Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking has published a draft high-level draft document outlining a proposed future for rail...

This document shows how FA1-MOTIONAL is addressing the Key Performance Indicators stated in the Multi Annual Workplan of the EU-Rail Work programme, the Performance Indicators to be fulfilled within the project and the Impact the technical developments will have on a variety of topics of our lives. The Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) represent the overall goals of the work programme and are to be reached by 2031. A credible pathway towards these goals is to provide and implement Performance indicators (PIs), which are related to the overall goals, but to be reached at the end of the FA1-MOTIONAL project by 2026. To measure the KPIs and PIs, we defined a baseline for 2022 whenever possible and relevant by using e.g., reports on rail statistics (e.g., EUROSTAT [1], PRIME [2]), this baseline will later be used to measure the progress of our planned technical developments. Some of our KPIs and PIs do not require a baseline but have rather absolute goals to be reached. Additionally, a clear methodology was defined, this information is needed to make the results comparable and repeatable. We selected different approaches for measuring the progress towards KPIs, PIs for our Technical Enablers and PIs for our Digital Enablers, due to their different nature of objectives. KPIs will be measured using demonstrations, simulations or expert judgement, based on the data availability and overall timeline of demonstrations stated in the EU-Rail Multi- Annual Workplan [3]. PIs for our technical enablers and digital enablers will be measured by comparing the current Technology Readiness Level to the target level stated in the Grant Agreement [27]. Our project and the successful implementation of technical and digital enablers will have a measurable impact on society and economics. We plan to quantitively assess these impacts based on all developments done in MOTIONAL. Other impacts (e.g., environmental, technological, political) will only be qualitatively assessed. The level of complexity of the developments and the numerous interdependencies within the rail system and the real world make it impossible to calculate the impacts precisely or map certain technical enablers directly to a specific impact. The results of the project can only be evaluated in a holistic approach and taken as estimation. We conclude that the selected methods and approaches are the best way forward to fulfil the objectives of our project. This document will provide the baseline of all future work concerning KPIs within MOTIONAL and also Flagship Area 1.