Climate resilient railway infrastructure: A System Innovation Approach

Purpose and goal:

This project aims to develop a system-level innovation roadmap and implementation plan for the CliMaint project. To achieve the project objective, a system innovation framework has been explored to identify and analyze obstacles, shortcomings and suggest appropriate measures to accelerate the implementation, upscaling, and dissemination of innovative solutions of the CliMaint project.

Expected results and effects:

Reducing the implementation risk by integrating the business model, culture, value and regulation dimension to the CliMaint framework. Facilitate successful implementation of CliMaint by identifying the barriers within the process.

Improving the infrastructure and technology dimension of CliMaint project which makes it possible to achieve a higher level of TRL for the concept. We as researchers, will benefit for using the System Innovation approach in all our future research projects. Approach and implementation:

A literature review, two interview studies and a one-day workshop have been performed. In total, 45 experts from infrastructure and transportation networks have been selected for the study. For successful implementation, barriers and enablers analysis have been performed associated to each system innovation pillar. Furthermore, a mission-based road map has been applied when answering the fundamental question “How are we going to get there?”