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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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          Explore the DAC Delivery Programme

          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.

          Discover Shift2Rail

          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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        • Projects

          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.

           

          Solutions catalogue

          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.

        • Who we are?
          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 Europe's Rail Members

          Find out the full list of Europe's Rail Members.

          Discover Structure of Governance

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

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          Discover Reference Documents

          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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          Functioning of the Europe's Rail JU

FP6 – FUTURE

FP6-FUTURE project plan for 2026

  • Regional Railway System (CCS & Operations) Demonstration
    • Demonstrate a single integrated Operations Control Center (OCC) covering interlocking, radio  blocking and traffic management for regional lines that are not functionally/operationally connected with mainline (TRL4/5)
    • Demonstrate simple on-track radio network based on the results of the Flagship Project 2 (“R2DATO”) related with cost effective communications, supporting all FRMCS applications, minimizing civil works and energy consumption, to the achievement of cost-effective Gigabit Train, the use of public network coverage and compatibility with main lines (TRL4/5)
    • Demonstrate a specific application for Traffic Management Systems for regional lines improving resilience of a connected rail network, optimizing train operations including disturbing events considering high/low-demand situations (disturbance and distraction) (TRL4/5)
  • Assets Demonstration
    • Demonstrate a systemic approach with the implementation of different railway assets for cost-efficient wireless, energy self-sufficient wayside components in particular CCS track-side components (e.g., switches, level crossings) and if applicable for track vacancy detections and signalling shall be evaluated and demonstrated (TRL4/5)
  • Suitable Customer Services 
    • Demonstrate cost-efficient integration of on-board information of multimodal services integrating regional multimodal services such as carsharing (TRL4/5)
    • Demonstrate passenger congestion rate monitoring, flow optimization application as well as a low-cost passenger information system for regional services developed within this action (TRL4/5)
  • Integrated demonstration tests
    • To ensure that solutions can be tested and demonstrated in an integrated approach, necessary work to demonstrate a fully integrated demonstrator under operational conditions – in a succeeding project call – will be carried out.

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