Projects ended in 2012
Project title: Market-Up
Project number: 265841
Starting date: 01.10.2010
Ending date: 30.09.2012
Duration: 24 months
Project typ: Coordination and Supporting Action (CSA-SA)
Coordinators: TIS. PT, CONSULTORES EM TRANSPORTES, INOVACAO E SISTEMAS S.A. LISBOA
Partners:
| Institution name | Country |
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ZILINSKA UNIVERZITA V ZILINE - CETRA |
Slovakia |
| TIS PT, CONSULTORES EM TRANSPORTES, INOVACAO E SISTEMAS, SA | Portugal |
| COMITE DE LIAISON DE LA CONSTRUCTION DEQUIPEMENTS ET DE PIECES DAUTOMOBILES CLEPA AISBL | Belgium |
| EUROPEAN MARINE EQUIPMENT COUNCIL/CONSEIL EUROPEEN DE LEQUIPMENT NAVAL | Belgium |
| INNOVA SPA | Italy |
| FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V | Germany |
| BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM | Hungary |
| INOVAMAIS - SERVICOS DE CONSULTADORIA EM INOVACAO TECNOLOGICA S.A. | Portugal |
| UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN | Belgium |
About the project:
The concept behind this project becomes clearer when one understands the needs of a good market uptake of a research result. The purpose of a market uptake is to make research generated and scientific and technological developments accessible to private organisations. These stakeholders are then encouraged to develop the technology further into new products, processes, materials, or services that will enhance the industrial competitiveness.
Market-up aims to identify barriers (both social and technical) and drivers for the market uptake of transport research results along Aeronautics, Air, Road, Rail and Waterborne transport.
Case Studies & Show cases:
The Market-up case study factsheets developed earlier in the project have been further elaborated into 7 Show Cases ilustrating the uptake of transport innovations in the market.
The Market Up Project undertook a detailed assessment of seven cases representing different innovative clusters in the transport sector. The case studies present an insight analysis of success or failure of policies to stimulate innovation in transport, aimed at obtaining a better knowledge on the market uptake of R&D results. The case studies are in the following topics:
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Area of research |
Topic of Case study |
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Electromobility |
Role of EU funding projects in bringing electric vehicles from R&D laboratories to the market |
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Alternative motor fuels |
Biofuels for surface transport |
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Maritime Sector |
Deployment of Green Technologies within the Maritime Sector: SO2 Abatement Technology |
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Intermodality |
Intermodal VEL wagon: versatile, efficient and longer wagons |
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Maritime and Inland waterways |
Container transferium |
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Rail |
Rail Cargo Sprinter: rail door to door solutions |
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Aeronautics |
Aviation biofuels |
The case studies have been further developed into 7 Show Cases available in the key findings section: www.market-up.org/index.php
Project number: 265610
Starting date: 31.12.2010
Ending date: 31.12.2012
Duration: 24 months
Project type: Collaborative project, small or medium-scale focused research project
Coordinators: Chair of Track and Railway Operations of Technische Universität Berlin
Partners:
The project consists of four project partners from Germany, Sweden and Slovakia:
1. Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin Institute of Technology), Fachgebiet Schienenfahrwege und Bahnbetrieb (Chair of Track and Railway Operations) and Fachgebiet Schienenfahrzeuge (Chair of Railway Vehicles), Berlin, Germany
2. Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Train Traffic Group, Stockholm, Sweden
3. University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia
4. Tatravagónka a.s. Poprad, Poprad, Slovakia
Project description
The basic idea of VEL-Wagon is that in the future, longer loading surfaces without interruptions, as well as more capable platforms with higher axle loads and with lower loading heights will be necessary to increase the capacity of the freight railway transportation. This can be understood as a follow-up to the current trend of enlarging the vehicles of other means of transportation like the Jumbo and Giga-liners trucks.
As EC-financed research project VEL-Wagon will pursue strongly the knowledge expansion in the following subjects:
- Future rail-road intermodal transportation market in Europe, especially when it comes to the utilisation of intermodal transport units (ITU) and freight wagons.
- Future wagonload transportation market in Europe, especially when it comes to conventional wagonloads and freight wagons utilisation.
- Infrastructure limitations, technical and economical, to extended wagon lengths, axle loads and loading gauges. In that context identify and assess infrastructure capacity enlargements, implications of axle load increases, study suitable corridors and areas of influence of VEL-Wagon.
- Wagon enlargement possibilities, especially when it comes to length between bogie pivots, length between pivots and couplers, loading height and loading gauge for ITUs (also semitrailers) and conventional units, tare weight, heavy solicitations on frame as well as dynamic and static properties of such wagons.
- Economic equilibrium between wagon capacity increase, infrastructure requirements and freight market.
And secondarily the project will touch upon the following aspects:
- Future necessities on bogies for VEL-Wagon, increased axleload vs. increased number of axles, technical implications and economics thereof.
- Economic implications, LCC of infrastructure and wagons due to increased axleloads and/or increased No. axles per bogies and increased speed.