Monika Heiming
Executive Director
ERTMS 2026 Conference - Speaker
ERTMS implementation - business case for Infrastructure Managers
"For infrastructure managers, the business case for ERTMS is not only about the initial investment. It is also about reducing the long-term costs created by fragmentation and non-standardisation in the rail system. However, the benefits of ERTMS depend heavily on stable specifications and coordinated implementation. Without a predictable deployment framework, costs increase, and the efficiency gains are harder to realise. What infrastructure managers need is therefore a clear and stable implementation plan, allowing the sector to move toward a more standardised and cost-efficient European rail system."
Biography
Monika Heiming has been Executive Director of EIM since October 2011. Monika has been active in Brussels as a lobbyist and manager of international associations and groupings for a number of years. Mrs Heiming, a German citizen, studied languages at the University of Cologne, and holds a Master’s degree in European Management from the University Faculties in Brussels and an Executive MBA from the Belgian Solvay Business School. Among her previous experiences, she has helped develop the association UNIFE in Brussels from 1993 to 1997. She also managed and marketed the engineering activities of European engineering group Europengineers EEIG from 1999 to 2004, before being made Secretary-General of ERFA in January 2005.