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          Innovation Pillar

          EU-Rail’s Innovation Pillar (IP) is tasked to deliver operational and technological solutions that contribute to a more efficient, flexible, and demand-led, yet safe and environmentally sustainable European railway system. 

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          System Pillar

          The System Pillar provides governance, resource, and outputs to support a coherent and coordinated approach to the evolution of the rail system and the development of the system view.

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          Deployment Group

          The Deployment Group advises the EU-Rail Governing Board on the market uptake of rail innovation developments and support their deployment.

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          For a successful and effective implementation of the Digital Automatic Coupler for European rail freight (DAC), it is of crucial importance to have open, close and efficient cooperation between rail stakeholders. The European DAC Delivery Programme enabled by Europe’s Rail, offers a unique European platform for such cooperation and collaboration.

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          The Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking is the predecessor programme of the Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail), established by Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085 of 19 November 2021.

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          Discover detailed information on Europe's rail innovation initiatives, showcasing flagship and other projects aimed at enhancing rail systems across Europe. It highlights collaborative efforts funded by the European Union to develop sustainable, efficient, and competitive rail transport solutions.

           

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          Europe’s Rail Catalogue of Solutions illustrates successful R&I results in the form of possible products and solutions, while highlighting the benefits for final users, operators, infrastructure managers and/or suppliers. This publication also outlines the advantages of integrating demonstrators into market solutions so that they can deliver the rail innovation Capabilities of the future.

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          About Europe's Rail

          Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail) is the European partnership on rail research and innovation established under the Horizon Europe programme (2020-2027) and the universal successor of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking.

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          Discover the full structure and governance of Europe's Rail, including the decisions of the Governing Board.

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          Get access to Europe's Rail main reference documents, including Annual Work Plans, Annual Activity Reports, Annual Accounts and other important information.

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Interim report on governance and deployment strategy

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Description: This document defines the governance principles for the Railway System Architecture and the Common Data Model (CDM) which are defined in a first step by the LinX4Rail project, and which will be an important source for the System Pillar within the new Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking.

Target audience: All rail stakeholders

How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: This deliverable lays the foundation for a  clear governance set up and principles to reconcile an early profitability with the overall sector efficiency. To maximise the effectiveness of the railway system architecture, accountability for architecture design will be the ground for sector wide ownership.

More information on this topic: LinX4Rail


First release of the system functional architecture

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Description: This document proposes a first release of the European Railway Architecture. The LinX4Rail project ambition, following the co-existence of a number of architecture’s works within Shift2Rail and outside (OCORA, RCA-EULYNX, FRMCS), is to set-up a collaborative platform where all the initiatives would converge in building, in a cooperative way, an Architecture for the European Railway system.

Target audience: All rail stakeholders

How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe:
This deliverable sets up the very first basics of the European Railway Architecture that will permit to optimize the uptake of digital technologies by the European railway systems.

More information on this topic: LinX4Rail


Intelligent Asset Management Strategies (IAMS) system architecture and guidelines for its implementation in the demonstrators

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Description: This document aims at reporting on the refined and finalised IAMS system architecture, the implementation of the Open Standard Interfaces (OSI) and provide the guidelines to allow demonstrators to implement the system architecture within the various IN2SMART-2 Use Cases (refinement of the functional architecture structure and mapping of each requirement to the identified modules of the IAMS functional architecture).

Target audience: All rail stakeholders

How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe:
The guidelines for the implementation of the IAMS architecture will pave the road of the implementation of the demonstrators and the developed Integration Layer system design and architecture will allow partners working in different demonstrators to use the same interface.

More information on this topic: TD3.6, 3.7 and 3.8. IN2SMART2

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