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22/12/2017 Warmest Season greetings from the ECTRI Team!
22/12/2017 ECTRI @ TRB 2018. The 97th Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. on January 7–11, 2018. The Conference attracts more than 13,000 transportation professionals from around the world and this year the spotlight theme is “Transportation: Moving the Economy of the Future”.
This year again ECTRI will contribute to the Conference by supporting a number of sessions and giving a European flavour to the Annual Meeting. A detailed list of supported events will be release in the first week of January.
20/12/2017 The 18th International Multi-Conference “Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication” (RelStat-2018) will take place in Riga (Latvia), October 17-20 organised by ECTRI Member TTI. Abstract submission is now open. http://relstat2018.tsi.lv/
11/12/2017 SAVE THE DATE: 18th International Conference on Transport Science (ICTS 2018) will be held in Portrož, Slovenia on June 14-15 2018, co-organized by ECTRI Member University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport. Registration will open January-February 2018. http://icts.sdzp.org/
04/12/2017 European Transport Research Review Journal Volume 9 Number 4 is now available online. In this issue, 9 original articles in open access. Special mention to ECTRI's Members articles :
Taylor, N.B., Olstam, J., Bernhardsson, V. et al. Modelling delay saving through pro-active incident management techniques
Fossheim, K. & Andersen, J. Plan for sustainable urban logistics – comparing between Scandinavian and UK practices
Read the full issue here.
01/12/2017 ITF Stakeholder Consultation Day, December 1 in Paris. Once more ECTRI invited to the ITF Stakeholder Consultation Day to provide inputs to ITF’s current priority issues, safety and security in transport, and how to address them. This input will help to shape the programme of the 2018 Summit on that theme, to be held from 23-25 May 2018. C. Alméras, ECTRI Secretary General will be taking ECTRI's views to ITF 2018 “Interdisciplinary research in safety and security is crucial to realise not only today's vision of safe and secure transport but to meet the increasing needs for mobility of the European society.”
01/12/2017 ECTRI Thematic Group on Security and Risk Analysis meeting at ECTRI offices, November 30-December 1. The group met to review their scope, identify common interests, present their current research and is now working towards the next H2020 transport calls.
  
30/11/2017 ECTRI Thematic Group on Safety meeting at ECTRI offices, November 29-30. The group with a new leadership team reviewed their scope, identified common interests, presented their current research and is now working towards the next H2020 transport calls.
 
30/11/2017 EGVIA - ERTRAC 1st European Conference Results from Road Transport Research in H2020 projects, November 29-30 in Brussels. Several ECTRI Members were present at ERTRAC & EGVIA 1st European conference showcasing the results of selected Horizon 2020 funded projects on road transport. Among those, FIVE-VB, HELIS, ALISE, TIMON (coordinated by ECTRI Member Desuto), EBSF_2, SafetyCube, XCYCLE, PROSPECT, INDEv, SENIORS (coordinated by ECTRI Member BASt), OPTEMUS, JOSPEL, XERIC, CITYBLAB (coordinated by ECTRI Member TØI), NOVELOG (HIT), EU-LIVE, RESOLVE, Silver Stream, ECOCHAMPS, GasOn, ELIPTIC and FLOW. Presentations will be made available soon on the conferecne website.
29 /11/2017 ECTRI Autumn Assemly of Members, November 27-28 in Bilbao. ECTRI Members gathered in Bilbao for the ECTRI Autumn Assemly of Members, hosted by ECTRI Member Deusto/DeustoTech. The first day of meeting started with R. Cortazar Goicoechea, Vice-Dean of the host organisation which presented the Deusto University and in more detail the Faculty of Engineering. The meeting continued with the follow up of ECTRI’s Implementation and Action Plan and the management of the association, with special presentations of E. Bekiaris, on SKILLFUL project “Future Requirements & Training Challenges in Transport Research“ and the ETRR Journal Editorial progress report by K. Geurs, ETRR Editor in Chief. To close the day, Prof. Gunnar Prause from Tallinn University of Technology was invited to present the "Transport research in Estonia: governance, key topics and projects". The second day was dedicated to the workshop organised by the host on ongoing ITS research and projects. ECTRI thanks thanks Deusto and all its Members for another successful and productive meeting. Photo gallery of the meeting is available in the Flickr album.
 
23/11/2017 C. Alméras, ECTRI Secretary General is today at the European Parliament for the workshop on the "Practical aspects of the proposed Mobility Package from a company perspective", organised by the EPP Group to discuss the future orientation of transport in Europe.
23/11/2017 Register today and join us at TRA 2018 — the most important transport research event in Europe for researchers, experts, operators, industry and policy-makers — to be held on 16-19th April in Vienna, Austria. http://www.traconference.eu/registration/
21/11/2017 2nd Innovation Sessions – "Industrial Digitalization & European Mobility", November 21 in Brussels. The event brings together key actors from the European Institutions and main stakeholders from both public and private sector. ECTRI Secretary General will be presenting ECTRI and ECTRI Members Urban Mobility projects at the Theme 1 Session on Urban Mobility. See full programme here.
31/10/2017 MOBI Open vacancy for a PhD researcher position - Associate Academic Staff (full time) in the field of mobility and logistics. Applications can only be submitted online (via the website of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and deadline for application is 30/11/2017. More info.
23/10/2017 Want to know what were the most influential articles of 2016 published in European Transport Research Review? Check them out below, ranked by its Altmetric score.
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20/10/2017 SKILLFUL hold its 1st Conference, October 20 in Brussels. It gathered 45 people from a diverse range of backgrounds, among project partners and external participants. The first part included presentations from SKILLFUL Advisory Board Members, on examples and practices from extra-European countries.
G. Giannopoulos, former CERTH-HIT Director and President of SKILLFUL Advisory Board, on “Innovation gaps and game changers in transport – impacts on future transport research”
L. McGinnis, Director at Center for Transportation Studies of University of Minnesota, o n“National Network for the Transportation Workforce”
S. Qiu, Professor at Beijing University of Technology, on“Synthetized Development of Urban Transportation and Municipal Infrastructure in China”
Furthermore, results of the first year of the project as well as the future plans which included an overview of the planned pilot tests were presented and discussed with the participants.
Browse the photo album below for highlights from the event: https://flic.kr/s/aHskZfttz5
19/10/2017 SKILLFUL 2nd Plenary, October 19 in Brussels. The project partners gathered to review work done since the last Plenary and to plan the upcoming tasks and deliverables. The same day it took place the Advisory Board meeting, where WP leaders and coordinators presented the progress and initial findings and discussed with the international members, examples and practices from extra-European countries.
16/10/2017 ECTRI invites the transport research community for the 2nd AUTONOMY SUMMIT. ECTRI and Autonomy are partners for the second edition of the Urban Mobility Summit 2017 which takes place at La Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris from 19 to 21 October 2017.More info and registration: https://www.autonomy.paris/
09/10/2017 Don't forget to register for the 1st SKILLFUL project Conference, taking place in Brussels on October 20. The aim of the conference is to present the results of the first year of the project as well as the future plans which includes an overview of the planned pilot tests. The conference aims to gather the views of end-users (SMEs, research centres, universities etc), suppliers (training centres etc) as well as policy makers so that they are able to influence the project outcomes. The conference is free but places are limited, so registration is required. To register, please follow the link.
05/10/2017 TG Traffic Management meeting, October 5, 2017. The new team of the TG Traffic Management met today at the ECTRI offices to review their scope, identify common interests on the next H2020 calls and to present recent research work.
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05/10/2017 ECTRI Board meeting, October 4, 2017. The ECTRI Board met at the ECTRI offices to discuss the management of the association, the implementation plan and review current major actions, in view of the Autumn Assembly, to take place on November 27-28 in Bilbao (Spain), hosted by ECTRI Member DEUSTO.
25/09/2017 ECTRI featured in TR News. ECTRI and TRB MoU signature at TRB 2017 highlighted in March-April 2017 edition of TR News. Read it and download it here.
21/09/2017 ECTRI Thematic Groups Economics & Policy and Mobility meeting, September 21-22, 2017.TG EcoPol and TG Mobility are meeting today and tomorrow at the ECTRI offices, working towards a successful participation in H2020 calls and making an impact on transport research at EU level.
 
19/09/2017 The European Court of Auditors published today a Landscape Review: EU action on energy and climate change identifying seven main challenges, where EU should act to tackle climate change. These being: Energy and climate change governance; Evidence-based policy; The energy transition; Using research and innovation effectively; Planning for and tackling adaptation; Financing; and Involving EU citizens.
C. Alméras, ECTRI Secretary-General was invited to the ECA stakeholders’ meetingto discuss the Review outcomes. ECTRI welcomes the initiative by the ECA and considered that the messages derived from the Review are well chosen. The Review well states that the trend is serious and that transport has a large share of the problem; the summary of what the EU is doing in transport shows a number of failures in legislation. Against this background, the limited number of audits in the transport sector is somehow surprising and could therefore be called upon; Otherwise, on the main challenges part, ECTRI supports that a strong focus is given to evidence based policy, R&I and adaptation, but also believe that transport, considering the alarming situation, could have been given a bigger focus.
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18/09/2017 SKILLFUL WP 3 meeting in Rome. SKILLFUL WP 3 "Novel curricula and training courses" partners met today, September 18 in Rome to review activities and discuss next steps. ECTRI is leading task A 3.3 Young Researchers Seminars and working towards the needs recognized in the previous WP 1 & WP 2.
14/09/2017 Register today for the 1st SKILLFUL project Conference, taking place in Brussels on October 20. The aim of the conference is to present the results of the first year of the project as well as the future plans which includes an overview of the planned pilot tests. The conference aims to gather the views of end-users (SMEs, research centres, universities etc), suppliers (training centres etc) as well as policy makers so that they are able to influence the project outcomes.
13/09/2017 1st Pan-European SAFE STRIP Workshop. The SAFE STRIP project Consortium, where ECTRI Member HIT is partner, will organize its 1st Pan-European Workshop to be held on September 27 in Thessaloniki, 9:30 am - 2:30 pm. Entry for the workshop is free. See the workshop programme here. Register here for the SAFE STRIP Workshop!
12/09/2017 ECTRI Member HIT/CERTH and HITE co-organise the 8th International Congress on Transportation Research (ICTR ‘17)
The Congress which will take place at the CERTH Congress Centre in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 27-29 September 2017, under the spotlight theme: ‘The Future of Transportation: A Vision for 2030’.
The main aim of ICTR is to host innovative research and development work in the field of transportation systems, operations and infrastructures, in Greece and abroad. Key objectives encompass to showcase recent top-notch research activities in transportation, merge research findings and policy making tasks, facilitate the exchange of knowledge in the local and international level and draw conclusions and shape recommendations on the future of transportation.
The Draft Congress Programme, as well as detailed information on ICTR 2017, is available through the Congress website: www.ictr.gr.!
HIT/CERTH and HITE look forward to welcoming you in Thessaloniki!
11/09/2017 New issue of the European Transport Research Review is now available! In this issue, browse through and download for free 15 original articles. Do not miss ECTRI's Members articles and many more. Enjoy the reading!
08/09/2017 Back to the Future! Program for ECTRI Member VUB-MOBI’s 2017 seminar announced! The Seminar is taking place on October 26th in Brussels under the theme Future of Urban Mobility. Programme and registration are available at the event page.
07/09/2017 Become a Reviewer of the TRA2018! Due to the high number of abstract submissions TRA 2018 is still looking for reviewers with high expertise in various fields of transport research for the full paper review phase. Your support is highly appreciated! More info
01/09/2017 The 2nd Call for Interest for Interactive Zone at TRA 2018 is open till 15 September 2017. The Interactive Zone offers a great chance to interactively present state of the art research and technologies to the participants and the media. Go and submit your ideas for showcases here.
29/08/2017 ETC 2017 Value of Time Seminar. ECTRI Members CENIT, DLR and VUB will be presenting & discussing recent developments in the value of time at ETC 2017 Value of Time Seminar, taking place in Barcelona from 4 to 6 of October 2017. More information
28/08/2017 TG Traffic Management have attentively followed the implementation of the ITS Directive and Action Plan and have provide inputs to the questions raised on the Public Consultation on the provision of EU-wide multimodal travel information services under the ITS Directive 2010/40/EU2 in September 2016. Following up on previous contributions, the TG Traffic Management provided some inputs to the questions raised by DG MOVE on the evaluation of the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Directive (Directive 2010/40/EU) with deadline on 28/07/2017.
Read it here: “Public Consultation on the evaluation of the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Directive” July 2017
21/08/2017 The SKILLFUL project (skillfulproject.eu) organizes a Workshop titled “Future Requirements & Training Challenges in Road Transport Employment“ on September 26 in Thessaloniki, Greece (10.00-13.00), hosted by HIT. Click on the link for the programme and registration. ECTRI and ECTRI Members HIT, UNEW, VTT, IFSTTAR, POLITO, UNIZA and VGTU are involved as partners.
16/08/2017 Don’t forget to register for the SKILLFUL project conference, taking place on October 20th 2017 in Brussels.For more information or to register, contact Project Officer Claudia Ciuca at claudia.ciuca@fehrl.org or see the SKILLFUL website.
04/08/2017 SETRIS and SKILLFUL featured on the 10th FIRM magazine. Look for the articles on SETRIS project (pages 6-9) and SKILLFUL project (page 15) and read about their impact on the EU transport research and their upcoming activities.
31/07/2017 ALLIANCE project 1st Summer School took place with great success! From the 16th to 22nd July, 2017 in Riga (Latvia) 25 young researchers from Latvia, Lithuania, Greece and Germany participated in the Summer School entitled: “Sustainable Transport Interchanges Program (STIP) – Part I: Freight Transportation”. This event was organized by ECTRI Members TTI and Fraunhofer-IFF, with partner TTLog. Read more about here.
10/07/2017 TRA VISIONS 2018 - Extended deadline for the Young Researcher Competition. Deadline for TRA VISIONS 2018 Young Researchers competition now extended to the end of October 2017! See here for more details on how to submit your abstract!
06/07/2017 ETRR EiC interview on SpringerOpen blog. Karst Geurs, the Editor-in-Chief of the European Transport Research Review journal was interviewed by the SpringerOpen team. Among other things, he talked about his new role and his ambitions for the journal. Read the article here.
05/07/2017 ECTRI is now member of ERRAC! The European Rail Research Advisory Council (ERRAC) Steering Committee has announced ECTRI as new member. ERRAC was set up in 2001 with the ambitious goal of creating a single European body with both the competence and capability to help revitalise the European rail sector and make it more competitive, by fostering increased innovation and guiding research efforts at European level. ECTRI will be joining ERRAC’s activities with the commitment of providing scientifically based competence, knowledge and advice to move towards a green, safe, efficient, and inclusive transport for people and goods.
28/06/2017 New ERTRAC Automated Driving Roadmap. The European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC) has presented its new roadmap on automated driving. The roadmap describes automated driving as one of the key technologies and major technological advancements influencing and shaping our future mobility and quality of life. ERTRAC defines safety, efficiency, comfort, social inclusion and accessibility as the main drivers of this development. They argue that automated driving must therefore take a key role in the European Transport policy, since it can support several of its objectives and societal challenges, such as road safety, congestion, decarbonisation, social inclusiveness, etc. As a European Technology Platform, ERTRAC gathers experts from the industry, research providers and public authorities. The first “Automated Driving Roadmap” of ERTRAC was issued in July 2015 and requested a complete update to cope with the many developments that happened since then. The new version presents updated definitions and development paths, an updated list of EU and international activities, and an extended list of R&D challenges. Read it here.
27/06/2017 ETRR Journal increases Impact Factor! ECTRI and Springer are pleased to report that ETRRjournal 2016 Impact Factor is 0.962! Thanks to all authors, editors, reviewers and readers for their contribution.
27/06/2017 ETRA predicts a revolution in mobility. Read here ETRA partners views on A Digital Era for Transport and the Transport Research Arena 2018 (TRA2018) in Vienna.
14/06/2017 ETRR journal, Topical collection on accessibility and policy making now published. Read the editorial by A. Condeço-Melhorado & K. Geurs (ETRR Editor-in-Chief) and all the original papers here.
14/06/2017 First SKILLFUL project newsletter now published. Click here to read about project activities, current status and events planned.
12/06/2017 SAVE THE DATE & REGISTER for the 1st SKILLFUL conference, October 20, 2017 in Brussels. The aim of the conference is to present the results of the first year of the project as well as the future plans which includes an overview of the planned pilot tests. The second goal is to gather the views of end-users (SMEs, research centres, universities etc), suppliers (training centres etc) on the first project outcomes.. More info and registration.
09/06/2017 European Transport Research Review: New issue is out! European Transport Research Review, Volume 9, Issue 2 has been fully published. In this issue, browse through and download for free 20 original articles. Do not miss ECTRI's Members articles and many more. Enjoy the reading!
08/06/2017 MyCorridor H2020 project Kick-Off meeting, June 8-9, 2017 @ ECTRI offices. MyCorridor is a H2020 funded initiative exploring the paradigm-shift revolution of Mobility as a Service (MaaS), the research includes investigations on the business models, technological and behavioural challenges of deploying this concept on international corridors. ECTRI Members UNEW (coord) and HIT- CERTH are partners in the consortium. Find out more about the project here.
06/06/2017 ECTRI Board Meeting, June 6, 2017. The ECTRI Board meeting took place yesterday, June 6, by teleconference. The Board members reviewed progress on actions across the implementation plan and lined up next steps for topics, such as, the YRS 2017 evaluation and YRS 2019 hosting, the ITF Summit outcomes, the presence at TRA 2018 and currently running SETRIS and SKILLFUL projects. Furthermore they discussed the management of the association and the membership situation.
02/06/2017 ECTRI @ International Transport Forum’s 2017 Summit. This year again, ECTRI joined business, government leaders and other transport stakeholders to discuss changes underway across the transport sector. The 2017 Summit theme - Governance of Transport – made it clear that a fundamental shift is needed in the way that global transport systems operate. In ECTRI President’s words “The governance of this new transport system has to be different from todays practice and research is needed to find the path towards the new system”. Adding to that “future transport include more interactions between modes, actors and transport types". This coordinated and cohesive approach to research and innovation strategies for all transport modes in Europe is the aim of the running SETRIS project.
This new system is moving towards a sustainable and low-carbon transport and ECTRI, as knowledge partner of the ITF Decarbonising project is committed to support ITF project team to meet the project goal of building capacity to help close the gaps between climate commitments and the CO2 reductions drawn at COP21.
Furthermore, as key governance challenge, ECTRI’s President also voiced that “(...) this new Governance will require a new work force which requires training”. This imperative need for adaptation of training and education content, curricula, tools and methodologies for the professionals in all transports areas is being currently addressed in the context of the SKILLFUL project.
Finally, transport ministers of ITF member countries named Dr. Young Tae Kim the new Secretary-General of the ITF. ECTRI congratulates Dr. Young Tae Kim and looks forward to continuing the fruitful cooperation with ITF and thanks the outgoing Secretary-General Professor José Viegas for the great work done.
Click here for the photo gallery of the event.
30/05/2017 International Transport Forum’s 2017 Summit. The ITF’s 2017 Summit on Governance of Transport is taking place from May 31st to June 2nd in Leipzig, Germany. ECTRI will be represented by the President M. Robinson and the Secretary General C. Alméras. Several ECTRI Members will also be attending the Summit. At ITF 2017, we look forward to the Decarbonising Transport session (May 31), as ECTRI is one of the knowledge partners and to the side event on “Governing the smart mobility transition” organised by WCTRS (June 1), where ECTRI President is one of the speakers. Follow us on Twitter for live updates.
29/05/2017 TRA VISIONS 2018 Young Researchers Competition. Are you a visionary researcher? TRA VISIONS 2018 Competition is waiting for you! The registration will remain open till the end of June 2017. Don't miss your chance to join the competition and register today.
23/05/2017 ETRR Topical collection on Smart cities and transport infrastructures - Only One Week Left to Submit! Call is open until June 1st. More information.
23/05/2017 TUCTE17 SKILLFUL - Session C, May 23, 2017. After presentation of SKILLFUL first project results, TUCTE17 Session C “FUTURE TRANSPORT EDUCATION” participants exchanged views on challenges for employment in transport. For more information on project, upcoming events and deliverables, please follow the link: http://www.skillfulproject.eu/
23/05/2017 “Towards user-centric transport in Europe. Challenges, solutions and collaborations” (TUCTE17), May 22-23, 2017 in Brussels. Invited by the Mobility4EU and MIND-SETS project, SETRIS and SKILLFUL projects will take part in the discussions on future transport and mobility needs and solutions in Europe. Together with the other conference participants, they hope to create a new prism through which to understand European transport.
19/05/2017 Young Researchers' Seminar 2017. Good presentations, great discussions, brill networking! Many thanks to all the young researchers, tutors, Steering and Organising Committee and supporting organisations that contributed to the success of another Young Researchers' Seminar. We invite to have a look at the YRS 2017 photo gallery, for the highlights of the event.
18/05/2017 Young Researchers' Seminar 2017: Day 3. At the 3rd and final day of the Seminar, the final technical sessions took place on Infrastructure, Driving simulation, Traffic monitoring and User choices. After lunch, the tutors and young researchers received feedbacks for their participation, to which followed the Plenary and awards ceremony. The three ex aequo winners were announced. Congrats to G. Siegert (DLR), H. Loeches de la Fuente (IFSTTAR) and F. de Ponte Muller (DLR).
17/05/2017 Young Researchers' Seminar 2017: Day 2. Second day of the Seminar started with the technical sessions on Paid services, shared economy and Traffic modelling. A pub quiz followed to test tutors and young researchers on their knowledge on several transport facts and figures. The technical sessions continued in the afternoon with Maritime traffic monitoring, Bicyclists’ safety, Individual perception and Road infrastructure. The day was closed with a guided tour to the Ancient Berlin.
16/05/2017 Young Researchers' Seminar 2017 - Day 1. First day of the Seminar started with the official welcome by the Organizing Committee Chair Christian Piehler and the supporting organizations ECTRI, FEHRL, and FERSI by respective Secretary Generals Caroline Alméras and Thierry Goger, and President Horst Schulze. During the day technical sessions took place on Emission reduction, Data interpretation, Road accident prevention and Transport policy and economics. To wrap up the day, the young researchers and tutors were invited to “build bridges” in a team work exercise.
12/05/2017 ETRR Editorial Board & Advisory Board meeting , May 12, 2016 @ ECTRI offices. The European Transport Research Review (ETRR) journal Editorial Board and Advisory Board are meeting today at ECTRI offices, to review the current status and developments of the Journal and plan future actions. Check here for more information on the journal and opportunities for article submission.
02/05/2017 RS5C Call for Abstracts and Special Sessions is still open! Call for abstracts and special sessions to the 18th international conference Road Safety on Five Continents (RS5C) is still open. Extended deadline until May 21, 2017. The RS5C conference will take place in Jeju Island, South Korea in May 16-18, 2018. The conference is organised by ECTRI Member VTI in close cooperation with Korea Transportation Safety Authority (KOTSA, TS) and Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT).
28/04/2017 “Towards user-centric transport in Europe. Challenges, solutions and collaborations”, is a jointly organized event by Mobility4EU and MIND-SETS. The event will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of May at the Conference Centre Bouche à Oreille in Brussels. The event will bring together experts on innovations in mobility across all modes to discuss the new challenges and new demands on transport in Europe. Keynote speakers will provide the impetus for a discussion with a selection of ongoing European projects, including SETRIS, that are looking into future transport and mobility needs and solutions in Europe. Together with the conference participants, they will create a new prism through which to understand European transport. Book your place now! Admittance is free, but places are limited. Early registration is highly recommended. Here the draft Agenda!
26/04/2017 ECTRI Spring Assembly of Members, April 24-25, 2017. After 14 years, ECTRI was back to Budapest for the ECTRI Assembly of Members, kindly hosted by BME and KTI. The first day of meeting was dedicated to the revision of ECTRI's Implementation and Action Plan and the management of the association. That same day AIT was invited to present the latest developments within the organisation, including presentation on TRA 2018, to take place in Vienna in April 16-19, 2018. The second day was dedicated to the workshop organised by the hosts on "Development & Research in Hungary", with presentations on transport in Budapest, latest research on connected and automated vehicles, machine vision, air pollutant emissions of urban buses, and SUMPs.
21/04/2017 ETC 2017 Early bookings. Early bookings are now being taken for delegate places at the European Transport Conference 2017. The Conference will be held over three days from Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 October 2017 in Barcelona. To book, simply complete the online booking form which includes the special early booking discount. Don't forget, a 50% discount also applies to delegates from new EU Member States (joined EU since 2004) and to young professionals under the age of 26 or for those with less than 5 years' professional experience. Please contact Sabrina@tftp-training.co.uk for further information.
18/04/2017 CAPITAL Priorities and training needs QuestionPro Survey. Are you involved in ITS? Answer today to the CAPITAL H2020 project survey on the crucial deployment priorities of ITS. The questionnaire will be open until 3rd of May 2017. Follow th link: http://capital-project.questionpro.com/ ECTRI Members HIT, UNEW, VTT are partners in this consortium.
18/04/2017 ETRR Topical collection - Smart cities and transport infrastructures. ECTRI's European Transport Research Review is still accepting submissions for a topical collection on Smart cities and transport infrastructures. Call is open until June 1st. More information.
13/04/2017 ECTRI welcomes Ninette Fichtner as the new assistant to the team in Brussels. Ms Ninette Fichtner has been selected for her excellent curriculum and motivation. She has extensive experience in administration, office and event management, gained through previous working positions in the public and private sector in Brussels and abroad. As German national, she speaks German but also English, French and Spanish. For more information on her experience and skills, and if you wish to connect, feel free to consult her LinkedIn page: https://be.linkedin.com/in/ninette-f-8bb48835
At the ECTRI Secretariat, her main duties are to follow up the accounts and budget including the EU projects financial reporting, to support the logistical organisation of events and the ECTRI internal and external communication, to arrange staff travels and to take care of other administrative duties.
Ninette has joined the ECTRI team on April 10th and will be working 4 days per week (Mon, Wed-Fri). You can contact her by email at office@ectri.org or by phone at +32 (0)2 500 56 88.
11/04/2017 SKILLFUL 1st Plenary meeting, April 11-12, 2017. SKILLFUL project 1st Plenary meeting is taking place today and tomorrow, in Berlin, hosted by EURNEX. The consortium will review deliverables, activities and plan actions ahead. More information: http://www.skillfulproject.eu/
06/04/2017 SKILLFUL workshop @ FIRM17. Join SKILLFUL consortim today at FIRM17 for the workshop on Future trends in transport systems and their job impact assessment. The session will be moderated by ECTRI Board member and SKILLFUL technical coordinator Evangelos Bekiaris (CERTH/HIT). We look forward to a fruitful discussion!
05/04/2017 SETRIS @ FIRM17. M. Robinson, ECTRI President and UNEW SETRIS coordinator will be presenting “SETRIS - To deliver a cohesive and coordinated approach to research and innovation strategies for all transport modes in Europe” today at FIRM 2017 in Brussels.
04/04/2017 CARTRE Stakeholder Survey: Data and Evidence to Share from Automated Driving Tests. CARTRE project has recently launched a questionnaire to assess stakeholders’ opinions concerning: high-priority research needs for large-scale tests, sharing data and evidence from publicly funded testing and how CARTRE can support test efforts. Based on the results, CARTRE will contact automated driving projects for discussing joint efforts. Participate today here. ECTRI Members HIT, IFSTTAR, DLR, VTT and RWS are partners in this consortium.
03/04/2017 ECTRI @ Connected and Automated Driving Conference, April 3 - 4, 2017. C. Alméras, ECTRI Secretary General & many ECTRI Members are joining today and tomorrow the debate on connected & automated driving at the 1st EU CAD Conference, in Brussels. The conference is organised by the European Commission, with the support of the EC-funded projects CARTRE and SCOUT.
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30/03/2017 ERTRAC Roadmap on Integrated Urban Mobility. ECTRI welcomes the release of ERTRAC Roadmap on Integrated Urban Mobility, delivered by the joint Urban Mobility Working Group of ERTRAC, ERRAC and ALICE, where ECTRI and several ECTRI members are also involved. This roadmap identifies research priorities related to urban mobility and freight delivery with the aim to achieve a more convenient, competitive, sustainable and resource-efficient mobility system, which is essential to secure a high level of accessibility for passengers and goods as well as economic growth. Read it here.
30/03/2017 REMINDER: TRA Visions 2018 Competitions. Are you a visionary researcher? Two TRA Visions 2018 Competitions are waiting for you! Young and senior researchers throughout Europe are invited to submit innovative concepts on future transport matters to enhance efficient and sustainable transport and mobility of people and goods. More information
29/03/2017 ECTRI @ Workshop "How Brussels works for EU Research and Innovation", March 29. C. Alméras, ECTRI SG is presenting today ECTRI as one of the leading Transport R&I Stakeholders at KoWi & UKRO workshop "How Brussels works for EU Research and Innovation", in Brussels.
29/03/2017 ECTRI @ EIT KIC in Urban Mobility, March 29, 2017. C. Alméras ECTRI Secretary General and some ECTRI Members are attending today in Brussels the event 'Towards an EIT KIC in Urban Mobility'. The event brings together businesses, research organisations and universities, enabling world-class education, innovation and entrepreneurship to thrive in Europe.
28/03/2017 ALLIANCE Summer School “Sustainable Transport Interchanges Program (STIP)". The 1st ALLIANCE Summer School “Sustainable Transport Interchanges Program (STIP) - Part I: Freight Transportation” will be held on 16-22 July, 2017, in Riga, Latvia. STIP is organized by ECTRI Members TTI and Fraunhofer-IFF, partners in this consortium, plus U. Thessaly. Vision for this year’s Summer School is the preparation of a new generation of transportation researchers and professionals in the area of Transport Interchanges, focusing on Freight Transportation. For further information, please visit project's webpage.
27/03/2017 ETRR Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2017 is out now. The new issue features 11 new articles, including 3 from ECTRI Members (VTT, VTI and CDV). It also includes new articles from our Topical Collections:
ETRR Topical Collection on The Future of rail freight transport and logistics (1 new Article)
ETRR Topical Collection on the Development of National Transport Policy (2 new articles)
ETRR Topical Collection on the Young Researcher Seminar 2015 (2 new articles)
Check all the articles here.
23/03/2017 TRA 2018. Deadline for the call for papers for the upcoming Transport Research Arena – TRA 2018 in Vienna has now been extended. Please submit your abstract by 24th April 2017! http://www.traconference.eu/call-for-abstracts/
23/03/2017 RelStat-2017. The 17th International Multi-Conference "Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication", will take place in Riga on October 18 -21, 2017, organised by ECTRI Member TTI (TSI). The goal of the RelStat-2017 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists and professionals to address recent research results and to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all theoretical and practical issues arising in transport, information and communication technologies. Call for abstracts and special session proposals is open with deadline on May 5. For more information: http://relstat2017.tsi.lv/
22/03/2017 MOBILITY4EU Mid-term event. SAVE THE DATE for the public event “Towards user-centric transport in Europe. Challenges, solutions and collaborations”, jointly organized by Mobility4EU (ECTRI Members VUB, IFSTTAR, HIT and VTT are partners in this consortium) and MIND-SETS project. The event will be held on the 22nd and 23rd of May in Brussels. Don’t miss the chance to brainstorm imaginative questions and to see the new mobility, along with its complex and multifaceted challenges, with different eyes.
16/03/2017 SKILLFUL Workshop. Register today to the SKILLFUL workshop and take part on the discussion on "Future trends in transport systems and their job impact assessment". The workshop is taking place at FIRM17 in Brussels on April 6, 2017 and is moderated by ECTRI Member and SKILLFUL scientific coordinator E. Bekiaris. Registration is free of charge.
15/03/2017 ECTRI Board meeting, March 15, 2017.The first meeting of the new elected Board was held today at the ECTRI offices. The Board that took office on January 27, 2017 met to discuss the present-day management issues, to draw the new Implementation Plan and establish new priorities for its two year mandate. The auditor and accountant also attended the meeting.
13/03/2017 SETRIS Deliverable “A Truly Integrated Transport System for Sustainable and Efficient Logistics”.This document provides a holistic overview of a truly integrated transport system as the vision to reach significant advances in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of freight transport and logistics, creating value and adding competitiveness to all manufacturing and retail sectors in Europe and supporting the achievement of societal challenges associated to freight transport. Read it here.
The document has been prepared in the frame of SETRIS project and the contents have been reviewed and approved by the five transport ETPs (ERTRAC, ERRAC, ACARE, ALICE and WATERBORNE).
09/03/2017 ECTRI @ Final Conference of TEA Cost Action, March 9 in Barcelona. C. Alméras is presenting today "The Origin of TEA Cost Action: An ECTRI story" at the Final Conference of TEA Cost Action in Barcelona. The conference is organised by ECTRI Member CENIT and COST and hosted by AMB. It was preceded by the 2nd edition of the Training School on: Bridging Transport Equity: A real-life lab. Click here for the full programme.
08/03/2017 ECTRI @ 2017 ERTRAC Annual Conference, March 8, 2017. C. Alméras, ECTRI SG and some ECTRI Members are attending today the 2017 ERTRAC Annual Conference, this year under the theme “Digitalisation and Decarbonisation Towards the future European Transport System” in Brussels.
07/03/2017 ECTRI @ ERTRAC Plenary, March 7, 2017. C. Alméras, ECTRI Secretary General is attending the ERTRAC Plenary today in Brussels.
03/03/2017 Join ADAS&ME stakeholders workshop on the 6th of April in Brussels! The workshop targets to present the results of ADAS&ME online stakeholders’ survey focusing on the 7 ADAS&ME Use Cases and perform interactive focus group discussions in order to reach a first prioritization for each UC scenarios. Click here for agenda and registration.
ECTRI supports ADAS&ME project, in which ECTRI Members VTI (coordinator), HIT, DLR, IFSTTAR, TRL and FRAUNHOFER are consortium partners.
02/03/2017 ETRR topical collection call on Smart cities and transport infrastructures. This topical collection is to provide an updated perspective dealing with the stakes, the consequences, and the shapes of smart cities related with all types of transport infrastructure”. More info
Deadline for submissions: EXTENDED until June 1, 2017
02/03/2017 eCAIMAN project Mid-term Review meeting at ECTRI offices. eCAIMAN, H2020 Green Vehicle project is holding its Mid-term Review meeting today at the ECTRI offices. ECTRI Members AIT (coord), HIT- CERTH and POLITO are partners in the consortium. Find out more about the project here: http://www.ecaiman.eu/.
01/03/2017 Transport for all, interview article with Dr Floridea di Ciommo. At the ‘Intelligent Transport Systems: a Tool or a Toy?’ event in Žilina, Slovakia – a conference co-hosted by the COST Association and the ECTRI Member University of Žilina, the Horizon 2020 Projects: Portal interviewed Dr Floridea di Ciommo (COST Action Chair TU1209/ECTRI Member CENIT) to discuss some of the equity considerations in the field of intelligent transport systems. This article first appeared in issue 13 of Horizon 2020 Projects: Portal, which is now available here.
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27/02/2017 ECTRI @ European Industry Day, February 28. Almeras, ECTRI SG, is attending today the European Industry Day in Brussels. At this year's event under the theme "Industry 4 people", the EC wants to take stock of existing actions and stimulate debate on a joint vision for the long-term future of European industry. |
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21/02/2017 ‘Intelligent Transport Systems: a Tool or a Toy?’ presentations now available online. Several Members took part of the event, where Jorge Alfonso Kurano ITS expert from UPM represented ECTRI with presentation on “ITS and Research: Challenges & opportunities”. All the presentations are now available for download here.
This conference was co-organised between the COST Association and the ECTRI Member University of Žilina, the latter as European Research Area (ERA) Chair (ERAdiate project) on International Transport Systems (ITS), and ERTICO as Supporting Partner. This event was held under the auspices of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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14/02/2017 ETRR - Facts and figures at a glance. Check out ECTRI's European Transport Research Review Infographics here.
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13/02/2017 2017 ETC 2017 Call for the Young Researchers and Practitioners Forum. AET invites contributions from young professionals (PhD candidates, postdocs ≤ 3 years after PhD, practitioners ≤ 6 years of work experience). Please submit your abstract by February 27th, 2017 to the ETC website.
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10/02/2017 2017 ERTRAC Annual Conference.ERTRAC organises its 2017 Annual Conference in Brussels on Wednesday 8 March2017. This year ERTRAC Annual Conference is about Digitalisation and Decarbonisation - Towards the future European Transport System. More information.
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09/02/2017 TIMON project Mid-term Review meeting at ECTRI offices. ECTRI supported project TIMON is holding its Mid-term Review meeting today at ECTRI offices. ECTRI Members DEUSTO (lead) and FRAUNHOFER are partners in the consortium. Find out more about the project here: www.timon-project.eu/
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08/02/2017 ECTRI @ DLR New Year's Reception.C. Alméras, ECTRI SG is attending today in Brussels the ECTRI Member German Aerospace Center (DLR) New Year's Reception. This years’ reception will be held under the theme “DLR’s contribution to European Research and Innovation Strategies in Aviation”.
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07/02/2017 ECTRI @ 10th European Railway Award and CER & UNIFE Annual Reception. C. Alméras, ECTRI SG is attending today in Brussels the 10th Anniversary celebration of the European Railway Award followed by the joint CER & UNIFE Annual Reception.
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06/02/2017 TRA VISIONS 2018 Transport Research Awards. The European project TRA VISIONS 2018 invites Young and Senior researchers from all over Europe to submit innovative transport concepts. See www.travisions.eu for more info. ECTRI Members POLITO, UNEW and AIT are partners in the consortium.
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30/01/2017 ECTRI welcomes a new Board! The new ECTRI Board took office on January 27th for a two year mandate and it is composed by: Mark Robinson (President, UNEW, UK), Jean-Paul Mizzi (Vice-President, IFSTTAR, France), Christian Piehler (Treasurer, DLR, Germany), Evangelos Bekiaris (Common member, HIT, Greece), Rudolf Cholava (Common member, CDV, Czech Republic), Irina Jackiva (Common member, TTI, Latvia) and Tomas Svensson (Common member, VTI, Sweden). The ECTRI community wishes them great success and all the best for their new roles. ECTRI thanks the Board members whose mandates ended, Pedro Perez Losa (UVEG, Spain) and Uwe Clausen (FRAUNHOFER, Germany) for their commitment during their mandate. |
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20/01/2017 SETRIS 4th Review meeting, January 20 at ECTRI offices. SETRIS coordinators will meet with ETPs representatives and the EC representatives, to review progress and status of deliverables. |
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19/01/2017 C. Alméras, ECTRI SG is attending UITP New Year Reception in Brussels. |
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19/01/2017 2018 RS5C Conference. Call for abstracts and special sessions to the 18th international conference Road Safety on Five Continents (RS5C) is now open, with deadline on April 30, 2017. The RS5C conference will take place in May 16-18, 2018 on Jeju Island, South Korea. The conference is organised by ECTRI Member VTI in close cooperation with Korea Transportation Safety Authority (KOTSA). |
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18/01/2017 EURO - Zel 2017 Call for Abstracts is open for the 24th International Symposium EURO - Zel 2017 “Recent Challenges for European Railways”. The submission deadline is March 19, 2017. The conference is taking place in Žilina (Slovak Republic) in May 30 – 31, 2017, organised by ECTRI Member UNIZA. Go to www.zu-zel.sk for more information.
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17/01/2017 TRA 2018 Call for abstracts is open. Submit your contribution to one or more of the twelve topics and get the chance to discuss about key political key topics in Europe such as shaping the new mobility landscape, digitalisation or decarbonisation. In scientific and technical sessions a broad spectrum of research and innovation activities will range from basic research to application-oriented engineering, social, technical and economic aspects, as well as policies and standards. The call for abstracts is open till March 21, 2017. Click here for more information on the call. TRA 2018 will take place in Vienna from 16 to 19 April 2018 and is hosted/organised by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology in collaboration with Austria Tech and ECTRI Member AIT.
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17/01/2017 ECTRI @Shift2Rail Info Day, January 17 in Brussels. C. Alméras is attending Shift2Rail Info Day today in Brussels. This event organised by Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking addresses the political priorities and content of the 2017 Shift2Rail calls.
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16/01/2017 ADAS&ME Project: participate in the survey. ADAS&ME partners are interested in your opinion about automated functions that can support the driver/ rider. Your participation in this survey will help set the priorities for drivers and riders with regards to implementing automated functions within different types of vehicles (e.g. passenger car, trucks, bus, motorcycles). Give your opinion here. Thank you for participating!
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16/01/2017 Prof. Karst Geurs new ETRR Editor-in-Chief. Prof. Karst Geurs, full Professor of Transport Planning at the Centre for Transport Studies of the University of Twente (Netherlands), is the new ETRR Editor-in-Chief. He started his three year mandate on January 1st 2017. Prof. Geurs has been involved in ETRR as Associate Editor and more recently as Advisory Board Member. His CV is available here.
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13/01/2017 Participate in stakeholder consultation of the Mobility4eu project. Do you want to be part of the consultation process and give your vision and aims for the future transport system in Europe? Participate to the SURVEY to assess the most important objectives that you want to achieve until 2030. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to fill in. For more detailed information on the methodology of stakeholder consultation click here.
Mobility4EU , involves ECTRI Members VUB, IFSTTAR, HIT and VTT and aims to develop a vision and action plan for mobility and transport in Europe in 2030. It is their priority to involve a wide range of stakeholders involved in mobility and transport in Europe in this process.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Imre Keseru at imre.keseru@vub.ac.be
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12/01/2017 ECTRI @TRB 2017: TRB Executive Committee, Thursday January 12th (8:00 am – 12:00 pm). ECTRI President, Prof. M. Robinson, and Secretary General, C. Alméras, are invited to attend the TRB Executive Committee to participate to the discussion on TRB International collaboration and partnerships. This discussion will be ended by the official signature of the new ECTRI-TRB Memorandum of Understanding which draws an intended common line of actions between the two organizations for a period of five years.
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11/01/2017 ETC 2017 Call for abstracts. The Association for European Transport invites submission of abstracts for its 45th European Transport Conference, to be held in Barcelona between 4 and 6 October 2017. The deadline for abstract submission is 8 February 2017.
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10/01/2017 ECTRI @TRB 2017: International Cooperation Committee, Tuesday January 10 (08:00 am – 12:00 pm). Session will be presided by former ECTRI President G. Giannopoulos (HIT) and O.A. Elrahman – RPI. An update of ECTRI-TRB MoU and action plan will be presented by A. Aparicio (UPM and ECTRI-TRB MoU Task Force leader) and a presentation of the newly EU funded SKILLFUL project in which ECTRI is partner will also be done by C. Alméras.
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09/01/2017 ECTRI @TRB 2017: ECTRI/TRB Action Plan Review Subcommittee is taking place today, Monday, January 9th (10:15 am – 12:00 pm). Session will be presided by A. Aparicio (ECTRI Member Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) and will focus on reviewing ECTRI-TRB MoU planned activities and agreeing on actions, timeline and responsibilities. The new MoU will be signed on January 12th 2017 at the TRB Executive Committee.
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06/01/2017 ECTRI @TRB 2017
Workshop in Equity in Transportation: guidelines for stakeholders and practitioners, will take place on Sunday, January 8th (01:30 pm – 04:30 pm). The purpose of this workshop is to stimulate thinking and discussion about the benefits of a more equitable transportation system. The workshop is presided by D. Spanhake (U. Minnesota, Twin Cities), A. Dupont Kieffer (U. Paris) and F. Di Ciommo, (ECTRI Member CENIT-UPC BarcelonaTech).
A topical collection in the ECTRI Open Access sponsored Journal ETRR on the topic of “Equity tools and Transport: bridging EU-US perspectives” gathering the best papers coming from the different committees call for papers is planned to be launched in April 2017.
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06/01/2017 ECTRI @TRB 2017. Interested in how governance of transportation-related decisions may deviate from or collide with existing international and national rules? Join us on the Workshop 101 - The Nexus of Transportation and Environmental Health Governance: Intersections and Collisions Across and Within Borders on Sunday, January 8th (09:00 am – 12:00 pm at Convention Center, 147A). A. Bekiaris (ECTRI Member HIT) will be presenting on “Aging Populations and Mobility Policies: Implications on Safety, Health and the Environment”.
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05/01/2017 European Transport Research Review Impact Factor and new Issue online. ECTRI’s European Transport Research Review now has an Impact Factor of 0.672, released by Thomson Reuters in their Journal Citation Reports®. And for some interesting readings check here the new released Volume 8, Issue 4 (December 2016): https://goo.gl/0QnbyR
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03/01/2017 ECTRI has now a Twitter account. Follow us on twitter.com/ECTRInews to keep in touch and get the latest news about the ECTRI community. |
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22/12/2016 The ECTRI team wishes a Happy Holiday Season and a Successful 2017. And thanks all those that supported and took part in ECTRI's activities over the last year. |
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21/12/2016 ECTRI TG Traffic Management suggestions for the third transport workprogramme (2018-2020).Following up on the overall vision “Towards low carbon mobility” defined in ECTRI's contribution from July, and the previously released Thematic Groups contribution (Mobility, Economics&Policy, Freight&Logistics and Transport Safety) ECTRI Thematic Group on Traffic Management puts forward eight research challenges that are essential for the future deployment of advanced transport systems. Read it here.
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20/12/2016 ECTRI supported events @ TRB 2017. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 96 th Annual Meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. on January 8–12, 2017. The Conference attracts more than 12,000 transportation professionals from around the world and this year the spotlight theme is “Transportation Innovation: Leading the Way in an Era of Rapid Change”. This year again ECTRI has contributed to the Conference by supporting a number of sessions and giving a European flavour to the Annual Meeting. With the event approaching, Prof. Mark Robinson, ECTRI President, Prof. Ángel Aparicio, ECTRI-TRB MoU leader, and Caroline Alméras, ECTRI Secretary-General, would like to highlight these events where a number of ECTRI members will be participating. Check here the detailed list of events. We look forward seeing you there.
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19/12/2016 ICTR 2017 Extended Deadline for Abstracts Submission: JANUARY 15, 2017. ECTRI Member Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT/CERTH) is co-organizing with the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE), the ‘8th International Congress on Transportation Research’. The ICTR 2017 will be held on September 28-29, 2017, at the CERTH Congress Centre in Thessaloniki, Greece. The spotlight theme of the 2017 Congress is: ‘The Future of Transportation: A Vision for 2030’. Deadline of abstract submission has been extended to JANUARY 15, 2017. More info http://www.ictr.gr/
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15/12/2016 ECTRI @ ITF Consultation Day with International Organisations, December 15 in Paris. ECTRI SG C. Alméras is participating to the ITF Consulation Day taking place at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris. ECTRI will be providing inputs to ITF’s priority issues such as, content of the 2017 Summit programme, key elements of the 2017 Ministers’ Declaration and key issues for the 2018 Summit. The consultation will also provide opportunity for the ITF SG to present updates on the Decarbonising Transport project to which ECTRI is a partner.
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12/12/2016 ECTRI @ ERTRAC Plenary, December 12 in Brussels. ECTRI SG C. Alméras is participating to the last ERTRAC Plenary meeting of 2016 taking place in Brussels. The main points on the agenda are the final ERTRAC topics recommendations for the WP2018-2020 of H2020, the report on CO2 integrated approach process the launch of ERTRAC Strategic Research Agenda update and the roadmaps on Urban Mobility, Electrification, and Automated Driving.
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08/12/2016 1 Week to Abstract Submission Deadline for the EWGT 2017. The 20th EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT 2017) will be held in Budapest from 4 - 6 September 2017, hosted by ECTRI Member BME. Call for abstracts is open, with deadline on December 15, 2016. Accepted papers under topic "New paradigm in urban transportation planning" will be published on a special issue of ETRR, ECTRI’s International Open Access journal. More info here: https://lnkd.in/evxxRcw
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06/12/2016 ECTRI's ETRR is accepting submissions for topical collection "Understanding the Benefits & Implications of Vehicle & Road Automation". The European Transport Research Review is accepting submissions for a topical collection on Understanding the Benefits and Implications of Vehicle and Road Automation. The aim of this topical collection is to provide an overview of the latest research findings in vehicle and road automation, focusing on the impacts on road safety, traffic flow and transport-related emissions. Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2016. Submit today! https://goo.gl/f5TWqx
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05/12/2016 ECTRI's ETRR is accepting submissions for topical collection "Smart cities and transport infrastructures". The European Transport Research Review is accepting submissions for a topical collection on Smart cities and transport infrastructures. This topical collection is to provide an updated perspective on the stakes, the consequences, and the shapes of smart cities related to all types of transport infrastructure. Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2016. Submit today! https://goo.gl/0vzAyf
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02/12/2016 ICTR 2017, September 28-29, 2017 – Thessaloniki – Call for abstracts . ECTRI Member Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT/CERTH) is co-organizing the ‘8th International Congress on Transportation Research’ (ICTR 2017), which will be held on September 28-29, 2017, at the CERTH Congress Centre in Thessaloniki, Greece. The spotlight theme of the 2017 Congress is: ‘The Future of Transportation: A Vision for 2030’. Call for abstracts is open with deadline on December 15, 2016.
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01/12/2016 ECTRI @ ETRA Plenary and Meeting with DG MOVE Cabinet. ECTRI President M. Robinson and ECTRI SG C. Alméras will participate today in the ETRA Plenary. The Plenary is preceded by a meeting between the DG MOVE Cabinet and the ETRA Partners, to present the main recommendations of the ETRA position paper, discuss the future EU funded transport research Programme and ETRA’s contribution and activities to the TRA Conference.
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30/11/2016 ECTRI @ FERSI 25th Anniversary Meeting, November 30 in Brussels. ECTRI President M. Robinson and ECTRI SG C. Alméras are attending the FERSI 25th Anniversary meeting. A “get together” meeting of the European road safety research community, dedicated to open discussion on current road safety challenges and strategies aiming to enable Europe to set sound road safety targets and to effectively progress towards them.
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24/11/2016 ECTRI Autumn 2016 Assembly of Members, November 24-25 in Riga. The 2016 Autumn Assembly of Members is held on November 24th – 25th, 2016, kindly hosted by ECTRI Member TTI in Riga, Latvia. During the two-day meeting the Members will follow-up on the implementation plan and discuss the status of activities and the management of the Association. ECTRI’s new Member, VUB will be represented by Professor Cathy Macharis, Director of VUB- MOBI, invited to present her organization to the Assembly. The second day will be dedicated to the election of new Board for 2017-2018 period and a workshop on “Sustainable Transport Interchanges”.
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22/11/2016 ECTRI @ ITS: a Tool or a Toy? event, Nov. 22-23, 2016, Zilina Slovakia. Jorge Alfonso Kurano ITS expert from UPM represented ECTRI at the Conference "Intelligent Transport Systems: a Tool or a Toy?", in Žilina, Slovakia. This event was held under the auspices of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It was co-organised between the COST Association and the ECTRI Member University of Žilina.
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08/11/2016 ECTRI @ 2016 EUCAR Reception and Conference, in Brussels. C. Alméras attended the EUCAR Annual Reception & Conference 2016, taking place on November 8 and 9 in Brussels. This event, under the theme ”Driving mobility innovation for Europe”, gathers all relevant stakeholders to debate the future of transport research. |
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02/11/2016 ECTRI’s ETRR accepting submissions for three topical collections. ECTRI’s European Transport Research Review is accepting submissions for three topical collections:
More info here.
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26/10/2016 ETRA Report on Transport Education and Training workshop organised during TRA2016. During TRA 2016, ETRA and the EC organised a workshop on “Academia and job market: how to match? Building European transport academic excellence: which offer to students? Which contribution to innovation?”. The idea was to bring together the main parties and stakeholders involved in educational and research activities in the transport field and to investigate and evaluate the opportunities offered today by the relevant higher-level educational establishments in transport disciplines in Europe in relation to the job market. Read a summary of results and recommendations here: EC and ETRA TRA 2016 workshop on Transport Education and Tranining - Synthesis report.
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26/10/2016 ECTRI TG Safety meeting, October 26 - 27 at ECTRI offices.
ECTRI Thematic Group on Safety is meeting today, at ECTRI offices, to review last year’s activities and plan future actions. TG members will explore participation in H2020 WP 2017 calls, building upon their matrix of interest.
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25/10/2016 ECTRI @ 2016 CEF Transport Info Day, October 25 in Brussels. A. PEREIRA is attending the 2016 CEF Transport Info Day, taking place in Brussels. This event organised by INEA and the EC addresses the political priorities and content of the 2016 CEF Transport calls.
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24/10/2016 SKILLFUL project Kick-Off Meeting, October 24 in Brussels. Kick-Off meeting will take place today at the Researcher Knowledge Centre Road Safety in Brussels. The SKILLFUL “Skills and competences development of future transportation professionals at all levels” project aims to review the existing, emerging and future knowledge and skills requirements of workers at all levels in the transportation sector, to structure the key specifications and components of the curricula and training courses that will be needed to meet these competence requirements optimally and to identify and propose new business roles in the education and training chain.
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26/10/2016 ECTRI Thematic Groups’ suggestions for the third transport workprogramme (2018-2020). Based on the overall vision “Towards low carbon mobility” defined in ECTRI's contribution from July, ECTRI Thematic Groups suggest in those new inputs, topics considered relevant for policy support and for strengthening of the knowledge base on their field of research. These topics are reflected in the form of research priorities, aiming to highlight their significance for inclusion in the upcoming calls of Horizon 2020, and in particular to the Challenge aiming to achieve “Smart, Green and Integrated Transport”.
Find below ECTRI Thematic Groups suggestions:
ECTRI Thematic Groups on Security and Risk Analysis and on Traffic Management will be releasing their suggestions in the upcoming days.
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26/10/2016 ETRA strategic paper 2016 . The 2016 ETRA strategic paper, submitted to the EC, reflects on the current European transport policy, on the Implementation of the current H2020 RTD programme, and on the future of transport research in next programme (FP9). Read the strategic paper here.
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18/10/2016 ECTRI TG Economics & Policy and TG Mobility joint meeting, October 18-19 at ECTRI offices. ECTRI Thematic Groups on Economics & Policy and on Mobility are meeting today, at ECTRI offices, to review last year’s activities and plan future actions. They will explore participation in H2020 WP 2017 calls, building upon their matrix of interest.
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13/10/2016 EURO Working Group on Transportation: Call for abstracts is open. The 20th EURO Working Group on Transportation Meeting (EWGT) will be held in Budapest from 4 – 6 September 2017, hosted by ECTRI Member BME. Call for abstracts is open, with deadline on November 30, 2016. Accepted papers on Planning and Operation topic will be published on ETRR, ECTRI’s International Open Access journal. More info here
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12/10/2016 ECTRI Board meeting, October 11, 2016. The Board members met yesterday at ECTRI offices, to discuss the management of the association, the state of play of the implementation plan, the membership situation and the preparation of the Autumn Assembly of Members. |
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05/10/2016 ECTRI @ ETC 2016 from 5 – 7 October in Barcelona . ECTRI will be present with a stand at the 44th European Transport Conference in Barcelona, promoting the association, its Members and activities, the SETRIS and SKILLFUL projects and the ETRR journal. Visit us! We look forward to seeing you there!
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29/09/2016 SETRIS 4th Progress & Planning Meeting . SETRIS project partners are meeting Friday 30th, at ECTRI premises for the 4th Progress & Planning Meeting (Steering Committee). They will review activities undertaken, status of deliverables and plan next steps. Find out more about SETRIS
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28/09/2016 ECTRI @ EC Horizon 2020 ‘Smart, green and integrated transport’ Info Day. C. ALMERAS and A. PEREIRA are attending the H2020 challenge ‘Smart, green and integrated transport’ Info Day. Presentations will cover the various topics open for submission, on Mobility for Growth, Automated Road Transport and Green Vehicles calls, under the 2016-2017 Work programme.
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23/09/2016 ECTRI @ EC Horizon 2020 ‘Smart cities and communities’ Info Day. C. ALMERAS is attending the ‘Smart cities and communities’ Info Day taking place in Brussels. At the event the ‘Smart cities & communities’ topics of the 2016-2017 Horizon 2020 Work Programme ‘Cross-cutting activities’, Smart and Sustainable Cities call are being presented, and in particular the 2017 call.
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21/09/2016 ETRR Advisory and Editorial Boards meeting, September 21, 2016 in Brussels.The ETRR Advisory Board and Editorial Board are meeting today at ECTRI offices to review the current status of the Journal, to discuss future developments, to appoint the new Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board Chair and review the Editorial Board Terms of Reference.
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15/09/2016 European Transport Research Review, Volume 8, Issue 3, is now online! The European Transport Research Review – Volume 8 Number 3 September 2016 is now available online! The journal is accepting submissions and is now indexed by Thomson Reuters. Submit your research article today! More information
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18/10/2016 ECTRI is hiring! – Office Assistant ECTRI is looking for a highly motivated and qualified candidate to provide administrative and secretarial support, working within the Secretariat under the Secretary General and President’s responsibility. This is a full-time position with non-fixed term under Belgium laws (part-time might be considered), starting as soon as possible. Full information regarding the position is available here How to apply: Interested applicants are requested to send a letter of motivation together with a complete CV, before November 4th, 2016 to caroline.almeras@ectri.org. We regret that only short-listed candidates will be contacted. |
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29/09/2016 YRS 2017: 2 days left for abstract submission! If you are an ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI or United States Universities Young Researcher, don’t' miss the chance to submit your abstract for the Young Researchers’ Seminar 2017. Deadline is September 30, 2016. Find out more on YRS 2017.
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23/09/2016 YRS 2017: Only 1 week left for abstract submission! If you are an ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI or United States Universities Young Researcher, don’t miss the chance to submit your abstract for the Young Researchers’ Seminar 2017. Deadline is September 30, 2016. Find out more
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21/09/2016 YRS 2017: You only have 2 weeks left to submit your abstract! ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI and United States Universities Young Researchers are invited to submit abstracts under the YRS selected research domains. Abstract submission deadline is September 30, 2016. More information
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15/09/2016 YRS 2017: Don’t miss the chance, submit your abstract today! ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI and United States Universities Young Researchers are invited to submit abstracts under the YRS selected research domains. Abstract submission deadline is extended to September 30, 2016. For more information: YRS 2017 website. The 8th Young Researchers’ Seminar will be held from May 16 – 18, 2017 in Berlin, Germany and will be hosted by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
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15/09/2016 MOBI Seminar 2016: On small and big data: How to go to a more sustainable mobility system? ECTRI Member VUB invites you to the MOBI Seminar “On small and big data. How to go to a more sustainable mobility system?” that will take place on Thursday 13 October 2016 in Brussels. The seminar starts with keynotes by MOBI’s own prof. dr. ir. Joeri Van Mierlo, prof. dr. Cathy Macharis and prof. dr. ir. Wouter Verbeke. Find the full program here.
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15/09/2016 ETC 2016 : Technical Visits and More! In addition to fascinating discussions at the European Transport Conference, the Conference team has organised a range of technical visits and tours to help you grow your network and your knowledge of Barcelona. Please email sabrina@tftp-training.co.uk for further information.
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24/08/2016 Will One-way Car Sharing Take Over Urban Transport? Join the Car Sharing Debate at ETC 5 - 7 October, Barcelona Recent evidence suggests that one-way car sharing will completely change the way we travel around our towns and cities. Join ETC 2016 for the Car Sharing Debate and more. Further information
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23/08/2016 ECTRI position on the third H2020 Transport Workprogramme. Building on previous contributions, ECTRI supports the preparation of the third Work Programme of Horizon 2020 in the field of transport by calling through a position paper for a new guiding theme “Towards low carbon mobility” and putting forward four main areas as perceived by the ECTRI research community, as key drivers for accelerating the transition toward this mobility: 1. Systemic approach, 2. Resilience; 3. Human factors, and 4. Policy-making. Read it here
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10/08/2016 - YRS 2017: Submit your abstract. ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI and United States Universities Young Researchers are invited to submit abstracts under the YRS selected research domains. Abstract submission deadline is extended to September 30, 2016.
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04/08/2016 ETC 2016 : Programme Stream announced for Transport Modelling There has been a good response to the call for Transport Modelling papers this year. Papers were of high quality on interesting and varied topics including some traditional topics, as well as current hot topics, so there is an interesting programme for the discerning modeller this year. Check it out and join ETC 2016 here: www.etcbookings.org/
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04/08/2016 ETC 2016 : Programme Stream announced for Intelligent Mobility, Management and Operations The Intelligent Mobility, Management and Operations (IMMO) stream provides a home for research and practitioners dealing with issues at the leading edge of Intelligent Mobility and ITS. ITS is playing an increasing role in dealing with everyday mobility and the consequences it has on accessibility, safety and liveability. Check out the full programme and join ETC 2016! www.etcbookings.org/
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03/08/2016 ETC 2016: Programme announced for Transport Economics, Finance and Appraisal stream (TEFA). The TEFA committee has now released its themes and highlights for ETC 2016. The remit for the TEFA committee of the ETC covers the range of issues raised in the appraisal and finance of transport schemes such as: appraisal methods; analysis and modelling needed to support appraisal; valuation of impacts; and funding of transport investments. The 44th ETC will be held in Barcelona, from 5 - 7 October 2016. More information.
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03/08/2016 Professor MANUEL SEABRA PEREIRA: In memoriam. The ECTRI community is deeply saddened to inform that Professor Manuel Seabra Pereira, a long lasting and very respected colleague, from Técnico Lisboa, co-chair of ERRAC and EURNEX Chair, has passed away. Manuel will surely be missed, not only for the many constructive contributions he was bringing, but for his wise and very friendly personality. Our heartfelt thoughts go to his family and friends.
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20/07/2016 ECTRI TG Security and Risk Analysis meeting, July 20 at ECTRI offices. ECTRI Thematic Group (TG) on Security and Risk Analysis is meeting today, July 20 at ECTRI offices, to discuss the updated structure within the TG and the future work of the group. On the agenda is also the exchange on recent research topics, proposals and projects and the contribution to the H2020 Work Programme for the period 2018-2020.
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20/07/2016 ETRR, ECTRI Open Access Journal at WCTR 2016. ETRR, ECTRI sponsored open access Journal, was presented at 14th WCTR 2016 with support of Springer, and in presence of Editor in Chief Prof. May. ETRR will produce special issues linked to the track sessions of the Conference. This year the WCTR was held from 10-16 July 2016 in Shanghai (China).
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20/07/2016 ETC 2016: Programme announced for Planning for Sustainable Land Use and Transport (PSLUT). The PSLUT stream provides a home for issues at the leading edge of policy development at the interface between land use and transport planning. Its focus is on sustainable solutions to land use and transport problems and how to measure and evaluate their effectiveness and impacts. Check out and join ETC 2016! More information
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20/07/2016 ETC 2016 : Programme announced for Freight & Logistics Stream. Check out the Freight and Logistics committee of the European Transport Conference concerns actual issues such as freight and the environment, impact of strategic logistics on freight systems, freight policy development, city logistics, trans-national networks, air cargo transport, ports and maritime policy. More information
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20/07/2016 YRS 2017: One week left for Submit your abstract or Become a tutor. ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI and United States Universities Young Researchers are invited to submit abstracts under the YRS selected research domains. Senior professionals are also invited to become Tutors of the Young Researchers selected. Abstract submission and nominations deadline is July 29, 2016. More information: www.ectri.org/YRS17
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28/06/2016 ECTRI welcomes a new Member: Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium). The ECTRI Assembly of Members has formally approved the admittance of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) to ECTRI, as from July 1st, 2016. With this new membership, Belgium is now represented in the association. This brings the association to 28 members from 21 European countries. The VUB, through the MOBI - Mobility, Logistics and Automotive Technology Research Centre will be actively involved in the different ECTRI activities. More information
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28/06/2016 ETRR supporting 14th World Conference on Transport Research. ETRR, ECTRI sponsored Journal, is supporting the 14th WCTR and will produce special issues linked to the track sessions of the Conference. This year the World Conference was held from 10-16 July 2016 in Shanghai (China). More info
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28/06/2016 4th European Maritime Research Policy Conference, June 28 in Brussels. ECTRI Project Officer A. PEREIRA attendended the 4th European Maritime Research Policy Conference. This year’s Conference aims at taking stock of current R&D policy developments but also at focusing on the way forward with maritime research policy during the next decade, so as to better prepare EU policy-makers as well as industry leader for the challenges and threats ahead. More info
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28/06/2016 Young Researchers’ Seminar 2017: One month left for abstract submission and nomination of tutors. ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI and United States Universities Young Researchers are invited to submit abstracts under the YRS selected research domains. Abstracts can be submitted until July 29, 2016. Senior professionals are also invited to become Tutors of the Young Researchers selected. Deadline for the nomination of tutors is 29 July 2016. More information
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22/06/2016 Call for abstracts for the Young Researchers’ Seminar 2017. ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI and United States Universities Young Researchers are invited to submit abstracts under the YRS selected research domains. Abstracts can be submitted until July 29, 2016. More information
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22/06/2016 ETC 2016: Don't wait to get your Early Bird Discount! Book now! Are you attending the 2016 European Transport Conference? Early booking discounts end next week. Book it now. |
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22/06/2016 Networking for Urban Vitality, June 23, 2016 in Amsterdam. C. ALMERAS will attend the Networking for Urban Vitality, on June 23, 2016 in Amsterdam. This International seminar on integration of spatial development with investments in infrastructure across local, regional and European scales is organised under the auspices of the Netherlands EU Presidency.
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22/06/2016 ECTRI-TRB meeting, June 15 in Brussels. Mark Robinson, ECTRI President and Caroline Alméras, ECTRI SG met yesterday with Neil Pedersen, TRB Executive Director to review the current ECTRI-TRB MoU, past activities and preview next steps and actions.
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22/06/2016 TIMON project storytelling. Want to know more about EU funded research project TIMON? Watch the video! ECTRI Members DEUSTO (lead) and FRAUNHOFER are partners in this consortium! More information
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22/06/2016 On the road to 2030 – Decarbonising Europe’s road transport sector, June 21 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS was attending Friends of Europe debate event on Decarbonising Europe’s road transport sector. Pete Harrison, Programme Director for Transport at ECF, Gesine Meissner MEP/ TRAN Committee, Alexandre Paquot, Head of Road Transport Unit at DG CLIMA, Frank Overmeyer, Senior Manager for Emissions & Safety Passenger Vehicles at Daimler’s External Affairs and Joachim Lutz, CEO of CropEnergies are speakers at this event. More info on the event
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14/06/2016 ECTRI Board meeting, June 15, 2016. The next ECTRI Board meeting took place June 15, 2016, by teleconference. The Board members discussed the management of the association, the follow up of the implementation plan, membership situation and the preparation of the upcoming Autumn Assembly of Members, kindly hosted by ECTRI Member TTI in Riga, Latvia.
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14/06/2016 TRB Annual Meeting 2017: Special call for papers on Equity in transportation With the support of the ECTRI-TRB SubCommittee, a call on “Equity in transportation: theory, methods and practices” was launched. Papers for publication and/or presentation must be submitted before 1st August, 2016. For detailed info on submission click here: Call Equity TRB 2017
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09/06/2016 TRB Annual Meeting 2017: Call for Papers. TRB is accepting papers for consideration as part of the program for the 96th TRB Annual Meeting, January 8–12, 2017, in Washington, D.C., and for publication in the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR). All papers must be submitted directly to TRB’s paper submission website by August 1, 2016. More information here.
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09/06/2016 ETC 2016 – Early Booking Discounts available until 30 June 2016. Early booking is open for the 44th European Transport Conference that will take place in Barcelona, from 5 – 7 October 2016, with the support of ECTRI and ECTRI Member CENIT. These early-bird discounts are only applicable to delegates booking 3-day attendance. Places for 1 and 2 days will be available once the Early Booking period has closed on 30 June 2016. At this point, places for 3-day attendance will resume their full price. To book your place at a reduced rate, simply complete the online booking form, which includes the special early booking discount.
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08/06/2016 ETRR latest issue available online. European Transport Research Review – Volume 8 Issue 2 of June 2016 is now available online. The journal is accepting submissions and is now indexed by Thomson Reuters. Submit your research article today! More information.
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08/06/2016 Interview with the ETRR’s Editor-in-Chief at SpringerOpen blog. The SpringerOpen team had the chance to talk to the European Transport Research Review Editor-in-Chief Anthony D. May about his ambitions for the journal in the future, his opinion on open access, they asked him to give submission tips and more. Read the interview here
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02/06/2016 ECTRI at ERRIN Transport WG Meeting, June 1, 2016. ALMERAS, participated as invited speaker at ERRIN Transport Working Group meeting on June 1, 2016, in Brussels, to present ECTRI, its Members and activities. Among the speakers was Christian THIEL, Scientific/ Technical Project Manager at JRC-EC, presenting the report on "Optimal allocation of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in cities and regions". And also Michael Cramer, President of the EP TRAN committee, speaking about the achievements of the transport policy since the beginning of his presidency and the expectations regarding the next EC decarbonization communication.
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01/06/2016 ECTRI contributes to ACEA initiative "Joining forces to tackle the road transport CO2 challenge“. ECTRI was invited to contribute to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) initiative "Joining Forces to tackle the road transport CO2 challenge" launched in April 2015. The outcome is a report that groups the views of a wide range of stakeholders, including businesses, trade associations, NGOs, research bodies and think tanks, in order to contribute to an informed debate on the potential of a comprehensive approach to reducing CO2 emissions from passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. Read the report here.
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01/06/2016 ECTRI joins the ITF's Decarbonising Transport project. The ITF Decarbonising Project was officially launched at ITF’s 2016 Summit in the presence of ECTRI and other 46 partners and supporting organisations, on 19 May 2016 in Leipzig, Germany. This is a major global initiative to trace a commonly-acceptable pathway to achieve zero transport emissions by around 2050. See media release. More info on the project: ITF Decarbonising Project
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30/05/2016 Transport DTU Kick-off, June 1, 2016. Wednesday the 1st of June, DTU will be launching their brand new center Transport DTU. More than 200 of the most interesting and ambitious professionals in the field of transportation technology will meet at the event.
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24/05/2016 Young Researchers’ Seminar 2017 Open call for abstracts. ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI and United States Universities Young Researchers are invited to submit abstracts under the YRS selected research domains : o Transport economics, policy and transport behaviour o Transport sustainability and environment o Transport safety o Intelligent transport systems (ITS) & Traffic management o Transport civil and road engineering Abstracts must be submitted online via the YRS 2017 submission system following the completion of the registration process and using the Abstract submission Template, until July 29, 2016. Authors will be notified of the acceptance/non-acceptation of abstracts by October 31, 2016.
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24/05/2016 SETRIS 3rd Progress & Planning Meeting and Project Review meeting, 24-25 May 2016 at ECTRI offices. SETRIS 3rd Progress & Planning Meeting took place at ECTRI offices followed by the SETRIS Review meeting. Today, SETRIS partners are meeting to discuss activities undertaken, status of deliverables and next steps. At the Project Review meeting, in presence of ETPs representatives and the EC Project officers, progress and status of deliverables will be reviewed.
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19/05/2016 ECTRI at Excellence in Road Safety Awards 2016 ceremony, May 20, 2016 in Brussels. ECTRI has been invited to attend the Excellence in Road Safety Awards 2016 ceremony. The European Road Safety Charter organises this event to acknowledge the best activities, or good practices, on road safety. This year the chosen topics are Youth and Innovation. Ana Pereira, ECTRI Project Officer participated.
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17/05/2016 International Transport Forum’s 2016 Summit. 18-20 May 2016. Leipzig, Germany 2016. C. Alméras attended ITF’s 2016 Summit in Leipzig, Germany. This year’s event under the theme “Green and Inclusive Transport” included policy discussions with ministers in different formats, keynote addresses, networking opportunities, demonstrations, technical tours and an exhibition. At the Summit, the official launch of ITF’s “Decarbonising Transport” project also took place.
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12/05/2016 ECTRI RESPONSE to EC STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION for R&I in the 2018-2020 WORK PROGRAMME of HORIZON 2020 SOCIETAL CHALLENGE 4 'SMART, GREEN AND INTEGRATED TRANSPORT'. ECTRI welcomes the opportunity of replying to the stakeholder consultation on potential priorities for research and innovation in the 2018-2020 Work Programme of Horizon 2020 societal challenge 4 ‘smart, green and integrated transport’ launched by the European Commission. Read it here. |
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10/05/2016 Only one week left to submit abstracts for RelStat-16 Int. Conference. The 16th International Multidisciplinary Conference on “Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication” (RelStat-16) organised by ECTRI Member TTI, will take place between 19 – 22 October 2016 in Riga (Latvia). Call for papers is open until 16 May. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues of the journal “Transport and Telecommunication” the scientific & research Journal of TTI (ISSN 1407- 6160).
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10/05/2016 NEW ECTRI leaflets now available online! Take a look at ECTRI’s new leaflets and get to know a bit more about ECTRI, its Members and activities.
ECTRI 2016 leaflet
ECTRI 2016 Thematic Groups leaflet
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04/05/2016 UNEW, DTU and POLITO awarded at TRA VISIONS 2016 Student Competition. TRA Visions Student Award Ceremony was held on the first day of TRA2016, Monday 18th April 2016. Zi Qian from the UNEW won 1st place on RAIL with study on “Subway Climatology”. UNEW got also a 2nd place on WATERBORNE, DTU a 2nd place on RAIL and POLITO a 3rd place on ROAD. Congratulations to all the winners! Click here to see the full list of winners.
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27/04/2016 RelStat-16 International Multidisciplinary Conference, 19-22 October 2016 – Call for papers is open. The 16th International Multidisciplinary Conference on “Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication” (RelStat-16) organised by ECTRI Member TTI, will take place between 19 – 22 October 2016 in Riga, Latvia. Call for papers is open till 16 May. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues of the “Transport and Telecommunication” the scientific & research Journal of TTI (ISSN 1407- 6160).
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27/04/2016 ROAD SAFETY ON FIVE CONTINENTS – last days for registration and full programme. Hurry up to register, the last day for online registration is May 8 and then the prices go up. Three days of presentations of peer reviewed papers and special sessions organised by iRAP, ITF/OISEVI/FIA, FERSI and FEHRL, ICTCT, VTI and much more! Register today at www.vti.se/RS5C and find updates regarding programme, keynotes and special sessions. The full programme is now available.
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07/04/2016 ERRAC Plenary / FOSTER RAIL Final Conference, April 7, 2016 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, is participating in the ERRAC Plenary that is taking place in conjunction with FOSTER RAIL Final Conference. Shift2Rail and future of ERRAC will be discussed as well as FOSTER RAIL project Roadmaps and Strategic Rail Research and Innovation Agenda.
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05/04/2016 NOVELOG project releases its 1st Newsletter. NOVELOG’s 1st newsletter showcases the project activities, interviews and information on the 1st NOVELOG workshop to take place in Bologna, on April 14, 2016. NOVELOG is a three year research project, focusing on gaining insight into urban freight transport (UFT) and providing guidance for implementing effective and sustainable policies and measures. This project is coordinated by ECTRI Member HIT, involving also ECTRI Members CENIT and UNEW. Read the newsletter
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05/04/2016 Public Hearing on “The Impact of the Conclusions of COP21 on European Transport Policy”, April 4, 2016 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, will participate in the public hearing on “The impact of the conclusions of COP21 on European transport policy”. This initiative is organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in order to gather relevant views on this issue and shape concrete proposals to inform the EESC’s forthcoming opinion. Event information
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31/03/2016 Road Safety on Five Continents – Draft programme now available! The 17th International Conference “Road Safety on Five Continents” (RS5C), organised by ECTRI Member VTI and supported by ECTRI will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 17–19th 2016. Draft programme including special sessions and opening speeches is now available here.
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17/03/2016 TIMON project releases 1st Newsletter. TIMON (“Enhanced real time services for an optimised multimodal mobility relying on cooperative networks and open data”) consortium announces the release of its first Newsletter that aims to inform the public about recent progress made in the project. This time particular emphasis is put on the TIMON consortium work to collect user needs and define system requirements, which will serve as the basis of further work in the project, as well as the literature review surrounding traffic prediction and route planning, and the work being done in developing hybrid communications for the TIMON applications. The TIMON Newsletter also highlights the scientific results achieved by the project, the recent news in the ITS sector on a European level, and the collaborative actions taken between TIMON and other current EU-funded projects with a focus on ITS. Moreover, the Newsletter extends an invitation to interested stakeholders to become part of the TIMON End Users’ Board, which will meet to discuss project progress and achievements and help validate the project results against real world needs. ECTRI Members DEUSTO (lead) and Fraunhofer are partners in this consortium. Read the 1st TIMON newsletter.
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17/03/2016 ETRR Latest Issue available online. European Transport Research Review – Volume 8 Number 1 of March 2016 is now available online. The journal is accepting submissions and is now indexed by Thomson Reuters. Submit your research article today!
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17/03/2016 SOLUTIONS Final Conference, April 14-15, 2016 in Berlin, Germany. This two-day conference under the theme “Transport in action: boosting the takeup of sustainable urban mobility solutions” will showcase the activities performed by cities working together on sustainable mobility. The SOLUTIONS project promotes the exchange on innovative and green urban mobility solutions between cities from Europe, Latin America and the Mediterranean and is supported by ECTRI.
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09/03/2016 EARPA Reception and Networking dinner, March 9, 2016 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, will participate to EARPA’s reception and networking dinner in Brussels. Founded in 2002, EARPA is the association of automotive R&D organisations. It brings together the most prominent independent R&D providers in the automotive sector throughout Europe.
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03/03/2016 Guide2Wear Conference “The next generation of intermodal mobility services”, on June 13, 2016 in Vienna. The Guide2Wear Team kindly invites to the Guide2Wear conference on “The next generation of intermodal mobility services”. During the last two years, the European research project Guide2Wear has analysed potentials of wearable devices as local trip assistant and developed a prototype app for a smart watch and will be presenting it on June 13, 2016 in Vienna. Participation is free, but registration is recommended. Please contact Juliane Haupt (Juliane.Haupt(AT)factum.at) for registration and further information. The conference is organized by ECTRI Members Fraunhofer and VTI and support by ECTRI.
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03/03/2016 ERTRAC plenary, March 2, 2016 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, participated to the 2016 ERTRAC Plenary meeting in Brussels, where the Roadmaps on Electrification and the Roadmap on Powertrains will be presented as well as the report from the workshop on Security of Automated Driving.
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22/02/2016 ETRR Advisory and Editorial Boards meetings, February 23, 2016 in Brussels. The Editorial Board met on February 23, 2016 in Brussels to review and discuss the Progress Report of Editor in Chief, the Publisher’s report, performance statistics of the Journal and targets, publicity strategy and sponsorship. This meeting will be followed up by an Advisory Board meeting where promotion campaign, EiC appointement and the forthcoming Advisory Board election will be tackled.
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18/02/2016 ECTRI Board meeting, February 22, 2016 in Brussels. ECTRI Board Meeting took place on February 22 at ECTRI premises. The Board members will discuss the management of the association, the follow up of the implementation plan, membership situation and the preparation of the upcoming Spring Assembly of Members.
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18/02/2016 ECTRI invited to ITF Stakeholders consultation, February 17, 2016 in Paris. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, participated to the International Transport Forum’s 2016 consultation with international organisations on February 17 in Paris at OECD. The annual Consultation Day is an important opportunity for the ITF and its stakeholders to engage in a dialogue around the main themes of the ITF Summits. ECTRI, as international organization, participates in the ITF consultation process for the last four years. More information: http://2016.itf-oecd.org/
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18/02/2016 ACEA Annual Conference, February 16, 2016 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, participated to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) Annual Conference, this year’s dedicated to the heavy-duty vehicle sector on ‘Reducing CO2 from road transport together’.
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18/02/2016 ECTRI Member DLR Annual Reception, February 16, 2016 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, participated to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) annual reception in Brussels. At this event, DLR presents itself as a competent partner and consultant, demonstrating at the same time its close relationship to the province of Baden-Württemberg acting as co-host. This edition focusses on DLR´s activities in energy research, celebrating its 40-year-anniversary in 2016. |
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18/02/2016 ERTRAC WG on Urban Mobility meeting, February 3, 2016, in Brussels. ERTRAC Urban Mobility WG members met to further develop the “Towards an integrated urban mobility roadmap”. On the agenda was also the presentation of SETRIS urban passenger transport activities and SETRIS urban freight transport activities. ECTRI Members Andrés Monzon (UPM) as WG co-chair and Dirk Holste (AIT) attended the meeting
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11/02/2016 1st YTGE - 3rd ICTG 2016, September 4 – 7, 2016, Guimarães, Portugal. The 1st meeting of the Young Transportations Geotechnics Engineers (YTGE), associated with the 3rd International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics 2016 (3rd ICTG 2016) will be composed of workshops and several types of sessions (including one dedicated to Young Transportations Geotechnics Engineers), as well as a technical exhibition, for a better dissemination of findings and best practices. The event aims to provide international forum for doctoral and post-doctoral students as well as research engineers and engineers involved in innovation in transportation geotechnics, to present and discuss their main research results and to identify future research and engineering practice needs. For more details about this event, please visit: http://civil.uminho.pt/3rd-ICTG2016/YoungTransportationsGeotechnicsEngineers.php
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11/02/2016 SETRIS project meeting with the EC officers, February 4, 2016, Brussels at ECTRI offices. SETRIS Partners met on February 4, 2016 with five EC officials at the ECTRI offices, to review submitted deliverables and agree on next steps.
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04/02/2016 Young Researcher’s Seminar 2017. We are pleased to announce the 8th Young Researchers’ Seminar, which will be held from May 16 – 18, 2017 in Berlin, Germany hosted by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Please click here for more information.
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04/02/2016 European Transport Research Review (ETRR) accepted for Thomson Reuters citation indices. European Transport Research Review, the ECTRI sponsored scientific Journal in Open Access created in 2009, has been selected for coverage in Thomson Reuter’s products and services. Beginning with Volume 5 (1) 2013, ETRR will be indexed and abstracted in Science Citation Index Expanded (also known as SciSearch®), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Social Sciences Citation Index®, Journal Citation Reports/ Social Sciences Edition, Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences and Current Contents®/Engineering Computing and Technology. Interested in submitting a paper? Please do at http://www.editorialmanager.com/etrr/default.aspx
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04/02/2016 ECTRI TG NEARCTIS/Traffic Management meeting, January 27, 2016 in Brussels. ECTRI Thematic Group NEARCTIS/Traffic Management gathered to review objectives and action plan, in regards to definition of research needs in traffic management, participation in Horizon 2020 calls, and activities of scientific exchanges. Photos of the meeting are available at ECTRI Flickr page: https://flic.kr/s/aHsktZVyYa
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04/02/2016 SETRIS project partners meetings, January 21, 2016 in Brussels. SETRIS Partners working on WP1 “Connecting passengers for seamless travel and sustainable mobility”, WP2 “End to end logistics” and WP5 “Sustaining a durable Transport Research Arena (TRA)” met in Brussels on January 21, to review and discuss actions and timeline of the respective deliverables.
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04/02/2016 Shift2Rail Info day, January 20, 2016 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, took part to Shift2Rail Info Day for non-JU members, organised by S2R JU on 20 January 2016 in Brussels in view to assess potential opportunities for ECTRI Members. S2R JU’s first calls for proposals are for S2R JU members (CFM) and non-JU members (OC); they aim at driving innovation in railways, under Horizon 2020. The streamed video of the session is available here and the presentations here.
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04/02/2016 ALICE/ERTRAC Urban Freight Working Group workshop, January 26, 2016 in Brussels. ALICE and ERTRAC organised a workshop, where the “Integrated End-to-End Logistics System”, outcome from SETRIS project was presented. At the second part, the initial conclusions of the benchmark analysis of the current Urban Freight roadmap where presented and then participants worked to identify “New challenges for Urban Freight Roadmap”. ECTRI Members' representatives Christian Rudolph (DLR) and Tom Zunder (NewRail) attended the workshop.
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27/01/2016 24th International Symposium – EURO–Zel 2016, May 31–June 1 in Žilina, Slovakia. The University of Žilina in collaboration with CETRA – Centre for Transport Research is organising EURO – Zel 2016 under the theme “Recent Challenges for European Railways”. This Symposium will take place between May 31 – June 1, 2016 in Žilina, Slovakia. This is a traditional meeting of experts from the practice, management, science and research that affects different areas of construction, maintenance, operation, safety, economics, information and communication technologies for railways, as well as training of new professionals. For more information: http://www.zu-zel.sk/index.php?art=1&lang=en
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27/01/2016 EUSTO consortium invites to its final international conference, May 26 – 27, 2016 in Dresden, Germany. The topic of the conference is “Towards Secure Transport Systems” and covers topics related to:
- Transportation security research: results from empirical studies and modelling
- Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP): experiences, emerging threats, risk awareness and counter measures
- Cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders: paving the way for the rapid deployment of security innovations
- European and national regulations: status of implementation and effectiveness
- The future of CIP: revision of the European directive 2008/114 and supporting measures
This conference is a unique opportunity to get in contact with experts in the field of surface transport and its protection, to exchange knowledge and experiences. The preliminary agenda can be consulted here: EUSTO Final Conference Announcement. Participation is free of charge but registration per e-mail is required. Please send an e-mail with your contact data and position to the conference organiser (ralf.hedel at ivi.fraunhofer.de).
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27/01/2016 ETRA and EC Workshop at TRA 2016 on 20 April 2016 “Academia and Job Market: How to Match? Building European Transport education excellence: which offer to students? which contribution to innovation?”. This workshop, mainly targeted at young students, highlights the opportunities offered by higher-level studies in transport disciplines and aims to stimulate an in-depth analysis of the need for new academic curricula to respond to the emerging sectorial needs. The workshop will provide an arena in which to express the future needs and the current weaknesses in offering the necessary skills and expertise needed by today’s youth to embrace a transport career and to provide a state-of-art advice. For more detailed information, please follow the link. Note: TRA 2016 will take place in Warsaw from April 18 to 21, 2016. The early bird rates expires on Tuesday, February 15, 2016.
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19/01/2016 ECTRI welcomes a new Member : UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA (Slovenia). Following a decision of the last ECTRI Assembly of Members, the UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA has been approved as a new Member of ECTRI as from January 1st 2016. The Faculty of Maritime Studies and Transport will be actively involved in the different activities. More information: http://www.fpp.uni-lj.si/eng/
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19/01/2016 Participants needed for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle study. ECTRI Member TRL is carrying out interviews with people who have experience of driving and charging plug-in cars as part of a new research study. If so, they need your help http://bit.ly/1RJJP4V
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14/01/2016 Call for papers for the 2016 European Transport Conference (ETC). Call for papers is open for the 2016 European Transport Conference (ETC), which will take place in Barcelona (Spain) between 5 and 7 October, 2016. The deadline for abstract submissions is 8 February 2016. ECTRI and ECTRI Member CENIT support the event.
07/01/2016 ECTRI at TRB Annual Meeting 2016 (January 10 – 14, 2016). This TRB Annual Meeting is a special occasion, as we are celebrating 10 years of cooperation between ECTRI and TRB. Please follow the link for a detailed list of events supported by ECTRI at TRB Annual Meeting, starting end of this week in Washington DC (10-14 January 2016). |
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31/12/2015 ECTRI workshop on Climate Change Mitigation at TRB 2016 in Washington.Ángel Aparicio (ECTRI/UPM) will preside the workshop on "Avoiding the Unmanageable: Policy Research Role in Mitigating Climate Change Impacts on the Transport Sector" on January 14, 2016 (8:00 AM – 12:00 PM). ECTRI Members Lasse Fridstrom (TØI), Tobias Kuhnimhof (DLR) and Iraklis Stamos (HIT) are speakers on Panel 2 “The role of innovative policies, with a focus on new technologies, demand management and multimodality.” |
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31/12/2015 ECTRI-TRB MoU 10 years celebration workshop at TRB 2016 in Washington. A workshop will be held at TRB 95th Annual Meeting on January 10, 2016 (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM), organised jointly by ECTRI&TRB. It will look at "Reviewing Progress and Achievements on EU–U.S. Transport Research Collaboration". Robert Skinner (TRB) and Cristina Pronello (ECTRI/POLITO) will preside the workshop that will review past contributions and explore emerging challenges and opportunities for further expansion.
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16/12/2015 SETRIS project Second Progress & Planning Meeting on December 17, 2015 in Newcastle. SETRIS consortium gathered to review activities undertaken, to assess status of deliverables and to plan next steps.
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16/12/2015 ECTRI Input to DG MOVE consultation on MMTIS – ITS Directive. ECTRI Thematic Groups MOBILITY and Traffic Management (NEARCTIS) contributed to EC DG MOVE consultation on the “Provision of EU-wide multimodal travel information services under the ITS Directive 2010/40/EU” . Read ECTRI Input on MMTIS – ITS Directive
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16/12/2015 Alan Stevens (TRL) shared his opinion on Chinese „Baidu“ driveless car test. Chinese tech giant Baidu has successfully tested its driverless car on roads near the company's headquarters in Beijing. (…)Mr Stevens pointed out that the particular roads chosen for the test route would be indicative of the car's true capabilities. “I wonder whether we're talking about very well made-up highways with good markings, the question is how does it work in more rural areas," he said. Read the article
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16/12/2015 ETRA Plenary meeting, December 11, 2015 in Brussels. ETRA partners met to review ETRA’s past activities and define future actions. ETRA TF KSIE was also discussed.
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10/12/2015 ETRR latest issue available online. The latest issue of the European Transport Research Review is now available online.
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10/12/2015 CEF Transport Info Day, November 30 in Brussels. The 2015 CEF Transport Info Day which was due to take place on 30 November 2015 in Brussels, Belgium was cancelled. The event, which addressed the priorities of the 2015 CEF Transport Calls, was substituted with a virtual Info Day which took place only via live web streaming. More info and presentations.
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10/12/2015 POLIS Conference, November 19 – 20 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, took part to 2015 Annual POLIS Conference on "Transport innovation for sustainable cities and regions" where ECTRI Members Pirkko Rämä (VTT) and Wolfgang Ponweiser (AIT) were presenting their research results. Other presentations can be consulted on the website of the event.
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10/12/2015 New ECTRI Task Force on "European transport research and policy". The goals of this TF are to advice on how to best promote the interests of ECTRI and to influence the developments of Transport policies. Dirk Holste (AIT) is leading this initiative.
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10/12/2015 ECTRI Autumn Assembly of Members, November 12-13, 2015, in Berlin, Germany. The Assembly was hosted by ECTRI Member DLR. The topics on the agenda were the follow-up of the implementation plan, in particular the status on activities and Thematic Groups and Task Forces update were addressed. Also, the University of Ljubljana was approved as new Member, the 2015 amended budget and the 2016 budget were approved and SETRIS project updates were presented. The second day was dedicated to a workshop on “Urban Nodes”, with presentations given by representatives of Deutsche Bahn, BVG (Berlin Public Transportation Services), InnoZ (Centre for Mobility and Societal Change) and ECTRI Members DLR and UPM. The upcoming Assembly will take place on April 20, 2016 in conjunction with TRA in Warsaw, hosted by ECTRI Members IK and ITS. Photos of the Assembly and social events are available at ECTRI Flickr page, dedicated to the ECTRI 2015 Autumn Assembly. ECTRI thanks P. Fabian for sharing his photos.
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10/12/2015 ECTRI participated to ERTRAC Info Day on Automated Road Transport call, November 6, 2015 in Brussels. A. PEREIRA, ECTRI PO, took part on ERTRAC Info Day, dedicated to the "ART" call and complemented by presentations of other H2020 calls involving automation: the Large Scale Pilot funded by the Internet of Things programme and the ITS chapter of the Transport programme. More info and presentations.
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10/12/2015 ECTRI participated to Smart Cities & Communities Info Day, November 6, 2015 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, took part on EC Info Day, about the upcoming calls for projects under the ”Smart Cities & Communities” topic of H2020 WP 2016-2017. More info and presentations.
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10/12/2015 ECTRI INPUT to EC Digital Transport and Logistics Forum. ECTRI TG FREIGHT contributed to EC survey aiming at collecting stakeholders’ views and defining working groups of the EC Digital Transport and Logistics Forum. The Input can be consulted here
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10/11/2015 ECTRI participated to EC Transport Info Day on November 5, 2015 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, took part on EC Info Day, where 2016-2017 Horizon 2020 WP calls for projects on ‘Smart, green and integrated transport’ were presented. More info and presentations
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10/11/2015 ECTRI participated to EUCAR Conference on November 4, 2015 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, took part to the EUCAR Conference & Reception under the theme “Connected to the future”.
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10/11/2015 ECTRI participated to EARPA 2015 Reception & Conference on October 27-28 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG took part to EARPA public conference and networking dinner. At the conference with theme “Virtual Product Development: Moving Towards Sustainable Transport”, research priorities for future R&D calls were discussed.
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22/10/2015 ECTRI SG C. Alméras attended DEKRA Road Safety Report 2015 presentation on October 12 in Brussel. The report highlights areas with the greatest potential for further reductions in the number of road accident victims in the EU and describes the challenges this involves for people, technology and infrastructure.
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22/10/2015 ECTRI participated to EARTO Event, October 14, 2015 in Brussels. ECTRI SG C. Alméras took part to EARTO event, that gathered representatives from RTOs, EU Institutions, industry as well as other key R&I stakeholders
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22/10/2015 ETRR Editorial Board held its meeting on October 6, 2015 in Brussels. ETRR Editorial Board met to review Springer publisher’s report and Editor in Chief’s progress report. In the agenda was also the revision of indicators and targets for 2016 and ETRR promotion.
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15/10/2015 ECTRI hosted ETRA KSIE Task Force first meeting on October 1, 2015 in Brussels. A Task Force on "Knowledge Sharing and Information Exchange" has been set up for the duration of 6 months. Its purpose is to map current activities, capabilities and information exchange mechanisms within the ETRA partners and to make recommendations on information exchange mechanisms between the partners. Furthermore it should identify areas where ETRA activity - based on the principle of subsidiarity - can have an added value for its partners. The TF had a first meeting on October 1st, 2015, where Willy Diddens, ECTRI representative, was nominated TF coordinator.
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15/10/2015 ECTRI participated to JPI Urban Europe launching the “Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda” on September 30, 2015 in Brussels. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, took part on SRIA presentation and in the workshop on “Accessibility and Connectivity” where ECTRI Member Prof. Cristina Pronello (POLITO) and also Member of the JPI Urban Europe Scientific Advisory Board, was key note speaker.
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15/10/2015 ETRR Advisory Board meeting took place on September 30, 2015 in Brussels. ETRR Advisory Board met to discuss EB members’ rolling appointment, the introduction of APCs (besides ECTRI sponsorship) and ISI evaluation, which result is expected for December 2015.
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13/10/2015 ECTRI TG FREIGHT held its meeting on October 6-7, 2015 in IFSTTAR premises, Paris. TG FREIGHT gathered to review their past actions and discuss future participation in Horizon2020 calls. They have identified topics of interest and champions, defined research priorities and discussed interests in new calls of Horizon2020. |
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13/10/2015 ECTRI Board Meeting took place on October 6, 2015 in ECTRI premises, Brussels. ECTRI Board members discussed the management of the association, implementation plan, membership situation and the preparation of the upcoming Autumn Assembly of Members, to be held in Berlin on November 12-13, hosted by DLR.
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13/10/2015 ECTRI’s ETRR open access Journal advertised by Springer at ETC 2015. Springer advertised on special ETRR topical collection curated with ETC Frankfurt 2015 in mind. More information on ETRR: www.springer.com/engineering/civil+engineering/journal/12544
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13/10/2015 New Project Officer Ana Pereira joined ECTRI team in Brussels. Ana Pereira is young Portuguese professional, with an engineering background in spatial and environmental planning and 3 years' experience in EU affairs. She speaks English, Portuguese and French.
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12/10/2015 SETRIS First Review Meeting took place on September 15, 2015 in Brussels. SETRIS project consortium leadership team (C. Alméras, ECTRI, F.Liesa, CO-TREE/ALICE and M. Robinson, UNEW) met EC representatives to report and review WPs’ progress and deliverables’ status. Next meeting will take place on December 17, 2015 in Newcastle.
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08/10/2015 ECTRI Thematic Group on Mobility (TG Mobility) and ECTRI Thematic Group on Economy and Policies (TG ECOPOL) held their common meetings on September 24-25 in ECTRI premises. TG MOBILITY AND ECOPOL met to review their past actions and to discuss potential common projects in relation to Horizon2020 and WP 2016-2017 calls. In the two day meeting, the two TGs first held parallel sessions to define research priorities and further develop their matrix of interests. At the common meeting they agreed on some WP topics worth exploring, for future call project proposals.
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07/10/2015: ECTRI TG SAFETY held its meeting on September 22-23 in ECTRI premises. TG SAFETY members met to review past activities and define research priorities in view of an increase participation in projects of Horizon2020 and WP 2016-2017 calls. In the two day meeting, members had the opportunity to share their expertise by presenting their recent scientific research work and build upon their matrix of interest. In prospect of future partnerships, TG SAFETY invited the Executive Director of the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) Antonio Avenoso as guest speaker to present his organisation, recent activities and projects.
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29/07/2015: International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI) held September 9-11, 2015 in Lyon, France. ECTRI Member Ifsttar hosts the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI) international event dealing with the impact of biomechanics research in the design of a safer environment for society: safer vehicle design, protective equipment, etc. The event took place on September 9-11, 2015 in Lyon, France.
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28/07/2015: SIDT (Società Italiana dei Docenti di Trasporti) scientific seminar Transport Systems - Methods and Technologies, held September 14-15, 2015 in Torino, Italy. ECTRI Member POLITO hosts the SIDT (Società Italiana dei Docenti di Trasporti) scientific seminar Transport Systems - Methods and Technologies. The congress took place on September 14-15, 2015 in Torino, Italy.
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27/07/2015: ECTRI and Springer have agreed that Article Processing Charges (APC) applies to the European Transport Research Review (ETRR) from 2015. The current rate is 1050€. There are various ways to fund this charge.
The latest issue European Transport Research Review. Volume 7 Issue 3 (September 2015) is now available online.
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22/07/2015: VTT has chosen Antti Vasara as its new President & CEO. ECTRI Member VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has chosen Antti Vasara as its new President & CEO from 1 November 2015. Antti Vasara (49 years) is currently Executive Vice President of Tieto Corporation.
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17/07/2015: TOI publishes report on pathways to electromobility. ECTRI Member TOI publishes report on pathways to electromobility. The report presents two analyses of the Norwegian Electric Vehicle (EV) story. Technology development leading to longer range and lower prices should make it easier for other countries to choose among incentives that were tested in Norway.
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16/07/2015: HIT publishes its annual report 2014. ECTRI Member HIT publishes its annual report 2014. it gives a concise picture of HIT activities during the year 2014 characterized by 3 major developments: 1/completion of HIT external evaluation 2/ approval of HIT new Organigram 3/ Passing of a new law for research and innovation in Greece.
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15/07/2015: BASt published its annual report (2013-14). ECTRI Member BASt published its annual report (2013-14) on its latest research results in the following fields: "Road Safety: Putting people first", "vehicle technology: New systems and pathways", "traffic engineering: concepts, measures and statistics under the magnifying glass", "Environment: protect habitat and make road transport sustainable"," Infrastructure: Safe Buildings and roads for the future "and" Road: Optimized coatings and condition assessment".
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14/07/2015: UNEW published an article. ECTRI Member UNEW published an article "Assessing the impact of the 2011 EU Transport White Paper - a rail freight demand forecast up to 2050 for the EU27" in ECTRI sponsored European Transport Research Review (ETRR, available in open access).
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13/07/2015: ECTRI is recruiting a Project Officer. ECTRI is recruiting a Project Officer for its Brussels office. Deadline to apply: 31/07/2015. More information, consult the job description.
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07/07/2015: Climate-KIC PhD Summer School. ECTRI Member UVEG supports this year’s two-week Climate-KIC PhD Summer School on low-carbon cities to take place from 20 September until 2 October 2015 in Valencia, Spain. Students will work on real city challenges aiming at developing the Valencia 2020 Strategy.
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02/07/2015: C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, participated to the 3rd Advisory Group meeting of CIVITAS CAPITAL project on July 2nd, 2015. C. ALMERAS, ECTRI SG, participated to the 3rd Advisory Group meeting of CIVITAS CAPITAL project on Financing Sustainable Mobility on July 2nd, 2015, in Leuven. The AG (10 experts:practitioners and researchers) objective is to help the European Commission to identify innovative financing methods for sustainable urban transport measures. After viewing Deinze and Bremen cities' best practices, the discussions focused on Alternative cost-covering options and Integrated financing of sustainable mobility. Those discussions will form a basis for a complete report to be issued early 2016.
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01/07/2015: ECTRI Member TRL and French road testing facility Transpolis to launch an International Test Facility. ECTRI Member TRL teamed with French road testing facility Transpolis to launch an International Test Facility
to offer full scale safety and security barrier impact testing services to its global customer base. Based in the heart of Europe (near Lyon), the test facility will serve as a European hub for TRL’s full scale impact testing activity.
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24/06/2015: ETRA will hold a one-day Workshop on “Transport & Climate Change: European Researchers act” in Paris on Monday 6th July. ETRA, the European Transport Research Alliance will hold a one-day Workshop on “Transport & Climate Change: European Researchers act” in Paris on Monday 6th July. This workshop has been accredited as a side event to CFCC2015 "Our Common Future under Climate Change" International Scientific Conference that takes place the same week in Paris. More than 1800 participants are expected to attend CFCC2015. ECTRI Member Ifsttar is a partner of the conference.
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22/06/2015:SETRIS project successful 1st meeting in Brussels ! On June 19, all the partners of SETRIS gathered in order to report and exchange on the progression of their deliverables since the official start on May 1st. The EC was also represented. SETRIS project (Strengthening European Transport Research and Innovation Strategies) will last 24 month, it involves all the transport ETPs and is co-coordintated by ECTRI and UNEW.
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19/06/2015 Successful Young Researcher Seminar in Rome ! On June 19 2015, the Young Researchers Seminar 2015 Steering Committee awarded the four best papers and presentations:
1st prize: Veronica Kureckova (CDV) for „First aid as an important traffic safety factor“.
2nd prize ex-aequo to André Paixao (LNEC) for “Railway tracks transition zones: experimental and numerical studies" (restricted publication)
Gaby Gurczik (DLR) for “Bluetooth based Floating Car Observer: Model Evaluation using Simulation and Field Measurements”
Jose Ramalho (POLITO) for “Impacts of Advanced Travel Information Systems on Travel Behaviour: Smartmoov’ case study”
YRS 2017 will be hosted by ECTRI Member Deutschen Zentrums für Luft- und Raumfahrt / German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Köln, Germany
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15/06/2015: The Young Researcers seminar 2015 in figures. The Young Researchers Seminar 2015 in figures: ECTRI Members have sent 8 tutors and 33 young researchers.
In total, 13 different ECTRI Members are participating: 50% of the ECTRI Membership.
From a total of 78 institutes/universities members of ECTRI, FEHRL or FERSI, 51 organizations participated (about 65% of the 3 networks together).
This year, 41 young researchers are coming from 18 institutes or university and 13 tutors from 10 institutes or university.
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11/06/2015: ECTRI is part of the new EC Forum on Digital Transport Logistics. ECTRI is part of the new EC Forum on Digital Transport Logistics! The DTLF aims at further supporting digitalisation of freight transport and logistics. Corinne BLANQUART, Ifsttar (TG freight leader) is appointed with Gernot LIEDTKE, DLR (TG freight rapporteur) as substitute.
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10/06/2015: ECTRI Board meeting took place on June 10, 2015. Exceptionally, the meeting takes place under the form of a teleconference. It is the occasion to endorse key documents and to take strategic recommendations for the Assembly of Members (in November 12-13, 2015 in Berlin, Germany).
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09/06/2015: ECTRI welcomed CARONTE project meeting in its offices, June 10, 2015. ECTRI Members FhG, IFSTTAR and AIT are members of the consortium.
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08/06/2015:ECTRI Thematic Group "Security and Risk Analysis" met on June 09, 2015 at ECTRI premises in Brussels. |
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04/06/2015: ECTRI SG C. Alméras attended stakeholder discussion on CEDR transnational research programme on June 2, 2015. The Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR) is preparing its research calls for 2015/2016 while simultaneously developing its long term research strategy for 2017 and beyond.
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02/06/2015: The European Transport Conference was held on September 28-30, 2015 in Frankfurt, Germany. ETC connects the worlds of research, consultancy, policy and practice. ECTRI is an official sponsor of ETC. |
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26/05/2015: ERPUG forum event. ECTRI Member VTI supports ERPUG forum event to take place on October 15-16, 2015 in Budapest, Hungary.
ERPUG's (European Road Profile Users’ Group) purpose is to serve as a forum for exchanging information between end users, data collectors, vendors, construction and design engineers and researchers in functional characteristics of road surfaces.
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21/05/2015: ECTRI SG attends Electromobility+ conference and final review workshop. ECTRI SG attended Electromobility+ conference on May 20, 2015 in Berlin. The event provided an overview of achieved results of 18 trans-national research projects. The Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) invited ECTRI Members to attend. The final review of all the projects was held on 21 May 2015.
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20/05/2015: ECTRI SG C. Alméras attended the WATERBORNE TP Steering Group meeting. ECTRI SG C. Alméras attended the WATERBORNE TP Steering Group meeting on May 19, 2015. Among several topics, the discussions will deal with the interrelation between H2020 and CEF programmes and on H2020 workprogramme 2016-2017.
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19/05/2015: ECTRI Thematic Group "Traffic Management" first meeting. ECTRI Thematic Group "Traffic Management" kick off meeting took place on May 18, 2015. The TG includes, among ECTRI Members (AIT, BASt, DEUSTO, HIT, UNIZA, UPM, UVEG, and VTI), representatives from the NEARCTIS network (experts from Ifsttar, DLR, TU Delft, EPFL Lausanne, TUCrete, UCL and UoSouthampton). The meeting will be held in ECTRI premises in Brussels.
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13/05/2015: HiSPEQ meeting. ECTRI welcomed HiSPEQ project meeting on May 12, 2015. HiSPEQ delivers improvements to the process of describing high-speed survey equipment, specifying the requirement for survey equipment and regimes applied to ensure the quality of data delivered. ECTRI Members AIT, TRL and VTI are partners of HiSPEQ.
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11/05/2015: Young Researchers Seminar Update. Hosted by University of Rome - La Sapienza, the Young Researchers Seminar 2015 will gather 42 young researchers and 13 tutors on June 17-19. This event happens once every 2 years and is the occasion to enhance the professionalization of young researchers. The event is supported by ECTRI, FEHRL, FERSI and TRB.
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06/05/2015: ECTRI contributes to ‘’Joining Forces to tackle the road transport CO2 challenge’’. ECTRI contributes to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) initiative ‘’Joining Forces to tackle the road transport CO2 challenge’’. Prof. Z. Szalay (BME) for Eco-driving session and Prof. A. Monzon (UPM) for ITS contributed to the first set of workshops (on April 16 for ITS and May 5 for Eco-Driving).
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30/04/2015: Presentation of ECTRI at KOWI. ECTRI SG C. Alméras was invited to present the Association to a crowd of research managers for enhancing the ECTRI visibility at the KOWI (“European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations”) Kompakt workshop on April 29, 2015 in Brussels.
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30/04/2015: CARONTE. ECTRI welcomed CARONTE project meeting in its Brussels office on April 29. The project gathers ECTRI Members AIT, FhG and Ifsttar. ECTRI supports this project.
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24/04/2015: ECTRI SG attends the 5th ITS conference, April 24th 2015. ECTRI SG attends the 5th ITS conference "A digital strategy for mobility: from capacity to connectivity". The event was openened by EU Commissioner for Transport on 24 April 2015 in Brussels. Topics such as data for digitising transport, mobility as a service and connectivity and automation were discussed with high level speakers.
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22/04/2015: Farewell former ECTRI President George Giannopoulos. ECTRI thanked former ECTRI President and Director of HIT-CERTH George Giannopoulos for his dedication and service to ECTRI for the last ten years. George Giannopoulos was invited as a guest of honor during the ECTRI Assembly of Members in Copenhagen in April 2015. On this occasion, ECTRI President Mark Robinson and Secretary General Caroline Alméras held a speech and awarded him with a “Certificate of Appreciation”in recognition of his many contributions and commitment to ECTRI.
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22/04/2015: Spring Assembly Lyngby, Denmark, on April 20-21, 2015. Next ECTRI Spring Assembly takes place in Lyngby, Denmark, on April 20-21, 2015 The Assembly is hosted by ECTRI Member DTU.
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09/04/2015: Innovation and Opportunities for Rail Freight in the 21st Century. ECTRI Member UNEW coordinates "Innovation and Opportunities for Rail Freight in the 21st Century" event. It took place on April 8, 2015 at UIC's Headquarters in Paris.
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02/04/2015: 17th Road Safety on 5 Continents (RS5C). ECTRI Member VTI organises the 17th Road Safety on 5 Continents (RS5C) Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, in May 17-19, 2016. ECTRI supports this event.
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10/03/2015: ERC Consolidator Grant. ECTRI congratulates Ifsttar researcher Ludovic Leclerc for winning ERC Consolidator Grant for his project "Multiscale and Multimodal Modelling Approach for Green Urban Traffic Management" (MAGnUM).
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09/03/2015: White Paper on Transport: Where do we stand ? ECTRI attended EESC public hearing on White Paper on Transport: Where do we stand ? The European Economic and Social Committee encourages stakeholders to express their views about the mid-term review of the European Commission's 2011 White Paper on Transport. ECTRI Secretary General C. Alméras attended the event which took place on March 6, 2015.
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02/03/2015: LivingRAIL and SpiderPlus projects held their joint final conference in the European Parliament. LivingRAIL and SpiderPlus projects held their joint final conference in the European Parliament in Brussels on April 23, 2015. Both projects aim at developing mobility visions and roadmaps for 2050 where electrified rail takes a central role in passenger and freight mobility. ECTRI Member FhG is a partner in the LivingRAIL project.
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27/02/2015: 43rd European Transport Conference. The Association for European Transport will hold the 43rd European Transport Conference in Frankfurt, Germany on September 28-30, 2015. ECTRI is an official sponsor of the event.
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26/02/2015: RailNewcastle Conference 2015.
ECTRI Member UNEW organises a rail-focused international conference in Newcastle on July 15-17, 2015. It offers opportunities for Scholars, Bachelor, Master, PhD Students, Early Career Researchers and Professionals involved in rail-related research projects and courses.
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23/02/2015: TRA 2016 conference. TRA 2016 conference, the major European event dedicated to transport research will take place in Warsaw, Poland from 18 to 21 April 2016. |
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20/02/2015: Project City HUB . Project City HUB held its final conference on February 19, 2015 in Lille, France. ECTRI Members UPM, KTI, TOI, HIT, TRL, VTT, Ifsttar and CDV are partners in this project. ECTRI officially supports this project.
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16/02/2015: FEHRL FIRM15 event. FEHRL hold its Infrastructure Research Meeting 2015 (FIRM15) event on April 22-23, 2015 in Brussels. The event gathers 120 transport infrastructure innovation and research experts, including European and national policy makers, leading industry, standardisation agencies, SME's and the media.
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06/02/2015: Guide2Wear holds its Internal consortium meeting. Guide2Wear holds its Internal consortium meeting at TML (Transport & Mobility Leuven) on March 12-13, 2015. Guide2Wear is an ERA-NET project that aims at evaluating the potential of wearable devices such as smart watches or glasses for future travel services. ECTRI officially supports this project.
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28/01/2015: ECTRI Board meeting. The new ECTRI Board took office on January 27. The first Board meeting took place on February 26, in ECTRI premises in Brussels. The next Board meeting will take place on April 20, 2015 in Lyngby, Denmark.
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24/01/2015: 7th International Conference on Transport Research. ECTRI Member HIT is organizing "7th International Conference on Transport Research” with main theme: “From basic research to innovative applications”. The event will take place on November 5 & 6, 2015 in Athens, Greece.
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