OREANDA-NEWS. April 26, 2011. The conference "Innovative Development and Protection of Intellectual Property: The Global Context and National Priorities" was held in Moscow as part of the Russian Business Week, reported the press-centre of Russian Railways.

In attendance were representatives from executive authorities, public organisations and the business community.

Senior Vice-President at Russian Railways Valentin Gapanovich addressed the conference and spoke about the implementation of the "Innovative Development Programme" at Russian Railways, which has been approved by the Company’s Board of Directors.

The programme provides for the implementation of the main areas for innovative development and contains a series of measures aimed at developing and introducing new technologies, innovative products and services up to international standards.

At the same time, the technologies used in the programme are stimulating the innovative development of key Russian industries.

Scientific and technological development at Russian Railways is based on the latest global advances and trends and the use of intellectual property.

As witnessed by a number of leading world experts, Russian Railways has major priorities and a global leadership in a number of areas, including:

technologies for using liquefied natural gas as locomotive fuel,

self-repairing and maintenance systems for high-speed trains with energy-saving features,

technologies for managing large-scale combined transport processes across large areas,

satellite technology for monitoring the condition of infrastructure and organising maintenance and repair work.

But the Company boasts a high technical level in a number of other areas as well, such as fibre-optic communications systems, the hardware and software systems used computer and server centres, microprocessor systems of electrical signalling and automatic locking systems.