How innovation can contribute to achieve
interoperable, high performance, cost
effective Advance Traffic Management and
Control Systems
Philippe Citroën, UNIFE Director General
ERTMS World Conference
1-3 April 2014, Istanbul
What is UNIFE?
UNIFE represents the European Rail (Supply) Industry
 Based in Brussels since 1992
 23 permanent employees
 A trusted partner of the European institutions in all matters related to rail and
transport
 Full members: Over 80 of the largest and
medium-sized companies in the rail
supply sector
 Associated members: 15 National
Associations, representing almost 1,000
suppliers of railway equipment + EFRTC
and UNISIG
 UNIFE members have an 80% market
share in Europe and supply more than
50% of the worldwide production of rail
equipment and services.
Industry achievements
Political achievements
Support the implementation of the ERTMS MoU
 European Lab Framework Agreement
 Interoperability Position Paper
Communication achievements
Re-launch of the ERTMS website
 New statistics
 New and Updated Factsheets
Technical achievements
UNISIG Contribution to the ERTMS
specification work
Establishment of a new innovation framework
Political achievements
 European Lab Framework Agreement
 Objective: to enhance the collaboration of the industry to carry out
ERTMS interoperability tests for any interested third parties such as
operators, IMs, etc.
 Collaboration defined in this Framework Agreement was anticipated by
the ERTMS MoU (signed in 2012)
 Document has been signed by the 8 UNISIG companies (Alstom,
AnsaldoSTS, AZD Praha, Bombardier, CAF, MerMec, Siemens, Thales)
and in force from February 2014
 Interoperability Position Paper
 Presents the state of play of Interoperability
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Technical Interoperability in figures
Interoperability examples in operation
1 billion cumulative operational train kilometers
Communication achievements
Re-launch of the website: www.ertms.net
Up to date ERTMS statistics
42 Countries have been
implementing ETCS
Total No vehicles: 9462
Total track km: 76100
Technical Achievements - Innovation
UNISIG Work-Packages: ERTMS Specification work
co-financed by TEN-T and possibly Connecting Europe Facility
FP7
New Generation Train
Control
Sept. 2013 - Aug. 2016
2012
2013
2015
Horizon2020
SHIFT2RAIL IP2
Advanced Traffic Management
and Control System
2022
Next Generation Train Control systems
Scope:
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ETCS/CBTC investigation of
operational and functional
consistencies & differences
ETCS/CBTC technical coherence
Common Message Structure for
Urban and Mainline
Covering technical solutions
such as moving block principles,
IP based Radio Communication
and Satellite positioning
NGTC
Shift2Rail
Light-house project for SHIFT2RAIL
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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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The 25 Founders and overall 115+ promoters
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More, Better, Cheaper!
 3 major challenges
 CAPACITY (to cope with growing EU demand)
Up to 100% increase in capacity
 RELIABILITY (to better satisfy users)
Up to 50% increase of reliability
 LIFE CYCLE COSTS (for more competitiveness)
Up to 50% of reduction of Life Cycle Costs
 Impacting all segments of the rail market!
 Improving mobility and making daily life easier for millions of
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European passengers and rail freight
actors!
Deliver R&D results to the market with a
system approach
1. Development of prototypes
Demonstrators” (TDs)
in
labs
with
the
“Technology
2. Integration/demonstration of the TDs through “Integrated Technology
Demonstrators” (ITDs)
2. and virtual validation at system level through “System Platform
Demonstrations” (SPDs) developed for each targeted market segment:
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High Speed/Mainline
Regional
Urban/Metro & Suburban
Freight
3. Implementation of the successful technology break-through with
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the industrialisation commitment of the Founders
the involvement of the entire rail sector & supply chain actors
the key role of the European Railway Agency (ERA)
the European Commission in the commitment to create a Single European
Railway Area
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Innovation Programme 2 –
ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT
AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
for improvement of mainline and urban
rail systems capacity and resilience
 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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Conclusions
Conclusion
 The current innovations are aiming to fulfill the vision described in the
Transport White Paper;
 Innovations will follow 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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