The objective of this proposal is to develop, test and evaluate solutions
- for improved service reliability and data exchange
- for cross border freight trains
- in a corridor of the Trans European Rail Freight Network
- using advanced IT-Technologies.
A short look on the actual state of-the-art will help to better understand the intended innovations to be achieved for border crossing freight trains especially. The crossing of a border is always accompanied by an interchange between Infrastructure Managers (IMs) and often also by a corresponding change of the Train Operating Company (TOC). Latest at interchanges a data exchange between IMs and TOCs occurs. For the infrastructure the data exchange between IM1 to IM2 of the neighbouring railway is needed for the execution of train operations, i.e. the traffic management.
Fig. 1: Data exchange of today
It consists of messages
- on train composition,
- delays, interruptions,
- running schedule,
- rerouting and
- special event related messages.
Ideally this is performed in accordance with UIC leaflet 407.
TOCs also perform a data exchange aiming at the management of the transport
of goods with wagons (using UIC 404-2). For this purpose messages have to be
exchanged which relate to the following groups:
- technical characteristics of the wagon
- characteristics of the goods transported
- characteristics of running under load
- characteristics of a train or a set of wagons
- shutdown information for wagons
- information about delays.