The I-Trans Competitive Cluster

Ambitions

• Create the leading European competitive cluster for the design,  construction, competitive exploitation and maintenance of railway  equipment and systems.
• Extend its expertise to all forms of innovative transportation  (river, maritime, automobile, logistical, intermodal and interoperable  transportation).

Strategic focuses

• Establish itself as a European model for interoperability and intermodality.
• Set up the largest European railway transportation testing centre for innovation.
• Mobilise and consolidate expertise in the fields of safety and communication.
• Develop advanced training courses with an international reputation.
• Rise to the challenge of managing expert knowledge about railway  systems in the context of the profound changes that will take place in  the next ten years.
• Develop the cluster's global presence via internationally important events in the region (fairs, conferences, etc.).

Partners at the regional level

The sector's key industrial players (Alsthom, Bombardier,  Arbel-Fauvet-Rail, etc.) and the entire research potential at the regional level.

Registration of a new project:

Conditions for membership of the TTP association:

• Be a company or a research and/or training organisation.
• Be located in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais or Picardy regions.
• Contribute to industrial activity in the sectors concerned by the cluster or its research and/or advanced training activities.
• Be prepared to play a full role in the cluster's innovation policy.