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Mobility andTransport

Rail Freight Day

2017Vienna, 07 December 2017

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RNEPresident

Harald Hotz

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European Commissioner for Transport

Violeta Bulc

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Barriers to Success▪ Rail accounts for 73% of CEF, but only

11.9% modal share

▪ Rastatt raised issues: ▪ Lack of cooperation within sector▪ Lack of contingency plans ▪ Lack of confidence by users

(vulnerable network, not reliable)

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Overcoming Barriers

▪ Delivering on Rotterdam (some progress)

▪ Implementation of Rail Freight Corridor

▪ Solving cross-border issues

▪ Investment / Next MFF

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Overcoming Barriers: Digital & Innovation

▪ Seamless System

▪ Track & Trace

▪ ETA

▪ ERTMS

▪ Multimodality Year 2018

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Where to from here? How to: ▪ Make progress on Rotterdam? ▪ Make rail more flexible and resilient?▪ Integrate with other modes?▪ Increase capacity? ▪ Improve interoperability? ▪ Embrace Digital? ▪ Prove rail is delivering before next CEF/

MFF?


Panel session 1

Rotterdam Ministerial Declaration

and Sector Statement:

Where do we stand with the sector

priorities?


10 Sector priorities

1. Following the TimeTable Redesign project (TTR)

2. New concepts for capacity offer on RFCs

3. Improving coordination on Temporary Capacity

Restraints (TCR)

4. Enhancing the use of Path Coordination System (PCS)

5. Improving harmonisation of processes at borders

6. Train tracking and Expected Time of Arrival (ETA)

7. Prioritisation, funding instruments, and monitoring of

TEN-T parameters

8. Facilitating concrete ERTMS Implementation

9. Monitoring the quality of freight services with

implemented and shared KPIs

10. Harmonising the Corridor Information Document (CID)


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(1) How advanced are we on the Rotterdam

Sector Statement's 10 priorities?

✓ Far advanced

✓ Well advanced

✓ On the right track

✓ Just started

✓ Nowhere


Panel session 1

Rotterdam Ministerial Declaration

and Sector Statement:

Where do we stand with the sector

priorities?

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RFDay Commissioner's questions

How to:

✓ Make progress on Rotterdam?

✓ Make rail more flexible and resilient?

✓ Integrate with other modes?

✓ Increase capacity?

✓ Improve interoperability?

✓ Embrace Digital?

✓ Prove rail is delivering before next

CEF/ MFF?


Panel session 2

Lessons learnt from the Rastatt

incident?


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(2) Following the Rastatt incident, what should

be the first priority measure to implement?

✓ Efficient international crisis management

and contingency planning

✓ Improve cross-border rail freight

operations

✓ Overcome language issues

✓ Overcome other interoperability issues


Panel session 2

Lessons learnt from the Rastatt

incident?

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Panel session 3

Interoperability in rail freight


Potential and responsibility of the Rail Freight Corridors

Karel Vinck, European ERTMS CoordinatorEuropean Commission, DG MOVE

Ultimate objective: interoperability

▪ ERTMS achievements of the last two years

▪ Complementarity of Core Network Corridors (CNC) and Rail Freight Corridors (RFC)

▪ RFC can and must do more!

▪ Lessons learned

▪ Next five years: ERTMS deployment and implementation of 'rail breakthroughs' (short-term actions with low level of investments)

Almería

Antequera/Bobadilla Patras

Tallinn

Sines

Lisbon

Porto/ Leixóes

Aveiro

Bordeaux

Calafat

Craisova

Arad

Amsterdam

Duisburg

Koblenz

Vienna

Brno

KatowiceOstrava

Prague

Dresden

Plzen Pardubice

Karlsruhe

Brussels

Zilina

Ploiesti

Bucharest

Gdynia

Algeciras

Sevilla

CórdobaCartagena

Murcia

Valencia

Madrid

ValladolidZaragoza

Tarragona

Barcelona

Narbonne

Bilbao

Tours

Rouen

Le Havre

París

Lyon

Avignon

MarseilleLa Spezia

Livorno

Genova

Florence

Rome

Napoles

Bari

TarantoGioia TauroPalermo

Catania

Augusta

Valetta

Ancona

Ravenna

Bologna

Padova Koper

Rijeka

Milan

Turin

Novara

Basel

Innsbruck

Verona

Venice Ljubljana

Graz

Belfast

Dublin

Cork

Glasgow Edinburgh

BirminghamFelixtowe

London

SouthamptonDover

Calais

Lille

Metz

Gent

Zeebrugge

Rotterdam

Utrecht

Antwerp

Igoumenitsa

Thesaloniki

Lefkosia

Limasol

Athens/Piraeus

BurgasSofia

Plovdiy

Vidin

Zagreb

Constanța

Brasov

Budapest

Timisoara

Debrecen

Kosice

Bratislava

Györ

Lodz

Warsaw

VilniusKaunasGdansk

Klaipeda Riga

Ventspills

HaminaKotka

HelsinkiTurku/Naantali

Stockholm

Malmö

Trelleborg

Oslo

Örebro

Gothenburg

Copenhagen

Lübeck

HamburgRostock

Swinoujscie

Szczecin

PoznanBerlin

Wilhelms-haven

Cologne

Liege

Wroclaw

Wels/LinzSalzburgMunich

Sttutgart

Mannheim

Bremerhaven

Hannover

Osnabrück

Erfurt

Würzburg

Nuremberg

Regensburg

Braun-schweig

Nijmegen

Liverpool

Dortmund

Magdeburg

Strasbourg

Leipzig

Frankfurt

Trieste

Bremen

Luxemburg

Dijon

Mainz

Düsseldorf

ETCS Status December 2016

Deventer

ETCS in operationNo ETCS

Craiova

Calafat

Ploiesti

Bucharest

Swinoujscie

Rostock

Kaunas

Tallinn

Ostrava

Arad

Patras

Antequera/Bobadilla Almería

Mainz

KoblenzBrussels

Gent

Zeebrugge

Sines

Lisbon

Porto/ Leixóes

Aveiro

Duisburg

Antwerp

Amsterdam

Luxemburg

BratislavaVienna

Brno

Graz

Novara

Venice Ljubljana

Genova

Ancona

Florence

Gdansk

Prague

Pardubice

La Spezia

Gdynia

Algeciras

Sevilla

CórdobaCartagena

Murcia

Valencia

Madrid

ValladolidZaragoza

Tarragona

Barcelona

Narbonne

Bilbao

Bordeaux

Tours

Rouen

Le Havre

París

Dijon

Lyon

Avignon

Marseille

Livorno

Rome

Napoles

Bari

TarantoGioia TauroPalermo

Catania

Augusta

Valetta

Ravenna

Bologna

Padova Koper

Rijeka

MilanTurin

Basel

Innsbruck

Verona

Belfast

Dublin

Cork

Glasgow Edinburgh

BirminghamFelixtowe

London

Southampton

Dover

Calais

Metz

Rotterdam

Utrecht

Igoumenitsa

Thesaloniki

Lefkosia

Limasol

Athens/Piraeus

BurgasSofia

Plovdiy

Vidin

Zagreb

Constanța

Brasov

Budapest

Timisoara

Debrecen

Kosice

Zilina

Györ

Katowice

Lodz

Warsaw

Vilnius

Klaipeda Riga

Ventspills

HaminaKotka

HelsinkiTurku/Naantali

Stockholm

Malmö

Trelleborg

Oslo

Örebro

Gothenburg

Copenhagen

Lübeck

Hamburg

Szczecin

PoznanBerlin

Wilhelms-haven

Cologne

DresdenWroclaw

Plzen

Wels/LinzSalzburgMunich

Sttutgart

Mannheim

Hannover

Osnabrück

Trieste

Leipzig

Liverpool

Strasbourg

Nijmegen

Düsseldorf

Bremerhaven

ErfurtLille

Frankfurt

Dortmund

Magdeburg

Karlsruhe

Nuremberg

Braunschweig

Bremen

Liege

Würzburg

ETCS Status year 2023

Deventer

RegensburgETCS in operation

No ETCS

Thank you for your attention!


Panel session 3



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(3.a) Why is it so difficult to achieve

interoperability?

✓ Rail mind-set too national

✓ It is too expensive

✓ Rail not enough digitalised

✓ We need more innovation

✓ The framework is too complex (e.g. number

of players/structures/levels)


(3.b) Does the ERTMS standardised on-board unit

make sense?

✓ Very important

✓ Important

✓ Nice to have

✓ Not needed

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Asset Control tower & customer

communication

Condition monitoring for predictive maintenance

Automated train composition and

operation

Logistics capable Future wagon

Longer coupled trains with

distributed power

Smart eco-efficient propulsion

technologies

IP5 Freight Transport

➢ Service oriented profile (on time delivery, competitive prices, client needs)

➢ Increase productivity (interoperability issues, cost effective solutions, technology transfer)

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ERTMS

InteroperabilitySome examples of interoperability issues

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Vice President Portfolio, Business Development & Innovation - Railway &

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COFFEE BREAK

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11h55


Panel session 4

Rail freight capacity issues

Rail Freight DayRFCs Innovative Capacity products

RFCs Collecting Sector Inputs and Feed back

Qualitative Analysis

Quantitative Analysis

RFCs Collecting Sector Inputs and Feed back

➢ Sector Statement priorities;➢ Rail Freight Days;➢ TAG RAG feed back;➢ Serac;➢ ECCO project;➢ Customer Satisfaction survey;➢ KPIs feed back on Capacity Allocation;➢ Cross Corridor workshop;➢ Bilateral meetings;

Weak performance of Reserve Capacity SolutionsKPI Analysis (e.g. Mediterranean Corridor)

RFC KPIsRC (X-2)

Volume of Offered Capacity(KMs*days-Millions)

Volume of RequestedCapacity

(KMs*days-Millions)

Muber of Dossiers

(PCS Dossiers)

TT 2016 4.8 0.01 2

TT2017 7 0.05 3

RFCs effort to find solutions in order to fulfill Customers’ needs

➢ Proposals going beyond minimum requirements of the legal background;

➢ Different traffic patterns require different RFC specific solutions and also flexible approach within the same Corridor;

➢ Proposals going to test more user friendly short capacity products (constraints have to be dealt with by the RFCs for full implementation due to different national methods, systems and regulations to be harmonized);

Capacity Booking

60 days(Regulation)

30 days(FCA)

Train run

< 30 days(RFCs Pilots)

List of Short Term Capacity Pilots and main features

Scan Med Baltic Adriatic Mediterranean Orient

Duration One Year(TT 2018)

Launched on May 29th 2017 for 12 months

6 Months(december 2017)

6 months(december 2017)

Extension Depending on the success of the pilot and the identification of findings during the actual apllication of the process

RequestChannel

PCS

Main product features

1) Empty Paps2) The Customer fills in the Empty PAP with its request

3) Spot traffic: requests

only for single train runs

1) Tailor made paths 2) Origin/Destination on the network of the RFC5 IMs3) No limitations concerning operational days

1) Harmonized Capacity offered in form of PAPS (IT-SLO-HU)2) No limitations concerning operational days

1) Harmonized Offer :

- Flex PaPs with time indication

- Flex PaPs without time indication (empty slots);2) No limitation concerning operational days

List of Short Term Capacity Pilots and main features

Scan Med Baltic Adriatic Mediterranean Orient

Application deadline

No deadline but effort to accept requests as close as possible to the train run (less than 30 days)

Till 8 days before train runs Till 8 days before train runs

Delivery of the offer

No committed deadline 5 days before train run 5 days before train run The capacity is offered to a number of days wich is included from 2 to 8 depending on the involved customer

Role of OSS C-OSS as supervisor(C-OSS is involved in PCS and acts as supervisor of IMs compliance with the agreed process)

C-OSS is not involved in PCS but should guarantee IMs compliance with the agreed process (not in real time)

C-OSS as capacity managerManagement of the PAPS

C-OSS Facilitator/coordinatorInvolved in PCS as a leading IMActs as a guarantee of IMs compliance with the agreed process

Thank you!

Redesign of the International Timetabling Process

(TTR)

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• TTR is a new capacity planning

and allocation process,

created by the railway

sector, which is:

• Market oriented

• Efficient

• Reliable

The redesigned timetabling process

• Benefits detected in Business Case:

• Implementation of all components of TTR ensures maximum benefits and

to fulfil client requirements.

• Increased usage of capacity with resulting high financial potential for the

sector

• The RNE General Assembly and the FTE Plenary Assembly have voted

with a large majority to start the implementation of the results of the

project TTR!

• Two implementation methods are being used:

Creation and execution of action plans

Test of innovative elements in pilots

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Conclusions from TTR project

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TTR Projects (starting 2017)

TTR:

Process

implemen-

tation

TTR: PilotsTTR: IT

Landscape

TTR: Legal

framework

TTR:

Commercial

Conditions

& Allocation

Rules

TTR

Steering

Committee

and PMO

• 5 Projects have

been launched

• Action plan for

process

implementation

available in May

2018

• Pilot phase 1 starts

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Pilot lines and phases

Dec 2017 Dec 2018

Dec 2018 Dec 2019

Dec 2019 Dec 2020

Phase 1: Capacity partitioning and capacity planning

Phase 2: Capacity publication and capacity requests

Phase 3: Running timetable

Pilot lines Pilot phases

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• 14 November 2017: Publication of new Annex VII of Directive 2012/34/EU in the Official Journal of the European Union

• Successful provision of TCR inputs from the sector

TCRs as integral part of planning capacity

Inclusion of milestones in the TCR process,starting 2 years before the timetable change

Inclusion of TCR impact cluster

Temporary Capacity Restrictions (TCRs)

Thank you!

FTE Secretary General

Peter Jäggy

+41 79 760 82 66

[email protected]

TTR Project Manager

Philipp Koiser

+43 (0)1 907 62 72 15

[email protected]

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Panel session 4

Rail freight capacity issues


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(4) Why is it so difficult to match capacity with

market needs? What is the main reason?

✓ Current timetabling processes not adequate

✓ Not enough capacity of quality available

✓ Processes/IT-tools not adapted for

coordination across borders

✓ Incompatibility of the needs (e.g.

freight/passenger or short term/long term)

✓ Other

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7 December 2017

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Regulatory bodies’ observations

■ Monitoring of rail freight corridors has shown that improvements are needed

■ Regulatory bodies welcome and are willing to support the TTR pilots, but until now there

has not been much transparency about the procedures and actions taken in the pilots. We

would strongly recommend that regulatory bodies are taken on board in the foreseen pilot

structure

■ Regulatory support is necessary throughout the different elements of the TTR processes.

– To help define the commercial principles and criteria that are necessary to provide transparency in allocation of capacity and therefore optimise the demand for capacity

– To ensure that the offer of capacity products complies with EU rules

– To prevent or ease “discrimination issues” that may appear during the transitional project phase where the “old” and the new timetabling regime will be applied. In the event of a complaint, RBs will need to decide with utmost carefulness and need to be very informed, to find a solution fitting all parties concerned.

■ Integration of regulatory bodies in TTR pilots can be via the Access Working Group of IRG-

Rail, but also via the regulatory bodies involved on the corridors where TTR pilots are

planned.

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Panel Session 4 – Rail Freight Capacity Issues

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Sophie Ismaier|Managing Director

RFCs have reached a key development stage, searching their way from the Law to the Market

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▪ Stability of the path over time ▪ Cross-border continuity of the path▪ Consistency of information on the path

▪ Standardisation and Customisation

▪ Answer the „Corridor customer-dilemna“

…Quality

Product development addresses three connected challenges, to increase…

…Flexibility

…Diversity

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Mr Paul Mazataud,

Europe Director, SNCF Réseau

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Mr Guus de Mol,

RNE TTR

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Mr Geert Pauwels,

CEO, Lineas

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Romania

Czech Republic

Ukraine

Turkey

Cyprus

Belarus

Slovenia

Slovakia

Switzerland

Sweden

Russia

Portugal

Poland

Norway

Netherlands

Monaco

Moldova

Macedonia

Malta

Lithuania

Liechtenstein

Latvia

Italy

Ireland

United Kingdom

Greece

Gibraltar

France

Finland

Estonia

Denmark

Bulgaria

Bosnia and

Herzegovina

Andorra

Albania

Serbia

Montenegro

Spain

Luxembourg

Germany

Hungary

Croatia

Belgium

Austria

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The FTE, which has some 90 members across 31 European countries, serves as a coordination

platform for railway undertakings and service companies. Its purpose is to harmonize international

production plans and train path requests for cross-border passenger and freight transport by rail.

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Panel session 5

Train tracking and tracing –

Estimated Time of Arrival

Estimated Time of Arrival(ETA)

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December 2017

Common Sector Statement states:

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In order to improve operational efficiency of the logistics chain,

the sector representatives commit themselves to implementing

the TAF TSI functions according to the Masterplan and

working toward a common ICT architecture wherever possible.

IMs will integrate international traffic management

information (e.g. via TIS) with national systems.

Under the protection of confidentiality clauses, IMs and RUs

agree to make information on estimated time of arrival

available (for handover points and final destination) to

their contract partners, including terminals and intermodal

operators for optimizing the use of resources such as rolling

stock and terminal capacity, and to provide freight forwarders

and shippers with up-to-date information about the status of

their freight and an estimated time of arrival.

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Project ETA and Train Tracking Info

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No guaranteed access to

information➢ The partners involved in a train

run do not have guaranteed

access to train (wagon) tracking

and forecast information

➢ Contractual agreement between

all involved partners are required

(high administrative burden, legal

uncertainty)

➢ No standardised technical

interfaces between all partners

What is the current status?

Insufficient quality of

information➢ Forecast information does not

involve all partners

➢ Forecast information is often just

based on a time-shifting

➢ Quality of data and calculation

algorithm is poor

➢ Forecast information from

previous partner is not considered

by the next IM

➢ Some international trains are not

linked always (estimated above

25%)

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Project aims

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1. Enable sharing of tracking information between all partners involved in a single train run, via TIS Train Information System (“Where is the train?”)

2. Offer estimated time of arrival data to all partners involved in a single train run, via TIS Train Information System (“When will the train arrive?”)

3. Achieve high quality output: ETA communicated to the following partner of the train run is reliable

1. All partners calculate their own part of the ETA

2. TIS shall be the common platform and measuring the quality of the ETA at defined points and directions

4. Step-by step introduction with volunteering RFCs, IMs, RUs, terminals, contractors for defined connections, and subsequent spreading to the network

5. Speed of action: first milestones by 2017

December 2017

Organisational set-up – Overview

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ETA Task Force (Coordination)

CER (Maier), ERFA (Tonndorf), KNV (Toet), RFCs (de Mol, Sellnick, Geubelle), RNE (Reisinger),

UIRR (Schultze), DG Move, Ministries

«ELETA» Project

(CEF application)

Project coordinator: Ad Toet

Project partners: Cemat,

Hupac,

IFB, Kombiverkehr, RCA, UIRR,

Involved RUs: Lineas, BLS

Cargo,

DB Cargo, RCA, Mercitalia, SBB

Cargo int., SNCF FRET

Involved terminals: ca. 20

Technical partner: RNE

Advisory Board

to assist the project partners

RUs, terminals, IMs

RNE Project

(CEF application)

Project coordinator: RNE

Harald Reisinger

Project partners: IMs, Members

of the TIS Advisory Board

System provider for TIS

• Including Terminals to TIS

• Measuring the quality of ETA

• Using TAF TSI Standards like

• Reference Files

• Defined Messages

• Common Interface

Legal Unit

ERA, DG Move (Buy, Padoy),

Ministries (Groot, Haller, Ilik,

Nagel, Swartenbroekx)

Short Term: TIS Advisor Board

Long Term: to be defined

RFC1 project «ETA

Terminal/Shunting RUs»Duisport, others

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First Results

IMs, RUs and Terminals have agreed on data sharing to all partners involved in the

transport (TIS Advisory Board)

New Function are already included in TIS for Terminals and RUs

• Terminals and RUs are able to include ETA information into the system as

well

First concept for measuring the quality of the ETA is available

System is open for all RUs, IMs and Terminals (Train Information System)

Open Issues

Other partners like shippers and forwarders included in the transport have to be

identified and included.

• Technical and legal issue

Evaluation of the measuring of the quality of the ETA for defined points, directions

and traffic type.

Involving more partners into the pilots.

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First Results and Open Issues

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Panel session 5

Train tracking and tracing –

Estimated Time of Arrival


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(5) How important is a good ETA for raising the

competiveness of cross-border rail freight?

✓ Very important, it will directly improve

operational efficiency along the logistics

chain

✓ Important, but to feel the effects, other

issues will need to be solved concurrently

✓ Not so important, it won't make a difference

Track and Trace a tool for increased quality

Bjørn Kristiansen

Executive Vice President


Competitive Railways

Foto: Njål Svingheim/JBV

QUALITY

• We compete against road traffic

• Better quality may be achievedthrough:

‒ Delivery on time

‒ ETA - for those instances wherewe are delayed

‒ Tracking – control of the goods in transit

‒ Responsible for delivery


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Panel session 6

Rail Freight Corridors: The way

forward ?


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(6) How do you see the RFCs in the mid-term?

✓ On the right track, the RFCs will continue to

develop at the right pace

✓ On the right track but commitment of the parties in

the RFCs should be clearly strengthened and the

RFC remit should be widened

✓ We should directly go for a network of RFCs

✓ The RFCs are an additional layer with questionable

added-value and the RFC governance structure

should be simplified

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Conclusions


1. The political priority attached to rail freight in the Rotterdam

declaration remains more valid than ever given the

continued stagnation in the market share of rail freight and

the priorities of the Sector Statement are still the right ones.

2. Implementation of the 10 sector priorities has to be

accelerated.

3. The Rastatt incident has damaged the credibility of the

industry but it should serve as an impetus to radical

customer oriented reform to make rail freight more flexible

and resilient, starting with stronger crisis management.

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4. Continued EU financial support beyond 2020 can only be

justified for a rail freight network which is embracing

intermodality, interoperability, digitalisation and

innovation; improving quality; and striving for growth.

5. Solving cross border issues for international traffic is

essential especially for ERTMS and deployment of

ERTMS should be closely monitored.

6. Strong high level commitment to the RFCs is needed by

Ministries and infrastructure managers who should ensure

they have sufficient resources enabling them to maintain

an ambitious approach.

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7. There should be a renewed focus on all operational questions,

developed by ERA in close partnership with RFCs.

8. The focus overall needs to remain on measurable delivery of

results through KPIs, such as on punctuality.

9. RFDay 2018 is the right moment to discuss

a) an analysis of the capacity pilot projects;

b) preliminary results of the ELETA project;

and ambitions and clear milestones are needed on both.

10. We look forward to RFDay 2018 in Vienna!

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