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EC RTD
Sustainable Surface Transport (SST)
Work Programme 2007
EFRTC general meeting
Rome, 01/12/06
EC, DG Research
Unit Surface Transport
Luisa Prista
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FP7 - SP Programme
Cooperation
9 Themes:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Health;
Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Information and Communication Technologies
Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials
and new Production Technologies
Energy
Environment (including Climate Change)
7. Transport (including Aeronautics)
8. Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities;
9. Security
10. Space
… including
Joint Technology Initiatives
ERA-NET
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International Cooperation
4,180 M€
Why Transport as a
FP7 Theme?
 Transport is one of Europe’s strengths
 Air transport: 2.1% EU GDP, 3.1 million jobs
 Surface transport: 11% EU GDP, 16 million jobs
 Transport faces major challenges
 Environment: climate change (CO2), pollution (air, water, soil)-> public health ,
biodiversity
 Energy : 30% of total energy consumption in EU-> 98% dependency on oil
 Enlargement: increase of 25% of land surface and 20% population
 Mobility: people & goods -> accessibility, economic development, cohesive and dynamic
society
 Transport industries: ensure technological competitive advantages and employability
 Transport is relevant on major international agreements and EU policies
 Kyoto …
 EU Transport policy “2001 Transport White Paper”, “2006 Keep Europe moving”
 EU Energy, environment, industry, trade, competition, employment, cohesion, security,
internal market policies
 Research is the key driver
... and Transport has the capacity, culture and
structure for substantial investment in RTD
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FP7 Cooperation Programme
Theme 7 –TRANSPORT
(about 13% of SP budget)
Transport (inc. Aeronautics)
4,180 M€
Aeronautics and air transport
Sustainable Surface Transport (RAIL, road and waterborne)
Support to the European global satellite navigation system
Galileo
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Global Objective:
Integrated European Transport Systems
(exploiting co-modality and interfaces between modes)
Develop greener, smarter and safer Transport Systems
Benefit for citizens and society
Respect the environment and natural resources
Secure and develop the leading role of European industry in
the global market
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Surface Transport
-RAIL,
-Road,
-Waterborne
INTEGRATION IS KEY
OBJECTIVE
Greener-Smarter-Safer Surface Transport
Competitiveness of EU Industry
SYSTEM APPROACH
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What does it mean for the
RAIL
SYSTEM APPROACH?
Customer
Rail
Transport System
Vehicle
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Infrastructure
What does it mean
for RAIL
INTEGRATION ?
Research
Funding Resources
Logistics & Connectivity
Standard & Regulations
Disciplines & Technologies
National & International TS
Knowledge Transfer & Innovation
All Stakeholders, new Partnerships, PPP
Technological Research & Support to Policy
Innovation
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Knowledge
Structure and Content
 A new structure focused on strategic objectives:
Environment, Mobility, Safety and Security, Competiveness
Integrating policy requirements and social changes
 Greater coherence between technologies,
knowledge and policy needs
 Industrial relevance & leadership – input from TPs
 Novelty: incorporation of new research avenues
 Continuity: building on FP6 & results previous FPs
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… towards FP7
build on results and achievements from FP6…
About 1,50 M€ EC funding / Rail RTD
FP6 :Sustainable Surface Transport
MODTRAIN, MODURBAN,
MODBRAKE, EUDDplus, WIDEM
INTEGRAIL, RailEnergy
INNOTRACK, URBANTRACK
SAFEDMI, SAFEINTERIORS,
SAFE-RAIL, SELCAT
CATIEMON, Europac
Sustainable Bridges
CALM II, QCITY, SILENCE
GREEN…
…to new avenues and breakthroughs
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Sustainable Surface Transport
Activities:
In line with EU challenges, policy objectives and the need to
reinforce EU industrial leadership
 Greening of surface transport;
 Encouraging modal shift and decongesting
transport corridors
 Ensuring sustainable urban mobility
 Improving safety and security
 Strengthening competitiveness
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1. Greening of Surface Transport
Approach:
 Problems addressed at the 2
levels- source & impact on
natural environment and
people:
 Air, water and soil pollution
 Climate change, health,
biodiversity, noise and
vibration
 Reduce EU energy
dependency
 Emphasis on technology and
knowledge
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Greening Surface Transport
Research covering:
 Power-train technology: cleanliness (health) and energy –
efficiency, climate change, use of alternative fuels including biofuels and hydrogen
 Infrastructure, vehicles, and component technologies: e.g. light
vehicles and components, etc.
 Overall system optimisation: importance to find the right
compromises e.g. CO2 /particulates – NOx ; mechatronics/weight;
noise emission/perception, etc
 Clean processes: manufacturing (products-services), construction
(infrastructure), maintenance, repair, inspection, recycling, end of
life strategies specific to transport
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2. Encouraging modal shift and
decongesting transport corridors
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Approach:
 Reach higher level of integration
between the different transport
modes and the different national
systems
 Ensure seamless door-to-door
transport of people and goods
 Developing the strength of each
transport mode and exploit comodality
 Support to policy with new
technologies, systems and
demonstration
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Encouraging modal shift and
decongesting transport corridors
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Research covering:
 Technologies for effective intermodality: intelligent systems,
new vehicle/vessel concepts for intermodal transport,
loading/unloading operations
 Interoperability of local, regional, national and European
transport networks and systems
 Infrastructure capacity optimization, terminals and specialized
networks, traffic management and information systems;
freight logistics and passenger intermodality
 Knowledge for policy making: infrastructure pricing and
charging, impact assessment of measures and projects at EU
level
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3.Ensuring sustainable
urban mobility
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Approach:
 Towards “next generation
of urban vehicle” : clean,
energy-efficient, safe and
intelligent
 People and goods
 Ensuring high quality
services and access for all
 Emphasis on development
and testing
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Ensuring sustainable urban mobility
Research covering:
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New mobility concepts and management schemes
High quality public transport
Non polluting modes of transport
System Information and communication
Integrated transport and land-use
4.Improving Safety & Security
 Approach:
 Protect all persons with a degree of
vulnerability respect to transport
activities
 Integrative approaches linking all
different elements intervening in
safety and security
 Safety and security seen as inherent
properties of the transport system
 Emphasis on advanced technologies,
intelligent systems, validation tools
and human aspects
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Improving Safety & Security
Research covering:
 Advanced modelling & engineering, design and risk analysis
methodologies
 Structural integrity: compatibility
 Integrated safety: preventive and mitigating safety systems
 Post crash rescue and crisis management
 Training systems
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5. Strengthening competitiveness
 Approach:
 Global leadership of
transport industry through
innovation; high added value
for products- services
 Create new knowledge based
skills and jobs
 Efficient & affordable
transport services
 Emphasis on supply chain
and knowledge transfer
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Strengthening competitiveness
Research covering:
 Product-service life cycle: design, manufacture, assembly,
construction and maintenance
 New technologies for decreasing LCC and lead times
 Improve transport product-services meeting customers
expectations
 New production organisations incl. supply chain
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Implementation of Transport Theme:
Support to trans-national cooperation
implemented through:
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• Collaborative Research
Collaborative Projects; Networks of Excellence
Coordination / Support Actions
• JTI Joint Technology Innitiatives
• Coordination of Research Programmes
ERA-NET / ERA-NET PLUS
• International Cooperation
Integrated in the projects
Under each theme in an open and flexible
way:
Emerging needs
Unforeseen Policy needs
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Challenges for FP7 for RAIL
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 RTD to contribute to major EU challenges
 Challenge-driven research -->Search for strong impacts
 Continuity, innovative step changes and breakthroughs
 Motivate multidisciplinary stakeholders, and suppliers and operators
 Integration and systemic approach
 Exploiting synergies with different programmes,( eg. Member States)
 Synergies between modes, connectivity and accessibility -> co-modality
 International dimension
 Building on capacities
 Technology Platforms – ERRAC-Rail, ERTRAC – Road, WATERBORNE,
Track-work Construction, MANUFUTURE, STEEL,etc
...Results and impact are a shared responsibility
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FP7 - Opportunities for RAIL:
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4 Specific Programmes (SP):
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Cooperation – Collaborative research
Ideas – Frontier Research
People – Human Potential
Capacities – Research Capacity
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Investigatordriven research
Marie Curie
Actions
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RTD Infras
SMEs
Region Know
Scie.&Socie.
INCO
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Health
Food, Agriculture,
Biotechnology
ICT
Nanosciences,
Nanotechnologie,
Materials and new
Production
Technologies
Energy
Environment
(including Climate
Change)
Transport
Socio-Economic
Sciences and the
Humanities
Security and Space
Success Stories
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FP6
MODURBAN
Integrated Project
1-MODONBOARD
2-MODWAYSIDE
3-MODACCESS
4-MODCOMM
5-MODENERGY
6-MODSYSTEM
35 partners involved
EC Funding: 10.5 M€
Next generation of urban guided Public Transport
Modularity, interchangeability of
key modules for existing and new lines
Design, development and testing
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INNOTRACK
Integrated Project
Innovative Track Systems
 Track support structure, switches and crossings,
rails, and logistics for track maintenance and
renewal, new methodology for Life Cycle Cost
(LCC) calculation and Reliability Availability
Maintainability Safety (RAMS) assessment to be
used by all infrastructure managers across
Europe.
 36 Partners: European Infrastructure Managers
and Infrastructure Supplies and Contractors.
 Contributing development of cost-effective highperformance track infrastructure, aiming at
providing innovative solutions towards
significant reductions in both investment and
maintenance of infrastructure costs. Basis
standardisation.
 EC Funding: 10M Euros
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SUSTAINBLE BRIDGES
Integrated Project
Assessment for future traffic demands
and longer lives
 The project objectives are:
 to increase the transport capacity of existing
bridges by allowing axle loads of up to 33 tons for
freight traffic with moderate speeds or for speeds
of up to 350 km/hour for passenger traffic with
low axle loads
 to increase the residual service lives of existing
bridges by up to 25%
 to enhance management, strengthening and
repair systems.
 The science and technology approach is to use
established principles from Structural Mechanics and
Materials Science and to integrate them with new
achievements in monitoring, measurement and
modelling techniques.
 32 partners: bridge owners, consultants, contractors
and research institutes from all over Europe
 EC funding: 7M Euros
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URBANTRACK
Integrated Project
Urban Rail Infrastructure
 Low life-cycle cost (LLC), high performance, modular,
safe, low noise and vibration rail infrastructure systems
that fit into a harmonised European market.
 It aims at developing innovative products in 3 classes:
 new products and solutions: prefabricated track
modules, green tram tracks, embedded metro
tracks, alternative low-cost tracks for floating slab
in tunnels and on gradients;
 new methods: innovative track installation methods,
automated track installation, fast renewal and
refurbishment methods, cost/benefit analysis
method for infrastructure works, preventive and
predictive maintenance methods, techniques for
reducing wear in curves and turnouts
 harmonised reference documents: standard for rail
transit track inspection and maintenance, LCC
calculation method, functional performance
specifications.
 28 Partners
 EC Funding: 10M Euros
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FP5
SAFETRAM
Collaborative Research
Passive safety standards in trams
and trains in Europe
Collision and Crashes : Tram-train
operations are fully integrated.
13 Partners: Major supply industries, railway
and public transport operators were
cooperating to develop, test and agree on
all structural and interior design rules for
trams
Contributing to a safe environment for
passengers during crashes. Basis for
Euronorm
EC Funding 1.4 M€
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SILENCE & QCITY
FP6 Integrated projects
Developing an integrated
system of methodologies and
technologies for an efficient
control of urban traffic noise.
Trams, buses, metros,
motorbikes, all types of vehicles
75 partners involved
EC funding: 16.5 M€
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FP6
NICHES
FP6 Coordination Action
Provide coordination for a wide
range of innovative urban
transport concepts by the combined
action of stakeholders, expert
working groups , validation and
dissemination, workshops
7 partners
EC Funding: 1.1 M€
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FP6
MODTRAIN
FP6 Integrated Project
Adopting a modular approach to
define common interfaces for
systems in high speed passenger
trains and locomotives to improve
interchangeability, interoperability
and reduce total life costs
1st time all manufacturers and major
railways have worked on research
project of this scale
36 partners involved
EC Funding: € 16.9 M
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FP6
INTEGRAIL
Integrated Project
Creating a holistic, coherent
information system to
integrate railway rolling stock
and infrastructure systems to
achieve higher levels of
capacity, average speed,
punctuality, safety and
optimised use of resources.
33 partners involved
EC Funding: €11 M
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EURNEX
Network of excellence
Ensures the retention of
railway expertise in a rapidly
evolving sector by bringing
together academic and
railway – based organisations
to pool effective resources
and focus on critical issues
relating to railway technology
70 Partners involved
EC Funding: € 6M
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ERRAC ETP
Established 2001
1st Strategic Rail Research Agenda published in 2002
Review of rail research in Member States
Review of light rail and metro research
Membership from railway undertakings, infrastructure
managers, equipment manufacturers, academia, users’
Member States, European Commission
www.errac.org
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