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1. Introduction to REORIENT Warren E. WalkerREORIENT Scientific Executive CommitteePresentation to CERBrussels, 6 October 2006 www.reorient.org.uk

2. REORIENT Objectives • Assess the progress being made toward interoperability by Member States along the REORIENT Interoperability Corridor • Identify barriers to achieving interoperability and ways to overcome the barriers • Develop a business case for seamless rail freight transport through the REORIENT Business Corridor (a subset of the Interoperability Corridor) • Evaluate the social, economic, and environmental effects of different strategies related to the improvement of interoperability along the selected corridors

3. The REORIENT Corridors and the Countries to be Studied • REORIENT CORRIDORS • INTEROPERABILITY CORRIDORS • NORTHERNLEG FROM SCANDINAVIA TO AUSTRIA (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria) • SOUTHERNLEG FROM AUSTRIA TO GREECE (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece) • BUSINESS CORRIDOR FROM SWINOUJSCIE TO VIENNA • COMPETITION CORRIDOR GERMAN ROUTE + LONG HAUL TRANSPORT

4. The 10 REORIENT Workpackages Part A Part B assessedmeasures WP2 WP7 WP5 Network WP1 benefits & barriers IP Progressacrosscountries Cost/BenefitAssessment Data gathering Barriers measures measures OD-matrices WP4 WP3 Corridors Socialsupport models models models models WP6 WP6 Quality standards & modal choice factors mode choice factors NEW OPERA WP8 Knowledge Base WP9 Collaboration with New Opera and TREND WP0 TREND Project Management

5. Objectives of WP1(Data Gathering) • Collect public domain data needed by other workpackages • Create a GIS-based database to be used by all work packages and possibly other EU projects • Design and conduct a survey to identify the status of rail interoperability along the REORIENT Interoperability Corridor

6. Objectives of WP2(Progress Across Countries) • Assess the range of variation in the status of rail interoperability in countries situated along the REORIENT Interoperability Corridor • Variation is being assessed along many dimensions (including the countries’ political conditions, administrative conditions, social/cultural conditions, financial conditions, railway market, railway system, etc.) • Devise an “Interoperability Advancement Calendar” for tracking interoperability progress along the REORIENT Interoperability Corridor • Identify barriers to seamless international freight flow along the REORIENT Interoperability Corridor

7. Objectives of WP3(Social Support) • Carry out a survey in the countries along the REORIENT Interoperability Corridor to assess social support among voting public and politicians for balancing road and rail transport • Carry out a survey of rail management/rail union officials to assess support from rail management and rail unions for balancing road and rail transport • Check for major environmental or health concerns along the REORIENT Interoperability Corridor (Natura 2000/City-conflicts)

8. Objectives of WP4 and WP6(Business Models) • Identify quality factors that determine choices of transport modes by shippers, forwarders, and consignees (using customer surveys) • Assess the determinants of rail intermodal expansion in the U.S. and use these as part of inputs to design new management and business models for rail undertakings (RUs) and infrastructure managers (IMs) • Evaluate the potential of new management and business models for RUs and IMs along the REORIENT Business Corridor

9. Objectives of WP5(Barriers) • Identify and recommend ways to overcome administrative, legal, cultural, social, technological, business, and managerial barriers to interoperability along the REORIENT Interoperability Corridor • Design and recommend programs and policies to facilitate seamless rail freight transport in countries along the REORIENT Interoperability Corridor • Provide suggestions to decisionmakers in Member States, Candidate Countries, and third parties that might motivate them to invest scarce economic resources in rail transport.

10. Objective of WP7(Cost-Benefit Assessment) Apply a combination of multi-criteria and cost-benefit methods to evaluate the private (business), socioeconomic, and environmental effects of strategies to provide seamless international rail freight transport and rebalance mode use in favor of intermodal rail along the REORIENT Interoperability Corridor

11. Objectives of WP8(Knowledge Base) • Provide collaboration tools to the rest of the REORIENT project • Systematise the recording and storage of knowledge generated by the project • Collate data and outputs from all WPs and put them into forms useful to other WPs and the EC • Provide knowledge management and data handling tools to the rest of the REORIENT project • Fulfill other needs for knowledge collection and use specified by the EC

12. Objectives of WP9(Collaboration with New Opera & TREND) • Co-ordination of working areas and/or geographical investigation zones to reduce unwanted duplications between NEW Opera, REORIENT, and TREND. • Co-ordination of co-operation between REORIENT/TREND on one side and NEW OPERA on the other side for exchange of data obtained as results of the first two projects

13. Results of WP9(Collaboration with New Opera & TREND) • Coordination meetings/discussions with TREND • Joint conference with TREND (March 2006) • Attendance at each other’s meetings and conferences • REORIENT’s meeting in Brussels, June 2006 • New Opera’s meetings in Brussels, July 2005 and January 2006

14. Remainder of Our Presentation • The REORIENT Knowledge Base framework • Internet-based data collection & presentation tools with live Internet-based demonstration • The Knowledge Base in a live Internet-based demonstration