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

Railway Research Information DayBrussels, 1st July

Dr. Marian Gaidzik

TREND(Coordination Action)

page 2TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005

Interaction with FP6


- 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


Consortium

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 TransportCompanies - Bruxelles (BE)

IVE University of Hanover (IVE) - Hannover (DE)

progtrans

Coordinator

Contractors


Network of Expertise


Workpackage Overview






Schedule


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


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


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


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 thevarious existing practises.

• Identification of best practises to overcome administrative, legal, cultural and technologicalbarriers

• Improved methodology for Corridor Analysis in WP B2

Output/Results:"Best practises" - catalogue and extended methodology (Guideline) for corridor analysis


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 servicesDraft Corridor Reports


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 servicesRecommendation of suitable corridors


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


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-siteInfrastructure developments schemes in preparation of the IPGeographic Information System (GIS) available for integration of data


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


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 recommendationsGuideline for supporting and accompanying the IP


Overview about the TREND Corridors


TREND Corridors


How TREND can support you in Preparing your Proposal?

• 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


Access Point for Proposals of Players/Actors


TREND

TREND

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