Railway research seminar in Moscow
Eric Fontanel
UNIFE General Manager
UNIFE and other recent Russian activities
 UNIFE signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with NP-UIRE at
the end of May 2012
 Memorandum signed by Mr Gapanovitch (RZD) and Mr Poupart-Lafarge
during the “1520” exhibition
 Key objectives: technical cooperation on a number of dedicated topics,
exchange of information (IRIS, ERTMS, High-speed, cross-acceptance,
etc.)
 Final conference of the EU-Russia Industrial Roundtable TF8,
working group on Rail, 23-24 October
 Today: EU-Russia Rail Research Workshop organised with the
European Commission 
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Introduction on UNIFE and EU Research
 The railway supply industry invests around EUR 1000 Million each
year in research and development.
 UNIFE represent an industrial sector which account for a total world market of
EUR 146 Bn and provides 400,000 direct and indirect jobs in Europe
 Innovating and harmonising products and technologies are a
necessity for the rail market to deploy all its potential, and for its
stakeholders to deliver cost-effective services for intermediate and
final clients.
 Rail transport in Europe is a future-oriented industry and is
determined to offer an even more attractive, affordable, safe, clean,
competitive, high capacity and reliable transport mode.
 The rail sector organisations, UNIFE, UIC, CER, EIM, EURNEX and
UITP are cooperating in ERRAC, the European Rail Research
Advisory Council.
ERRAC in brief
 Set up in 2001 to enhance collaborative European rail research by:
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Building consensus among stakeholders.
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Improving synergies between EU, national and private rail research (identify priorities).
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Strengthening and re-organizing research and development efforts.
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Effective pooling of human and material resources.
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Launching ambitious co-operative research plans.
 ERRAC is ruled by a share of Chairmanship between Supply Industries,
Railways operators and academia.
 Today it is chaired by Mr. Josef Doppelbauer (Bombardier Transportation), supported by two
Vice-Chairmen, Mr. Andy Doherty (NetworkRail) and Mr. Manuel Pereira (IST).
Aim ETP (European Commission):
European Technology platforms were set up as a stakeholder for a sector, led
by industry, with the objective of defining medium to long-term research and
technological objectives and laying down markers for achieving them.
ERRAC achievements
ERRAC Core
Business
Vision
SRRA
 ‘Rail 21 Brochure’, presented on
the 8th of March 2006
 Original ERRAC Strategic Rail
Research Agenda (SRRA 2020),
published in 2002
 ‘SRRA 2020’ update, presented
the 27th of June 2007
Roadmaps
 Annual Roadmaps, completed
roadmaps October 2012
 RailRoute2050, published on
October 2011
Significant Industrial
Commitment for R&I:
SHIFT²RAIL Proposal
Rail JTI possibly to
start in 2014
 Awareness and cooperation at
strategic EU level
 Real consensus building and
FP topic sector priorities
definition
 Pre-competitive R&D planning
with sector needs investigation
for usual annual calls for
proposals – input into FP7 /
Horizon2020
 initial vision update and 2050
broad priorities based on
roadmaps – input to STTP
 Risk sharing in pre-competitive
R&I for Demonstrators to increase
EU competitiveness and with
significant ressources commitment –
increased rail role in Horizon2020
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EU co-funded RAIL RESEARCH with
UNIFE involvement
20 Running Projects: about 170 M €
About 200 participants including 32 Unife members
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Running Projects coordinated by UNIFE
Running Projects supported by UNIFE:
What are the upcoming industrial EU
Research projects?
 EU FP7 6th call proposals (to be submitted by November 14th and to
start in mid/end 2015):
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ERTMS/CBTC proposal called NGTC (coordinated by UNIFE)
Composite Carbody Shell proposal (coordinated by UNIFE)
Infrastructure and Freight (UNIFE support in dissemination)
Infrastructure and noise (UNIFE support in dissemination)
ERRAC-Roadmaps continuation and SHIFT²RAIL link
 Horizon2020 (from 2014):
 Continuation of FP call projects and – pending submission of the JTI
SHIFT²RAIL by the European Commission requesting the approval of
Council of Ministers – Creation of a Joint Undertaking and Launch of
related EU Research Project Demonstrations lead by industry (up to TRL
6-7 and 1Bn euros investment over 6/7 years)
Structure of SHIFT²RAIL
 SHIFT²RAIL is one coherent and flexible research instrument managed in a
Joint Undertaking to effectively implement the Horizon 2020 activities and
objectives
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What will SHIFT²RAIL deliver by 2020?
 Implementable results through a long-term strategic programme built around
key research clusters segmented in 5 Innovation Programs:
• IP1 - Energy & Mass Efficient Technologies for High Capacity Green Trains
• IP2 - Advance Traffic Management & Control Systems for the Improvement of Mainline
& Urban Rail Capacity & Resilience
• IP3 - The Cost efficient - High Capacity Green Infrastructure
• IP4 - The IT Solutions for a Seamless Attractive Railway Transport System
• IP5 - The Technologies for Sustainable & Attractive European Freight Transport
 For each IPs Technology Demonstrators, each addressing specific topics,
will integrate innovative technologies and develop prototypes tested in labs
to generate future competitive sub-systems.
 All innovations from all IPs are validated, tested, and combined in a real rail
environment to demonstrate the expected benefits at system level: we call
that System Platform Demonstrations. Five System Platform
Demonstrations will be developed on HIGH SPEED, URBAN/SUBURBAN,
REGIONAL, FREIGHT TRAIN, and INFRASTRUCTURE platforms.
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SHIFT2RAIL Innovation Examples
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Mass efficiency of passenger cars through use of new materials, smarter and less aggressive running
gears, improved efficiency of innovative traction and braking systems, etc.
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Next generation of ERTMS with traffic Management functionalities, interoperability between main line
and urban rail traffic, etc.
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New innovative switches and crossings, innovative track design and materials, intelligent
maintenance, etc.
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Seamless ticketing, advanced targeted passenger information systems, multimodal demand
management, etc.
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Smart interoperable rail freight with new generation of the electro-pneumatic and disc brakes, new
automatic couplers, etc.
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BACKGROUND
INFORMATION on EU
running projects Coordinated
by UNIFE or with UNIFE
participation
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1. Rolling stock / greening
related projects (10)
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Ongoing projects:
UNIFE coordinated
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Ongoing projects:
UNIFE coordinated
 Coordinated by UNIFE
 Technical Leader: Vossloh ; Chairmanship: Bombardier
 Duration: 48 months (June 2009 – May 2013)
 Budget: 13.5 million EUR (8.0 million EUR funded by the European
Commission)
 Partners: 25 companies (including 6 UNIFE members: Alstom,
Vossloh, Bombardier, Siemens, Voith Turbo, Saft)
 Objective: to develop, improve and integrate emissions reduction
technologies for diesel rail vehicles
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Ongoing projects:
UNIFE coordinated
 Coordinated by UNIFE
 Chairmanship by GHH-Valdunes, Vice-Chairmanship by SNCF
 Duration: 36 months – November 2010 –October 2013
 Budget: 4.8 million EUR (2.8 million EUR funded by the European
Commission)
 Partners: 23 companies (including 8 UNIFE members: ALSTOM,
ANSALDOBREDA, BONATRANS, CAF, LUCCHINI RS, MER MEC, RAFIL,
GHH-Valdunes)
 Objectives: new or revised standards for design and maintenance of
railway axles
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Ongoing projects:
UNIFE coordinated
 Coordinated by UNIFE
 Technical Leaders: Bombardier (AeroTRAIN); Alstom & Siemens
(DynoTRAIN); Deutschebahn (PantoTRAIN)
 Duration: Aero and Panto: 36 months, June 2009 – May 2012;
Dyno: 48 months, June 2009 – May 2013
 Budget: 13.23 million EUR (8 million EUR funded by the European
Commission)
 Partners: 30 (including 5 UNIFE members: ALSTOM, BOMBARDIER,
ANSALDOBREDA, SIEMENS, CAF)
 Practical implementation of interoperability through the development of
a faster, cheaper and better certification and authorisation process for
railway vehicles.
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Ongoing projects:
UNIFE coordinated
 Coordinated by UNIFE
 Technical Leader: SNCF
 Duration: 36 months, October 2011 – September 2014
 Budget: 3.7 million EUR ( 2.1 million EUR funded by the
European Commission)
 Partners: 18 (including 3 UNIFE members: ALSTOM,
BOMBARDIER, SIEMENS)
 Objective is to harmonise and reduce the certification
process of rail vehicles for Electromagnetic Compatibility.
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Ongoing projects:
UNIFE coordinated
 Coordinated by UNIFE
 Technical Leader: SNCF and Bombardier
 Duration: 36 months, October 2011 – September 2014
 Budget: 3.2 million EUR ( 2.1 million EUR funded by the
European Commission)
 Partners: 15 (including 4 UNIFE members: BOMBARDIER,
ALSTOM, VIBRATEC, ABB)
 Seeks to simplify and improve acoustic certification process
of new rolling stock, in particular relating to TSI Noise.
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Ongoing projects:
UNIFE coordinated
 Coordinated by UNIFE
 Technical Leader: AREVA ; Chairmanship: Alstom
 Duration: 36 months (January 2012 – December 2014)
 Budget: 7.3 million EUR (4.3 million EUR funded by the European
Commission)
 Partners: 17 companies (including 5 UNIFE members: ALSTOM,
ANSALDO STS, CAF, SIEMENS, SAFT)
 Objective: Optimal Strategies to Innovate and Reduce energy
consumption In urban rail Systems by: implementing technological and
operational solutions and tools, whilst testing/demonstrating/assessing
their individual and combined benefits in real case scenarios.
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Ongoing projects:
UNIFE coordinated
 Coordinated by UNIFE
 Technical Leader: CAF
 Duration: 2012 – 2015
 Budget: 7 million EUR
 Partners: 19 companies (including 7 UNIFE members : ALSTOM,
ANSALDO STS, CAF, MER MEC, OLTIS, ANSALDOBREDA, SIEMENS)
 to investigate and demonstrate the viability of an integrated
management system to achieve a more sustainable and optimised
energy usage in European electric mainline railway systems.
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by LNE – technical leader: LS Fire
 Duration: 42 months –April 2009 – October 2012
 Budget: 5.5 million EUR (3.6 million EUR funded by the European
Commission)
 Partners: 21 companies (including 4 UNIFE members: Siemens,
Bomabardier, Alstom, AnsaldoBreda)
 to develop a holistic approach of fire safety-performance baseddesign methodology able to support efficiently European surface
transport standardisation.
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by LNE – technical leader: LS Fire
 Duration: September 2008 – September 2012
 Budget: 5.74 million EUR
 Partners: 22 companies (including 4 UNIFE members: Alstom,
Thales, Dimetronic, Ansaldo STS)
 to take research of major steps of the Safety Life Cycle of urban
guided transport systems in Europe. Even if the rail safety
landscape of urban guided transport is highly diversified, the sector
will benefit greatly from further levels of harmonisation in safety
assessment and safety approval processes.
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by CEIT
 Duration: 2012 – 2015
 Budget: 3,25 million EUR
 Partners: 8 companies (including 2 UNIFE members: Alstom,
Knorr-Bremse)
 to prove that linear eddy-current brake (ECB) is a very effective
and applicable solution for increasing the braking capacity of new
high speed trains and solving the concerns raised by
infrastructure managers by proposing concrete and realistic
solutions to overcome the drawbacks that ECB have experienced
on some lines.
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2. Infrastructure related
projects (3)
17th June 2010
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by PRORAIL – technical leader: PRORAIL
 Duration: 36 months –February 2011 – January 2014
 Budget: 4.5 million EUR (3 million EUR funded by the European
Commission)
 Partners: 18 companies (including 4 UNIFE members: Strukton
Rail, MER MEC, Vossloh Cogifer, EFRTC)
 AutoMain aims to develop step-change solutions that allow the
execution of railway infrastructure maintenance in such a way
that the railway service in unimpeded, leaving maximum capacity
for night time rail freight transport
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by UIC – technical leader: DB
 Duration: 36 months –January 2011 – December 2013
 Budget: 8.2 million EUR (5 million EUR funded by the European
Commission)
 Partners: 26 companies (including 5 UNIFE members: Vibratec,
Rail.One, Alstom, Bombardier, Lucchini RS)
 RIVAS' aims to reduce the environmental impact of ground-borne
vibration while safe-guarding the commercial competitiveness of
the railway sector
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by Consorzio TRAIN
 Duration: 48 months –June 2011 – May 2015
 Budget: 9.5 million EUR (6.6 million EUR funded by the European
Commission)
 Partners: 31 companies (including 4 UNIFE members: Lucchini RS,
Faiveley, Mer Mec, Corus)
 Objective: To increase the SUSTAINABILITY, COMPETITIVENESS
and AVAILABILITY of European railway networks.
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3. Security related projects (2)
17th June 2010
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by Thales
 Duration: 42 months – April 2011– October 2014
 Budget: 40 million EUR
 Partners: 40 (including 4 UNIFE members: Thales, Alstom, Ansaldo
STS, Bombardier)
 A demonstration project with aim to develop and provide a set of
solutions and tools to improve urban security.
 Project latest: Demonstration scenarios are being refined. Demo’s
planned to take place throughout 2013.
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by Ansaldo STS
 Duration: 42 months – September 2011– March 2014
 Budget: 21.8 million EUR
 Partners: 29 (including 5 UNIFE members: Thales, Alstom, Ansaldo
STS, Bombardier, MER MEC)
 To provide an integrated set of security solutions for the railways
reflecting the needs and requirements of the stakeholders.
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4. Freight related projects (2)
17th June 2010
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by New Opera
 Duration: 36 months – April 2011– October 2014
 Budget: 4.3 million EUR
 Partners: 16 companies (including 4 UNIFE members: Faiveley,
Vossloh, Alstom, Cerontech)
 Enhance the performance and attraction of rail freight services to
potential customers through faster, longer and heavier freight
trains.
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by NewOpera
 Duration: October 2009 – December 2013
 Budget: 19,5 million EUR
 Partners: 20 companies
 to develop the necessary step changes for providing a solution to
EU ports and road congestion in order to keep the traffic moving
through the European ports, to increase rail freight's market share
and improving the Rail Network productivity.
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5. Transverse related projects (2)
17th June 2010
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Ongoing projects
 Coordinated by UIC, co-leadership by UNIFE
 Duration: 2009 –2012
 Budget: 1,5 million EUR
 The ERRAC Roadmap is a 3 years-project which aims at
coordinating various issues in relation with the rail research
activities. The main aim is to draft a strategic plan to turn ERRAC
2020 Vision into reality.
www.errac.org
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Ongoing projects
 Transport Research Arena 2012 – Athens – April 2012
 Contact Point: Léa PATIES
 Duration: 24 months – January 2011 – December 2012
 Funding: 800.000 EUR
 Partners: European Technology Platforms (Surface Transport)
 UNIFE was present in Athens with all its EU projects and
RAILENERGY, PM’n’IDEA, TRIOTRAIN and PROTECTRAIL where
presented at the UNIFE or European Commission stands.
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