OREANDA-NEWS. February 17, 2011. Russian Railways is to hold the first international forum "Transportation Science: Innovative Solutions for Business" on 22-23 March 2011 in Moscow, which is being organised by Business Dialogue with Russian Railways support, reported the press-centre of RZD.

The main task of this scientific forum is to create the conditions for effective communication between the leaders in the rail business and representatives of the scientific and expert communities from different countries. As a result, they will be able to work together to identify priority areas for the development of scientific work.

Among the issues on the forum’s agenda are global trends in innovative solutions for rail transport, the priorities for innovation, green transport, the environmental factors in competition on the transport market and improving energy efficiency.

Invited to the forum are officials of legislative and executive authorities in the Russian Federation and heads of railway businesses, while the scientific community will be represented by the state company Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (Rusnano), the All-Russian Scientific and Research Institute for Rail Transport (VNIIZhT), the Graduate Business School of Transportation at the Moscow State Transport University, the Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Moscow State Technical University named after N.E. Bauman (MSTU), the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Germany, the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) and others.

The forum will also bring together representatives from the CIS and Baltic countries, Germany, Finland, Britain and others.