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pean Commission's Directorate-General Energy and Transport is research concerning
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– technologies and concepts of “clean” urban transport,
– revitalization of the rail,
– intermodal transport and logistics,
– safe, efficient and interoperable water transport,
– strategies of increasing safety of road transport;
– road tolls;
– funding transport infrastructure;
– air transport management;
– airport efficiency.
Projects of the Sixth Framework Programme are in progress, while research
within the Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013) is in its organizational
phase. Transport research (both land and air) is clearly marked as a separate segment
within the latter, with an earmarked budget of 4,160 billion euro 26 . The research
goal is to “develop safer, greener and smarter transport systems for
Europe that will benefit citizens, respect the environment, and raise the competitiveness
of European industries in the global market.” 27 Listed as primary research
areas are the following 28 :
– aeronautics and air transport (including among others reduction of emissions,
air traffic management, safety, efficiency),
– sustainable surface transport (including among others, development of
clean transport technologies, reducing the negative impact of transport on
climate change, intermodality of transport – also in regional aspect).
As can be seen in the presented overview, the European Union actively supports
(also financially) research in the field of transport. The subject of transport
is regularly represented within research priorities in successive framework programmes.
It should also be added that transport research is conducted on the
EU imitative also outside framework programmes – among others, within the
scope of EU policy implementation (e.g. within preparatory work connected
with implementation of various projects) 29 . Furthermore, the EU finances initia-
25 389 million euro from the overall amount of 1852 million was assigned to priorities 4 and 6.2 –
D. Schröcker, The Directorate General for Energy and Transport: Activities in the 6th Framework Programme,
Brussels 2005, http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy_transport/rtd/6/call_4/index_en.htm, as of
08.05.2007.
26 It is a clear increase in over VI Framework Programme – see budget http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/budget_en.html,
as of 08.05.2007.
27 http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/cooperation/transport_en.html, as of 08.05.2007.
28 Ibid. see also the page of National Contact Point in Poland for EU Research Programmes –
http://www.kpk.gov.pl/7pr/struktura/1-7.html, as of 08.05.2007.
29 For instance, research activity of the University of Economics in Katowice, working in a knowledge
network, connected with the project “Silesian Cluster – Intelligent Public Transport Management
System” (“Œl¹ski Klaster – inteligentny system zarz¹dzania transportem publicznym”), financed
through the European Social Fund within IOPRD. The project is carried out by the Urban
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