Analysis of the state of the art, barriers, needs and opportunities for setting up a Transport Research Cloud

A report written by the Horizon 2020 Expert Group on Open Science - Transport Research Cloud (E03570). The report focuses on the requirements for data sharing withing the transport research community. In particular, the report examines the potential of a Transport Research Cloud (TRC) as a subset of the European Union's European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative. Six domain experts collected data based on their personal experiences, contacts, prior research and a survey sent out to other researchers in the transport domain to enable a preliminary analysis concerning the needs, barriers and potential benefits for the domain should a TRC be realized. From this work ten recommendations, grouped into five broad topic areas, have been developed that the Experts believe must be addressed if a sustainable TRC is to be relaized.