Research and Development
The Finnish Transport Agency's R&D functions enable innovations and develop procedures. When planning and implementing R&D functions, interdisciplinary research skills and cooperation in the infrastructure sector are utilised by concentrating on the research subareas within FTA’s areas of responsibility.
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The most important international research networks, from the perspective of FTA’s research and development , are EU's international research and innovation programmes (for example Horizon 2020), the organisations in the transport sector (for example CEDR, UIC, EIM) as well as the Nordic R&D project collaboration.