Regional rail services / Innovative rail services to revitalise capillary lines
The Flagship Project stemming from this topic shall develop under the following capabilities the enablers and any other which may contribute to deliver the aforementioned expected outcome:
CCS & Operations
- Develop a destination 6 specific application based on respectively improving generic application developed in destinations 1 and 2 of several technical enablers and components for a cost-efficient performant control command and signalling system adapted to Regional Lines. Individual (non- integrated) technical enabler demonstrations in this first Call (TRL4/5).
- Develop a single integrated Operations Control Centre (OCC) covering interlocking, radio blocking and traffic management for regional lines that are not functionally/operationally connected with mainline. This integrated OCC will reduce the software and hardware compare to traditional non integrated architecture while ensuring the same safety level (TRL4/5 in 2025).
The Flagship Project stemming from this topic shall develop the functional and operational requirements related to the area of CCS and operations as specified in the Expected outcome above.
Asset
- Develop based on the work of S2R [ETALON (D4.1 and D6.1): https://projects.shift2rail.org/s2r_ip2_n.aspx?p=S2R_ETALON
X2Rail-4 (D11.1): https://projects.shift2rail.org/s2r_ip2_n.aspx?p=X2RAIL-4
In2Track (D2.3): https://projects.shift2rail.org/s2r_ip3_n.aspx?p=IN2TRACK
Smart2 (D1.2): https://projects.shift2rail.org/s2r_ip5_n.aspx?p=S2R_SMART2], infrastructure components and wayside elements focused on Regional Railway cost drivers (e.g. level crossings, switches) which are energy self-sufficient and/or wireless enabled (by using the simplified communication system developed in CCS and Operations; enable remote control or full or partial automation and/or autonomous operation (TRL4/5 in 2025). In addition, develop novel concepts to decrease costs of the whole life cycle cost of those wayside elements, covering all phases from design to maintenance considering the regional specificities (TRL3 in 2025).
The Flagship Project stemming from this topic shall develop the functional and operational requirements related to the area of Assets as specified in the Expected outcome above.
Rolling Stock
- Concept of modular light-weight vehicle and/or with alternative propulsion system (TE: light, flexible and modular vehicle) TRL3 by 2025 applicable for both regional lines with or with no/limited connection to mainline traffic. This could include the following areas:
- Verification of applicability of the regulatory framework and proposed adjustment if applicable (e.g. LOC-PAS, ENE TSIs, certification and authorisation processes for vehicles operating on regional lines with no or limited connection to mainline traffic)
- Application of components allowing a force-flow optimised modular lightweight design, assuming an adjustment of the provisions in the respective TSIs
- Design oriented to reduce cabling, distributed both inside the Car and along the whole Train (building upon the result of S2R TD1.2 [CONNECTA-2 (D1.1): https://projects.shift2rail.org/s2r_ip1_n.aspx?p=CONNECTA-2])
- Multimodal interior for fast changing interior (e.g. bike-racks, increased seating, freight).
- Apply and adapt Virtualisation of Rolling Stock based on S2R results concerning High SIL Brake Control and Adaptive Adhesion control systems [CONNECTA (D5.1 and D5.2) https://projects.shift2rail.org/s2r_ip1_n.aspx?p=CONNECTA ] develop a vehicle design to replace HW components (pneumatics, electro-pneumatics and mechanics) with embedded software and electronics, with a consequent reduction of cost, cabling/piping, weight and maintenance effort (TRL5 by 2025).
- Develop a concept for alternative fuelling/charging stations for regional railway being interoperable with other road/rail vehicles (TRL3 by 2025).
The Flagship Project stemming from this topic shall develop the operational and functional requirements related to the area of Rolling Stock as specified in the Expected outcome above.
Customer service
- Develop cost-efficient integration of on-board information of multimodal services integrating regional multimodal services such as carsharing (TRL5 by 2025). Developments need to take into account solutions stemming and related to work on the ontology networks that have been produced in previous Shift2Rail [Connective (D1.5): https://projects.shift2rail.org/s2r_ip4_n.aspx?p=CONNECTIVE] to align with CEN standards such as Transmodel as well as with the connections to National Access Point (TRL7 by 2025).
- Based on the work developed in S2R [In2Stempo (D6.1): https://projects.shift2rail.org/s2r_ip3_n.aspx?p=IN2stempo and Fairstation D4.2 https://projects.shift2rail.org/s2r_ip3_n.aspx?p=FAIRSTATIONS], develop passenger congestion rate monitoring, flow optimization application as well as a low-cost passenger information system (by e.g. also using train positioning, FRMCS) for regional services while integrating multimodal services at railway stations. Such an application will be using the developments done in Destination 1 in the context of multimodal timetable integration. (TRL6 by 2025)
The Flagship Project stemming from this topic shall develop the functional and operational requirements related to the area of Customer service as specified in the Expected outcome above.
Developments on all those enablers should also cover important preparatory works with higher TRL for the future set of demonstration foreseen in the Multi- annual Work programme in view of the evolutions of the solutions.
Integrated demonstrator preparatory work
Deliver a list of requirements and an implementation plan of activities for delivering at least one integrated demonstrator per line type (interoperable, functionally separated), which will showcase the demonstration of solutions in real operational environment on at least two Regional Lines.
The action shall actively contribute to measure and monitor the specific quantitative KPIs defined in the Destination description above, including its contribution to the Europe’s Rail Master Plan impacts.
The action shall actively contribute to the EU-Rail standardisation rolling development plans wherever relevant. Similarly, the action shall contribute to the development and implementation of EU policy and legislation including Technical Specifications for Interoperability and Common Safety Methods, as well as to publications of the System Pillar.
Collaboration work required with other FAs
The action to be funded under Destination 6 should foresee developing a deliverable capturing specific requirements described in the Expected scope and relevant for the action to be funded under Destination 1, Destination 2, and Destination 4, suggested to be delivered indicatively by M6.
The action to be funded under Destination 6 shall foresee a common activity/task related to the review of system specifications to be developed by the action to be funded under Destination 1, Destination 2, Destination 4.
The action to be funded under Destination 6 shall foresee a common activity/task related to the Preparatory works on the integration and pilot test(s) of the technical enablers to be provided by the action to be funded under Destination 1, Destination 2, Destination 4 for the demonstration to be carried out in the action to be funded by Destination 1, Destination 2, Destination 4.
Interaction with the System Pillar
The System Pillar aims to guide, support and secure the work of the Innovation Pillar (i.e. to ensure that research is targeted on commonly agreed and shared customer requirements and operational needs, compatible and aligned to the system architecture), and the Innovation Pillar will impact the scope of the System Pillar where new technologies or processes mean that innovations can drive a change in approach, as well as delivering detailed specifications and requirements.
In this respect, the proposal should allocate necessary resources that would be dedicated to areas linked to the System Pillar conceptual and architecture works – particularly addressing specification development (the interaction is illustrated in the System Pillar – Innovation Pillar interaction note (Annex VI of this Work Programme)). The alignment of the activities will primarily take place during the Grant Preparation Phase and ramp up phase of the awarded proposal, and there will be continued, structured and regular interaction through the life of the project
Gender dimension
In this topic the integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in research and innovation content is not a mandatory requirement.