From the 1st to the 12th WCRR – How far have we advanced in European railway research? A personal review of European commission sponsored rail research in the last 25 years

The paper examines the evolution of European Commission sponsored railway research from the time of the first WCRR in 1994 to the 12th WCRR in 2019. It gives a chronology of developments through the Framework Programmes in this period with respect to the evolution of the European Commission transport and...