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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. The activities undertaken aim at large-scale demonstrations and they also cover technologies of all readiness levels as well as exploratory research.

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          About

          The System Pillar is the “generic system integrator” for the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (EU-Rail), and the architect of the future EU’s railway system.

          Outputs

          Discover key outputs from the System Pillar.

          Governance

          Discover the Governance structure and key decisions from the System Pillar.

          Key documents

          Discover the System Pillar document library.

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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. Its activities thus form a bridge between the research and innovation process and the coordinated implementation through recommendations for deployment in the rail system.

          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.

          About Shift2Rail

          Explore more information about the Europe's Rail predecessor programme.

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          Shift2Rail Programme

          Explore the detailed information about the Shift2Rail Innovation Programmes.

          Organisation

          Explore the structure of the Shift2Rail programme.

          Shift2Rail Projects

          Get a glimpse of the Shift2Rail Projects and their achievements.

          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.

           

        • 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 established by Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085 of 19 November 2021. It is the new 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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          Mission and objectives

          The objective of Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking is to deliver a high capacity integrated European railway network by eliminating barriers to interoperability and providing solutions for full integration, covering traffic management, vehicles, infrastructure and services, aiming to achieve faster uptake and deployment of projects and innovations.

          Preparatory Activities

          Discover the the processes and background information on the preparation of the Joint Undertaking.

          Jobs

          Browse latest Europe's Rail vacancies.

          Discover Europe's Rail Members

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

           

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          Governing Board & General Assembly

          The Europe's Rail Governing Board oversees Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking, guiding strategy, budgets, and work plans. It includes the European Commission and rail industry stakeholders, aiming to innovate and integrate Europe's rail systems, boosting efficiency, sustainability, and alignment with EU Green Deal goals.

          States Representatives Group

          The Europe's Rail States Representatives Group advises the Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking. It comprises representatives from EU member states and associated countries, ensuring alignment of Europe's Rail activities with national policies, facilitating cooperation, and providing input on rail innovation, integration, and sustainable development across Europe.

          Scientific Steering Group

          The Europe's Rail Scientific Steering Group provides scientific and technical advice to the Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking. Comprising experts from academia and research institutions, it ensures that research projects align with cutting-edge science and innovation, supporting the development of a modern, sustainable European rail system.

          Executive Director

          Find out more information about the Europe's Rail Executive Director.

          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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          Key Documents

          Discover main Europe's Rail documentation.

          Annual Work Plan and Budget

          Find out about our key priortires in our Annual Work Plans and Budget.

          Annual Activity Report

          Discover the progress of our programme by downloading Europe's Rail Annual Activity Reports.

          Annual Accounts

          Have a full overview of Europe's Rail Annual Accounts.

          Functioning of the Europe's Rail JU

          Discover key documentation describing the general functioning of the JU.

          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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1st release of formal methods prototype for quality improvement of the standardisation process

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Description: This deliverable completes the description of the formal method demonstrator process to be adopted in the project, and applies the demonstrator process to an initial fragment of the selected signaling use-case – the communication interface between two RBCs supporting the handover of a train.

Target audience: All rail stakeholders; Final users (travellers and freight transport users); Operators (rail operator companies); Infrastructure management companies

How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: The work carried out in this deliverable contributes to the evaluation of the role of formal methods for the improvement of the quality of the standardisation process aiming to integrate the railway signalling system of different countries and reduce the costs of their development.

More information on this topic: Formal Methods and Standardisation for Smart Signalling Systems Technical Demonstrator


Final release of Computer Security Incident Response Team model dedicated to railway

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Description: This deliverable defines a Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) model for the European railway sector under the CHIRP4Rail concept (Collaborative tHreat Intelligence Platform for Rail). It explains how the different Rail OES (IMs/RUs) security teams could coordinate in sharing cross border threat / incident information. In such a scenario, it must be clearly determined what can be shared, with whom, under what circumstances, and how (e.g. automated sharing of incident declaration).

Target audience: All rail stakeholders; Final users (travellers and freight transport users); Operators (rail operator companies); Infrastructure management companies

How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: Work carried out in this deliverable contributes to the definition of a future pan-European collaborative CSIRT platform, that will lead to a more integrated and improved level of cybersecurity in the European railway sector.

More information on this topic: Cyber Security Technical Demonstrator


Pre-standardisation for key rail technologies and deliverables

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Description: A review of PINTA2 research and innovation activities was carried out to identify standardisation needs (creation or adaptation). The results are a list of all norms linked to PINTA2 activity, the identification of topics to be monitored and the launch of preliminary actions for further standardisation reinforcement.

Target audience: Operators (rail operator companies); Suppliers (vehicle and part manufacturers)

How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: Standardisation helps to stimulate more standardised technical solutions from train manufacturers. This leads to price reduction thanks to scale effect and therefore decreases the global costs of railway services.

More information on this topic: PINTA2 Website


Recommendations and criteria for successful ride-sharing in IP4’s ecosystem

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Description: This deliverable describes the types of ride-sharing travellers and the ride-sharing Travel Service Providers (TSPs), uses EU user data to analyse the defined criteria for using ride-sharing with public transport, and makes recommendations that will lead to the formulation of successful ride-sharing systems in the IP4 ecosystem.

Target audience: Final users (travellers and freight transport users); Operators (rail operator companies); Infrastructure management companies;

How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: The provided criteria and recommendations for all ride-sharing users in this report have the potential to enhance the ride-sharing experience when combined with rail services, by developing algorithms that capture users’ needs and provide optimized travel services.

More information on this topic:  RIDE2RAIL Website


Implementing Moving Block for railways

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Description: Technology has significantly progressed since the definition of the present ETCS architecture, particularly in the areas of communications and location. The deliverable investigates alternatives to the present ETCS architecture for the implementation of future Moving Block Signalling Systems.

Target audience: Operators (rail operator companies); Infrastructure management companies; Suppliers (vehicle and part manufacturers)

How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: The introduction of Moving Block will increase the capacity of the European rail network and lower the cost of investment for trackside detection system and their maintenance leading to high reliability of the overall signalling system, applicable across all railway market segments.

More information on this topic: Moving Blocks Technical Demonstrator

 

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