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DETRA (Developing a European Transport Research Alliance)
is a 7th Framework project, whose concept derived from the
so-called Lyon Declaration and concerns the deepening of the
European Research Area objectives in transport in order to
address the Grand Challenges. Key priorities of this Alliance is
to examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
(SWOT) in the domain and develop common understanding
and approaches to reducing fragmentation and overcoming
barriers. The DETRA project aimed to meet and exceed the
requirements and objectives of the call for an Analysis of the
state of ERA development within the transport domain and to
develop recommendations for the EC, member states and other
stakeholders as well as for the DETRA partner organizations
themselves. In this study, particular emphasis is given to the
part of DETRA concerning the development of a single trans-
European research program, which can be used as a compass
for the future research activities of the whole transportation
area.