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Description of metrics and methodology used for assessment of Key Performance Indicator (KPI) achievements and impact
Nowadays, rail traffic is managed at national (or even regional) scales, with little digitisation and integration at the European level. The Flagship Project 1 (FP1) Motional aims at providing solutions for improved rail services planning and management of rail operations at the European level, as well as Door-to-Door / Business-to-Business multi-modal rail integration. It is envisaged that these solutions will pave the way towards a Single European Railway Area. The scope of this project also includes the development of digital enablers across all of Europe’s Rail Flagship projects. This deliverable describes the metrics and the methodology for assessing the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the solutions to be delivered by this project. The KPIs, which represent the overall goals of the work programme and have been developed within the Multi Annual Workplan of Europe’s Rail, are to be reached by 2031.
Target audience: Rail stakeholders, Member States, Policy Makers
How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: The KPIs and methodology established in this deliverable will contribute to the KPIs for a future Traffic Management and Capacity Management System at the European level.
More information on this topic: Flagship Project 1 MOTIONAL
Preliminary operational procedures
The Flagship Project 5 (FP5) TRANS4M-R project aims to boost innovation for the European rail freight sector by developing, validating, and demonstrating technical enablers. This document presents the first agreed throughout Europe target operational procedures for rail freight and describes the target of full automation of the freight sector, as well as a subset based on the agreed technical enablers in FP5. It ultimately presents a described and unified process how to operate the Full Digital Freight Train in Europe.
Target audience: Rail freight stakeholders
How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: As rail freight is one of the lowest-emission modes of transport for goods, it will be a crucial aspect to achieve the European Union’s goal of being carbon neutral by 2050. Nevertheless, this sector is facing a multitude of challenges, such as the network saturation or its lack of productivity. This deliverable prepares rail freight’s future, that will be digitalised, automated, reliable, and cost efficient.
More information on this topic: Flagship Project 5 TRANS4M-R
Physical reference system architecture Full Digital Freight Train (FDFT)
This deliverable, which was developed within Flagship Project 5 (FP5) TRANS4M-R, aims at providing the physical reference system, architecture, and requirements. It is based on the functional system architecture FDFT and user requirements, which have been developed in previous deliverables (see D.3.1 and D.2.2). The present deliverable details the target of full automation of the freight sector, focuses on the physical requirements, as well as the basis on the agreed technical enabler in FP5.
Target audience: Rail freight stakeholders
How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: This document is important as it both describes the physical system architecture that defines the basis for the development for innovations and has been opened as much as possible to create synergies.
More information on this topic: Flagship Project 5 TRANS4M-R
Digital and data reference system architecture Full Digital Freight Train (FDFT)
The digital and data reference system architecture will define the basis for the development of the innovations for the work described within the Work Packages 5-12 of FP5. This deliverable describes the target of full automation of the freight sector, as well as a subset based on the agreed technical enablers in FP5.
Target audience: Rail freight stakeholders
How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: By bringing together 71 partners from different backgrounds to increase rail freight modal split share, FP5 aims to make rail freight the backbone of European logistics. This deliverable is an essential document for defining the future rail freight architecture.
More information on this topic: Flagship Project 5 TRANS4M-R
Control Command and Signalling/Traffic Management System (CCS/TMS) data model
A common, standardised data language is a fundamental requirement for a digital and harmonised railway system. The System Pillar has therefore developed a data model for Control Command and Signalling/Traffic Management System (CCS/TMS) applications including several domains like infrastructure, European Train Control System (ETCS) and Automatic Train Protection (ATP). Once the ontology developed by the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) is extended to CCS and TMS, the data model will be derived from ERA vocabulary to ensure consistency with all existing data models.
Target audience: Rail freight stakeholders
How it brings us closer to achieving better rail for Europe: The ERA ontology will be enriched by objects of the CCS/TMS data model required for the design and operation of the future radio-based ETCS-only digital railway system. Thanks to this extension, ERA ontology will provide a unique semantic data model for the rail sector to facilitate data interoperability and data exchange on all the regulated use cases. The goal is to avoid the fragmentation of modelling in the railway system, which is a key factor contributing to the lack of data interoperability.
More information on this topic: Flagship Project 5 TRANS4M-R