Membership in Organisations

VÚKV a.s has been involved in activities of many professional associations, advisory and project teams, including but not limited to:

• ACRI (Association of Czech Railway Industry, www.acri.cz),
   
• UNIFE (Association of the European Rail Industry, www.unife.org),
   
• SD (Transport Union of the Czech Republic, www.svazdopravy.cz),
   
• SDP ČR (Association of Transport Providers of the Czech Republic, www.sdp-cr.cz),
   
• VCKV (Research Centre of Railway Rolling Stock, www.vckv.zcu.cz),
   
• Legal Entity Interest Group, Railway Infrastructure Interoperability, 
   
• Czech Technological Platform for Mechanical Engineering, o.s.,
   
• IFV BAHNTECHNIK e.V., www.ifv-bahntechnik.de)

Issues of European standardisation in the area of railway applications are settled by the Technical Committee CEN/TC 256, part of the CEN (European Committee for Standardization,www.cen.eu) seated in Brussels, Belgium.

Experts of the VÚKV a.s. contribute to activities of the following working groups:

• CEN/TC 256/WG2
  • Structural requirements
     
• CEN/TC 256/WG10
  • Vehicle/Track Interaction
     
• CEN/TC 256/SC 3/WG 25
  • Terminology, calculations, homologation procedures
     
• CEN/TC 256/WG32
  • Vehicle gauge

The principal task of the representatives of the VÚKV a.s. in these working groups is mainly co-participation in revisions of standards, comment assessment, and discussions about experience in application of the standard requirements in practice.

VÚKV a.s. has also cooperated with the Czech Institute for Standardisation (ČNI,www.cni.cz). This cooperation is focused on providing expertise to the ČNI about the railway transport sector and, very importantly, also assistance with translations and proofreading of translations of European standards to the Czech language.