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Railway Research Information Day Brussels, 1 st July Dr. Marian Gaidzik

TREND (Coordination Action). Railway Research Information Day Brussels, 1 st July Dr. Marian Gaidzik. Interaction with FP6. Gathering of information to asses the general progress in the establishment of an European Railway Area (Implementation of change)

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Railway Research Information Day Brussels, 1 st July Dr. Marian Gaidzik

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  1. TREND (Coordination Action) Railway Research Information Day Brussels, 1st July Dr. Marian Gaidzik

  2. Interaction with FP6 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  3. Gathering of information to asses the general progress in the establishment of an European Railway Area (Implementation of change) Developing of an evaluation scheme for integration and interoperability ready to be exploited by European Railway Agency (ERA) Recommendation of a coherent conception of individual actions towards innovative European rail freight services(new concepts for business cases of improved service) Elaboration of appropriate models for the envisaged Integrated Project as a basis for international co-operation in corridors Recommendation of suitable corridors, priority themes and players to be involved Main objectives of the TREND project TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  4. Consortium Coordinator HC HaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH - Hannover (DE) KC KombiConsult GmbH - Frankfurt am Main (DE) CDV Transport Research Centre - Brno (CZ) CER Community of European Railways - Bruxelles (BE) GC Gruppo CLAS - Milano (IT) PT ProgTrans AG - Basel (CH) TM Transman Kft - Budapest (HU) UIC International Union of Railways - Paris (FR) UIRR International Union of Combined Road-Rail Transport Companies - Bruxelles (BE) IVE University of Hanover (IVE) - Hannover (DE) Contractors TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  5. Network of Expertise TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  6. Workpackage Overview TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  7. Workpackage Overview TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  8. Workpackage Overview TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  9. Schedule TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  10. WP A1 Information Gathering Participants: PT, GC, TM, CDVsupported by: CER, UIC, UIRR and additional experts • Objectives • Focused data collection, on current situation and prospects for the forthcoming changes in the railway business in Europe in selected countries • Description of work • Detailed concept for knowledge base and investigation programme in legislative and management issues • Development of the concept for the evaluation scheme; definition of criteria • Elaboration of questionnaires/ interview guideline for different addressees, e.g Government authorities; RU/IM • Collection of data, documentation and other information • Additional enquiries through targeted interviews • Checking completeness and plausibility of country information • Output/Results: • Country Reports TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  11. WP A2 Analysis and Evaluation Participiants: PT, TMsupported by: CDV, GC and additional experts • Objectives • Comparison of different respective organisational forms, stages of integration and reasons for developments (background) • Description of work • Develop a suitable cross-national evaluation scheme • Analysis and validation of results (country specific backgrounds) • Identification of links between the various organisational changes and existing/envisaged involvement in international activities/co-operations • Evaluation of the reasons for the differences in progress and for pulling down barriers • Development of a "best practice" catalogue • Output/Results: • Overview on analysis and evaluation procedure TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  12. WP A3 Conclusions and Recommendations Participants: PTsupported by: GC and additional experts • Objectives • Summary of the results to a comprehensive picture of the change occurring in the rail sector and measures to accelerate the integration process (road map) • Description of work • Concept for an international intra-industry support scheme to transfer know-how. • Draft recommendations for additional legislative and institutional measures at the national level and at the level of the Union in order to accelerate progress • Consider the feasibility of an incentive scheme jointly fed by the European Union and the European railway industry. • Output/Results: • Knowledge base for decision support in legislative and management issues • Road Map for measures TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  13. WP B1 Methodology / Best Practices Participants: KCsupported by: CER, UIC and additional experts • Objectives • Analysis of existing/envisaged shapes and contents of co-operations in rail freight business based on previous corridor studies • Description of work • Elaboration and Creation of an examination and evaluation scheme for categorization of barriers/impediments and respectively selected solutions (Benchmark analysis) of the various existing practises. • Identification of best practises to overcome administrative, legal, cultural and technological barriers • Improved methodology for Corridor Analysis in WP B2 • Output/Results: • "Best practises" - catalogue and extended methodology (Guideline) for corridor analysis TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  14. WP B2 Application to new Corridors Participants: HC, KCsupported by: CDV, CER, GC, TM, UIC and additional experts • Objectives • Choice and Analysis of up to 6 supplementary European freight corridors and recommendation of those most suitable to configure a successful IP • Description of work • Selection of supplementary important freight corridors • Definition of suitable routes • Assignment of potential freight flows to the corridors • Supplementary data collection • Identification of existing barriers for seamless international rail freight service and background • Deduction of suitable solutions,e.g. action plans • Output/Results: • Recommendation of the suitable corridor for the definition of a future successful IP in innovative rail freight services • Draft Corridor Reports TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  15. WP B3 Innovative Rail Freight Services to targeted Markets Participants: KC, HC, IVEsupported by: CER, PT, UIRR and additional experts • Objectives • Elaboration of business cases for future oriented rail freight services on the corridors recommended in B2. • Description of work • Determination of the market demand for freight service • Deduction of necessary improvements in rail freight service • Development of corridor-specific forward-looking and innovative rail freight services • Development of supporting measures to facilitate access of third party railway operators/newcomers • Deduction and recommendation of suitable corridors and services for implementation • Output/Results: • Concept for business cases of improved rail freight services • Recommendation of suitable corridors TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  16. WP B4 Quality Standards IM/IM, RU/RU, RU/CU Participants: UIRR, GC, HC, CERsupported by: UIC and additional experts • Objectives • Development of quality standards for the different relations in rail freight service (CU-RU, RU-RU and RU-IM) • Description of work • Catalogue of existing agreements and analysis of good practices • Development of suitable methods/schemes to meet general market requirements or of comparable approaches • Analysis of methodologies to measure quality • Definition of quality requirements and suitable general standards for quality agreements between Customer-RU, RU-RU, RU-IM, IM-IM railway supply industry • Output/Results: • Report on Quality Requirements (including examples of "good practices") • Concept for implementation of quality standards to the railway sector to be implemented and demonstrated in the framework of the IP TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  17. WP B5 Infrastructure Development Scheme Participants: IVE, HC, CDV, TM, UICsupported by: additional experts • Objectives • Elaboration of infrastructure related the preparation of the IP and visualisation of results by means of a GIS • Description of work • Collection and processing of railway infrastructure data (data base) • Visualisation of railway infrastructure as well as operation-related parameters • Evaluation of the performance of existing infrastructure in respect to new concepts and requirements • Output/Results: • Display of results from the GIS on the TREND web-site • Infrastructure developments schemes in preparation of the IP • Geographic Information System (GIS) available for integration of data TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  18. WP B6 Business Model for international Co-operation Participants: HC, CER, IVEsupported by: UIRR and additional experts • Objectives • Elaboration of an appropriate business model as a basis for future international co-operation between relevant players • Description of work • Synthesis of existing examples of best practices from other trades such as forwarding, international postal or airline business • Determination of suitable and optional models concerning operational processes and equipment • Evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of implementation with respect to the elaborated business cases (B3) • Recommendation of further procedures • Output/Results: • Report containing recommendations of most promising future business models to be demonstrated in the IP TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  19. WP B7 Conclusions and Recommendations Participants: KC, HC, UIRRsupported by: CDV, CER, GC, PT, TM, UIC, IVE and additional experts • Objectives • Conclusions and recommendation from all previous work packages with respect to the implementation of change in the European rail freight area to be demonstrated in the recommended IP • Description of work • Methodological concept for the implementation of change in the European rail freight area • Accompanying elaboration of the IP (6/2005-12/2006) • Development of a guideline for supporting and accompanying the IP • Prerequisites for seamless European Rail freight Services (RFS) • Dissemination by World Wide Web, brochures, conferences • Output/Results: • Report on conclusions and recommendations • Guideline for supporting and accompanying the IP TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  20. Overview about the TREND Corridors TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  21. TREND Corridors TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  22. TREND has a fixed content and time frame. TREND presents its deliverables on the TREND web-site. TREND is open to infrastructure managers, railway undertakings,rail freight customers, ports and terminals, railway industry TREND will create an access point where those operational players/actors can submit their solutions and ideas for seamlesstrans-european freight services You are kindly invited to use the TREND web service atwww.trend-project.com How TREND can support you in Preparing your Proposal? TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  23. Access Point for Proposals of Players/Actors TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

  24. TREND TREND TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

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