Committee on Transport and Tourism Ordinary meeting HEARING Public hearing on Hyperloop and Rail: What regulatory approach to enable innovation in mass transit
4 November 2026
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TRAN European Parliament
Follow its sittings00:11 - 04:19
Speaker 1
Dear colleagues, please, your attention, please. If you know our colleagues that are missing the room, maybe you can invite them, because we have the invited speakers here, and we are waiting for them. If you know some colleagues that are coming, just to speed up, please. Okay colleagues, let's move on to our point, this point, which is the public hearing of hyperloop and rail, regulatory approach to enable innovation in mass transit. In response to uneven development of a high-speed rail network across the Union and the need to further develop European connectivity, including through multimodal mobility network and its alignment with the TEN-T, the TRAN Committee decided to hold the public hearing on rail and hyperloop.
The purpose of the hearing is to assess possibilities for further development of the existing rail network and potential implications of hyperloop and or other emerging transport technologies for European transport infrastructure. It also aims to determine what regulatory approaches are needed to foster innovation in connectivity, ensure safety, interoperability and public benefit in mass transit systems. It is my pleasure to warmly welcome our speakers: Mr Enno Wiebe, Director General of UNIFE; Mr Christophe Chéron, director for Interoperability and Research of SNCF Group and member of the Governing Board of Europe's Rail JU; Mr Dieter-Michael Grohly, he will be he will join us later remotely via Interactio;
Monsieur Gabriele Semino, CEO, managing director of Nevomo Ways; and Mr Tim Houter, co-founder of Hardt Hyperloop and former team captain Delft Hyperloop.
Let me say a few words about the format of the hearing. We will have two panels of three and two speakers respectively. Each speaker will have 7 to 8 minutes for his presentation and each panel will be followed by a question and answer session between TRAN members and the speakers. I would invite our speakers to respect the time limit for their presentation and I ask our members to be concise in their questions, maximum two minutes per member. Let's start the first panel on rail, enhancing competitiveness and future development.
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