The subject of this Thematic Working Group is Freight Transport, including logistics, technology.
The TWG is currently composed of 28 experts from 15 institutes, as following:
AIT: Jakob Puchinger
CENIT: Miquel Estrada & José Magin Campos
DLR: Andreas Lischke (moderator) & Prof. Barbara Lenz
DTU:Ole Kveiborg
FHG: Dr Heinrich Hoefler, Thilo Bein, Wolfgang Kappes, Martin Rathjens & Christiane Kollosche
HIT: George Haralampous & Dr Yannis Tyrinopoulos
INRETS: Elisabeth Gouvernal (rapporteur) & Antoine Fremont
ITS/CNTK: Jerzy Waskiewicz & Marek Lepkowski
LET: Jean-Louis Routhier
TØI: Olav Eidhammer
TTI: Prof. Igor Kabashkin & Prof. Alexander Medvedev
UPM: José Manual Mera & Blanca Arenas
VGTU-TMI: Andrius Jarzemskis & Aidas Vasilis Vasiliauskas
VTI: Andreas Tapani
VTT: Antti Permala & Kari Makela
Objectives:
- producing successful FP7 proposals
- answering to EC requests related to freight transport issues
- producing a strategic paper for freight transport (long run)
- influencing the EC framework program and policy issues (at a later stage)
Current activities:
- preparation of a position paper identifying the widespread interests of the TWG participating institutes, definition of terms of references for common understanding and further steps
- preparation of FP7 proposals
The TWG Freight Transport also prepared inputs for the FP7 update. These inputs have been gathered in a report entitled "White spots in the European Transport research traced by ECTRI's Thematic Working Groups". This report was released to the EC in June 2009. |
