Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda - Volume 2

The ACARE Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) is structured in 5 Challenges:

1. Meeting Societal and market needs
2. Maintaining and extending industrial leadership
3. Protecting the environment and the energy supply
4. Ensuring safety and security
5. Prioritising research, testing capabilities an education

In order to tackle these challenges, a number of goals have been fixed (e.g. for Challenge 1: 90% of the travellers within Europe are able to complete their journey door to door within 4 hours). These are described in Volume 1 of the SRIA.

Volume 2 goes one step beyond and describes what needs to be done / available to progress towards the goals: the so-called Enablers (e.g. Understanding Customer expectation and their role in the transport and mobility). Because of the many enablers needed, these have been organised in Clusters of Enablers in Volume 2.

 

Once 'what' is to be done is understood, the next step is to derive how this can be done i.e. what are the Capabilities (e.g. To know the Customer profile).

From the 'how' to reach the goals, the Research and Innovation Needs (e.g. Investigate changes in human factors) become evident and this is the core of Volume 2. A classification in Domains of these Research and Innovation Needs was made according to their nature: concepts, infrastructure, knowledge, operational concept, policy, technology or other. Indeed, while research stakeholders are most likely interested by R&I to develop technology, the policy maker will be more interested by R&I for policy.

Finally, to assess the effectiveness of R&I actions, Achievements and their Metrics are proposed, and this for three time horizons: 2020, 2025 and 2050 as well as Key performance Indicators which could be used to assess the progress.

This facility allows to search free keywords in the entire Volume 2 and to filter the search based on the different notions described above.