D32.1 Project dissemination and communication plan

FP1 – MOTIONAL paves the way for implementation the future European Capacity Planning and Traffic Management System, built on digitalisation, automation, and connectivity, supported by Europe’s rail technology initiative. The FP1 – MOTIONAL project provides the rail industry players with digital access to automated and harmonised solutions for a common European capacity planning and traffic control railway system with shared data, with the goal to make rail the preferred mode of transport. Improving the planning and operational management of services and offers is of paramount importance to meet the European ambitious target of making rail the preferred mode of transport in the future. The future European railway system will be interoperable, resilient and able to adapt its capacity and integrate all involved services including last mile operations by exploiting the opportunities provided by digitalisation. The development of the future European Traffic Management is key for achieving the foreseen Single European Railway Area (SERA). To achieve these goals, the project activities are carried out in two large Workstreams:

1) Workstream 1 (WS1) covers three main focus areas; planning, operational activities (including managing future interactively coupled timetable planning) and finally operational traffic management systems, which also includes integration activities for door-to-door mobility. 2)

2) Workstream 2 (WS2) refers to the delivery of a set of digital enablers for all European rail destinations, i.e., crosscutting, to support the development of destination-specific digitalisation solutions.

The communication and dissemination plan must be used as guidance in the communicative work and provide support for prioritising the right message and activities and ensuring coherent communication. The plan is based on EU-Rail’s communication policy and communication strategy and on the common goal of strengthening the overall EU-Rail programme [2]. This is done by highlighting FP1 – MOTIONAL as an important contribution to the whole. From this, the goal is to disseminate and communicate the project developments and results to share the successes with the public and other stakeholders. The aim of the deliverable is to provide a transparent dissemination and communication plan for the FP1 – MOTIONAL project and to describe the measures and approaches that will be used to facilitate the wide-spread distribution of information and knowledge of the results created by the project. The dissemination of FP1 – MOTIONAL is essential throughout the project duration and needs to be carried out with the active cooperation of all consortium members. Furthermore, it is expected that the dissemination plan, through an effective dissemination of results on selected channels, can be used as guidance for future work. The communication and dissemination plan is a document that will be updated throughout the project lifecycle to reflect progress and outcome. This document introduces materials and documents to communicate and disseminate FP1 – MOTIONAL to railway stakeholders, the scientific community and the general public.

Important findings and useful results will be widened with tailor-made messages, through the most appropriate channels and frequency to railway stakeholders, the scientific community and the general public by the mean above. Knowledge can then be used to “Go Research, Go External, Go Internal” by their interest and needs. The result can be used by research organisations, by other actors in the rail system community or by the partners within FP1 – MOTIONAL. The dissemination plan will not include the verification of content for which WP leaders are responsible. WP Leaders are responsible for ensuring that the inputs to the Dissemination Work Package reflect the actual output and progress within the respective Work Packages.