Libor Lochman

Libor Lochman, born in 1963 in Czechoslovakia, graduated at the Transport University in Zilina, doctorate in electronics at the West-Bohemian University Plzen. His background is Control-Command and signalling systems.

He worked as signalling specialist in Railway Research Institute in Prague for 7 years, being responsible for functional specification of interlocking and level crossing systems. Between 1994 and 1997 he was acting as signalling system specialist at the headquarter of Czech Railways, he launched there a cooperation with European Rail Research Institute Utrecht in the field of interlockings and ETCS. Afterwards he was a member of EuroInterlocking team in Zurich. From 2000 appointed as a manager of Railway Test Centre in Prague - a facility for testing rolling stock, infrastructure and signalling components. He launched the activity needed to obtain a Notified Body status of the company.

Since 2006 he works for Community of Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) in Brussels as coordinator of Safety, Interoperability and ERTMS activities related to Working Groups of European Railway Agency (ERA), CER Speaker at the ERA Working Party for Control-Command and Signalling.

He has been also acting as the Coordinator of Environmental issues, studies, Noise Directive (including noise abatement measures in rail system), revision of Non-road mobile machinery Directive and a contact for research activities.

In 2007 appointed as the CER deputy director.