Scientific Secretary – AFER

Mr. Buciuman has graduated from the Faculty of Transport, section of Railway Remote Control, 1977, University of Polytechnics in Bucharest and from the Faculty of Economic Sciences, section of Finances-Accounting, 1997, “Babeş-Bolyai” University in Cluj- Napoca.
He worked as Engineer in Signalling Centralization Blocking, Head of Centralisation Remote Control Department, Installation Manager CFR SA (1998-2000, 2003-2005) and Service Manager AFER (2001-2003, 2005-2009). Since 2009 until 2012 he has been Executive Manager AFER and since 2012 he has been occupying the position of Scientific Secretary within the same company. He represented CFR SA at UIC for the projects on interoperability. He was Associate Professor at the Technical University in Cluj- Napoca in 1992/1993 and 1993/1994 and professor at the Polytechnics University in Bucharest since 1999, where he introduced the classes Track control elements and the operation of railway remote control equipments and transport management. Ioan Buciuman elaborated several technical and scientific works on railway remote control and railway transport management and published speciality books in 1983, 1988, 2002 and 2008. In 2006, he obtained his PhD from the Polytechnics University in Bucharest, with the thesis “Contributions to the modernization and maintenance of the command-control-signalling installations in Romania in view of achieving the interoperability in the Trans- European railway transport”.

Vienna University of Technology (TUW)

His scientific career started in 2002 when he joined the Institute for Railway Engineering at Vienna University of Technology. In 2005 he graduated as a Ph.D. by submission of his thesis “Choice of Location for Wayside Train Monitoring Systems”. He was involved in several studies for Infra Managers to cover their network by WTMS in a safe and economic way. Finally he became a Docent for the area of railway operation in 2011. Moreover he carried out many studies by simulation of railway operation to compare headways between conventional signalling and the new European Train Control System (ETCS).

Executive Director – Brussels Branch of JR East

Mr. Takahashi joined the Japanese National Railways in April 1985 and East Japan Railway Company in April 1987. His experience in JR East is mainly in the administrative and international divisions. He has assumed the position of Executive Director at the Brussels Branch in February 2013.

MLT & UT Division Director – Customer Services – Siemens

Mr. Stanciu  graduated from the University of Polytechnics in Bucharest, Faculty of Transport, Railway Rolling Stock Department and has MA in Business, at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of Commerce. After graduating from the university, he worked in the railway industry, where he advanced from a simple engineer to head of locomotive depot, which enabled him to accumulate a rich experience, both theoretical and especially in practice regarding the operation and the current problems of railway operators.
Starting with 2002, he was project manager within Siemens Romania, for the already famous project “The Blue Arrow” (120 Desiro units delivered by Siemens to SNTFC CFR Călători SA). His responsabilities included the reception, delivery, management and guarantee service activities, the supervision of train assembling process at the local partner, as spare parts delivery in the guarantee period and afterwards.
Presently, Mr. Stanciu is MLT & UT Division Director at Siemens Romania, being responsible for the business development in the field of locomotives, trams, trains and underground trains sales, as well as for all adjacent sectors related to these fields of activity.

Business Development Manager – Alstom Romania

In 1989, Mr. Dragu graduated from the Polytechnics University Bucharest, TCM, section Machines-Tools. During 1990-1997, he worked at SC FAUR SA, in the field of locomotive manufacturing, modernisation of V3A trams and he was in charge of the technological locomotive design service.
Since 1997, Nicolae Dragu has been working at Alstom SA, having various responsibilities and being involved in projects such as: modernisation DHL 1250 locomotives for CFR Călători, manufacture of subassemblies for new locomotives, modernisation of 100 passenger cars for CFR Călători, underground rolling stock maintenance for Metrorex, development of investment programmes. Nicolae Dragu has been Business Development Manager at Alstom SA since 2006.

Strategic Planning Executive Manager – PAN PLAN

Mr. Peter Schneyder is founder and general manager of PAN PLAN consulting group based in Vienna, Austria. As a strategic planner his specific expertise with railway issues is concentrated on network concepts, comprising definition of capacity requirements and optimisation of alignments. Structuring and implementation of various financing models is an additional working area.