The TTR Day 2023 took place on 19 September 2023 in Vienna. Three highly significant keynote speeches were delivered to open the conference:DG MOVE Director Kristian Schmidt once again emphasised that rail is an essential part of Europe’s sustainable future of transport, as TTR was more or less the basis for the draft regulation enabling … Read more
One of the railway sector’s objectives is the effective train run with optimal resource management. This is challenging, especially in international train operations and long train runs. One of the supporting elements to reach the goals in this area is forecasting the train run during its entire journey. This information enables reducing the negative impact … Read more
Daniel Haltner (TVS) received the RNE Award 2022 for his extraordinary contributions to the Timetable Redesign (TTR) for Smart Capacity Management Programme since its inception in 2014, his outstanding work in the areas of Capacity Management and Timetabling in various leading roles, and a significant part as a key contributor in the technical setup of … Read more
RNE’s mission is to facilitate international rail traffic across Europe and making railway more competitive in the areas of capacity and traffic management. To achieve that, RNE’s Members adapt national processes until they match and form one internationally aligned way of working. In capacity management, a completely revised approach has been created with TTR (Timetable … Read more
On 11 July, as part of the Greening Freight Package the European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation on the use of railway infrastructure capacity. The draft regulation introduces a comprehensive set of rules for rail capacity management as well as traffic management and performance management. These provisions should replace the current stipulations on … Read more
Over the years, the Train Information System (TIS) has emerged as a vital tool for real-time monitoring of European trains, gaining recognition across the European Railways landscape, now counting 4.000 regular users, and covering about 30.000 trains per day from 350 railway companies. 5 million TAF/TAP messages are exchanged per day, and real-time exchange has … Read more