FOSTER-RAIL The Future Of Surface Transport Research - Rail

The European Commission funded FOSTER-RAIL project – which ran from 1 May 2013 until 31 April 2016 – was implemented in order to support the work of the European Rail Research Advisory Council (ERRAC). It addressed the challenge to strengthen and support research and innovation and to enhance the coordination among main stakeholders and actors on the European level as well as between the European and national levels. It integrated the work done so far by ERRAC and its working groups’ outcomes, such as the RailRoute 2050 and the Strategic Rail Research Agenda (SRRA) and other reports (See www.ERRAC.org) Starting with the already published deliverables of the former EU project ERRAC-ROADMAP, the FOSTER-RAIL project continued to coordinate the research and innovation agenda and priority setting process among the wide range of relevant stakeholders in the rail sector.

This brochure illustrates the outcomes of FOSTER-RAIL project and will hopefully raise the interest of the other European rail stakeholders, whether they will be railway operators, infrastructure managers, manufacturing industry, researchers or customers and users of the freight or passenger related services of the European railway systems in order to support the much needed innovation of this safe and comfortable mode of transport and its connections with the other modes of transport.

The work carried out in the FOSTER-Rail project allowed to produce the new Strategic Rail Research and Innovation Agenda (SRRIA) and specific Rail Technology & Innovation Roadmaps aiming at 2050. [...]