Advisory Group for Rail Research and Innovation

EU RESEARCH - COMPLETED PROJECTS

AJOIN: Crashworthiness of joints in aluminium rail vehicles

ART – DEXA: Advanced regeneration technologies for diesel exhaust particulate after treatment

BONDSHIP: Bonding of lightweight materials for cost effective production of high speed craft and passenger ships

CALM: Community noise research strategy plan

CARGOSPEED: CargoSpeed cargo rail road interchange at speed

CO-ACT: Creating viable concepts for combined air/rail cargo transport

COMBINE2: Enhanced control centres for fixed and moving block signalling systems

CONVURT: Control of vibration from underground rail traffic

CORRUGATION: Wheel rail corrugation in urban transport

CRICE: Common rail based improved combustion for low emissions

CROSSRAIL: Integrating local and regional rail incl cross border aspects

DARTS: Durable and reliable tunnel structures

EDIP: On-board radio-based control of multiple-locomotive freight trains for trans-European operation

EMC-ARTS: Electromagnetic compatibility of advanced rail transport signalling

ERRVIN: Managing the dynamic interaction between the vehicle and the infrastructure

ESCUGIBRI: Esc user group and infobank to support rail interoperability

EUDD: European driver’s desk

EUROMAIN: European railway open maintenance system

F.MAN: Rail car asset management

GADEROS: Galileo demonstrator for railway operation system

GLORIA: Gnss & L Oran-c in road and rail applications

HARMONOISE: Harmonised, accurate and reliable prediction methods for the eu directive on the assessment and management of environmental noise

HIPERTRACK: High performance rail tracks

HIPERWHEEL: Development of an innovative high-performance railway wheelset

HYCOPRO: Design of an advanced composite production process for the systematic manufacture of a very large monocoque hybrid sandwich structures for transport sectors – hycoprod

INFRA-STAR: Improving railway infrastructure productivity by sustainable two-material rail development

IN.HO.TRA: Integration of interoperable intermodal horizontal transhipment techniques in intermodal transport operations

INTRANSET: Network of European medium and large-scale transport research facilities operators

JOERG: Fail-safe control system for electric guided vehicles with short headways

LIBERTIN: Light rail thematic network

LIGHT & SAFE: Weight reduction for safer, affordable passenger cars by using extra formable high strength austenitic steel

Fuel-cell – Flywheel hybrid vehicle

Development of tamper proof measuring/sampling device for use in loading road and rail tankers and in other industries

Rail sector framework and tools for standardising and improving usability of environmental performance indicators and data formats

LOCOPROL: Low-cost satellite based train location system for signalling and train protection for low density railway lines

OPTIRAILS II: Optimisation of rail traffic on European corridors through ERTMS/ETML (working out of system requirement specifications)

PROMAIN: Progress in European maintenance and management of railway infrastructure

RAIL: Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) approach for the infrastructure and logistics of the railway operation

RAIL INSPECT: Train mounted sensors and systems for the inspection of rails

RAILSERVE: Thematic network on rail freight services

REOST: Railway electro optical system for safe transportation

SAFETRAM: Passive safety of tramway for Europe

SANDWICH: Advanced composite sandwich steel structures

SIRTAKE: Safety improvement in road and rail tunnels using advanced ICT and knowledge intensive DSS

SMITS: Smart monitoring in train systems

STAIRRS: Strategies and tools to assess and implement noise reducing measures for railway systems

TRAINCOM: Integrated communication system for intelligent train applications

TRAINSAFE: Railway interoperable manufacture and modular safety

TRAINSMEC: Durability and reliability of railway wheel sets

UPTUN: Cost-effective, sustainable and innovative upgrading methods for fire safety in existing tunnels