FP5-TRANS4M-R D2.1 Preliminary Operational Procedures V2

This document constitutes Deliverable 2.1 Preliminary Operational Procedures of ER JU Flagship Area 5 project FP5-TRANS4M-R. The document reports results from task 2.1 Target operational procedure description. The project aims to boost innovation for the European rail freight sector, concretely by developing, validating and demonstrating FP5-TRANS4M-R technical enablers. The objective of this document is to provide the first agreed throughout Europe target operational procedures for rail freight. The procedures will define the basis for the development of the innovations for WP3-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 Methodology explains how WP2 intensively aligned the various version of the target operational procedures within the project, as well as within the sector. Sections General Assumptions and Premises as well as Definitions lay the foundation to understand the framework under which the processes must be read. At the centre of this document are the Target Operational Procedures, describing unified processes how to operate the Full Digital Freight Train in Europe. The detailed processes are accompanied by detailed process descriptions. These are followed by a special version of the target procedures focusing on the to be delivered technical enablers in FP5-TRANS4M-R.