1. UIC Welcome and introduction

2. UIC, a long history at the service of member railways
and international railway cooperation
1922 Intergovernmental (diplomatic) conference in Portorose, Italy
2018
200 Member railways
from
95 countries
1921 Intergovernmental (diplomatic) conference in Portorose, Italy
October 1922
Constitutive Assembly of UIC (Paris):  UIC Statutes adopted by
51 Railway administrations from
29 countries (Europe, Asia)

3. UIC today 3,000 1 200 10,000 700 85 7 billion passenger kilometres
million kilometres of lines
200
members in 95 countries
10,000
billion tonnes kilometres
700
UIC Leaflets - New International Railway Standards (IRS) 85
congresses, conferences, workshops 7
million rail personnel
Cooperation with over 100 institutions

4. Key challenges in terms of
UIC, its missions
Key challenges in terms of
Promoting the development of rail transport at world level
INNOVATION
STANDARDISATION
in order to meet
challenges of mobility
and sustainable development
TRANSMISSION
DISSEMINATION
STRATEGIC ADVICE

5. UIC organisation structure
FUNDAMENTAL
VALUES
Research
Safety, Security
Environment
Expertise Development
RAIL SYSTEM
PASSENGER
FREIGHT
COMMUNICATIONS · INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS · HR & SOCIAL · FINANCE
FV : Safety and security supporting the activities : freight, passenger, infrastructure

6. UIC Security Platform incl. WG
Human Factors chaired by RZD (Russia)
Security Technologies chaired by SZDC (Czech Republic)
Strategy & Regulations chaired by SNCB (Belgium)
Border Crossing, International Railway Corridors chaired by PKP PLK SA (Poland)
Sabotage, Intrusions, Attacks chaired by DB AG (Germany)
SIA – Meeting in May - topics: Threats along rolling stock with focus on passenger trains or Access control of non-operational buildings, e. g. Headquarters
Global Platform and Steering committee chaired by Via Rail Canada and co-chaired by PKP (Poland)

7. UIC security platform 2 annual events Security week in June
1 day on Terrorism/ Cybersecurity
1 Security awareness day
1 day on UIC security activities
Annual security congress – 16-18/10/2018

8. European Research projects
Mostly European (EU funded) but results available for all UIC members.
Projects closed
PROTECTRAIL : Integration of security technologies to protect rail against terrorism
RESTRAIL : reduction of suicides and trespasses : toolbox of best measures permanently updated
PREDICT : Cascading effect in crisis management
SECRET : protection of rail against electromagnetic attacks
Projects in progress
Cyber threats : project CYRAIL : protection of automatic signaling and circulation management
Border crossing : project BODEGA conditions of faster and more efficient controls
Security/safety of level crossing : project SAFER-LC

9. European projects
interest by building new answers with non-rail representatives
interest because the results are available for all UIC members
Interest for financial aspects

10. CYRAIL – Cybersecurity for RAIL
Take advantage of development in other industries : Aeronautic, automotive, IT
Key topic for the rail sector with high impact on SAFETY
Importance to prepare cybersecurity standards adapted for the rail environment
Close cooperation with UIC rail system department
Key element of quality of service for freight and passenger customers
ERA
CEN CENELEC
Rail system

11. Thank you Good luck for this final CYRAIL event