EUROPTIRAILS - EUROPTIRAILS ongoing activities
Overview
Background & policy context:
The current activities in EUROPTIRAILS are not under the direct management of UIC; hence, the role of the UIC infrastructure department is to disseminate the results of the projects to its members. At the same time, UIC facilitated exchanges with UIC projects to assure the integration of all the relevant IM applications (as EUROPTIRAILS) in the IT platform (IM-IT Strategy) and European Performance Regime.
In 2007, further dissemination activity was organised in conjunction with RNE in order to be beneficial to all IMs. In April 2007, the consortium presented a report and the implementation phase started in July 2007. A seminar was held at UIC on April 24, 2007 to encourage knowledge sharing.
Objectives:
The EUROPTIRAILS project main objective is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of train running on European rail corridors in the operational range through information sharing and support between IMs for Customers (RU). Six railways and a consultant railway take part in the EUROPTIRAILS consortium in collaboration with the European Commission. The implementation of the Europtirails web interface helps reduce delays on international corridors, improves quality of service, optimises the capacity offer, and communicates the expected time of arrival for customers. The three main models (functions) of the Europtirails are information, monitoring and path assembly.
Methodology:
This project supports international train management by delivering train data on international passenger and freight trains. The train data are extracted directly from the infrastructure managers own systems and include:
- current and past train location
- agreeed daily timetable information
- delay information and reasons for delay
In addition Europtirails is the only IT system able to provide information on international train runs in Europe.
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