为了支持欧盟（欧盟）行动为当前经济问题提供可持续解决方案，欧洲铁路研究咨询委员会（ERRAC）认为，研究和创新将使欧洲铁路部门能够保留其领导力并提高竞争力。

铁路现在是一个知识密集型和国际竞争力的部门，努力创造一个最佳的创新生态系统。它拉持（从大陆）优秀的研究机构和一个良好的制造业，致力于研究，开发和创新（R＆D＆I）。

This new Strategic Rail Research and Innovation Agenda (SRRIA) is well placed to guide and inspire future research and innovation over the coming decades.The European Commission’s framework programme for research and innovation “HORIZON 2020”, launched in December 2013, includes a flagship initiative for railresearch, the SHIFT²RAIL Joint Undertaking. It is the firstPublic Private Partnership (PPP) in rail research to seekfocused research, innovation and market driven solutionsby accelerating the integration of new and advanced technologies into innovative rail product and services,thus responding to the current mobility challenges.

通过这个SRRIA，Errac在未来几十年中重申欧洲的需求为铁路系统提供了均衡，商业领导和强大的研究和创新。