UIC World Congress on High Speed Rail （UIC世界大会在高速铁路）.pdfVIP

Welcome Message Since 1964, when Japan opened the world’s first high speed rail (HSR), the Shinkansen, many different countries and regions worldwide have opened and developed their own HSR. 15 billion passengers have travelled on HSR at global level –twice the world’s population- for the past half century. Nowadays there are nearly 23,000 km of dedicated HSR lines operating in the world. In 20 years, this figure will double. It is our greatest honour and pleasure to announce that the UIC World Congress on High Speed Rail (WCHSR), the largest international congress and exhibition devoted to HSR in the world, which has been initiated by UIC and gathered 1,000 to 2,000 HSR professionals once every few years since 1992, will finally come back to the birth place of HSR, Tokyo, Japan. The 9th edition of UIC WCHSR in Tokyo will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for all HSR professionals including decision makers, authorities, railway industry, railway undertakings, infrastructure managers, research institutes, universities and others to review the past half century and to envision the next half century of HSR worldwide. The congress theme is “Celebrate the past, Design the future”. Therefore, unlike past Congresses, the 9th UIC WCHSR will introduce the “50-50 concept” which will create a temporal dynamism throughout the Congress. That is, the first half of the Congress will focus on challenges already raised and the lessons drawn from experience over the past 50 years, and the last half will focus on the new challenges to face, the future plans and new technologies over the next 50 years. In addition to the above-mentioned temporal “50-50 concept”, the Congress will introduce the concept to the topics to be presented and discussed. That is, half of the topic