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          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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          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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          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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Definition of the demonstration for Beta release

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Description: This deliverable summarizes the approach taken for the COHESIVE IP4 Beta release demonstration and describes the IP4 background, demonstration purposes, functionalities, functionalities and user stories. It also includes the collaboration obtained from transport services providers to participate in the presentation of pilots and demonstrations for a multimodal, interoperable journeys across Europe.

Target audience: Final users, Operators, Infrastructure management companies

How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: The Beta release demonstration validates again the IP4 integrated technologies, regarding the pan-European vision of door-to-door multimodal trips, aiming to improve passenger/user experience. On this release new concepts were developed regarding Mobility packages lifecycle, enabling MaaS schemes, the integration of DRT transport modes, Location based experiences using Mixed-Reality devices between others.

More information on this topic: COHESIVE

 


Contractual Management FREL Implementation Report 

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Description: The document describes the implementation and technical developments for the Contractual Management Marketplace, which allows to manage business rules and financial compensations. Another feature is the Best Price Engine, used to provide the optimal price for travellers when performing multiple travels.

Target audience: Operators (rail operator companies), Infrastructure management companies

How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe:
Both features are essential to enable convenient door-to-door journeys within Europe. The Contractual Management Marketplace reflects the contractual needs of all operators involved in multimodal journeys and allows smooth collaboration between them. Furthermore, the Best Price engine improves the travellers experience through optimizing the purchased tickets

More information on this topic: MaaSive


 

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