Arduin Jean-Pierre

Directeur Expert , Rail Concept

Paris , Industrie Transports Route Air Fer Mer

à propos

Jean-Pierre Arduin is born in 1950. He graduated with a Mining and Civil engineering degree (1973) and from French National School of Statistic and Economy (1975). He immediately joined the French Railways. He was assigned to the New Infrastructures and High-Speed Department in charge of all the studies of high-speed corridors in France and connections to Europe, especially the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. He developed the ridership forecasting models used for rail traffic planning and calculating passenger and freight flows. He has been working as an expert in the economics of High Speed Rail and is still involved in High Speed Rail studies in Europe, Asia, North and South America, Australia. He studied the major rail infrastructure projects in North-America (Quebec City-Toronto, Montreal-New York, the Texas Triangle, San-Francisco-Los Angeles, Los Angeles-Las Vegas and lately Miami-Orlando in Florida). After forty years of experience in the railroad industry, he is internationally well known as a rail expert in transport planning, rail institutional aspects, ridership forecasts rail operating program, project financing, transport infrastructure fees and Public Private Partnership. Today he is an independent expert with the European Commission.