Transport committee  You have hit the nail on the head. The more stops there are, the more time the train needs to slow down and accelerate, and the longer the trip will take. We have to minimize the number of stops if we want to minimize travel time. When Bombardier and its partners prepared the p

Transport committee  I don’t remember if I had the time to get to the part about incremental speed technology. Yes, we now have the technology that uses existing infrastructures, but we have to limit the speed to 200 km/h, which is not insignificant. With those speeds and with a well-coordinated syst

Transport committee  We produce thousands of FRA-compliant EMUs—

Transport committee  —but DMUs, no.

Transport committee  No, for the past two years they've created.... The Transit Rail Advisory Committee for Safety has been there for a long time. They've created an engineering task force for the past two years. We've been looking, along with the FRA, at what really happens if you mix and match Eu

Transport committee  When you're demonstrating that there is no possibility of both types of equipment operating at the same.... During the temporary separation portion of the day, the regular rules don't apply. Since there is no possibility of the trains meeting, that doesn't cause a problem. One

Transport committee  No.

Transport committee  So a low-hanging fruit would be to look at what the FRA has been doing and adapt Canadian regulations in a similar way.

Transport committee  In the case of the O-Train, OC Transpo and Bombardier had to demonstrate to Transport Canada that we had the technology and the processes in place to make sure that there's never any possibility of both types of trains being on the segment of railroad that's concerned here at the

Transport committee  It's not a regulatory obstacle, but there is some risk. What do I have to demonstrate? I'll be sitting in front of a Transport Canada person. How much is he going to require? Some kind of definition—

Transport committee  No, but there's a certain element of commercial risk in the unknown. If there was some kind of regulation—

Transport committee  One of the things I was about to mention, another technology that we can make available.... As Mr. Wolf pointed out, electrification takes time. Electrification of transportation networks takes time. You can't do it overnight, so you have to have some kind of time-based plan, a p

Transport committee  Thank you, Pierre. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Before I get into my prepared remarks, I can't help but point out, in support of Messrs. Binns and Fuller, a beautiful example of temporal separation right here in Ottawa. If you just go up the street to Bayview Station, yo

Transport committee  There have been other examples of high speed rail projects in the United States. In Texas, for example, air carriers managed to find a technicality in the method of financing and they scuttled the project. Some years later, there was the FOX project in Florida. Our team found a w

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Laframboise. To my knowledge, an update of the tripartite study from 1992-1993 is planned, but not a review of the Lynx Project.