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Planning the future

ERTRACEuropean Road Transport

Research Advisory Council..towards a greener, safer and

smarter European Road Transport System

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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

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All major Road TransportStakeholdersare representedin ERTRAC, through theirassociations, together with representatives of the EU and Member States.

ERTRAC members

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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.

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Systems approach to major challenges

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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.

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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.

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PLENARY BODY

STEERING GROUP incl SIG members*

UrbanMobility

LongDistanceTransport

RoadTransport

Safety

Energyand

Environment

Secretariat

EuropeanResearch

Area

Operational / Working Groups e.g.

Horizontal tasks Research Framework Implementation plan Scenarios

ERTRAC new Structure

EXECUTIVE GROUP(Chairman + Vice chairs)

Associations, Academia, Member states, EC

*individual companies and institutions

TRA & events

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ERTRAC process

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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

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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

ERTRAC research framework

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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

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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.

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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

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ERTRAC ERRAC

Joint ClusterUrban Mobility

Chair: POLIS

Members from:ERRACERTRACEURFORUMOther stakeholders

INPUT:

-EURFORUM SRA

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European Commission

The Urban Mobility Common Cluster

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Future of ETPs - EC review

1. EC ‘clearly and unambiguously continue to support the ETP concept’

2. Fine-tune the concept and underlying objectives

3. Fragmentation between ETPs anticipated and remedied where needed

4. Member States to facilitate the operations of ETPs

5. Establish/communicate clear rules & procedures

6. Ensure that the ‘ETP label’ is “quality label”

7. Support in developing an international dimension

8. Involvement of ETPs in policy preparation processes

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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Further Information:

www.ertrac.org

For general inquiries:

steve.phillips@ertrac.org