CEF II Transport Call 2024

Acronym: 24-EU-TG-DCM IMP 25-29

Project Summary

The overall objective of this project ‘Digital Capacity Management – Implementation 25-29 [DCM IMP 25_29]’ (mixed - study and works) is to continue the Europe-wide implementation of the pro-gramme ‘TTR for a Smart Capacity Management’ which was launched as a project in 2014 with the overall aim to increase cross border rail attractiveness and efficiency by removing interoperability barriers, so that rail can increase its competitiveness and market share on the European transport market. With this project the sector is preparing the implementation of the future regulation “on the use of railway infrastructure capacity in the single European railway area” including the digital European systems required from the Network Coordinator. It will do so by:

• Adjusting IM legacy systems to allow cross-border data exchange, to facilitate integrated infrastructure capacity and traffic management digitalisation.
• Supporting rail stakeholders in developing common Telematics Reference Files, merging the existing TAF and TAP Reference File sets to be used in the telematics framework and by other registers managed by the ERA or the rail sector.
• Supporting Infrastructure Managers (IMs) and Railway Undertakings (RUs) in implementing and ensuring the compliance of the rail system and its sub-systems with the TAP/TAF TSI and TSI OPE.
• Supporting IMs in aspects regarding Traffic Management and Train Performance Management in line with the Draft Regulation proposal on the use of railway infrastructure capacity in the single European railway area.
• Building up the digital European central systems based on the future capacity regulation (Article 62)

The key aim of the Project is to continue the Europe-wide implementation of the programme ‘TTR for Smart Capacity Management’. The programme is structured into ‘preconditions’ which shall define the legal/process framework as well as commercial conditions and the TTR components with their respective process implementations and IT tools.

The defined work packages are in line with the programme and comply with the specific objectives of the call. The whole TTR programme is an innovation in rail business since issues like big data, European data sharing and an automated algorithm for the optimisation of capacity are combined, allowing for the first time in European history to also create the possibility to allocate cross-border paths without manual interventions (WP3). To facilitate this, numerous different specialised legacy systems of different IMs need to be harmonised, updated or newly established and subsequently combined via common European components and interfaces. The aligned implementation approach, which complies 100% with TAP/TAF TSIs, will reduce interoperability barriers in the short term and push forward to achieve the aims defined in the Draft CR proposal on the use of railway infrastructure capacity in the single European railway area.