ERTRAC: Advancing Europe's Road Transport System

1. ERTRAC European Road Transport Research Advisory Council ..towards a greener, safer and smarter European Road Transport System Planning the future

2. Why ERTRAC? • Road transport is a complex, multi-stakeholder system • Road transport, one of the largest sectors in Europe: • 20% GDP contribution, • 9% workforce • 30% R&D expenditure • 40,000 deaths per year • 20% CO2 • ERTRAC addresses all the challenges of European Road Transport

3. ERTRAC members All major Road Transport Stakeholders are represented in ERTRAC, through their associations, together with representatives of the EU and Member States.

4. Mission of ERTRAC Provides the framework to overcome the challenges facing the sector: • Provide a strategic vision for the road transport sector, with respect to R&D; • Set out strategies and roadmaps to achieve this vision through the Strategic Research Agenda and other associated documents; • Stimulate increased and more effective public and private investment in R&D in the road transport sector; • Contribute to improving co-operation between EC, national, regional and private R&D actions on road transport within the European Research Area; • Enhance networking and clustering of the R&D capacity in Europe; • Promote European commitment to RTD thus ensuring Europe an attractive location for researchers.

5. Systems approach to major challenges

6. ERTRAC’s unique position • Road transport sector is heterogeneous with so different stakeholders; car-industry, suppliers, oil-industry, telecoms, infrastructure, regional groupings etc. • Via ERTRAC, all those players find a platform to discuss / monitor the research needed for the future. • For global competitiveness in road transport, many societal issues like safety, environment / energy and mobility / congestion have to be taken into account. • ERTRAC covers research topics, which are driven and accepted by society and politics.

7. ERTRAC’s unique position • In ERTRAC’s broad spectrum of stakeholders many other non research issues / needs are to be taken into account - standards, regulatory, liability etc. • ERTRAC has the goal to overcome the fragmentation of road transport research in the Europe of more than 27 different nations. • ERTRAC increasingly links "National Programmes" and is seeking to initiate activities for national research in line with a wider European strategy.

8. ERTRAC new Structure Associations, Academia, Member states, EC PLENARY BODY EXECUTIVE GROUP (Chairman + Vice chairs) Secretariat STEERING GROUP incl SIG members* *individual companies and institutions Operational / Working Groups e.g. Energy and Environment TRA & events Long Distance Transport European Research Area Road Transport Safety Urban Mobility Research Framework Implementation plan Scenarios Horizontal tasks

9. ERTRAC process

10. ERTRAC research framework • ERTRAC will • actively promote and structure key research from a Road Transport System perspective through • recommendation of sector spreading research needs to bring together the necessary different stakeholders and thus to improve the implementation of our Research Framework

11. ERTRAC research framework ERTRAC’s current priorities address the following urgent transport system needs: • Future long distance freight transport • Urban mobility • To achieve this in a green, safe and smart way, enabling technologies are designed for: • The intelligent vehicle and infrastructure • Road transport Safety • Sustainable energy for road transport • Competitive EU Production in a global context

12. Basic main tasks of ERTRAC 2008+ • develop and provide scenarios for future road transport, including scenarios from related ETP’s, concluding recommended strategies and technologies from these scenarios • develop a Implementation Plan, harmonised with other relevant ETPs road maps and implementation plans • identify bottlenecks and necessary actions towards (industrial) implementations • formulate, promote and propose cross-cutting R&D recommendations

13. ERTRAC Working Groups • To date there are four Research Areas (pillars) • Mobility, transport and infrastructure • Safety and security • Energy, environment and resources • Design and production • Now we are focusing on four Strategic Research Priorities (former horizontal topics / challenges) • Urban Mobility • Energy and Environment • Long Distance Transport • Safety & Security • Electrification is one current priority issue.

14. Aims of the process The task of the WGs is to • develop and provide Scenarios to 2030+ (2050) • formulate, promote and propose cross-cutting R&D • identify bottlenecks and necessary actions 1st step: “Top Ten” Scenario analysis 2nd step: Consenus of common criteria for all WGs 3rd step: Key factors fact sheet 4th step: Expert workshops and last cross-check 5th step: Establish scenarios and use

15. The Urban Mobility Common Cluster European Commission ERTRAC ERRAC Joint Cluster Urban Mobility Chair: POLIS Members from: ERRAC ERTRAC EURFORUM Other stakeholders • INPUT: • EURFORUM SRA • ...

16. Future of ETPs - EC review • EC ‘clearly and unambiguously continue to support the ETP concept’ • Fine-tune the concept and underlying objectives • Fragmentation between ETPs anticipated and remedied where needed • Member States to facilitate the operations of ETPs • Establish/communicate clear rules & procedures • Ensure that the ‘ETP label’ is “quality label” • Support in developing an international dimension • Involvement of ETPs in policy preparation processes

17. Future of ETPs - EC review • Move beyond scientific and technological challenges • Focus on socio-economic challenges with clear benefits for Europe • Be aware of potential fragmentation between platforms and remedy where needed (collaboration!) • Move to stage 3: ‘implementation’ • Pay more attention to fund-raising and financial engineering • Further internationalise activities to outside the EU • Devote sufficient attention to the professionalization of an ETP's internal processes and organisation (including monitoring processes)

18. Conference 2009: Achieving success for Road Transport: Scenarios 2030 and how to get there. Date: 26 January 2009 - Place: Brussels, Wolubilis Draft agenda: 09:00 Registration and exhibition 10:00 Welcome ERTRAC s achievements and future outlook (W.Steiger, ERTRAC) 10:20 ERA and Road Transport (J.Potocnik, EC - tbc) 10:40 ERTRAC: National strategies and activities (Ministry of Research, France - tbc) 11:00 The future of ERTRAC supporting the European Research Area, Panel discussion about strengthening the links to society, education and training, internationalisation etc. 12:00 Lunch break and exhibition 13:30 Aspects of 2030+ scenarios and their implications Q&A 15:40 Next steps incl ERTRACs new initiative (W.Steiger) 16:00 TRA 2010 Brussels – a leap forward (C. Caestecker) 16:15 End of conference .................................... 11:00 – 11:10 Launch of Young European Area of Research 2010 (J.Potocnik, EC- tbc) 11:10 -11:40 Press Briefing with Potocnik, ERTRAC chairman, vice-chairmen, YEAR & TRA

19. Our belief • The challenges facing Europe’s road sector are considerable; Europe’s future depends on how its road transport system develops. Our common market, our social integration and our industries. • ERTRAC is based on the common understanding that through innovation; collaborative research and development; solutions can and will be found to all the present and coming challenges. • ERTRAC will support its members to promote their shared aims

20. Further Information: www.ertrac.orgFor general inquiries: steve.phillips@ertrac.org