End-To-End Path Planning/Ordering

Description

• High quality rail path booking to support modal shift
• Avoid conflicts between passenger & freight
• Better alignment of rail paths with infrastructure works
• Optimizes RU / IM resources and way of working
• Enabler of Long Term Timetables & Time Table Redesign (TTR)
• More capacity with same infrastructure

Use Case

DCM is the capability of IMs to meet customer demands on ...

• easy access
• to good quality capacity on rail infrastuture
• in all parts of the planning process
• for domestic and international transport across Europe
• allowing RUs and IMs for optimisation of ressources

... by means of...

• Digitalisation
• Automatisation • Optimisation

...for the full capacity managagement planning process

Preconditions

Train Harmonization Service

Basic Services

• Digitalize the representation of infrastructure
• create automated construction
• create optimization with algorithms for single day and longer periods,
• create automated allocation,
• create interface with booking frontends to have one access for all
• create international harmonization/international optimization

Planned Steps

• Core group of IM’s to take the lead (DB Netz, Infrabel, Prorail, SNCF Réseau, SBB Infra and ÖBB Infra)
• Coordination by RNE incl. a dedicated working group and RU’s for ‘customer view’
• Funding by Green Deal and on national level
• Phased build-up to full European Digitally Connected Rail System