During the plenary sessions, the policy and future view concerning the important topics will be presented by a number of established speakers such as EU commissioners, industry representatives, policy makers and research persons. In these sessions, emphasis is put on the general strategy and on their future implementation. The topics will be looked at from the view of a ‘greener, safer and smarter transport’ and will bring the different opinions of the stakeholders: the European Commission, CEDR, ERTRAC, ERRAC and WATERBORNE TP among others owners, industry, users, politicians and researchers. The strategic sessions will further develop the topics evocated in the pillars and the plenary sessions, and will put emphasis on the topics as they are presented in the programme (Download Programme here).In addition, the thematic and the poster sessions will go into technical details and give the floor to various eloquent speakers, keynote players in their field of research and industry.Finally, the TRA 2012 Programme Committee has Special Sessions organized during the Conference. Each Special Session will have a duration of 75 minutes:

1. eMobility Forum Research & Innovation Recommendations 2011-2020

2. Change to Survive: Transport Technologies and Land Use Planning for Europe Global Competition

3. STREAMLINE FP7 Project – Strategic Research for Innovative Marine Propulsion Concepts

4. Transport planning and traffic information systems in cities

5. The path to the European Road Transport Electrification – The Contribution of CAPIRE

6. Sustainable Mobility in Action with CIVITAS: Innovative mobility solutions for sustainable urban transport in Europe

7. Development of the European Road Safety Observatory - The DaCoTA project

8. Measuring Carbon Footprint of Freight Transport Chains

9. Trends in Maritime Logistics and Port Operations

10. Enhanced Environment Perception and results of Field Operational Tests of Active Safety Systems

11. Transport, NMP and ICT NCP Networks join forces aiming towards an improved participation of European organizations in the FP7

12. FOTsis: Cooperative Systems deployment from the Road Operators point of view

13. New solutions for sustainable distribution of freight in Urban Areas

14. Reuse of abandoned railway infrastructures as a sustainable transportation option and economic development engine: Planning, policies and technical proposals.

15. The Talent Challenge in Electro Mobility

16. Cost-effective improvement of rail transport infrastructure

17. Green corridors in Europe

18. Mid- and long-term strategy to implement ITS technologies for strategic traffic management and integrated approach to achieve higher traffic safety in the city

19. Public Private Partnership for Transport Infrastructure theory & practice

20. Research and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Transportation: inputs and messages for Horizon 2020 and the Strategic Transport Technology Plan (STTP)

21. Presentation of the EC EXTREME SEAS Project

22. Pose2idon (Power Optimised Ship for the environment with Electrical Innovative Design On-Board): Greener Merchant Shipping

23. "SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study: Vehicle, Driver, and Roadway Data"

24. Developing the European Transport Research Alliance (DETRA)

25. Innovation and research for a more competitive European rail sector, challenges and solutions for Horizon 2020

26. New perspectives in transport research in Turkey - Rail Sector

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