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: FELICITAS Project aims to develop fuel-cell systems that are capable of meeting the demands of heavy-duty transport for road, rail and marine applications. These systems will be highly efficient, power-dense, durable, robust and reliable.

: GREEN Project common goal is to promote future advanced engine technologies to achieve lower emissions, lower fuel consumption and improved sustainability for future fuels. In the project, European HD engine manufacturers join forces with suppliers, academia and leading engineering institutes.

: QCITY Project will develop an integrated technology infrastructure for the efficient control of ambient noise from road and rail. The activity supports the European noise policy to eliminate harmful effects of noise exposure and decrease levels of transport noise, especially in urban areas, deriving solutions that will ensure compliance with the constraints of legislative limits

: RAIL ENERGY Project plans to develop a holistic framework approach incorporating new concepts and integrated solutions to improve energy efficiency in the railway domain under specific technical, operational, political and socio-economic constraints.

: SILENCE PROJECT develops an integrated system of methodologies and technologies for the efficient control of urban traffic noise. This takes into account the overall needs of city authorities with respect to noise creation from individual traffic (on road) and mass transport (on rail and road). A holistic treatment is made of all traffic noise facets: urban noise scenarios, individual noise sources, infrastructure, traffic management, noise perception and annoyance.

: CALM II Project Further efficient reduction of transport noise requires intensive research. CALM II aims at coordinating European research for advanced transport noise mitigation, in particular facilitating interdisciplinary networking and dissemination of knowledge, and at further development of the CALM strategic research plan. All transport modes are concerned: road, rail, waterborne and aeronautic together with outdoor equipments.

: WIDEM Project has developed an innovative measuring wheelset using up-to-date wireless data processing and transmission technology. A dynamic calibration is being carried out by using a unique roller rig on which a running condition near to reality can be performed.

: MODURBAN Project will define the necessary functional, electrical and mechanical interfaces, and validation procedures necessary to deliver the range of interchangeable modules that will make the next generation of affordable urban guided public transport a reality.

: HP Future Bridge Project involves research to be carried out to be able to achieve our main objective: competing against bridges made of conventional material through the use of advanced composite materials. First of all, and in order to be competitive, a life cycle cost model has to be done that will evaluate the sustainability of fibre-reinforced polymer bridge decks.

: DE-LIGHT Project Transport is to elaborate and demonstrate innovative integrated lightweight modules (integrating load-bearing and other functionalities) as well as the design, production and testing methods and procedures. The solutions developed will feature significant operational benefits as well as reduced building cost, i.e. decreased life cycle cost. Risk management and the application of risk based design methods will allow to develop highly innovative solutions exceeding the range of existing classification rules by exploring new material combinations, innovative joining, assembly and preoutfitting techniques.

: AVATARS Project is to develop a simulation tool to provide designers with a useful performance measure for train station designs which in turn will be able to improve their design based on this feedback.

: EURFORM Project intends to achieve a full inclusion of urban mobility issues into the EU research agenda. The project will identify and develop innovative concepts and tools for organising a proper coordination at EU level between all relevant stakeholders concerning research on urban mobility.

: CAESAR Project Intermodal transport will supply more capacity, but this can only be achieved with a coordinated innovation agenda and various activities. Thus, it is necesary to bring together people with decision-making capabilities to influence the planning of research and technology programmes, hence the European Intermodal Research Advisory Council (EIRAC)

: SELCAT Project SELCAT will perform a deep analysis of completed and existing European level crossing safety research focusing on appraisal, technology and safety evaluation methodology including dissemination actions like workshops, special sessions at conferences, public campaign and a web portal

: UNIACCESS Project The project wants to promote the networking and coordination of R&D activities in the field of universal design of accessibilty systems for public transport with a comprehensive group of stakeholders who have a view to achieving equality of access to public transport in the EU.

: REORIENT The REORIENT project developed and populated a freight Knowledge Base which is searchable. It also demonstrated the analysis of the knowledge base to develop new business and management models for the introduction of trans-European international rail-freight corridors. Analysis of the knowledge base also allowed obstacles to seamless freight corridors to be analysed and the effect of removing those obstacles evaluated.

: CRC- Staff Retention and Engagement in the Rail Industry Retention and engagement of staff is important. Even in times of higher unemployment and greater economic uncertainty, such as the present, it is still crucial for organisations to be able to keep good staff. The ‘war for talent’ does not end when labour shortages end – talent is always limited. Retention is the process of physically keeping the staff member in the organisation, whereas engagement is the psychological involvement the staff member has with the organisation.

: CRC - Rail Grinding Best Practices and Condition Monitoring Acceptance System Development of good practice for combined below rail and above rail decision model for reducing cost, risks and enhancing rail- wheel life based on:
1. Rail grinding 2. Wheel-rail condition monitoring.

: CRC - next generation fatigue models Fatigue models are increasingly used by rail operators and regulators to manage and regulate work-related fatigue in Australia and overseas. In Australia, fatigue models were initially introduced in the early part of this decade as a decision support tool used in the design and evaluation of rosters for freight drivers. More recently, the use of these models by rail operators and regulators has been extended to include many other groups of rail workers. Unfortunately, the original data sets underpinning the fatigue modelling software were derived from a relatively narrow selection of freight rail drivers and did not include the diversity of work groups now defined as Rail Safety Workers and increasingly managed using fatigue modelling software packages.

: Heroe A study of the issues relating to the different rules and regulations used by different railway authorities across Europe, to govern the operations of trains with the European Rail Traffic Management System ERTMS was undertaken, and a state of the art produced. The aim of the project was to overcome the problems caused by these different rules, by producing a standard set of rules for use across Europe. Methods for the development and analysis of railway rules were developed, which contributed to subsequent projects, which went on to fulfil the aim of determining European standards for operating trains with ERTMS.

: Promain The PROMAIN project brought together railway infrastructure users and developers in a flexible network for knowledge management and transfer, so as to promote the enhancement of railway infrastructure performance. The potential benefits of cooperation between railway infrastructure users and developers was demonstrated and facilitated. The outcome of the project was the identification of existing technologies and techniques which could be applied to infrastructure management, areas for further joint research to develop solutions to enhance infrastructure performance.

: DARTS Operational methods and practical supporting tools for the best pro-active decision-making process have been developed for choosing the cost optimal tunnel type and construction procedures, with regard to the environmental conditions, technical qualities, safety precautions and long service life.

: SMITS A sensor system for measuring the contact forces between the Overhead Contact Line of the electric traction current infrastructure and the pantograph, and the temperature of the contact strip, of a train travelling at high speed was developed and tested. This allows the condition and safety of the Overhead Contact Line and pantographs Overhead Contact Line to be monitored in real time. The measurements could be used to inform decisions on operator access charges and infrastructure maintenance procedures. Background