D3.1 System Requirements Specification FDFT V1.0

This document constitutes “Deliverable 3.1 System Requirements Specification FDFT” of ER JU Flagship Area 5 project FP5-TRANS4M-R. This document reports results from task 3.2 Train reference system architecture.

The objective of this document is to provide the functional system requirements based on the target operational procedures laid down in deliverable 2.1 “Preliminary Operational Procedures” of task 2.1 of ER JU FP5 TRANS4M-R. The functional system architecture will define the basis for the development of the innovations for WP5-WP12. It describes the target of full automation of the freight sector, as well as a subset based on the agreed technical enablers in FP5-TRANS4M-R.

The section Objective / Aim explains how WP3 intensively aligned the various aspects derived from the target operational procedures within the project.

At the centre of this document, are the Functional System Requirements derived from the deliverable 2.1 Preliminary Operational Procedures, describing what is necessary to operate the Fully Digital Freight Train in Europe. The functional requirements are added to the process descriptions as additional attributes, which have been kept unedited for consistency and ease of reading.

The functional requirements are followed by the Functional reference system architecture including an overview as well as the functional blocks required in FDFT traction units and FDFT wagons. To allow un-restrained innovations to be used, when designing the technical enablers in FP5-TRANS4M-R, the document focusses at the pure functional requirements, wherever possible.