Values
Contents
Basic Principles
Improve Competiviness
Think Big: We aim for Big Steps to fundamentally improve the competitiveness of Rail Freight in Europe.
Open platform
Think European Rail Freight: We think from a generic RU / Multimodal Rail Freight Customer perspective including all Players (Customers/Shippers, Big & small RUs, IMs & Terminals / Ports).
Seamless Information
Free Flow of Data is fundamental to Offer a seamless Product & seamless Production! We have to maximise digital Transparency towards Customers and between involved Service Partners.
Common Platform
Typical service chains in Rail Freight span various Providers. A common European digital Platform lowers the cost of Data Exchange / Integration for all Parties involved, allows for added Customer Value.
Smart Platform Capabilities
Sector Performance may be further increased by providing Smart Capabilities for Multi-Party Use. Prominent example is brokerage of Empty Wagon Capacity across RUs & Wagon Keepers.
An open platfrom to provide
- Open data
- Shared quality level
- Open standards
- Open platform technology
Lean approach
Think Lean: We Maximise Work not Done & Eliminate Complexity without added Customer Value.
Trust
Trust in
- member
- provided data
- usage of data
Stability
Stable
- data formats
- data interfaces
Targets
The following Targets for the future RU platform were defined by the CIOs as part of their Vision considerations
Data Quality
Raise the data quality on the digital platforms. Further information can be found here: Data Quality
Coverage
Early increase of the usage of existing services in the Ecosystem. Further information can be found here: Coverage
Consolidate Ecosystem
Migrate the services to one future platform
One stable RU interface
Define one stable interface for the RUs with modern interface technology
Innovation
Develop innovative Smart Services based on the existing offered services.
