Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses E.P. European Datacomm NV IVU Traffic Technologies AG National...

Caminhos de FerroPortugueses E.P.

EuropeanDatacomm NV

IVU TrafficTechnologies AG

National TechnicalUniversity of Athens

Prometni InstitutLjubljana D.O.O.

SCIRO S.p.A. SIGMAConseil S.a.r.l.

Università degli Studidi Genova

F-MAN Project – Final Review

Genoa, December 2nd – 3rd, 2004

F-MAN Project

Dissemination & ExploitationActivities

2Final Review

Genoa, December 2nd - 3rd, 2004

Contents

Dissemination activities performed on different levels:

Key role of some dissemination activities (ROG inputs)

Scientific publications and Conferences

F-MAN web site

F-MAN Project Presentation brochure and light leaflet

Direct contacts with potential Customers and/or future business partners

Exploitation activities planned and their future perspectives regarding:

Exploitation activities of actual outcomes

Further research & development activities

Exploitation activities of future F-MAN industrial product

Conclusions


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F-MAN

MAJORDISSEMINATION

ACTIVITIES

4Final Review


Key roles

• Te the key roles have been :Providing continuous feedback to the RD -

activities during the course of the projectContributing to and validating the set of

proper functional requirements of F-MANProviding the preliminary user acceptanceProviding a realistic snapshot on a

breakthrough of the future F-MAN product

…all those roles were played by…

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The F-MAN ROG

… the F-MAN Railway Operators Group (ROG)

Contributions collected through activities such as: Regular ROG Meetings

Circulation of info on the project activities among the Members

Special ROG Events to collect targeted feedback (e.g. Users needs, F-MAN requirements, preliminary User acceptance)

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F-MAN ROG Members (1/2)

Company Role/Department

SNCF – French Railways Freight Direction – Innovation Pole (ROG Manager)

CP – Portuguese Railways R&D Department

SZ – Slovenian Railways Cargo Department

TRENITALIA S.p.A. – Italian Railways Cargo Division – R&D Department

(DB Cargo) Railion – German Railways Strategic Processes

Intercontainer-Interfrigo (ICF) s.c. (Switzerland – Private Operator)

IT Coordination

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F-MAN ROG Members (2/2)

Company Role/Department

NETLOG Netzwerk-Logistik Gmbh (Germany – Private Operator)

R&D Department

HPI Gmbh (Germany) – Private Operator Distribution Department

ABX Logistics Gmbh (Germany) – Private Operator Marketing Department

Trimodal Europe BV (The Netherlands) – Private Operator

Rail Department

8Final Review


F-MAN Scientific Dissemination (1/5)

Event Action Authors

WCRR 2001 - World Congress on Railway Research, November 25th – 29th, 2001, Köln Germany

The paper titled “A vision of future freight rail fleet management” was presented

E. Kuhla, R. Bozzo, A. Derito, R. Nurchi and V. Recagno (SCIRO)

NECTAR Workshop on "Impacts of Network Integration on Spatial Structures", May 10th & 11th, 2002, Ikaria, Greece

The paper titled “Integrating operational information along the transport chain: the case of wagon asset management” was presented

A. Ballis, D. Rigopoulos and E. Koukoutsis (NTUA)

RailServ(EU), Cluster meeting May 31st, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark

A presentation was given to the audience

E. Kuhla (SCIRO)

9Final Review




Sixth UIC Internet Club Forum, November 28th & 29th, 2002, Paris, France

The presentation titled “Railcar Asset Management – EU Project F-MAN” was given

E. Kuhla (SCIRO)

Gesamtverkehrforum 2003 -.Güterverkehrsforum, October 11th & 12th, 2003, Braunschweig, Germany

The presentation titled “IT – Lösungen für den grenzüberschreitenden Schienen-Guterverkher” was given

E. Kuhla (SCIRO)

Railway Gazette International – November 2003 Issue

The paper titled “F-MAN will boost wagon productivity in Europe” was published

E. Kuhla (SCIRO), A. Ballis (NTUA) and M. Guigon (SNCF)

10Final Review




ERRI: Satellite-based Application for Railways, January 20th & 21st, 2004, Paris, France

The presentation titled “Asset Management of European Freight wagons” was given

E. Kuhla and G. Cosulich (SCIRO)

UIC Section Materiel Reunion, May 4th, 2004, Paris, France

The presentation titled “F- MAN: Asset Management of European Freight wagons” was given

E. Kuhla and G. Cosulich (SCIRO)

Ninth International Conference COMPRAIL 2004, May 17th – 19th, 2004, Dresden, Germany

The paper titled “Fleet management in railway freight transport: the EU project F-MAN” was presented

M. Giannettoni and S. Savio (UGDIE)

11Final Review




ITS in Europe 2004 Congress & Exhibition, May 24th – 26th, 2004, Budapest, Hungary

The Consortium prepared dissemination material that was distributed and discussed during the Congress

F-MAN Consortium

International Railway Seminar (AICCF – IRCA), May 27th & 28th, 2004, Ljubljana, Slovenia

During the two days seminar, panels regarding F-MAN project and results were exposed and commented

P. Kranjec (PI)

12Final Review




IST Results e-bulletin – June 2004

Eisebahntechnische Rundschau – May2005

A presentation of the F-MAN application titled “A competitive boost for rail freight” has been published in the bulletin (http://istresults.cordis.lu)A Paper titled “F-MAN: Europäisches Flottenmanagement”

S. Savio (UGDIE) and E. Kuhla (SCIRO)

M.Gerstmair(IVU) and E.Kuhla

ETA Workshop, January 11th, 2005, UIC premises, Paris, France

Topics concerning ETA procedures will be presented and discussed

E. Kuhla (SCIRO), A. Ballis (NTUA)

13Final Review


F-MAN Web site (1/2)

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F-MAN Web site (2/2)

F-MAN web site (www.fman.org) provides the following services:

• To general audit (free info) Basic info regarding the project objectives, activities and

results Project presentation brochure & light leaflet Scientific publications

• To ROG Members (ROG login & password) Public project documents Further info regarding project activities

• To F-MAN Partners (confidential info) All project official documents and revisions

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F-MAN Project Presentation brochure

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F-MAN Project leaflet

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Potential Customers/ Business partners

• Dissemination actions by direct contacts of the Scientific Coordinator:

To investigate the future market potentialities

To find out potential competitors, thus

To differentiate the F-MAN offer

To set up cooperation or other joint actions

To find out potential business partners

To set up a solid basis for the future F-MAN product and so

To prepare future RD activities


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MAJOREXPLOITATION

ACTIVITIES

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Exploitation of actual outcomes (1/3)

F-MAN was a Research & TechnologyDevelopment Project

the major valuable result already addressable as “exploitable”

is:

the F-MAN Prototype

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In September 2004, Partners agreed on proceeding the activities on the F-MAN Prototype, in order to:

enlarge tests and verification results of the Prototype

Fine tune the actual release of the prototype thus

Preparing the customization and

Produce a Software (CD-Rom) and Hardware “packed” tool (for selected TOCs showing concrete interest

into F-MAN future product)

Exploitation of actual outcomes (2/3)

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Exploitable Results

• F-MAN prototype, consisting of:Asset Management ModuleData Processing ModuleTracking System Module + Graphical User InterfaceETA algorithmsSMS HubOpen system capabilityTools for a commercial Wagon Pool

Management

Those “(Pre) Product – items” are the basis for - A future successful exploitation - Different business areas and RD applications

22Final Review


Round tables with Private Companies in the railway marketplace started months ago to:

Find out potential conjoint market actions

Integrate suplementary tools with F-MAN tools

Discussion of integration actions, e.g. with Elog

company

Exploitation of business relations (1/2)

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Example: Ongoing F-MAN – Elog business round table to agree on:Designed functionalities vs. market needsUnique solutions & selling points vs. need

to integrate with other/third party systemsLevel of implementation & testing

(including load testing)Balancing market experiences & references Institutional (EU, UIC, CER, etc.) experiences

& referencesCorporate governance of each project

Exploitation of business relations (2/2)

24Final Review


Research & Development activities

Major exploitation activities in the field of R&D actually planned or in progress are:

1. UIC - sponsored project…..2. Participation in the next EU Call3. CP concrete plans for next future F-MAN-II Project( Sm@rt Wagon) with

innovative energy supply for the wagon as a self standing unit)

25Final Review


Conclusions(1)

• Dissemination activities based on the quality of ROG Members and the positive feedback F-MAN Consortium continuously received

• Scientific publications International Conferences rose the degree of visibility the F-MAN Project obtained

• Exploitation of results has already started with the SW&HW Package of F-MAN Prototype

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Conclusions (2)

In consideration of all theelements presented so far,

the F-MAN Consortium regardsthe end of F-MAN Project

as the diving board to jump intoa promising future business, where

such innovative tools will be capable ofraising rail freight transport competitiveness

all over Europe

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