ILCAD news

17 December 2020
New appointment: Mr Ali Chegini, Director of System Safety and Health at RSSB, has been appointed Chair of the UIC (...)
We are pleased to announce that Mr Ali Chegini, Director of System Safety and Health at RSSB, has been appointed Chair of the UIC Safety Platform for a two-year mandate from January 2021. Mr Chegini currently leads (...)
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14 December 2020
Coyote deploys its new “level crossing” alert in partnership with SNCF Réseau
With the ambition of providing increasingly relevant real-time information on road dangers to its community of 5 million members, COYOTE announced the deployment of its new “Level Crossing” alert, developed in (...)
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11 December 2020
November-December 2020: new edition of the INFRABEL level crossing safety awareness campaign for truck drivers in (...)
There were 45 accidents at level crossings in Belgium in 2019. 17 of them, accounting for more than one third of the total number, occurred at a level crossing in a port area. Unfortunately, this represents an (...)
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10 December 2020
Award for Infrabel level crossing safety awareness video at the Cannes Corporate & TV Awards (...)
November 2020: Award for Infrabel level crossing safety awareness video at the Cannes Corporate & TV Awards 2020 The Cannes festival awards the best corporate online films, documentaries and TV programmes. “For our (...)
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2 December 2020
Great success of the first UIC “Middle East” webinar on “Railway safety & level crossings” held remotely on 30 (...)
Mr Jerzy Wisniewski, UIC Director Fundamental Values and Coordinator of the UIC Region “Middle East”, opened the session on behalf of Mr François Davenne, UIC Director General, and welcomed all participants. He said (...)
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1 December 2020
24th plenary meeting of the European Level Crossing Forum (ELCF)
On 20 November 2020, the 24th plenary meeting of ELCF (European Level Crossing Forum), one of the working groups of the UIC Safety Platform, was held remotely. Mr Allan Spence, Network Rail and ELCF Chair, welcomed (...)
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30 November 2020
Safety Platform plenary meeting held remotely on 17 November 2020
Rolf Härdi (DB AG), Chair of the UIC Safety Platform, welcomed all participants, including those from the USA and Iran for the first time, and introduced Frédéric Hénon, UIC Head of Operations & Safety since July 2020 (...)
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23 November 2020
UIC HQ and the UIC Middle East Region are pleased to announce the first webinar on railway safety and level (...)
The webinar will be opened by Mr Jerzy Wisniewski, UIC Director of Fundamental Values and Coordinator of the Middle Region, on behalf of Mr François Davenne, UIC Director General. This will be followed by an address (...)
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5 October 2020
IRSC 2020 Webinar Series
The IRSC provides a forum that brings together rail safety professionals from around the globe for an in-depth exchange of new perspectives, experience and lessons learnt about railway improvements exclusively (...)
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23 September 2020
Rail Safety Week 2020
Operation Lifesaver Canada https://www.operationlifesaver.ca Opération Gareautrain in French https://www.operationgareautrain.ca/accueil launched their Rail Safety Week (Monday, 21 September to Sunday, 27 (...)
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15 September 2020
Rail Safety Week (10 – 16 August 2020) success in New Zealand, despite challenges
New Zealand's Rail Safety Week turned out to be ‘Rail Safety Two Days' after Covid-19 re-emerged in the community, causing the cancellation of some major events. The week got off to a good start with an official (...)
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2 September 2020
Rail Safety week in the USA, Canada and Mexico
The goal of Rail Safety Week (RSW) is to raise awareness of the need for rail safety education and empower the general public to keep themselves safe near highway-rail grade crossings and railroad rights-of-way. (...)
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30 June 2020
UIC Safety Platform held remotely on 25 June 2020
Mr. Rolf Härdi, Vorstandsressort Digitalisierung & Technik Strategie, Innovation & neue Technologien at DB AG and also UIC Safety Platform Chairman welcomed over 30 participants and in particular new members: Mr. (...)
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16 June 2020
12th International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) held on 11 June 2020 via web-conference
130 participants on average online (180 registered) from 40 countries from all around the world (Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, South Korea, Middle East, Africa, USA, Central and South America). (...)
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9 June 2020
ILCAD, Save the date!
Due to the worldwide Covid-19 outbreak, the launch conference of ILCAD (International Level Crossing Awareness Day) was postponed to 2021. Nevertheless, we have decided to stick to the fixed date, 11 June 2020 to (...)
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9 June 2020
Finance Platform held on 4 June 2020 at UIC HQ
The annual UIC Finance Platform took place on 4 June 2020. The vocation of the Finance Platform is to address cross-sector, financial matters on behalf of European active members, in particular: Repayment of (...)
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2 June 2020
Eight days to go to ILCAD!
Due to the worldwide Covid-19 outbreak, the launch conference of ILCAD (International Level Crossing Awareness Day) was postponed to 2021. Nevertheless, we have decided to stick on the fixed date, 11 June 2020 to (...)
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12 May 2020
ILCAD (International Level Crossing Awareness Day) physical launch conference 2020 postponed to (...)
Register here for the web-conference: https://uic.org/events/webconference-12th-ilcad-campaign-11-june-2020 Due to the worldwide Covid-19 outbreak, the launch conference of ILCAD (International Level Crossing (...)
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28 April 2020
European project SAFER-LC (Safer level crossing by integrating and optimising road-rail infrastructure management (...)
The European research project SAFER-LC (Safer level crossing by integrating and optimising road-rail infrastructure management and design) is coming to an end after three years of hard work and held its Final (...)
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10 March 2020
Invitation: ILCAD Launch Conference to be held on 11 June 2020 in York, United Kingdom
We are pleased to invite you to 12th edition of The International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) hosted by Britain's railway infrastructure manager Network Rail, on Thursday 11 June 2020 at the National (...)
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26 November 2019
22nd European Level Crossing Forum (ELCF) Plenary meeting and ILCAD Task Force meeting held on 21 November (...)
Almost 30 participants from 11 different countries Allan Spence, Network Rail (ELCF Chairman) warmly thanked our hosts, the Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and welcomed all participants. The (...)
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24 September 2019
Save the date for the 12th International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) to be held on 11 June 2020 in York, (...)
We are most happy to announce that Britain's railway infrastructure manager, Network Rail, will host the launch conference of the 12th edition of ILCAD on 11 June 2020, at the National Railway Museum in York. The (...)
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2 July 2019
UIC Safety Platform Steering Group meeting held on 26 June 2019 at DB AG in Berlin
Rolf Härdi, UIC Safety Platform Chairman welcomed all participants in Berlin. Bart Hoogcarspel, ProRail; Rikie Eloot, Infrabel; Masayoshi Toyohara, JR East and Alexander Ivanenko, RZD presented some safety events (...)
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11 June 2019
Successful ILCAD Launch Conference as part of the 11th edition of the International Level Crossing Awareness Day on (...)
On 6 June, UIC, together with ProRail and 180 guests, joined efforts around the 11th edition of the International Level Crossing Awareness Day. After Brussels, Warsaw, Paris, Geneva, Lisbon, Istanbul, Riga, Montreal (...)
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4 June 2019
UIC launches the 11th International Level Crossing Awareness Day (ILCAD) to be held on 6 June 2019 in Amersfoort, (...)
On 6 June, the International Union of Railways (UIC), together with various stakeholders from the rail and road sectors, road safety authorities, academia and international institutions, will gather for the 11th (...)
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14 May 2019
11th edition of ILCAD “International Level Crossing Awareness Day” on 6 June 2019 in Amersfoort, (...)
On 6 June, the International Union of Railways (UIC) together with various stakeholders from the rail and the road sectors, road safety authorities, academics and international institutions will join efforts around (...)
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2 April 2019
21st European Level Crossing Forum (ELCF) Plenary Meeting held on 26 March 2019 in Paris
The meeting was attended by 46 people from 16 different countries including USA and Australia as well as 15 speakers following the UIC Workshop on “Trespassing and suicide prevention” held on 25 March. Jeroen (...)
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15 January 2019
2016 ILCAD video nominated at the first African Forum for Road Safety held from 13 – 15 November 2018 in (...)
The African Forum for Road Safety is supported by the Laser International Foundation and is a key event for the future of road safety on the continent. Following on from the 2017 Global Road Safety Film Festival - (...)
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16 October 2018
20th European Level Crossing Forum (ELCF) Plenary meeting ILCAD Task Force meeting held on 9 October 2018 at the (...)
Jeroen Nederlof, Level Crossing Manager at ProRail, Netherlands and ELCF Chairman together with Isabelle Fonverne, Senior Advisor, Safety at UIC welcomed all participants (see photos). They warmly thanked FFE for (...)
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