Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Session 1 – Ropeway developments in urban and tourist areas
 

9:00 am    
Opening 
Jörg Schröttner (President OITAF)

9:15 am    
Greetings

9:30 am    
The transport capacity of a cable car system in public transportation
Klaus Erharter (Technical Director Leitner AG), Paul Abed (Director of Mexitelefericos S.A. de C.V.)

10:00 am    
Burnaby Mountain Gondola/Vancouver: making the rapid transit connection
Holly Foxcroft (Lead Planner TransLink)

10:20 am    
Toulouse’s cable car: focus on best practice 2 years after commissioning 
Patrick Vial (Project Director of Teleo; now Project Manager of the future third metro line in Toulouse), Fabien Abinal (CEO of the consulting organization ERIC)

10:40 am    
Discussion

11:00 am    
Coffee break

11:25 am    
Brest, the 1st urban ropeway in France            
Victor Antonio (Mobilities Director)

11:45 am    
Transit planning in a context of inequality: the case of Mexico City’s Cablebús Network – 10 million people each day
Andrés Lajous (Mobility Secretary, CDMX)

12:10 pm
Discussion

12:30 pm
Lunch break
 

Session 2 – Ropeway operation

2:00 pm    
Get the best out of your ropes 
Sven Winter (CEO ROTEC GmbH, President OITAF Study Committee II)

2:20 pm
Digital customer trainings: know-how anywhere and anytime   
Philip Oberdorfer (Digital Services Customer Support Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH)

2:40 pm    
Operations and maintenance (O&M): a successful long-term approach in managing clients’ assets
Javier Rosales (Operation and Maintenance Manager Doha, Qatar Doppelmayr Cable Car GmbH)

3:00 pm
Opportunities and dangers of digitalization  
Marco Zgraggen (CEO Sisag)

3:20 pm
Discussion

3:40 pm
Coffee break

4:00 pm
Operation and maintenance of a multi-brand cable car 
Diego Scofano (Technical Director Grupo Iter – Rio de Janeiro)

4:20 pm    
LIFE ropeway, the innovative approach to increase the sustainability of ropeways and their operation throughout their entire lifecycle 
Michael Fauche (New Market & Strategy Director Poma)

4:40 pm
Great place to work talent journey
Benny Pregenzer (CEO Fisser Bergbahnen GmbH)

5:00 pm
Ropeways – a leader in safe accessible transportation 
John Kamb (Ropeway Engineer, US Forest Service)

5:20 pm
Metrocable Line K – Keys to keeping the first urban cable car in operation after 20 years, 135,000 hours and 260 million passengers mobilized 
Jorge Alberto Ramos Lopez (Ropeways Manager, Metro de Medellín)

5:40 pm
E-mobility at the +1 level in public transport
Dominik Berndt (CEO and initiator Cable Car World GmbH)

5:50 pm
Discussion

6:10 pm
Close

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Dinner

Wednesday, June 19

Session 3 – Ropeway technology, new developments
 

9:00 am    
Proposal for a tool to help verify the safety level of monocable aerial ropeways 
Gaetan Rioult (Chief Engineer; Head of Department for Ropeway Installations STRMTG France; President OITAF Study Committee I)

9:25 am    
Autonomous mobility with ropeways – the next generation of modern transportation 
Michael Mathis (Head of Technical Division Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH), Martin Oberhammer (CEO Silvretta Montafon Holding GmbH)

9:55 am    
Weather challenges in ropeway operations & maintenance 
Tom Scully (Risk Control Consultant; President OITAF-NACS)

10:15 am    
Discussion

10:35 am    
Coffee break

11:00 am    
Fire risk under ropeways: a new approach to fly-over difficulties 
Thibault Chatelus (Ropeway Engineer at STRMTG/French supervisory authority)

11:20 am    
The intermodal transport system ConnX 
Günther Tschinkel (Head of electrical department Leitner AG)

11:45 am 
Cybersafety in the sky: unveiling the crucial link between ropeway safety and cybersecurity 
Giorgio Pizzi (Italian Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport – Director of Ropeways, Local Railways and Digitization of Local Public Transport)

12:10 pm    
Discussion

12:30 pm    
Lunch break

Session 4 – Dimensions of sustainability 
 

2:00 pm    
The transformation of the funicular system since 1888: the Peak Tram 
Samuel Lee (Director of Engineering Peak Tramways Company Limited, Hong Kong)

2:15 pm    
Adaptation strategies of ropeway companies in Switzerland due to climate change 
Berno Stoffel (Director Swiss Cable Car Association), Benedicta Aregger (Vice Direktor Swiss Cable Car Association)

2:35 pm    
Development and optimization of snowmaking systems for better resource management 
Franco Torretta (Technical Director Monterosa ski resort in Italy; President of the Italian National Association of Ropeway Technicians A.N.I.T.I.F.)

2:55 pm    
Empirical data on technical snowmaking: greener and more sustainable than assumed
Günther Aigner (CEO Zukunft Skisport)

3:15 pm    
Energy storage system for ropeways 
Stefan Gassmann (Head of Sales Frey AG)

3:30 pm    
Coffee break

3:55 pm    
Tourist sites and the environment 
Gunther Suette (President OITAF Study Committee VII)

4:15 pm    
New strategy for ski resorts: public transport as the future essential service
Sophia Oberjakober (CEO Mobilitätskonsortium), Andreas Dorfmann (President Mobilitätskonsortium; CEO Kronplatz Group)

4:35 pm    
The new generation of bicable ropeways, the economic link between monocable and 3S 
Dominic Bosio (Leitner AG)

4:55 pm    
Discussion

5:15 pm    
Organizational issues for the program of visits

5:25 pm    
Presentation of Grouse Mountain Resort 

5:50 pm    
Closing words

6:00 pm    
Close

8:00 – 12:00 pm        
Gala dinner