TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Ms Siân Evans NewRail – Centre for Railway Research United Kingdom ASSESSING, ANALYSING AND DEFINING STRATEGIES FOR REALISING NEW MEMBER STATES’ POTENTIALS IN TRANSPORT RESEARCH

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 TransNEW Coordinating and Support Action aimed at supporting transport research activities in the NMS

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 TransNEW started on 01 January 2010 and runs for 2 years to December 2011 The project has 48 deliverables consisting of: Reports on each of the 26 countries 4 regional reports 4 mode evaluation reports 6 newsletters Other reports on Management issues and workshops, etc

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 TransNEW covers all transport modes, including Aeronautics. TransNEW is assessing who is making a contribution to common transport research objectives such as: -advancing competitiveness -anticipating and responding to the socio- economic and environmental challenges of the transport system -promoting transport research SMEs

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 TransNEW is clustering the research capacity results by five Activities. These are: 1.Greening – environmental impacts of transport and climate change 2.Enhanced integration of transport modes 3.Safety and Security 4.Transport system efficiency and Mobility 5.Competitiveness

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Objectives of TransNEW: -Assess transport research capabilities -Foster cross border-integration -Create a database of transport research expertise based on the findings of the capability and capacity research - Promote SME’s active in transport research -Increase market uptake of funding

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Methodology: -Data collection from key researchers, country specific organisations in Universities and industry and transport-related projects -Desk based research -Questionnaire -Data responses -Interactive workshops Same process was used with SMEs

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Clustering: To cover large workload TransNEW is split into clusters of -26 Regions/States; and -modes of transport

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 TransNEW Regions are: BALTIC STATES – Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia CENTRAL EUROPE – Czech Rep. Hungary, Poland, Slovakia WEST BALKANS – Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia SOUTH BALKANS AND MEDITERRANEAN – Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Malta, Moldova, Romania, Turkey ASSOCIATED STATES – Iceland, Israel, Norway, Switzerland, Lichtenstein

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Country reports: -Each country report follows the same format -Country reports focus on transport research state-of-the-art highlighting strengths and gaps in transport research -also includes SME’s

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Regional reports: -Country reports from the region are compared and contrasted the regional reports -These reports focus on Policies and Priorities; transport research potential and projects and recommendations from the research

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Mode Evaluation: - Country reports also incorporate mode specific research that becomes a dedicated mode evaluation report for each country and region

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Access to reports: - All reports are available to download from the TransNEW website at

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Workshops are based on 2 topics Research capabilities and capacities workshops Research Opportunities workshops Interactive workshops

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Research Capacities and capabilities workshops

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Disseminates the results of the regional research: an overview of transport research in the region gives examples of transport research excellence in the four modes in TransNEW digital voting sessions assess the transport research strengths and priorities of the audience

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 For this region – this workshop was held in Istanbul, Turkey in June 2011 Presentations from this workshop are available at:

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Research Opportunities Workshops

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Objectives of this workshop is to: bring together transport research experts interested in obtaining EC funding provide information about EC funding and bring together regional NCPs

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Objectives of this workshop is to: the ETNA project is a network of transport National Contact Points TransNEW and ETNA have a Cooperation Agreement to collaborate in bringing together transport research experts in such forums as this

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Objectives of this workshop is to: encourage researchers to register on the TransNEW database of transport researchers and organisations assist in the networking process disseminate information concerning the recent Calls for Proposals assist with the formation of consortia

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 The Way Forward The TransNEW database will continue to be maintained and expanded for at least two years after the end of the project

TransNEW Project - Brussels, February 2009 Thank you for your attention