Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses E.P. European Datacomm NV IVU Traffic Technologies AG National Technical University of Athens Prometni Institut Ljubljana D.O.O. SCIRO S.p.A. SIGMA Conseil S.a.r.l. Università degli Studi di Genova F-MAN Project – Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd – 3 rd, 2004 F-MAN Project Dissemination & Exploitation Activities

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, Contents Dissemination activities performed on different levels: àKey role of some dissemination activities (ROG inputs) àScientific publications and Conferences àF-MAN web site àF-MAN Project Presentation brochure and light leaflet àDirect contacts with potential Customers and/or future business partners Exploitation activities planned and their future perspectives regarding: àExploitation activities of actual outcomes àFurther research & development activities àExploitation activities of future F-MAN industrial product Conclusions

Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses E.P. European Datacomm NV IVU Traffic Technologies AG National Technical University of Athens Prometni Institut Ljubljana D.O.O. SCIRO S.p.A. SIGMA Conseil S.a.r.l. Università degli Studi di Genova F-MAN MAJOR DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, Key roles Te the key roles have been : Providing continuous feedback to the RD - activities during the course of the project Contributing to and validating the set of proper functional requirements of F-MAN Providing the preliminary user acceptance Providing a realistic snapshot on a breakthrough of the future F-MAN product …all those roles were played by…

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, 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)

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN ROG Members (1/2) CompanyRole/Department SNCF – French RailwaysFreight Direction – Innovation Pole (ROG Manager) CP – Portuguese RailwaysR&D Department SZ – Slovenian RailwaysCargo Department TRENITALIA S.p.A. – Italian RailwaysCargo Division – R&D Department (DB Cargo) Railion – German RailwaysStrategic Processes Intercontainer-Interfrigo (ICF) s.c. (Switzerland – Private Operator) IT Coordination

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN ROG Members (2/2) CompanyRole/Department NETLOG Netzwerk-Logistik Gmbh (Germany – Private Operator) R&D Department HPI Gmbh (Germany) – Private OperatorDistribution Department ABX Logistics Gmbh (Germany) – Private OperatorMarketing Department Trimodal Europe BV (The Netherlands) – Private Operator Rail Department

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN Scientific Dissemination (1/5) EventActionAuthors WCRR World Congress on Railway Research, November 25 th – 29 th, 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 10 th & 11 th, 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 31 st, 2002, Copenhagen, Denmark A presentation was given to the audience E. Kuhla (SCIRO)

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN Scientific Dissemination (2/5) EventActionAuthors Sixth UIC Internet Club Forum, November 28 th & 29 th, 2002, Paris, France The presentation titledRailcar Asset Management – EU Project F-MAN was given E. Kuhla (SCIRO) Gesamtverkehrforum Güterverkehrsforum, October 11 th & 12 th, 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)

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN Scientific Dissemination (3/5) EventActionAuthors ERRI: Satellite-based Application for Railways, January 20 th & 21 st, 2004, Paris, France The presentation titledAsset 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 17 th – 19 th, 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)

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN Scientific Dissemination (4/5) EventActionAuthors ITS in Europe 2004 Congress & Exhibition, May 24 th – 26 th, 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 27 th & 28 th, 2004, Ljubljana, Slovenia During the two days seminar, panels regarding F- MAN project and results were exposed and commented P. Kranjec (PI)

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN Scientific Dissemination (5/5) EventActionAuthors 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 ( A Paper titled F-MAN: Europäisches Flottenmanagement S. Savio (UGDIE) and E. Kuhla (SCIRO) M.Gerstmair(IVU) and E.Kuhla ETA Workshop, January 11 th, 2005, UIC premises, Paris, France Topics concerning ETA procedures will be presented and discussed E. Kuhla (SCIRO), A. Ballis (NTUA)

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN Web site (1/2)

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN Web site (2/2) F-MAN web site ( 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

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN Project Presentation brochure

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, F-MAN Project leaflet

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, 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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Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, Exploitation of actual outcomes (1/3) F-MAN was a Research & Technology Development Project the major valuable result already addressable as exploitable is: the F-MAN Prototype

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, 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)

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, Exploitable Results F-MAN prototype, consisting of: Asset Management Module Data Processing Module Tracking System Module + Graphical User Interface ETA algorithms SMS Hub Open system capability Tools for a commercial Wagon Pool Management Those (Pre) Product – items are the basis for -A future successful exploitation -Different business areas and RD applications

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, 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)

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, Example: Ongoing F-MAN – Elog business round table to agree on: Designed functionalities vs. market needs Unique solutions & selling points vs. need to integrate with other/third party systems Level of implementation & testing (including load testing) Balancing market experiences & references Institutional (EU, UIC, CER, etc.) experiences & references Corporate governance of each project Exploitation of business relations (2/2)

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, 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 Call 3.CP concrete plans for next future F-MAN-II Project( Wagon) with innovative energy supply for the wagon as a self standing Wagon

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, 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

Final Review Genoa, December 2 nd - 3 rd, Conclusions (2) In consideration of all the elements presented so far, the F-MAN Consortium regards the end of F-MAN Project as the diving board to jump into a promising future business, where such innovative tools will be capable of raising rail freight transport competitiveness all over Europe