DESTinationRAIL 
The aim of DESTination RAIL is to provide solutions for a number of problems faced by EU infrastructure managers. Novel techniques for identifying, analysing and remediating critical rail infrastructure will be developed. These solutions will be implemented using a decision support tool, which allows rail infrastructure managers to make rational investment choices, based on reliable data, See Figure 1. At present Infrastructure Managers make safety critical investment decisions based on poor data and an over-reliance on visual assessment. As a consequence their estimates of risk are therefore highly questionable and large-scale failures are happening with increasingly regularity. As the European rail Infrastructure network ages, investment becomes more challenging. As a result reliability and safety are reduced, users perception of these is negative and the policy move to increased use of rail transport is unsuccessful. The objective of this project (safer, reliable and efficient rail infrastructure) will be achieved through a holistic management tool based on the FACT (Find, Analyse, Classify, Treat) principle.
Mr Michael Robson
Member of the Executive Baord
DICAM Palermo 
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
- 2014-2017 Marie-Curie fellow inside SUP&R ITN Project (Sustainable Pavement & Railways Initial Training Network, http://superitn.eu/wp/). Developing Cycle XXIX Doctorate in Department of Civil, Environmental, Aerospace, Materials Engineering (DICAM, Univ. Palermo, Italy).
- 17 Dec 12–01 Sept.14: Doctoral Program in Civil Engineering and Architecture
University of Granada , International Graduate School, Granada (Spain)
http://doctorados.ugr.es/ingenieriacivilyarquitectura/
- 1 Oct 10–1 Dec.11: M.Sc Structural Engineering, Modal Analysis and Structural Dynamics
University of Granada, Granada (Spain) ;http://masteres.ugr.es/iestructuras/
- 1 June 2010: Bachelor in Architecture, Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology
Superior Technical School of Architecture, Granada (Spain)
Mr Fernando MARTINEZ
Architect
East Japan Railway Company 
East Japan Railway Company(JR East) seeks the best technologies and products from the EU. JR East is also interested in business in theEU.
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) was established by the reforming national railway copmapny in 1987. JR East owns infrastrasture and operats passenger transport (highspeed, metropolitan, regional). JR East carries 17 million passengers/day. JR East is the largest railway company in Japan.
Mr Hiroyuki WATANABE
Senior ManagerEuropean Transport Research Alliance 
The European Transport Research Alliance – ETRA is a partnership Organisation created, on September 20th 2012, by five Transport Research Associations: ECTRI (European Conference of Transport Research Institutes), EURNEX (the European rail Research Network of Excellence), FEHRL (Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories), FERSI (Forum of European Road Safety Institutes), and HUMANIST (the Human centered design Network for Information Society Technologies).
Its strategic objective is, to: “work towards promoting further cooperation, coordination of activities, and common focus in European transport research provision, as part of the process and in full alignment with the objectives of creating the European Research Area in the field of Transport”.
