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Rail as benefit for EU society
Description: This output illustrates the rail ecosystem strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.
How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: It brings us closer by collecting case studies and success stories that provide a model to be replicated, fostering continuous learning from positive experiences.
More information on this topic: Click here for the Ter4Rail project website
Rail Innovative Research Observatory
Description: This output highlights the interactions occurred while establishing the Observatory between targeted stakeholders from within and outside the railway sector.
How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: It brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe by stimulating the transfer of knowledge across sectors, fostering networking, cross-fertilisation and the kick-starting of new ideas.
More information on this topic: Click here for the Ter4Rail project website
Review of the state of progress of roadmaps
Description: This output analyses 11 roadmaps and identifies these gaps: railway users, policymakers, multi-modal approach and on-demand mobility.
How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: It brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe by identifying gaps in the roadmaps preventing railway from becoming the backbone of sustainable European mobility.
More information on this topic: Click here for the Ter4Rail project website
Virtual Coupling Communication Solutions Analysis
Description: This output reviewed previous research and consulted industry stakeholders to identify communications technologies capable of supporting future rail communication that meets the needs of virtual coupling (low latency direct communication).
How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: It brings us closer by showing that 5G presents the best prospect for improving rail control systems, considering it’s direct and network capability.
More information on this topic: Click here for our Technical Demonstrator on Virtually Coupled Train Sets
Business Risk Analysis of Virtual Coupling
Description: This output investigates the wider business risks associated with the implementation of Virtual Coupling in the different sectors of European railways. Building on expert inputs from online surveys and workshops, it found that the main criticality for the implementation refers to operators not adopting the technology due to business or safety concerns, and late or no adoption due to poor benefit to cost ratios.
How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: It brings us closer by helping stakeholders identify operational and commercial barriers and prioritise their mitigation measures to ensure timely and safe adoption of the new technology.
More information on this topic: Click here for our Technical Demonstrator on Virtually Coupled Train Sets