SETRIS delivered its objectives through 5 Work Packages (WPs). There was particular emphasis on urban mobility, cross modal transport infrastructure innovation and long distance passenger and freight as core areas of the synergies approach to updating the transport SRIAs and their implementation plans. To complement this important work, SETRIS also included activities aimed at supporting, shaping and contributing to the future TRA Conference.
WP1 Connecting passengers for seamless travel and sustainable mobility involved all of the ETPs working together, identifying and assessing the level of integration foreseen by the relevant SRIAs when targeting the delivery of a fully connected passenger experience across Europe. With stakeholder and policy maker input, the project has also been developing the definitions of the “truly integrated urban transport system” and “truly integrated long distance passenger transport system”.
Representatives from all transport ETPs have established a ‘cross modal permanent group of stakeholders and experts in long distance freight’ as one of their first results of WP2 End to end logistics. This facilitated consensus on major research and innovation areas that needed to be addressed in order to develop a cross-modal SRIA and Implementation Plan on long distance freight. Also within WP2, the definition of the “truly integrated transport system for logistics” was developed, enabled by the engagement of a wide variety of stakeholders.
WP3 Modal SRIAs and roadmaps provided ACARE, ALICE, ERRAC and Waterborne an opportunity for additional strategy work which is enabled each ETP to consider, individually, issues that remain linked to their specific mode and/or their particular activities. Each ETP’s work is complementing the activity completed under the recent/current respective FP7 CSA’s, leading ultimately to the ETPs jointly addressing further topics with a common level of understanding.
The development, at the beginning of the project, of a Dissemination & Communication Strategy within WP4 brought all of the project partners to the same understanding of the importance for collective action.
TRA is a top transport research event in Europe that complements existing transport research conferences and fora through a strong focus on modal and cross-cutting issues. It gathers representatives of decision makers (both public and private), academia and research implementation bodies to discuss high quality science, relevant policy, industry trends and societal aspects in view to respond to today and tomorrow’s society needs and shape the future of our mobility. SETRIS supported TRA with a dedicated WP5. It has provided the necessary inputs to the preparation of the 2016 (Warsaw) and 2018 (Vienna) conferences by organising the participation of the different ETPs to the different Committees and Conference’s associated exhibition, namely the Organising, Programme and Management Committees.
