ERTMS at RailTech

Today, industry leaders gathered at RailTech Belgium 2025 to discuss the most pressing challenges, burning questions and opportunities in the rail sector.

🚆 Breaking Barriers in Rail: UNIFE’s Perspective
🟢 Today, Enno Wiebe, UNIFE Director General, joined George Gilkinet, Former Belgian Deputy PM & Mobility Minister, and Carole Coune, AERRL Secretary General, to discuss what’s holding rail back from reaching its full potential.
UNIFE’s DG highlighted key challenges from the suppliers' perspective, including fragmentation in requirements and project implementation, as well as complexity in technical solutions, regulations, and migration from legacy systems.

🔹 Solutions? Policymakers and industry must:
✅ Address the cost drivers of ETCS with harmonised requirements
✅ Accelerate FRMCS rollout with stronger EU coordination
✅ Ensure reliable national & European financing

🚆 ERTMS Rollout: Accelerating Without Disrupting Operations
🟠At today’s 'Navigating the ERTMS Challenge' panel, Klaus Mindel, UNIFE’s UNISIG General Manager, joined industry leaders to discuss how to accelerate ERTMS deployment while ensuring cost-efficiency and standardisation across Europe.

🔹 Key takeaways from Klaus Mindel:
✅ Suppliers play a dual role – developing solutions that comply with standards while shaping cost-efficient, harmonised requirements.
✅ Standardisation is crucial – reducing national customisation cuts costs and complexity.
✅ Quicker Class B decommissioning will lower ETCS integration costs.
✅ Network-wide ERTMS implementation is more efficient than fragmented small-scale projects.

🚅 A harmonised and well-funded ERTMS rollout is key to Europe’s rail future!

👉 Head here to relive the panel highlights: https://lnkd.in/dfEHdmhA