Rail industry research strategy
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Background
- Current rail research
- Future challenges
- Delivery and funding
- Making it happen - towards implementation
- 1. Introduction
- Background
- Aims and objectives
- Development of the RIRS
- 2. Rail industry research today
- Why carry out research?
- Types and purposes of research
- Current research programmes
- Rail Safety and Standards Board
- Network Rail
- University sector
- European programmes
- Train operating companies
- Rail freight sector
- Transport for London
- Summary
- Cross-industry management mechanisms
- Challenges for the future
- Introduction
- A vision for the future railway
- Strategic research themes
- Theme 1 - enhancing reliable capacity
- Theme 2 - reducing specific cost of reliable infrastructure
- Theme 4 - the environment, energy and the railway
- Theme 5 - improving the customer experience
- Theme 6 - traction & rolling stock: reducing cost and improving reliability
- Theme 7 - understanding key technical interfaces
- Theme 8 - developing future rail strategy
- Current status of strategic railway research in the UK
- Developing route maps to the railway of the future
- Case study 2: capacity and cab signalling technology
- 4. Delivery and funding of research
- Introduction
- Benefits of cross-sector collaboration
- Government intervention in research
- Key principles
- Achieving future delivery and funding of rail research
- More strategic research
- Case study 4: sustainable rail programme
- Securing more support from users
- Promoting greater collaboration
- 5. Making it happen - towards implementation
- Implementation plan
- Funding and resources
- Next steps
- More strategic research
- More buy-in from research users
- More collaboration
- Clearer benefits
- Monitoring and review processes
- Conclusions
- Appendix A - stakeholder participation in the development of the RIRS
- Appendix B - glossary
- Appendix C - key references
