Partner und Internationale Organisationen
(Englisch)
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SYSTRA (F), AEA Technology (UK), ITALFERR (I), TRADEMCO (EL), TIFSA (S), HB (D), SNCF (F), FS (I), RENFE (S), EPFL (CH), CSEE (F), INRETS (F), SOFREAVIA (F), SCANRAIL (DK)
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Abstract
(Englisch)
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OPTIRAILS long term target is the development and validation of an international rail traffic management system, mainly consisting in improving real-time train dispatching and route planning, rail lines and rail nodes fluidity and customers and operating staff information
The OPTIRAILS concept is to provide rail transportation management along the European corridors effectively, profitably and attractively. Six options have been considered for Optirails project design:
· Option I for collecting data and performance monitoring
· Option II for centralising the information on a corridor
· Option III where path assembling without scientific optimisation for the corridor as a whole is made
· Option IV for negotiated solutions with involved actors
· Option V for a start to corridor-wide problem solving
· Option VI for comprehensive detection and resolution of traffic management problems.
Workpackages 1 and 2 have analysed the existing status of ERTMS and railway traffic methods and tools currently in use or in development. The real-time traffic management methods and tools present three main characteristics:
· Aim to control train product delivery independently of many events
· Solve complex operating problems, depending on the Infrastructure Manager and the Train Operating Companies
· They are close to the train command/control systems, for safety reasons and also because of technology, whose use is grouped economically for multilateral partners.
Automation cannot resolve conflicts but detects them on lines equipped with a train describer. Local Area Devices coordinated by national centres will control conflicts at a regional or national level.
Workpackage 3 provided a specification of the functional requirements of a potential pan-European system and the results of a cost benefit analysis carried out to assess the worth of investing in the system..
Functional and tools requirements have been identified and specified for each of the six technical options covered by the project and functions have been selected as 'mandatory', 'useful' and 'nice to have'.
The definition of the ideal system has been used to keep a focus on what might be ultimately desired in order to drive forwards the ambition of the earlier systems and to set a high level of ambition for the system.
The feasibility of a Pan-European Traffic Management System has been examined on the organisational and the technical level on the Rotterdam - Gothard - Gioia Tauro corridor and the outcome has been found highly positive. The preliminary Cost/Benefit Analysis has been based on a fairly general view of potential benefits from the system. Improved service delivery of international traffic is forecast to halt the decline in this market sector offering both commercial and socio-economic benefit. Set against the cost estimates the rate of return have been calculated at Financial and Economic terms to be 10% to 15% respectively.
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