ERRAC News

  • First issue of ERRAC Newsletter
    The Newsletter contains – beside an introduction by ERRAC’s chairman Andrew McNaughton – an interview with ERRAC ROADMAP WP03 leader Yves Amsler of (...)
  • Quote of the month
    Frédéric Sgarbi (Head of the Sustainable Surface Transport Unit DG Research) "It is important to analyse the reasons why rail freight cannot catch (...)
  • Communication from the ERRAC WP06
    The WP06 is evaluating projects and will submit a reporting with the evaluations to the European Commission. We welcome any suggestions on (...)
  • FP7 4th Call Pre-Consortium Building Meetings
    Broadly based on ERRAC advice to the European Commission, the 4th call for Proposals for the FP7 Transport Theme has been recently published by (...)

Overview

ERRAC was set up in 2001 with the ambitious goal of creating a single European body with both the competence and capability to help revitalise the European rail sector and make it more competitive, by fostering increased innovation and guiding research efforts at European level. Within ERRAC, all major rail stakeholders are gathered. ERRAC comprises of 45 representatives from each of the major European rail research stakeholders: manufacturers, operators, infrastructure managers, the European Commission, EU Member States, academics and users’ groups. ERRAC covers all forms of rail transport: from conventional, high speed and freight applications to urban and regional services.

ERRAC is chaired by Mr. Andrew Mc Naughton (NetworkRail). The Vice-Chairmen are Mr. Dan Otteborn (Bombardier) and Mr. Manuel Pereira (IST Lisbon).

Since its start in 2001, ERRAC has produced a number of important and influential documents, such as the Joint Strategy for European rail Research – Vision 2020, the SRRA – Strategic Rail Research Agenda and its 2007 updated version, Suburban and Regional Railways Landscape in Europe, Light Rail and Metro Systems in Europe, Rail Research in Europe, a comparison of the Member States public research programmes with the ERRAC SRRA and others that you can find on this web site as well.

At present ERRAC carries out a 3 year rail research roadmapping project called ERRAC ROADMAP.

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