TRA is not just a conference but an arena which aims at bringing together European stakeholders from all areas of transport and transport-related activities.
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It is with a great satisfaction that we welcome the initiative taken on the occasion of TRA 2012 to extend the scope of the conference to all modes of surface transport: road, rail and waterborne. A renewed TRA, covering all transport modes but also urban transport planning and mobility as well as co-modality, is precisely what the European Commission was calling for. This will happen in Athens in 2012.
The sustainable mobility of passengers and goods, in towns, in our regions and countries throughout the continent and beyond, needs an efficient and reliable European transport system.
Innovation is essential for this. As stated in the White Paper "Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area - Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system" presented by the European Commission in 2011, EU research needs to address the full cycle of research, innovation and deployment in an integrated way by focusing on the most promising technologies and bringing together all the actors involved. Innovation can also play a role in promoting more sustainable behaviour.
TRA 2012 aims not only to present the latest achievements of European research, but above all at to provide a venue and forum where the technological developments needed for the next decades are discussed and debated.
Knowledge, too, needs to circulate efficiently, without bottlenecks, if we are to boost innovation. Today, in Europe, we are facing an innovation emergency. That is why the European Commission has placed Research and Innovation at the heart of the Europe 2020 Strategy. A step change in Europe's innovation performance is needed, in transport as in other domains. TRA 2012 will be a unique platform for stakeholders - European, national, regional and urban, public and private - to start mobilising towards well-defined goals in the frame of transport innovation partnerships.
TRA 2012 in Athens will have a new dimension. The opportunity is to create a truly European transport research and innovation arena where innovative technologies of tomorrow are presented and discussed with the aim of achieving the goals of the European transport policy.
For more information, please visit Transport Research Arena site.
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