Module II: Infrastructure for High Speed Rail

• Process required for building a new high speed line
• Main aspects, elements and parameters of infrastructure for a new line
• Civil works
• Superstructure for high speed: track, electrification, signaling, protection, safety and telecommunications
• Building a new line; contracts, logistics, organization and planning of works.
• Approval of a new high speed line
• Maintenance and renewal
• Economic aspects of infrastructure.

Module II: Environment

• The environmental aspects of high speed rail
• Land occupancy, energy consumption
• CO2 balance of a High Speed project

Module III: Rolling Stock

• Commercial and technical requirements; design; types of trains
• Traction
• Certification and approval of high speed rolling stock
• Maintenance of high speed rolling stock
• Economic aspects of rolling stock.

Module III: Stations

• Stations for high speed systems
• Basic requirements
• Specificities
• Impacts on the passenger, city, railway operator & infrastructure owner

Module IV: Operations

• Basic operational principles for new high speed lines and trains
• Mixed traffic operations
• The central control room
• Environmental aspects of high speed rail; energy aspects.
• Standards (basic issues)

Module IV: Traffic Forecasting

• Traffic forecasting
• Seasonality
• Impacts on business cases

Module V: The Market and Customers

• Traffic forecasting; modeling; results
• Impact of a high speed project on mobility
• Experiences of high speed rail in revenue service
• Stations: importance, location and functionality (basic).

Module V: Standards

• Standards for high speed systems
• Necessity
• Different types of standards
• Specificity for high speed standards

Module VI: Economic, Financial and Managerial Considerations

• Funding methods and ways and means of designing a high speed rail project
• Financing
• Managerial aspects of high speed rail companies
• Research

Module VI: Financing

• Business conception of high speed projects
• Financing

Case History Studies:

• A hypothetic case on location of high speed stations
• A hypothetic business case of US HSR project