The International Rail Forum was held on 21 March 2017 as the substantial part of the conference IRFC 2017, and was released under the slogan “RAILWAY IN THE CROSSROADS OF TIMES — VISIONS AND CHALLENGES”. This fruitful event, where the leaders of the railway industry had opportunity to discuss the problems and find solutions towards the apprised obstacles, was professionally moderated by Ms. Pavlína Kvapilová. A big thank you for the excellent performance belongs not only to her but also to all the speakers of the forum – top representatives of the European Commission (Maroš Šefčovič – video message, Matthew Baldwin), international organisations UIC, CER and UNIFE (Jean-Pierre Loubinoux, Libor Lochman, Miroslav Fukan), ERA (Josef Doppelbauer), Shift2Rail JU (Carlo Borghini) and the Ministries of transport (Joe Mizzi, the Minister, Malta, Tomáš Čoček, Deputy Minister, Czech Republic).
