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The Railway Use Case Repository : Enabling Coordination and Reuse of Digital Rail Use Cases
Europe’s Rail (EU-Rail) is actively fostering collaboration across a wide range of digital initiatives, spanning infrastructure, operations and data management in the rail sector. Developing and structuring these digital use cases is essential to ensure coherence and reuse across our projects. To enable this, a centralised and accessible database has been created.
The solution
The database:
- Is centralised and open-access. It catalogues digital use cases across Europe’s rail ecosystem, connecting workstreams, domains, and stakeholders to ensure alignment on digital enablers such as digital twins, data sharing and digital asset engineering.
- Translates real-world requirements into action, driving the development of digital tools based on actual constraints and timelines from railway and public transport domains, addressing the need for a structured, cross-project reference point across EU-Rail’s projects.
- Increases visibility and community awareness by making use cases more accessible than traditional deliverables, serving a broad audience from ICT specialists to project owners across EU-Rail flagship projects.
Readiness for Industrialisation and Deployment
What it does
The Use Case repository makes it easier to identify cross-cutting activities that the European railway sector across different competences should address, as it facilitates a multi-disciplinary approach including railway technical competences and IT competences.
Maturity level
TRL 5/6
Expected benefits
- Operational optimisation: Improves traffic management, asset monitoring, and capacity planning through identification of possibilities and adequation of IT tools like digital twins and data spaces.
- Innovation acceleration: Enables third-party digital services and AI-driven applications through controlled data access.
- Cross-border harmonisation and transparency: Supports a dynamic and interoperable exchange of railway and public transport use cases and where IT tools can potentially have the greatest impact.
Who benefits
Infrastructure managers
Railway operators
Final users
Conclusion
EU-Rail has demonstrated that a structured, shared approach to digital use cases can significantly improve coordination, reuse, and impact across the European railway ecosystem. This supports more efficient deployment of digital solutions and stronger cross-border alignment.
Learn more about the project
FP1-MOTIONAL
This solution has been developed within the EU-Rail Flagship Project FP1-MOTIONAL, which aims to improve planning and operational management of rail services and offers to meet the European goal of making rail the preferred mode of transport.