• Leader of the application, at an European scale, of decision making tools, as regards modal choice, at industrial companies and transport and logistic service providers, within the european project SPIN "Scanning the Potential of INtermodal transport".

• Strong involvement, in the research and demonstration phases, within the European project INTERFACE "Improvement of iNtermodal TERminal Freight operAtions at border Crossing tErminal" aiming to identify and test in a real environment innovative solutions to improve border crossing terminal operations between EU and CEECs and inside EU :

• State of the art and identification of the technical, operational and economical key parameters influencing the performances of the border crossing terminals
• Cost Benefit analysis of the concepts developed to improve the terminal performances
• Assessment and Validation of the concept demonstrations in real environment
• Implementation Plan and dissemination

Finalised activities :

• Management of the European 5th FP project THINK UP "THematIc NetworK to Understand mobility Prediction", of which the aim is to analyse the results of freight and passenger transport forcasting, the scenarios construction and to compare and discuss the different used methods, the retained hypotheses and the obtained results. Website conception in three languages (English, French and German) : www.netr.fr/think-up , Intervenant on the intermodal freight transport issues.

• Expert in freight intermodality within the european project ALP-NET "trans-ALpine crossing thematic NETwork" ( www.alp-net.org ), which aimed at realising an inventory of the researches related to the Alpine Arch and to the fields of:

• Data, methods, modelling and GIS
• Political framework and decision making
• Combined and intermodal transportation
• Strategies of financing and pricing.
 


• Leader of the application, at an European scale, of decision making tools, as regards modal choice, at industrial companies and transport and logistic service providers, within the european project SPIN "Scanning the Potential of INtermodal transport".

 


• Conduction of a CNR (Comité National Routier) survey in order to to determine the structure of the road sector costs and to quantify its cost price, phase 2001.

• Expert in freight intermodality within the european project TRANSTALK (Improving Evaluation Practises in Transport).

• Conduction of a CNR (Comité National Routier) survey in order to to determine the structure of the road sector costs and to quantify its cost price, phase 2000.

• Realisation of 25 shipper interviews in Haute Normandie (dept. 76, 27), Région Parisienne (Paris), Picardie (dept. 02, 80) and Champagne Ardenne (dept. 51, 52, 08) - iron and steel industry, wood and papers, automobile and wastes sectors) in order to determine the transport requirements and assess the conditions of improvement of the alternative modes attractivity.

• Analysis of the paper sector and of its stakes and potentialities at the 2005, 2010, 2015 horizon on the French North-East corridor.

• Conception of European projects.

• Co-ordination and Research activities within European (Intermodal Quality et PROMOTIQ) :

• Management of a European researchers team
• Identification and analysis of a new terminal characterisation based upon different criteria : size, network position and scope of services.
• Economic analysis of the different types of European intermodal terminals with idenfication of the implementation and operating costs.
• Treatment and analysis of terminals and intermodal services databases.
• Realisation of about 20 interviews to transport operators and shippers within the European Union and analysis of the results.
• Technico-operational, commercial and economic analyses of the European rail operating systems.
• Study of the spatial integration of intermodal transportation in Europe ; Recommendations.
• Identification of barriers to the introduction of new intermodal services and actors.
• Recommendations and politic Action Plan to promote new intermodal services and actors.

• Project conception and definition.

• Analysis and propositions to optimize and rationalize the management of internal and external flows of a national warehousing.

• Road operating from / to Germany and United Kingdom.
• Customs Clearance.

• After-sales service

• Presentation of the document (available on the project website) "Modal Shift in the Trans- Alpine Region : Potentials and Barriers" (Sandrine Vanel, NETR - January 2003).

• Presentation of the document (available on the project website) "Cross-Segmentation of Intermodal Transportation considered as one mode taking as a basis the IQ Project Research" (Sandrine Vanel, NETR - March 2001).

• Presentation of the document (available on the project website) "Policy Evaluation in Freight Intermodal Transportation - Practises, Challenges and Recommendations" (Sandrine Vanel, NETR - May 2001).

• Presentation of the results of the IQ (Intermodal Quality)-shippers survey.

• Analysis of the quality of the intermodal operations on the European rail network and spatial integration of the intermodal transport in Europe.

• Analysis of the European rail operating systems in relation with targeted market segments.