Europe’s Rail Flagship Project 4 - Sustainable and green rail systems

Project Information

FP4 - Rail4EARTH

Grant agreement ID: 101101917

DOI

10.3030/101101917

EC signature date 15 December 2022

Start date 1 December 2022

End date 30 November 2026

Funded under

• Climate, Energy and Mobility

Total cost

No data

EU contribution

€ 38 386 394,04

Coordinated by

ALSTOM TRANSPORT SA
France

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (6)

Dissemination activities (Including Project KPI Update) Intermediate Report n°1

Including exhaustive list of communication actions done the first 16 Months

Energy Management & Pre-Standardisation for Alternative drive trains and related railway system intermédiate report n°1

Intermediate results of WP1

Roadmap for sustainable interiors final report

List of actions: ideas and knowledge to develop during the Call 1 and next calls

Improved aerodynamic, development & demonstration intermédiate report n°1

Intermediate results of WP20

Dissemination and exploitation plan

Set up a dissemination and exploitation plan for the project

Sustainable Interiors, knowledge and opportunities intermédiate report n°1

Intermediate results of WP24

Publications

Conference proceedings (1)

A Sensitivity Analysis for Power Profile Modeling: A Case Study of Dutch DC Railway Networks

Author(s): Julian Rojas, Sebastian Rivera, Ibrahim Diab, Pavol Bauer
Published in: 2024 International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPEEDAM61530.2024.10609083

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Optimizing Regeneration Energy Usage on Railways: Innovative Approaches to R&D Project Management

Author(s): Valeriy Kuznetsov, Petro Hubskyi, Anna Kacprzak, Renata Barcikowska
Published in: EUROPEAN RESEARCH STUDIES JOURNAL, Issue XXVII, 2024, ISSN 1108-2976
Publisher: ISMA SYC INT
DOI: 10.35808/ERSJ/3403

A comparison of PM concentration on different underground metro station platforms

Author(s): Minghui Tu, Ulf Olofsson
Published in: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Issue 144, 2025, ISSN 1361-9209
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.TRD.2025.104766

Selecting suitable indicators for the design of eco-labels for the European railway sector: a case study

Author(s): Célia Cannappah, Shantal Kartoidjojo, Willem Haanstra, Jan Braaksma
Published in: Procedia CIRP, Issue 135, 2025, ISSN 2212-8271
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.PROCIR.2024.12.017

Understanding the goals and needs for the use of eco-labels in the European railway sector

Author(s): Célia Cannappah, Willem Haanstra, Jan Braaksma
Published in: Procedia CIRP, Issue 122, 2024, ISSN 2212-8271
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.PROCIR.2024.01.064

Preliminary Analysis and Possibilities of Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Embedded Materials on the Example of Innovative Systemic Railway Stations (ISS)

Author(s): Marta Thomas, Maria Ratajczak, Agnieszka Ślosarczyk
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 16, 2024, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/SU162310345

Progress and Challenges Connected with the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources with Railway Distribution Networks

Author(s): Valeriy Kuznetsov, Petro Hubskyi, Artur Rojek, Magdalena Udzik, Krzysztof Lowczowski
Published in: Energies, Issue 17, 2024, ISSN 1996-1073
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/EN17020489

Trade-offs in the collaborative design of a B2B eco-label for the European railway sector

Author(s): Célia Cannappah, Willem Haanstra, Jan Braaksma
Published in: Procedia CIRP, Issue 136, 2025, ISSN 2212-8271
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.PROCIR.2025.08.025

A pre-failure narrow concrete cracks dataset for engineering structures damage classification and segmentation

Author(s): Karolina Tomaszkiewicz, Tomasz Owerko
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41597-023-02839-Z

Dataset on hydraulic burst pressure test of Type IV composite pressure vessel

Author(s): Caroline Lüders, Sven Ropte, Daniel Schmidt, Martin Liebisch
Published in: Data in Brief, Issue 59, 2025, ISSN 2352-3409
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.DIB.2025.111333

Other (6)

Europe’s Rail FP4- Rail4EARTH Sustainable Rail Systems Progress Point of the European R&D Program

Author(s): Laurent Nicod, Philippe Clément
Published in: Lecture Notes in Mobility, Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-89444-2_5

New Attractiveness of Rolling Stock: Circular and Modular Interiors

Author(s): Robert Dumortier, Eduardo De La Guerra Ochoa
Published in: Lecture Notes in Mobility, Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-89444-2_43

From Shift2Rail to Europe’s Rail, Future Perspectives for Alternative Drive Trains Standardizations and Energy Efficiency

Author(s): André Chamaret, Jürgen Ernst, Sergio Fernandez
Published in: Lecture Notes in Mobility, Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-89444-2_50

Assessing the Perceived Annoyance of High-Speed Trains with an Experience Sampling Method

Author(s): Maël Roux, Guillaume Lemaitre, Chrystèle Philipps-Bertin, Olivier Chiello, Pierre Aumond, Arnaud Can
Published in: Lecture Notes in Mobility, Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility, 2024
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-95284-5_9

Estimating PM Levels on an Underground Metro Platform by Exploring a New Model-Based Factor Research

Author(s): Minghui Tu, Ulf Olofsson
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.4632744

Influence of the Airflow Concept on the Aerosol Spreading in a Generic Train Compartment

Author(s): Daniel Schiepel, André Volkmann, Daniel Schmeling
Published in: Lecture Notes in Mobility, Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88974-5_60