ERTMS and related research projectsEuropean Technology Research & Innovation

Dennis SchutUIC

Peter GurnikUNIFE

Increase competitiveness of ERTMS

• The deployment of ERTMS is a priority• For the first time, the Commission also

stresses the need to support ERTMS outside European borders

• Strengthening of cooperation of key stakeholders on ERTMS

• Reinforcing the competitiveness and dynamism of the railway sector (interoperability issues)

• Improve the specification including new technologies

Innovation in the European Rail Sector

ERRAC

Time to Market

Technology Risk

FP7 RTD

10+ years 5+ years deployment

National Innovation

Private industry sector

roll-out

FP7 RTD -ERRAC topic

priorities• Longer-term

R&D • Pre-competitive• Interfaces

specifications/• Standards• Blue sky

research

• Pre-competitive market-oriented problem solving R&D

• Rail needs from regulations and standards

• System cooperation

• Large scale validation – comprehensive demonstrators

• Innovative/new technology integration

• New R&D business model

SHIFT2RAIL

Rail Sector commitment to

innovation

+ leverage private investment

Horizon2020 R&I

ERRAC SRRIA

Horizon2020 R&I

Interfaces and Fields of Co-operation

EC - Interoperability DirectivesERA - Technical Specifications for InteroperabilityWith support of UNISIG, UNIFE, EUG, CER, EIMCEN/ CENELEC/ ETSI / UIC (IRSs*)

Code of practiceInterface layer above

Building ConsensusProtection of Investment

Reports, Guidelines, Benchmark, Positions, Strategy

State-of-the-art

UIC Technical Activity area

Stateof the

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Guidelines,

reports

Con-sensusbuilding

Codeof

practice

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TSI’s Directives

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Norms, Standards

Directives

TSIs

*IRS: International Railway Standards e.g. EIRENE

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The UIC main support activities • EMC Axle Counters validation

• Satellite research and integration of CCS with GNSS

• ERTMS Economic Benchmark (worldwide)

• ERTMS implementations Feedback Analysis

• GSM-R current development as Tech. Authority

(worldwide)

• GPRS for ETCS

• GSM-R Interferences

• Future Railway Mobile Communication System (with

ERA)

• Participation in ERTMS MoU Steering Group

• Collaboration with ERTMS Users’ Group

TEST OF ROLLING STOCK ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY FOR CROSS-DOMAIN

INTEROPERABILITY

• EMC with BTM, GSM-T, track circuits and broadcasting services • Train & infrastructure electromagnetic modeling • Identification of worse-case interferers and noise by means of field

testing and statistical data processing as well as Laboratory testing http://www.trend-eu.org/ & http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/99923_en.html 

TREND - TEST OF ROLLING STOCK ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY FOR CROSS-DOMAIN INTEROPERABILITY - FP7 - 01.11.2011 – 30.04.2014

Motivation:

• ETCS validation by means of lab testing

• GNSS positioning into ETCS level 3

EATS - ETCS ADVANCED TESTING AND SMART TRAIN POSITIONING SYSTEM - FP7 PROJECT - (01.20.2012 – 31.03.2016)

EATS_LAB: On-board ETCS lab testing toolsOn-board ETCS modelFault injection in the interfacesElectromagnetic compatibility in the wireless interfaces

EATS_STPS: Smart Train positioning System, train positioning by means of multi constellation GNSS and wireless communication technologies. http://www.eats-eu.org/ - http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/104302_en.html

3INSAT - TRAIN INTEGRATED SAFETY SATELLITE SYSTEM ESA PROJECT 2012 - 2014

Expected impact and objectives:• Satellite-based train control system (new requirements for the evolution of the

ERTMS)• Reference architecture will be designed, developed and tested in a real

scenario. • Demonstrate that satellite assets can be incorporated in the ERTMS-ETCS train

control system - http://artes-apps.esa.int/projects/3insat

www.iness.eu

TRAFFIC REGULATION

TRAIN COMMAND

TRAIN PROTECTION

CENTRALIZED TRAFFIC CONTROL

TRAIN ROUTING, SPACING AND ROUTE PROTECTION

Train control

command

National

Systems

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Traffic

Management

INESS - Integrated European Signalling System – background Delivering ERTMS compliant

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openETCS @ ITEA2 Project

Objectives:Implementing the “Open Proofs” methodology for ETCS on-board, avoiding ambiguities, providing standard SW & HW solutions, and opening up SW service markets for train borne equipment.

Deliverables:Open Formalized Specifications; Open Reference On-Board System; Open Tools Chain and Modeling Platform

Impact:

True Interoperability by Reference Unit; A Very Long Term System Support; Lower overall Life-cycle Cost and Shorter Time-to-Market

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http://openetcs.org/

Proposal submitted for the 1st Call of Horizon 2020 CallPlanned starting: 01.06.2015 - Duration: 2,5 Years

OpenIT4SR = Open Information Technologies for Smart Rail

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openIT4SR

Expected Benefits

• Interoperability• Improved Performance• Open Market• Service for Software

Objectives

• Enhanced Functionality• Integration of „open

STM“• Very long Term Support• Lower Life Cycle Costs

Partners:12 nationalities, 7 Railway Undertakings, 4 R&D Institutes,

9 Universities, 14 Industry and SME

Basic Facts• Next Generation Train Control systems• NGTC project is supported by the European Community’s Seventh

Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) • Coordinated by UNIFE• Project budget:

o Total project Budget: 10,96 €o Planned EU contribution: 6,36 €

• Timingo Started: 1.9.2013o 36 months

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21 members of the consortium• Manufacturers• Urban Operators• Mainline infrastructure • Universities and consultancies

Coordinated by:

NGTC Project high-level objectives

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NGTC Shift2Rail

• ETCS/CBTC investigation of operational and functional consistencies & differences

o Common & specific requirements to each domain including additional functions

• ETCS/CBTC technical coherenceo Architecture definition & SRS• Common Message Structure for Urban and

Mainline• Definition and validation of moving block

principles• IP based Radio Communicationo General requirement specification for

the radio communication system• Satellite positioningo Positioning functionalities

characteristics & Safety analysis

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“New technologies can do much to help modernise Europe’s railways, while also reducing operational and infrastructure costs and creating new business opportunities for the European rail supply industry”

Proposal for a Council Regulation establishing the SHIFT²RAIL Joint Undertaking ,

16 December 2013

SHIFT²RAIL

14 March 2014: Political approval by the European Transport Council of a legislative regulation called SHIFT2RAIL to launch an ambitious new European Research & Innovation Programme that aims to: Increase the competitiveness of the EU rail industry to help it retain

world leadership increase the attractiveness of rail transport.

A public-private Joint Undertaking under Horizon 2020 starting in 2015

Budget of 920 Million Euros for 2014-2020, including 450 Million from the EU and 470 Million from the Industry

After 3 years of intense work by the rail sector for the technical preparatory phase (coordinated by UNIFE)

A historical decision for the rail sector all over Europe

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S2R Preparatory phase: the 25 Founders and overall 115+ promoters

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Innovation Programme 2 – ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

AND CONTROL SYSTEMS

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ADVANCED TRAFFIC

MANAGEMENT AND

CONTROL SYSTEMS

Capacity and Efficiency Surge

Smart Procurement &

Testing

Dependable Safe Signalling

System

STAKE AT EU LEVEL:

Maintaining the dominance of ERTMS as a solution for railway signalling and control systems across the world, while extending synergies and interoperability with the urban and mass transit railway sectors and speeding up the time to market.

CHALLENGE:

Develop a new generation of signalling and control systems, building on current ERTMS, to enable intelligent traffic management with automatically driven trains and optimise capacity, reliability and minimise Life Cycle Costs.

The future ways of participating(*as proposed by the European Commission in its legislative proposal)

Participation in future R&D activities

Long-term funding for Founding and Associated Members Members which will commit themselves to bring resources (financial resources,

human resources and/or technical means) for the full duration of the project

Depending on their degree of involvement/contribution, these Members will be either:

Founding Members (8 companies already named in the Regulation Proposal) or Associated Members (own contribution required shall be 2,5% of the Innovation

Programme + selection through a competitive call)

→ Possibility for SMEs and research organisations to get together within a « consortium » in order to collectively become an Associated Member

Regular open calls for proposals for shorter-term projects A significant part of the budget will be devoted to regular open calls for proposals

for each Innovation Programme The objective is clearly to trigger the participation of SMEs and Research

Institutes through better-targeted calls

Regular open calls for tenders18

H2020 1st Call(proposal to be approved by EC)

Transportation topics

MG.2.1-2014 – Intelligent infrastructure linked to IP2, IP3 and IP4 MG.2.2-2014 (1): Seamless multimodal travel linked to IP4 MG2.2-2014 (2): Logistic services linked to IP5 MG.2.3: New generation rail vehicles linked to IP1

SHIFT²RAIL promoted proposals

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Conclusions

The current innovations are aiming to fulfill the vision described in the Transport White Paper;

The innovations of NGTC and SHIFT2RAIL are following the specification improvements identified in the ERTMS Memorandum of Understanding (2012);

SHIFT2RAIL under Horizon2020 provides the long term research strategy on step change innovation for the European Railway Sector.

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Thank you for your kind attention

Dennis Schut – UIC – schut@uic.org

Peter Gurnik – UNIFE – peter.gurnik@unife.org