ERTMS and related research projects
European Technology Research & Innovation
Dennis Schut
UIC
Peter Gurnik
UNIFE
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
Horizon2020
R&I
Technology
Risk
FP7 RTD
• Longer-term
R&D
• Pre-competitive
• Interfaces
specifications/
• Standards
• Blue sky
research
10+ years
Horizon2020
R&I
ERRAC SRRIA
Rail Sector
commitment to
innovation
ERRAC
FP7 RTD ERRAC topic
priorities
• Pre-competitive
market-oriented
problem solving
R&D
• Rail needs from
regulations and
standards
• System
cooperation
5+ years
National
Innovation
SHIFT2RAIL
• Large scale
validation –
comprehensive
demonstrators
• Innovative/new
technology
integration
• New R&D business
model
deployment
Private
industry
sector
roll-out
Time to
Market
Interfaces and Fields of Co-operation
Visible
part
of the
Iceberg
EC - Interoperability Directives
ERA - Technical Specifications for Interoperability
With support of UNISIG, UNIFE, EUG, CER, EIM
Directives
CEN/ CENELEC/ ETSI / UIC (IRSs*)
TSIs
Norms, Standards
Code of practice
Interface layer above
UIC Technical Activity area
Building Consensus
Protection of Investment
*IRS: International Railway Standards
e.g. EIRENE
Reports, Guidelines,
Benchmark, Positions, Strategy
State-of-the-art
State
of the
art
Guide
lines,
reports
Consensus
building
Code
of
practice
EU
Norms
TSI’s
Directives
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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
TRENDTEST
- TEST
OF ROLLING
ELECTROMAGNETIC
COMPATIBILITY
OF ROLLING
STOCKSTOCK
ELECTROMAGNETIC
COMPATIBILITY
FOR
FOR CROSS-DOMAIN INTEROPERABILITY
- FP7 - 01.11.2011 – 30.04.2014
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
EATS - ETCS ADVANCED TESTING AND SMART TRAIN POSITIONING SYSTEM
- FP7 PROJECT - (01.20.2012 – 31.03.2016)
EATS_LAB: On-board ETCS lab testing tools
On-board ETCS model
Fault injection in the interfaces
Electromagnetic 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
Motivation:
• ETCS validation by means of lab testing
• GNSS positioning into ETCS level 3
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
INESS - Integrated European Signalling System –
background Delivering ERTMS compliant interlockings
Railway communications
TRAFFIC REGULATION
CENTRALIZED TRAFFIC CONTROL
TRAIN ROUTING, SPACING AND
ROUTE PROTECTION
TRAIN COMMAND
TRAIN PROTECTION
www.iness.eu
openETCS @ ITEA2 Project
http://openetcs.org/
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
Proposal submitted for the 1st Call of Horizon 2020 Call
Planned starting: 01.06.2015 - Duration: 2,5 Years
OpenIT4SR = Open Information Technologies for Smart Rail
Objectives
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Enhanced Functionality
Integration of „open STM“
Very long Term Support
Lower Life Cycle Costs
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Expected Benefits
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Interoperability
Improved Performance
Open Market
Service for Software
Partners:
12 nationalities, 7 Railway Undertakings, 4 R&D Institutes,
9 Universities, 14 Industry and SME
Basic Facts
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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:
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Total project Budget: 10,96 €
Planned EU contribution: 6,36 €
Coordinated by:
Timing
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Started: 1.9.2013
36 months
21 members of the consortium
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Manufacturers
Urban Operators
Mainline infrastructure
Universities and consultancies
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NGTC Project high-level objectives
ETCS/CBTC investigation of operational
and
functional
consistencies
&
differences
o
Common & specific requirements to
each domain including additional
functions
ETCS/CBTC technical coherence
o Architecture definition & SRS
Common Message Structure for Urban
and Mainline
Definition and validation of moving
block principles
IP based Radio Communication
o General requirement specification
for the radio communication system
Satellite positioning
o Positioning
functionalities
characteristics & Safety analysis
NGTC
Shift2Rail
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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
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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
 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.
Capacity and
Efficiency
Surge
ADVANCED
TRAFFIC
MANAGEME
NT AND
CONTROL
SYSTEMS
 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.
Dependable
Safe Signalling
System
Smart
Procurement &
Testing
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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 tenders
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H2020 1st Call
(proposal to be approved by EC)
 Transportation topics
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
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.
Thank you for your kind attention
Dennis Schut – UIC – schut@uic.org
Peter Gurnik – UNIFE – peter.gurnik@unife.org
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