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System architecture and Conceptual Data Model for railway, common data dictionary and global system modelling specifications

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A digital track for railway system architecture

The railway sector is crucial for the economy and society, but it operates in a fragmented manner without any global control due to the existence of different owner and management systems on national and regional levels. Technological progress has allowed for the replacement of analogue devices with digital ones. Hence, connecting existing digital instruments for various subsystems could be advantageous. As a consequence, an effective, automated and standardised model that acts as one ecosystem is needed. The EU-funded LINX4RAIL project will develop and advance within the Shift2Rail structure and beyond a sectorial common functional railway system architecture supported by a conceptual data model (CDM). The project's aim is the creation of a pattern that will ensure sustainable interoperability between systems.

Objective

The railway sector is currently acting in a fragmented way and in silos, corresponding most often to physical or functional subsystems or use cases, and the different owners/managers of the overall infrastructure at regional/national level, without global extensive view or full control of the global system involved by rail operations.
With the progress of digitization, analogue devices based on relays were progressively substituted by digital ones, and it is more and more evident that enabling the communication between already existing digital tools for various subsystems can be beneficial. What is missing is an efficient, automated and standardized way for these integrated and interplaying systems to act as one ecosystem: sharing, integrating, identifying, correlating and exploiting the right data at the right time.
In order to meet these challenges, the objective of LinX4Rail is to develop and promote within Shift2Rail framework and beyond, a sectorial common Functional Railway System Architecture. It will be supported by a widely adopted Shift2Rail Conceptual Data Model (CDM) that will, with the commitment of the Shift2Rail members, through Shift2Rail Programme Board Change Management Process, establish the standard for interactions between legacy and new systems and thus ensure sustainable interoperability between systems.
The ambition of LinX4Rail is to achieve a comprehensive approach for the CDM, global system modelling specification and a strategy for implementation of technological breakthroughs, including RCA, with the inputs from a communication system perspective and give a vision of future evolution of Functional Railway System Architecture.

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SNCF RESEAU
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€ 217 756,00
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15-17 RUE JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
93418 La Plaine Saint-Denis
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Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Seine-Saint-Denis
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Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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