Organisation

The GAP Session was held on 2.September 15:00 to 17:00 with two participants

The other two participants were excused because of operational issues

The next alignment session is planned for end of November.

SOL

Between the two workshops the RFF team

There were 5 potential solution areas identified:

POC GEO model for the group infrastructure master data
Technical wagon data for the group wagon master data
Train Service Harmonization for the group train service planning
MARS for the group train service handover and the group train service observation
POC digital train operation for the group train service observation

The GEO Model concept foresees to

link the existing infrastructure databases (CRD, RINF, ...)
benefit from the open source community driven OpenStreetmap database [[1]] for railway related information
aggregate this information and
offer service
- for translation
- for catching network points & segments
- for calculation of distances
- for facility information

The use cases of the GEO model can be found here.

At the moment three of the six defined services are planned to be realized in early 2022.

The participants

showed interest in obtaining a link between TAF CRD and RINF information
marked that it is crucial to have access to the complete network information (IM coverage, ports and terminals)
raised concerns about the liability of the OSM service. In the discussion we concluded that we reduce this risk by not adding additional information to the OSM dataset beside the linking IDs. In case of a migration from OSM to another GEO database these links can be exported and transferred to the new service.