System Pillar Organisation

Organisational structure

The System Pillar Core Group, under the supervision of the EU-Rail Executive Director and/or his delegated Head(s) of Units, is leading the day-to-day work of the delivery of the System Pillar through the Tasks and with the support of Engineering and Administrative support services, manages progress of and collaboration between the Tasks.

The System Pillar Engineering Services / Coordination consist on:

• The Modelling Service: includes methods & tools definition for the whole system Pillar, support of the modelling platform, and derives and maintains the CDM catalogues
• Standardisation and TSI Input planning: structured along the catalogue of processes and interfaces/systems.
• External Architecture Support: central pool of (external) architects aimed to support the SP Coregroup (e.g. architectural issues on top level), the modelling service, the Tasks or single domains on demand.
• PRAMSS Management & Assurance Team: Coordination of the PRAMSS requirements
• The System Pillar Administrative Services consist on:
• Programme Office: Support all the activities of the System Pillar, including management of:
  • Progress
  • Quality
  • Resources and administration
  • Communication
• Economic Analysis: economic analysis supporting the activities of the System Pillar (e.g. Cost-Benefit, enhancement change request, specific business cases, etc.)

Content structure

The operational design work on Level 3/4 is different to Level 1/2  (see Link 5 “System Pillar System of Systems (SoS) approach”), and needs to be 1:1 mirrored with the system design work.

As such the organisational structure of the System Pillar will reflect the different tasks to be carried out, each one corresponding to a standardization area.

Task 1: Railway system defines at high level for the whole Rail System:​

• business improvements, ​
• operational concept, and ​
• business process architecture​

Task 1 is different since it is not specifying a “complete system with all of its requirements”, and it is not creating standardisation specifications by itself (the System Pillar is not standardising “everything” in the railway system). It selects improvements that need to be implemented in existing or new tasks. It defines selectively top-level targets for those requirements that are relevant for the standardisation work in the other Tasks.

Specific additional Tasks 2…n define for a subsystem/priority area:​

• operational processes, ​
• requirements and ​
• architecture. ​

In the beginning of the System Pillar there are three specific task areas where deeper system analysis than level 2 will be carried out:

• CCS – Command and Control Systems
• TMS/CMS – Traffic Management System/Capacity Management System
• DAC – Digital Automated Coupling

Tasks 2,3, and 4 shall be connected by simple interfaces/process interactions that are defined early and are decoupling the dependencies in the development work. Each of them shall implement internally…

• Operational design process on Task-Level
• Architecture coordination process on Task-Level
• Migration design and architectural support on Task-Level

Besides of these Task-internal functions the Tasks (like CCS) have a large design scope and will need a substructure for their design work. This substructure is built by the “domains” and “cross-cutting roles”.