MORANE - Mobile Radio for Railway Networks in Europe
Overview
Background & policy context:
European railways need to introduce interoperability on their networks and therefore prototypes of a new radio system must be produced to meet the global requirements of these networks. At the same time the railways need a good and complete understanding of the issues related to the installation and operation of a digital cellular radio network, allowing investigation and verification of the real costs associated with the implementation of the future European railway radio, in terms of equipment, services and organisation
Objectives:
Based on existing systems, the project will support standard European rail management applications and be extended to multimedia services for passengers. This will entail an extension of the GSM standard system in order to meet the following operational and safety requirements:
- Railway operations: Man Machine Interfaces (MMI), addressing and numbering schemes.
- Railway telecommunications: broadcast and group calls, fast call set-up associated with the priority and pre-emption mechanisms.
- ERTMS/European Rail Traffic Management System.
Methodology:
Demonstrators will be built and tested on trial sites offering various topographical conditions. Based on standard GSM equipment, these sites will be progressively upgraded with hardware and software packages from different industrial origins and developed on the basis of the European Integrated Railway Radio Enhanced NEtwork (EIRENE) specifications, in order to fully meet the railways operational requirements as well as the telecommunications ones. The sites will make up a coherent test base on which functionality will be validated and will allow technical interoperability to be verified by means of cross operating tests on hardware and software.
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