European rail stakeholders met on 2 December 2025 in Vienna to review the achievements of the Digital Capacity Management – Implementation 2022–2024 (DCM IMP 22_24) project – a major milestone in rolling out TTR (Timetable Redesign) for Smart Capacity Management across Europe.
At this final internal meeting in Vienna, co-beneficiaries and RNE task owners presented key project outcomes, showcasing how much has been delivered over the implementation period and how these improvements are strengthening rail’s competitiveness in the European transport market.
Project Highlights
Over the course of the project, the consortium delivered progress in four major areas:
- Supporting stakeholders in implementing TTR activities: Turning TTR from handbook to day-to-day practice with processes, tools and coordination that enable smoother cross-border capacity planning.
- Automated Short-Term Path Requests at international level: A key step for responsiveness, enabling short-term/ad-hoc international planning to move faster and become more scalable (DB InfraGo/SBB – Rail Capacity Broker – MVP STAH).
- Facilitating cross-border data exchange via legacy system adaptation: Because the future of integrated capacity & traffic management depends on unobstructed data flow between systems and across borders.
- Advancing TAP/TAF TSI compliance across IMs and RUs: Strengthening interoperability and standardised data exchange as a foundation for smarter European rail operations.
Project Partners
DCM IMP 22_24 (CEF II Transport Call 2021) was implemented by RailNetEurope together with its project partners:
Looking ahead
As the project concludes at the end of 2025 with all major parts successfully implemented, the sector is now better equipped to scale Digital Capacity Management processes and deliver more reliable, competitive rail capacity across Europe.
The project results are a testament to the strength of European collaboration, delivering real, practical steps toward smarter capacity management. The work does not stop here, but the foundations are now in place to accelerate toward an ever more competitive, interoperable rail system across Europe.
