DETRA - Developing a European Transport Research Alliance
Overview
Background & policy context:
The concept of DETRA derives from the Lyon Declaration. In 2008, the signatories of the Lyon Declaration (ECTRI, FERSI, FEHRL, EURNEX, HUMANIST, ISN and NEARCTIS) committed themselves to work together on the deepening the European Research Area (ERA) objectives in transport in order to address the Grand Challenges.
Objectives:
From this commitment the objective to create a European Transport Research Alliance (ETRA) grew that would strengthen the transport domain.
Methodology:
The key priorities of this Alliance are: examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) in the domain and develop common understanding and approaches to reduce fragmentation and overcome barriers.
The DETRA project will provide a detailed examination of the current status and structure of transport research, bringing together the competences of all the partners together with their networks and associated links to provide the most comprehensive assessment of all the aforementioned aspects of ERA development. The project will then set out, and start to implement the next steps in developing the Surface Transport ERA.
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