The ERRAC Roadmap Projects
ERRAC encountered important changes in 2008. On 6 March 2008, during the 17th ERRAC Plenary held at DG RTD, European Commission, Mr. Andrew Mc Naughton (Network Rail) took over the excellent Chairmanship of Mr. Ake Wennberg (Bombardier).
Future activities of ERRAC will focus on concrete and detailed roadmaps or common European Research activities. For this purpose ERRAC submitted to the European Commission on 7 May a FP7 2nd call project proposal called ERRAC-Roadmaps. Its main purpose is the development of yearly roadmaps enabling a step by step tool to reach the goals developed in the Strategic Rail Research Agenda 2020.
The ERRAC Roadmap is a 3 years-project which aims at coordinating various issues in relation with the rail research activities. The main aim is to draft a strategic plan to turn ERRAC 2020 Vision into reality.
Four major issues to be addressed have been highlighted for the ERRAC Roadmap:
- Holistic rail strategies for the minimization of operation, environmental maintenance and inspection costs for vehicles and infrastructure in general.
- Simple and economical rail maintenance and renovation of rail infrastructure.
- Improved real time information systems for rail operators, infrastructure managers and customers. Coordination with other public and private bodies in order to better fit the customers’ needs.
The ERRAC Roadmap Working Packages
The ERRAC Roadmap CSA clearly addresses both the clusters set by the SRRA as well as the five ’activities’ reflecting the strategic and policy challenged facing Europe, as defined by the European Commission for the FP7 ’Transport’ theme.
The general framework of the activities for the next financed years is organised under the following working groups and with a clear defined involvement by the rail stakeholders and the participation to the working group is open to any expert:
- WP01 The greening of surface transport (leader: C. Cheron SNCF; co-leader: M. Walter Knorr-Bremse);
- WP02 Encouraging modal shift (long distance) and decongesting transport corridors (leader: B. Olsson Banverket; co-leader: I.Korpanec EFRTC);
- WP03 Ensuring sustainable urban transport (including modal shift, light rail vehicles and metros (leader: Y. Amsler UITP; co-leader: A. Ruggieri Ansaldo STS);
- WP04 Improving safety and security (leader: G. Di Mambro Italcertifer; co-leader: A. Semerano MER-MEC Group);
- WP05 Strengthening competitiveness (leader: J. Amoore Network Rail; co-leader: D. Farrington Corus Rail);
- WP06 Past projects evaluation and Evaluation Database (leader: L. Velardi Trenitalia; co-leader: M. Robinson Newrail);
- WP07 Communication (leader: F. Schneider CER; co-leader: M. Obenaus UNIFE);
- WP0 Management (D. Schut UIC / G. Travaini UNIFE) & Technical Leadership (D. Otteborn BOMBARDIER / M. Pereira IST - EURNEX)
ERRAC Roadmap Work Packages Fact Sheets
- WP02 Encouraging modal shift (long distance) and decongesting transport corridors
- WP04 Improving safety and security
- WP06 Past projects evaluation and Evaluation Database
The Fact Sheets of the other Work Packages are in the making.
The ERRAC Roadmap Members
| Ansaldo STS |
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Italy |
| Banverket |
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Sweden |
| Bombardier |
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Germany |
| CER |
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Belgium |
| Corus Rail |
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United Kingdom |
| EFRTC |
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Luxemburg |
| EIM |
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Belgium |
| EURNEX |
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Germany |
| IST |
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Portugal |
| Italcertifer (ITCF) |
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Italy |
| Knorr Bremse |
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Germany |
| MerMec |
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Italy |
| Network Rail |
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United Kingdom |
| SNCF |
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France |
| Trenitalia |
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Italy |
| UIC |
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France |
| UITP |
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Belgium |
| UNEW |
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UK |
| UNIFE |
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Belgium |
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