EC, DG Research Unit Surface Transport Luisa Prista

EC RTDSustainable Surface Transport (SST) Work Programme 2007EFRTC general meetingRome, 01/12/06 EC, DG Research Unit Surface Transport Luisa Prista

Joint Technology Initiatives ERA-NET International Cooperation FP7 - SP ProgrammeCooperation9 Themes: • Health; • Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology • Information and Communication Technologies • Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies • Energy • Environment (including Climate Change) • Transport (including Aeronautics) • Socio-Economic Sciences and the Humanities; • Security • Space 4,180 M€ • … including

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

FP7 Cooperation Programme Theme 7 –TRANSPORT(about 13% of SP budget) Transport (inc. Aeronautics) 4,180 M€ Aeronauticsand airtransport Sustainable Surface Transport (RAIL, road and waterborne) Support to the European global satellite navigation system Galileo

Global Objective: Integrated European Transport Systems (exploiting co-modality and interfaces between modes) Developgreener, smarterandsaferTransport Systems Benefit for citizens and society Respect the environment and natural resources Secure and develop theleading roleof European industry in the global market

Surface Transport • RAIL, • Road, • Waterborne OBJECTIVE Greener-Smarter-SaferSurface Transport Competitivenessof EU Industry INTEGRATION IS KEY SYSTEM APPROACH

What does it mean for the RAILSYSTEM APPROACH? Customer Rail Transport System Vehicle Infrastructure

What does it mean for RAILINTEGRATION ? 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 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

… 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

Sustainable Surface Transport Activities:In line with EU challenges, policy objectives and the need to reinforce EU industrial leadership • Greeningof surface transport; • Encouragingmodal shift and decongesting transport corridors • Ensuring sustainable urban mobility • Improving safety and security • Strengthening competitiveness

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

Greening Surface Transport • Research covering: • Power-train technology: cleanliness (health) and energy – efficiency, climate change, use of alternative fuels including bio-fuels 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

2. Encouraging modal shift and decongesting transport corridors • 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 co-modality • Support to policy with new technologies, systems and demonstration

Encouraging modal shift and decongesting transport corridors • 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

3.Ensuring sustainable urban mobility • 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

Ensuring sustainable urban mobility • Research covering: • 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

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

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

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

Implementation of Transport Theme: Support to trans-national cooperation implemented through: • 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 +

Challenges for FP7 forRAIL • 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

FP7 - Opportunities forRAIL: 4 Specific Programmes (SP): • 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 Cooperation – Collaborative research Investigator-driven research Ideas – Frontier Research Marie Curie Actions People – Human Potential Capacities – Research Capacity • RTD Infras • SMEs • Region Know • Scie.&Socie. • INCO

Success Stories

FP6 MODURBANIntegrated 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

INNOTRACKIntegrated 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 high-performance track infrastructure, aiming at providing innovative solutions towards significant reductions in both investment and maintenance of infrastructure costs.Basis standardisation. • EC Funding: 10M Euros

SUSTAINBLE BRIDGESIntegrated 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

URBANTRACKIntegrated 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

FP5 SAFETRAMCollaborative 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€

SILENCE & QCITYFP6 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€

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€

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

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

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

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

EC, DG Research Unit Surface Transport Luisa Prista