Archives: Agenda

• Latest innovations in rolling-stock fire safety; from advanced fire-resistant materials and early-warning sensors to predictive analytics, battery-fire management, and next-generation suppression systems. 

• Addressing how digitalization, AI diagnostics, and modern engineering are shifting fire protection from a reactive obligation to a proactive, data-driven discipline 

• Highlighting how these developments align with current and emerging regulatory requirements, ensuring that safety strategies remain compliant and future ready. 

• “Fire Safety 4.0”; A forward- looking view of what it means for operators, manufacturers, and engineers as new risks emerge, and standards continue to evolve 

• Outline of lessons in rail fire safety from unlikely sources; ranging from the natural world to worlds beyond the stars 

• A challenge proffered to think creatively about future developments within fire safety; from materials and design to procedures and behaviours 

• Latest developments
• Key advantages for OEMs and operators
• References
• Certifications
• Outlook

• Specific requirements for high-speed trains 

• New approach with thermal activated nozzle heads 

• Advantages of the new approach 

• Challenges of creating/developing such new approaches 

Roundtable 1: Having it All: Sustainability, Resilience and Safely 

Elena Romanova, Global Business Manager – Land Transportation, Scott Bader

Roundtable 2 : Designing for Yesterday’s Fire? Rethinking Rail Station Fire Dynamics.

• Exploration of how modern trains behave in fire scenarios and how to ensure our design assumptions keep pace. 

• Are current fire size assumptions still valid for modern rolling stock? 

• What testing and research are being done today in the rolling stock industry to determine the fire behaviour of modern trains? 

• What is needed to formalise updated testing and feed it into standards and best practice in the fire industry? 

Lauren Teague, Fire Engineer, Mott Macdonald

Alice Pike, Fire Engineer, Mott Macdonald

• What are the constraints preventing effective maintenance?
• Maintenance stakeholders and their perspectives
• The hierarchy of maintenance
• Do we really know if our maintenance strategy is effective?
• What does a “Young Engineer” need to know?