2016-11-01
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In September, technical staff of the Brazilian Ground Transportation Agency (Agência Nacional de Transportes Terrestres – ANTT) participated in InnoTrans 2016, the largest rail technology fair in the world, organised in Berlin, Germany.
Also attending the event were Yoshihiro Lima Nemoto, Regulatory Policy and Market Relations Manager, and Daniel Alfredo Alves Miguel, Regulatory Specialist. “We held discussions with other international regulatory agencies to exchange information on the rail sector”, reported Mr Nemoto.
ANTT participated in discussion groups with representatives of rail transport regulatory agencies from Switzerland, Australia, Japan, the United States, Saudi Arabia and the EU.
The mission was conducted under the aegis of the 8th Call of the EU-Brazil Sector Dialogues Support Facility and included a bilateral meeting with the ERA – the European rail transport regulatory authority. According to Mr Nemoto, presentation of the current Brazilian rail transport system allowed for approximation and alignment between the European authority and ANTT, raising the very real prospect for future progress on a number of fronts.
“A technical visit was also conducted to the Berlin rail transport system. In addition, we toured the rail car maintenance yard and port in Hamburg”, says Mr Nemoto. The Brazilian representatives were accompanied by technical personnel of Deutshe Bahn (DB) – a German group consisting of several companies actively engaged in the mobility and logistics segments in more than 130 countries.
“The mission fostered discussions on railway safety and interoperability with rail transportation operators in different countries – critical issues to improve the regulatory framework and rail enforcement and oversight activities in Brazil. We learned more about how other agencies address these issues and the specific challenges they face”, says Mr Nemoto.
Mission to Germany
In August, Alexandre Muñoz Lopes de Oliveira, Juliano de Barros Samor and Ismael Souza Silva, Regulatory Specialists at ANTT, took part in a mission to Europe. On their official tour, they travelled to Berlin, Bonn and Frankfurt, Germany, where they collected information on the structure and size of the country’s rail transport system.
“The importance of the mission centred on the opportunity to observe first-hand the operational model and regulatory framework applied in Germany to the passenger rail transport system”, says Mr Nemoto. The objective of the action, according to him, was to gather information for ANTT capable of contributing to the development of a proposed regulatory framework for the Brazilian passenger rail transport, which is currently under analysis by ANTT and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Federal de Santa Catarina – UFSC).
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