Railway Research Information Day Brussels, 1 st July Dr. Marian Gaidzik TREND (Coordination Action)

page 2 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 Interaction with FP6

page 3 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July Gathering of information to asses the general progress in the establishment of an European Railway Area (Implementation of change) -Developing of an evaluation scheme for integration and interoperability ready to be exploited by European Railway Agency (ERA) -Recommendation of a coherent conception of individual actions towards innovative European rail freight services (new concepts for business cases of improved service) -Elaboration of appropriate models for the envisaged Integrated Project as a basis for international co-operation in corridors -Recommendation of suitable corridors, priority themes and players to be involved Main objectives of the TREND project

page 4 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 Consortium HCHaCon Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH - Hannover (DE) KCKombiConsult GmbH - Frankfurt am Main (DE) CDVTransport Research Centre - Brno (CZ) CERCommunity of European Railways - Bruxelles (BE) GCGruppo CLAS - Milano (IT) PTProgTrans AG - Basel (CH) TMTransman Kft - Budapest (HU) UICInternational Union of Railways - Paris (FR) UIRRInternational Union of Combined Road-Rail Transport Companies - Bruxelles (BE) IVEUniversity of Hanover (IVE) - Hannover (DE) Coordinator Contractors

page 5 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 Network of Expertise

page 6 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 Workpackage Overview

page 7 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 Workpackage Overview

page 8 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 Workpackage Overview

page 9 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 Schedule

page 10 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 WP A1 Information Gathering Participants: PT, GC, TM, CDV supported by: CER, UIC, UIRR and additional experts Objectives Focused data collection, on current situation and prospects for the forthcoming changes in the railway business in Europe in selected countries Description of work Detailed concept for knowledge base and investigation programme in legislative and management issues Development of the concept for the evaluation scheme; definition of criteria Elaboration of questionnaires/ interview guideline for different addressees, e.g Government authorities; RU/IM Collection of data, documentation and other information Additional enquiries through targeted interviews Checking completeness and plausibility of country information Output/Results : Country Reports

page 11 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 WP A2 Analysis and Evaluation Participiants: PT, TM supported by: CDV, GC and additional experts Objectives Comparison of different respective organisational forms, stages of integration and reasons for developments (background) Description of work Develop a suitable cross-national evaluation scheme Analysis and validation of results (country specific backgrounds) Identification of links between the various organisational changes and existing/envisaged involvement in international activities/co-operations Evaluation of the reasons for the differences in progress and for pulling down barriers Development of a "best practice" catalogue Output/Results : Overview on analysis and evaluation procedure

page 12 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 WP A3 Conclusions and Recommendations Participants: PT supported by: GC and additional experts Objectives Summary of the results to a comprehensive picture of the change occurring in the rail sector and measures to accelerate the integration process (road map) Description of work Concept for an international intra-industry support scheme to transfer know-how. Draft recommendations for additional legislative and institutional measures at the national level and at the level of the Union in order to accelerate progress Consider the feasibility of an incentive scheme jointly fed by the European Union and the European railway industry. Output/Results : Knowledge base for decision support in legislative and management issues Road Map for measures

page 13 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 WP B1 Methodology / Best Practices Participants: KC supported by: CER, UIC and additional experts Objectives Analysis of existing/envisaged shapes and contents of co-operations in rail freight business based on previous corridor studies Description of work Elaboration and Creation of an examination and evaluation scheme for categorization of barriers/impediments and respectively selected solutions (Benchmark analysis) of the various existing practises. Identification of best practises to overcome administrative, legal, cultural and technological barriers Improved methodology for Corridor Analysis in WP B2 Output/Results : "Best practises" - catalogue and extended methodology (Guideline) for corridor analysis

page 14 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 WP B2 Application to new Corridors Participants: HC, KC supported by: CDV, CER, GC, TM, UIC and additional experts Objectives Choice and Analysis of up to 6 supplementary European freight corridors and recommendation of those most suitable to configure a successful IP Description of work Selection of supplementary important freight corridors Definition of suitable routes Assignment of potential freight flows to the corridors Supplementary data collection Identification of existing barriers for seamless international rail freight service and background Deduction of suitable solutions,e.g. action plans Output/Results: Recommendation of the suitable corridor for the definition of a future successful IP in innovative rail freight services Draft Corridor Reports

page 15 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 WP B3 Innovative Rail Freight Services to targeted Markets Participants: KC, HC, IVE supported by: CER, PT, UIRR and additional experts Objectives Elaboration of business cases for future oriented rail freight services on the corridors recommended in B2. Description of work Determination of the market demand for freight service Deduction of necessary improvements in rail freight service Development of corridor-specific forward-looking and innovative rail freight services Development of supporting measures to facilitate access of third party railway operators/newcomers Deduction and recommendation of suitable corridors and services for implementation Output/Results: Concept for business cases of improved rail freight services Recommendation of suitable corridors

page 16 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 WP B4 Quality Standards IM/IM, RU/RU, RU/CU Participants: UIRR, GC, HC, CER supported by: UIC and additional experts Objectives Development of quality standards for the different relations in rail freight service (CU-RU, RU- RU and RU-IM) Description of work Catalogue of existing agreements and analysis of good practices Development of suitable methods/schemes to meet general market requirements or of comparable approaches Analysis of methodologies to measure quality Definition of quality requirements and suitable general standards for quality agreements between Customer-RU, RU-RU, RU-IM, IM-IM railway supply industry Output/Results: Report on Quality Requirements (including examples of "good practices") Concept for implementation of quality standards to the railway sector to be implemented and demonstrated in the framework of the IP

page 17 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 WP B5 Infrastructure Development Scheme Participants: IVE, HC, CDV, TM, UIC supported by: additional experts Objectives Elaboration of infrastructure related the preparation of the IP and visualisation of results by means of a GIS Description of work Collection and processing of railway infrastructure data (data base) Visualisation of railway infrastructure as well as operation-related parameters Evaluation of the performance of existing infrastructure in respect to new concepts and requirements Output/Results: Display of results from the GIS on the TREND web-site Infrastructure developments schemes in preparation of the IP Geographic Information System (GIS) available for integration of data

page 18 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 WP B6 Business Model for international Co-operation Participants: HC, CER, IVE supported by: UIRR and additional experts Objectives Elaboration of an appropriate business model as a basis for future international co-operation between relevant players Description of work Synthesis of existing examples of best practices from other trades such as forwarding, international postal or airline business Determination of suitable and optional models concerning operational processes and equipment Evaluation of advantages and disadvantages of implementation with respect to the elaborated business cases (B3) Recommendation of further procedures Output/Results: Report containing recommendations of most promising future business models to be demonstrated in the IP

page 19 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 WP B7 Conclusions and Recommendations Participants: KC, HC, UIRR supported by: CDV, CER, GC, PT, TM, UIC, IVE and additional experts Objectives Conclusions and recommendation from all previous work packages with respect to the implementation of change in the European rail freight area to be demonstrated in the recommended IP Description of work Methodological concept for the implementation of change in the European rail freight area Accompanying elaboration of the IP (6/ /2006) Development of a guideline for supporting and accompanying the IP Prerequisites for seamless European Rail freight Services (RFS) Dissemination by World Wide Web, brochures, conferences Output/Results: Report on conclusions and recommendations Guideline for supporting and accompanying the IP

page 20 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 Overview about the TREND Corridors

page 21 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 TREND Corridors

page 22 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 How TREND can support you in Preparing your Proposal? TREND has a fixed content and time frame. TREND presents its deliverables on the TREND web-site. TREND is open to infrastructure managers, railway undertakings, rail freight customers, ports and terminals, railway industry TREND will create an access point where those operational players/actors can submit their solutions and ideas for seamless trans-european freight services You are kindly invited to use the TREND web service at

page 23 TREND-Presentation RRID-Brussels 01 July 2005 Access Point for Proposals of Players/Actors

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