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Philipe Reinisch, Silkroad 4.0, talked with Stephan Neugebauer, Chairman of ERTRAC (European Road Transport Research Advisory Council) about the Transport Research Arena and the motto of the biggest Europe's transport research conference. ERTRAC is one of the TRA supporting technology platform.
“To bring technology from all over Europe, give it a stage and show what is already possible,” says Silkroad 4.0 Showcase ambassador Philipe Reinisch as he describes the mission of the Silkroad 4.0 project.
Silkroad 4.0 and Transport Research Arena (TRA)
The motto of the conference is also at the core of the Silkroad 4.0 mission in 2018: a digital era for transport. Solutions for society, economy and environment.
Read also welcoming words from Stephan Neugebauer to the participants of TRA 2018:
Today more than ever, Europe needs cooperation in order to accelerate innovation. Collaboration among researchers within European projects is an excellent way to exchange knowledge and share results. By doing that, we can avoid duplication of efforts and bring Europe together faster on key innovations domains. It is also an issue of competitiveness of Europe versus other regions of the world, in order to get technology leadership. In road transport, researchers are dealing with challenges that will completely transform our mobility system in the long-term, such as electrification, connectivity and automation.
The TRA Conference has the right format to bring transport researchers together, and its multi-modal coverage is interesting because more cross-sectoral collaboration is needed for the development of key enabling technologies. We need to avoid the development in silos and think about innovation that can be integrated within the transport system: considering the vehicles, the infrastructures, the services to users, and the links between the different transport modes. It is very important that researchers understand better the needs from the other components of the transport system, so that a better integration can be designed for the future, and the overall efficiency be enhanced.
The TRA approach of bringing the research community together with the industry and the public authorities is also a very good approach. It is key that from early research work, there is consideration for application and deployment: to avoid that research results stay at low TRL levels and are not exploited. It is very important to build research and industry collaboration, to consider the industry development requirements. And researchers should also always look at the needs of the users: assess, test and demonstrate how the application will be done, if the users needs and expectations are met, and what will be the impacts of deployment. Therefore, as ERTRAC we encourage very much that collaboration between the actors: academic, research organisations, industry, users representatives, and the public authorities from European, national and local levels.
ERTRAC wishes to all the TRA 2018 participants a very fruitful conference!
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