EUROSIG - Developpment of the complete ERTMS concept
Overview
Background & policy context:
To ensure the interoperability of European trains throughout the European railway network, an ambitious initiative was started by the European Commission in the early nineties. This was ERTMS (European Railway Traffic Management System), which had the aim of developing a new command and control systems for railways. Under the European Commission's 4th Framework RTD Programme, several projects have been launched to contribute to the development and evaluation phase of ERTMS.
Objectives:
ERTMS EUROSIG aimed to produce an overall system architecture for railway signalling, and to specify all the interfaces that need to be standardised in order to ensure interoperability. In addition, the specification and development of test tools was needed for the initial validation phase.
A secondary objective was to serve the interoperability requirements, for European high-speed rail networks, by creating a common set of technical specifications. This was to establish a basis for inputs to subsequent standardisation activities.
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