Research is one of the core issues that UIC is involved in on behalf of its members. As was the case with the 4th TRA (surface) Transport Research Conference in Athens last year, the UIC is involved – on behalf of ERRAC – in the organisation of the 5th TRA Conference.
Next year the 5th Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2014 conference will take place from 14 – 17 April at Paris-la-Defense, France. All aspects of surface transport modes (road, rail and waterborne) and cross-modal aspects (including intermodal freight transport and urban mobility) will be covered as part of TRA 2014.
The main role for ERRAC and UIC in the organisation of the TRA is to see that rail is featured in the programme in a prominent role next to road and waterborne transport. Issues of competition as well as inter-modality are concerned here.
Underlining the prominent role for rail transport will certainly be made a lot easier if there are a good number of abstracts submitted addressing interesting activities in the area of research and innovation in the rail system! On this basis we can organise many important sessions during the conference.
We would like to invite you to help us promote rail transport in all its facets by drafting and submitting abstracts that address the research and innovation projects and studies your company might be involved in. It is an opportunity to showcase your activities as well as the innovative rail system as a whole!
Besides research, there are many representatives of local, regional and national governments, high officials and even Director-Generals of the European Commission, the supply industry and users and potential users.
Therefore, all abstracts/papers around the results of your project (scientific and end-user oriented abstracts), FP7 funded projects and others, are very welcome.
After the selection of papers, E-proceedings as well as thematic hard copy volumes will be published. The best papers will also be submitted to highly-rated journals. We would urge you to consider submitting a scientific paper based on the work and results of your projects.
The first step is to submit an abstract (400 to 500 words).
This can be done at: http://tra2014.sciencesconf.org/ as soon as possible (deadline 30 April 2013). There can be several abstracts per project, e.g. one on the main results and others on more specific scientific aspects or applications.
Conference website: http://www.traconference.eu/ and http://tra2014.sciencesconf.org/
