infrastructure Direction
A head of the technological innovation and asset management department. In this department we are leading some technological and economical studies; these studies are in particular linked with the maintenance contract between RFF and SNCF, the optimisation of the maintenance rules, the balance between the maintenance and the renewal of the railways infrastructure (tracks, switch and crossing, signalling, over head lines…)
The department is in charge of the development of new maintenance methods or tools, new concepts in order to reduce the maintenance costs, to increase the quality and safety level. In particular, the Department is in charge of the elaboration and the parameterisation of maintenance need and costs models.

2003-2006 SNCF – Infrastructure Direction
Project manager for economic studies by the infrastructure strategy division

2001-2003 SNCF – Regional Infrastructure Direction of Paris east
A head of the infrastructure regional telecommunication and computerized systems direction

2000-2001 SNCF – Regional Infrastructure Direction of Paris east
A head of one of the infrastructure regional track Division

1996-1999 SNCF – Infrastructure Direction
Signalling expert in charge development of the supervision and remote monitoring for the Infrastructure

1988-1996 SNCF – Engineering Direction – Signalling
A head of the computerized signalling modules for centralised control centres section

1986-1988 SNCF – Regional Infrastructure Direction of Paris north
A head of one of the infrastructure regional signalling Division

1979-1986 SNCF – Regional Infrastructure Direction of Strasbourg
Signalling and telecommunication operator

Since 2007 President of the Association of the French signalling apprentices
The SNCF, Infrastructure Direction, technological innovation and asset management department. In this department we are leading some technological and economical studies; these studies are in particular linked with the maintenance contract between RFF and SNCF, the optimisation of the maintenance rules, the balance between the maintenance and the renewal of the railways infrastructure (tracks, switch and crossing, signalling, over head lines…). The department is in charge of the development of new maintenance methods or tools, new concepts in order to reduce the maintenance costs, to increase the quality and safety level. In particular, the Department is in charge of the elaboration and the parameterisation of maintenance need and costs models.

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