{"id":66906,"date":"2016-01-27T12:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=97ed830b959f6f497cbc2d755a869b0a"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:16:15","slug":"press-release-mcnaughton-appointed-chair-of-uic-inter-city-and-high-speed-rail-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66906","title":{"rendered":"Press release: McNaughton appointed Chair of UIC inter-city and high speed rail forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Prof McNaughton\u2019s appointment is recognition of his expertise in the world of high speed rail and marks a first for the UIC in that Prof McNaughton is the first Briton to hold the post.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"welcoming-his-appointment-prof-mcnaughton-said\">Welcoming his appointment Prof McNaughton said:<\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019m delighted and honoured to be appointed Chair for the UIC inter-city and high speed rail forum, which is where the world\u2019s high speed rail experts meet to exchange best practice and develop new advances.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The forum covers all aspects high speed rail from technical and environmental to economic and city development.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">My election underlines that HS2 is seen as having used knowledge gained from around the world and is now playing its full part in advancing it, the better to unlock all the potential economic and travel benefits of investing in this mode.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>HS2 Ltd\u2019s role in designing the UK\u2019s new high speed rail network has pushed forward the sector\u2019s understanding in a number of areas including integration of high speed rail with urban development and regeneration; environmental assessment and mitigation measures; and in the area of technical advancement delivering high reliability on what will be an intensively used high speed railway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_2357\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press and media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">For enquiries during office working hours, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 6149\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">For enquiries outside of these hours and at the weekend<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 0550\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"comments\">The press and media enquiries line is for accredited journalists only<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HS2 Ltd Technical Director Prof Andrew McNaughton has been appointed Chair of the Paris-based International Railways Union (UIC) inter-city and high speed rail forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}