Ashley LANGFORD

Biographical note

Mr. Ashley Langford, as Senior Director Sales and Business Development for Canada, Ansaldo STS, is responsible for sales and business development for the turnkey railway systems and train control business activities in Canada. Ashley’s career has been in public transportation, with more than 25 years of both public and private sector leadership experience. In the private sector Ashley has led sales and project teams for both Capital and O&M for Rail and Transit Projects (PPP) projects in North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Ashley’s extensive public sector experience includes working for the Government of Ontario, where he was a Vice President for Project Assessment and Initiation, Infrastructure Ontario. In this position Ashley led the development of the initial project list, defining the financing and funding requirements for the projects including project construction timelines, construction periods, and price estimation for the $17 billion “Move 2020” transportation program.

Ansaldo is a world leader in Transportation Turnkey/PPP/Design Build projects with references around the world. Hitachi is one of the most diversified companies in the world, major areas of expertise include Information & Telecommunications, Social Infrastructure, Financial Services, Power Systems, Electronic Systems & Equipment, Automotive Systems, Railway & Urban Systems, Digital Media & Consumer Products, and Construction Machinery. Hitachi employs over 330,000 people around the world.

Presentation: Driveless unattended metro: the answer to the current and future needs of urban mobility

Within the urban public transport sector, the significant increases in: transport demand; passengers requirements in terms of service comfort; drive for operating efficiency and punctuality; and the restricted budgets of regional and local Authorities to operate mass transit rail systems oblige Transportation Authorities and rail transit Operators to choose transportation systems offering very high-quality, high frequency, attractive and reliable service to be a real alternative to compete with private cars and to find innovative technology to reduce operating costs. As staff represents a significant part of the costs of running a passenger rail system, Unattended Transportation Systems provides an opportunity to improve both service and economic efficiency. Since they are unattended and require a very small staff for operation, the service frequency can be kept at an acceptable level.