DIGITAL FOUNDATION DEMOSTRATION & VALIDATION EVENT – Before smart trains, we need smart data

🎤 About the Event: Experience how European Joint Rail Undertaking’s Flagship Project 1 MOTIONAL is accelerating digital rail transformation across Europe. Discover how breakthroughs in Digital Twins, multimodal mobility, predictive maintenance, simulation, and federated data sharing are shaping a smarter, greener, more resilient railway system.

REGISTER HERE and join the Digital Foundation Demo Event to experience the next generation of railway innovation.

🧩 THE 5 DIGITAL VIEWS: A structured architecture for a future‑ready European railway.

VIEW 1 — INFRASTRUCTURE

Digital Asset Engineering (Leader: Deutsche Bahn AG)

• Data Acquisition and Object Extraction Task Leader : MER MER S.p.a.
• 2D/3D Object Data Platform
• Digital Planning for ETCS L2 (no signals)
• Simulation‑based Error Detection

Track Settlement & Switch Fault Detection (Leader: Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH)
Digital Twin‑based infrastructure health monitoring enabling predictive maintenance.

VIEW 2 — STATIONS

Multimodal Decision Support (Łódź) (Leader: PKP)

• Station dashboards
• Passenger trip planners
• Multimodal B2B coordination
• Real‑time data lake backbone

VIEW 3 — THE TRAIN

Braking & Traction Digital Twin (Leader: CAF)
Virtual validation methodology to reduce physical tests, accelerate certification, and cut engineering costs.

VIEW 4 — OPERATIONS

Automated Disruption Management (Leaders: FS Group + Hitachi Rail)

• Automated mitigation proposals in seconds
• KPI‑optimised replacement service planning
• Scalable across European operators

Load Estimation & Multimodal (Planning Leader: PKP)
Predictive passenger demand + integrated booking flows enabling true multimodal orchestration.

Communication Platform (COM‑P) (Leader: Alstom)
Interoperable API framework linking timetables & traffic systems using real Danish rail data.

VIEW 5 — DATA BACKBONE

Federated Rail Data Space (Leaders: Virtual Vehicle, DLR, Knorr‑Bremse & NRD/IFE)
A trusted, scalable federated data space featuring: Data Space Connectors, Metadata Broker, Rail App Store, Live Digital Twin demo

Conceptual Model & Ontology (Leader: SNCF)
Shared semantic models enabling cross‑border interoperability (Malmö–Alnabru corridor).

⭐ WHY ATTEND?

• 🚉 See Digital Twins running on real‑world rail data
• 🔐 Explore secure European data‑sharing frameworks
• 🛠 Discover Digital Asset Engineering & simulation tools
• 🤝 Connect with 12+ major rail ecosystem partners
• 🌍 Learn how FP1 solutions scale across national borders
• 📊 Engage with field specialists validating live demos

📅 Be Part of the Future of European Rail

EU-RAIL’s Flagship Project 1 MOTIONAL is driving the transition toward a smarter, interoperable, sustainable and passenger‑centric European rail system.

A detailed time line will  be published prior to the event so that interested participants have the option to join specific parts, only.