Nordic Light Rail Association

Heidi Heikkilä, Finland is the new chairperson of the NLRA - New working group to join--Welcome!

New working groups do welcome participants from the light rail sector

Ice on catenary is to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 26 and via Zoom.

Predictive maintenance will take place in Turku, Finland on March 6 and via Zoom.

To participate, please contact the Secretary General, Thomas Lange, at nlra@marknadslank.se

Become a member: nlra.dk/become-a-member

 

The Board
Heidi Heikkilä, Finland (Chairman)
Tom Potter, Norway (Vice Chairman)
Stephan Marstrander, Germany
Michael Borre, Denmark
Bernd Reuß, Denmark
Thomas Lange, Sweden (Secretary General)

 

Hello from the new chairperson
I am and have long been a big fan of international collaboration. I think that possibilities for learning and innovating are greater together. Especially here in Nordics, where it sometimes feels quite dark and lonely, being slightly aside of all the buzz in a world. My career in rolling stock world and public transportation is as mature as NLRA, I started in HKL late 2020. Before that I had a chance to learn all the principles of reliability, availability, maintainability, safety and asset management in other, but not so different industry, aviation. In aviation also my love for international collaboration and influencing was born, as I was participating in legislation improvements and international guidance in International Air Transport Association (IATA) working groups. That knowledge and enthusiastic I have wanted to bring to NLRA, where I have been acting as a board member since 2022. As a new chairperson I wish to continue the work started with Bernd and other active members in NLRA working groups and board to unify the industry, to learn from eachother and to make the Nordic voice heard vider in the world.

Heidi Heikkilä
Kaupunkiliikenne – Stadstrafik – City Transport – Helsinki

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