1. ERTMS and related research projects European Technology Research & Innovation
Dennis Schut
UIC
Peter Gurnik
UNIFE

2. 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

3. Innovation in the European Rail Sector
Horizon2020 R&I
Technology Risk
Horizon2020 R&I
ERRAC SRRIA
Rail Sector commitment to innovation
FP7 RTD
ERRAC
FP7 RTD -ERRAC topic priorities
Longer-term R&D
Pre-competitive
Interfaces specifications/
Standards
Blue sky research
National Innovation
Private industry sector
SHIFT2RAIL
Pre-competitive market-oriented problem solving R&D
Rail needs from regulations and standards
System cooperation
+ leverage private investment
Large scale validation – comprehensive demonstrators
Innovative/new technology integration
New R&D business model
Time to
Market
10+ years
5+ years
deployment
roll-out

4. Interfaces and Fields of Co-operation
EC - Interoperability Directives
ERA - Technical Specifications for Interoperability
With support of UNISIG, UNIFE, EUG, CER, EIM
CEN/ CENELEC/ ETSI / UIC (IRSs*)
Code of practice
Interface layer above
Building Consensus
Protection of Investment
Reports, Guidelines,
Benchmark, Positions, Strategy
State-of-the-art
UIC Technical Activity area
State
of the
art
Guide
lines,
reports
Con- sensus
building
Code of
practice EU
Norms
TSI’s
Directives t
Norms, Standards
TSIs
Visible part
of the Iceberg
*IRS: International Railway Standards e.g. EIRENE

5. 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

6. Test of Rolling Stock Electromagnetic Compatibility for cross-Domain
TREND - TEST OF ROLLING STOCK ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY FOR CROSS-DOMAIN INTEROPERABILITY - FP –
Test of Rolling Stock Electromagnetic Compatibility for cross-Domain
Interoperability
In terms of organisation, all the partners of TREND consortium have experience in European projects (contributors and/or coordinators) as described in the individual description of each one in B2.2 section of the proposal. This assures a good base from the management and coordination point of view.
From the technical point of view, as shown in the first figure, the consortium perfectly cover the 6 fields that have to be integrated:
Rolling stock by CAF,
Infrastructure by TV,
spot signalling systems by CEIT,
GSM-R by INRETS,
track circuits systems by LTU and TV (because of Niska specific background)
and telecommunication broadcasting services by Y-EMC.
CEDEX has a vast expertise on interoperability measurements, as will be presented by Jaime, later on, and this will be a great link for all. Mostly from the point of view of the Electromagnetic Compatibility.
From the research point of view, the 4 lines of investigation on signalling systems have to be faced in parallel, in most of the technical WPs. That will build a common vision that leads to the pursued harmonization.
This is done applying the expertise and know-how of the members as shown in the expertise chain figure.
The effort, in terms of distribution of the PMs per partner is here depicted in that table. It shows the sharing of the tasks into the WPs, and it also shows that the research is well balanced among the partners in the technical WPs. The leaders of each WP are here highlighted, and these work load are also balanced inside the consortium.
Motivation:
A - Available harmonized EMC standards do not completely address interoperability issues caused by rolling stock interferences with signalling systems
B - These standards do not cover representative worst case conditions worsened by transients in the rolling stock behaviour (mostly due to feeding and track discontinuities)
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
&

7. ETCS validation by means of lab testing
EATS - etcs Advanced testing AND SMART Train Positioning System - fp7 Project - ( – )
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. -
Motivation:
ETCS validation by means of lab testing
GNSS positioning into ETCS level 3

8. Expected impact and objectives:
3INSAT - Train Integrated Safety Satellite System ESA project
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 -

9. TRAIN ROUTING, SPACING AND
INESS - Integrated European Signalling System – background Delivering ERTMS compliant interlockings
Traffic
Management
TRAFFIC REGULATION
CENTRALIZED TRAFFIC CONTROL
Signalling
INESS
TRAIN ROUTING, SPACING AND
ROUTE PROTECTION
Railway communications
Train control
command
TRAIN COMMAND
TRAIN PROTECTION
National
Systems

10. openETCS @ ITEA2 Project
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

11. openIT4SR Objectives Enhanced Functionality Integration of „open STM“
Proposal submitted for the 1st Call of Horizon 2020 Call
Planned starting: Duration: 2,5 Years
OpenIT4SR = Open Information Technologies for Smart Rail
Objectives
Enhanced Functionality
Integration of „open STM“
Very long Term Support
Lower Life Cycle Costs
Expected Benefits
Interoperability
Improved Performance
Open Market
Service for Software
Partners:
12 nationalities, 7 Railway Undertakings, 4 R&D Institutes,
9 Universities, 14 Industry and SME

12. 21 members of the consortium
Basic Facts
Next Generation Train Control systems
NGTC project is supported by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ ) 
Coordinated by UNIFE
Project budget:
Total project Budget: 10,96 €
Planned EU contribution: 6,36 €
Timing
Started:
36 months
Coordinated by:
21 members of the consortium
Manufacturers
Urban Operators
Mainline infrastructure
Universities and consultancies

13. NGTC Project high-level objectives
ETCS/CBTC investigation of operational and functional consistencies & differences
Common & specific requirements to each domain including additional functions
ETCS/CBTC technical coherence
Architecture definition & SRS
Common Message Structure for Urban and Mainline
Definition and validation of moving block principles
IP based Radio Communication
General requirement specification for the radio communication system
Satellite positioning
Positioning functionalities characteristics & Safety analysis
NGTC
Shift2Rail

14. “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
It is the first time ever that the EU Industry is joining forces for such a large scale initiative.
Shift²Rail is an “enabler” of Rail R&D at sectorial level.

15. 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 , 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

16. S2R Preparatory phase: the 25 Founders and overall 115+ promoters

17. 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.
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.
ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEMS
Capacity and Efficiency Surge
Smart Procurement & Testing
Dependable Safe Signalling System

18. Participation in future R&D activities
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
The JTI will have very concrete outputs.

19. H2020 1st Call (proposal to be approved by EC)
Transportation topics
MG – Intelligent infrastructure  linked to IP2, IP3 and IP4
MG (1): Seamless multimodal travel  linked to IP4
MG (2): Logistic services  linked to IP5
MG.2.3: New generation rail vehicles  linked to IP1
SHIFT²RAIL promoted proposals
The JTI will have very concrete outputs.

20. 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.

21. Thank you for your kind attention
Dennis Schut – UIC –
Peter Gurnik – UNIFE –