DELIVERABLES PUBLISHED BY THE PROJECT

FP1 MOTIONAL D1.2

This document shows how FA1-MOTIONAL is addressing the Key Performance Indicators stated in the Multi Annual Workplan of the EU-Rail Work programme, the Performance Indicators to be fulfilled within the project and the Impact the technical developments will have on a variety of topics of our lives. The Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) represent the overall goals of the work programme and are to be reached by 2031. A credible pathway towards these goals is to provide and implement Performance indicators (PIs), which are related to the overall goals, but to be reached at the end of the FA1-MOTIONAL project by 2026. To measure the KPIs and PIs, we defined a baseline for 2022 whenever possible and relevant by using e.g., reports on rail statistics (e.g., EUROSTAT [1], PRIME [2]), this baseline will later be used to measure the progress of our planned technical developments. Some of our KPIs and PIs do not require a baseline but have rather absolute goals to be reached. Additionally, a clear methodology was defined, this information is needed to make the results comparable and repeatable. We selected different approaches for measuring the progress towards KPIs, PIs for our Technical Enablers and PIs for our Digital Enablers, due to their different nature of objectives. KPIs will be measured using demonstrations, simulations or expert judgement, based on the data availability and overall timeline of demonstrations stated in the EU-Rail Multi- Annual Workplan [3]. PIs for our technical enablers and digital enablers will be measured by comparing the current Technology Readiness Level to the target level stated in the Grant Agreement [27]. Our project and the successful implementation of technical and digital enablers will have a measurable impact on society and economics. We plan to quantitively assess these impacts based on all developments done in MOTIONAL. Other impacts (e.g., environmental, technological, political) will only be qualitatively assessed. The level of complexity of the developments and the numerous interdependencies within the rail system and the real world make it impossible to calculate the impacts precisely or map certain technical enablers directly to a specific impact. The results of the project can only be evaluated in a holistic approach and taken as estimation. We conclude that the selected methods and approaches are the best way forward to fulfil the objectives of our project. This document will provide the baseline of all future work concerning KPIs within MOTIONAL and also Flagship Area 1.

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D2.2 Workplan for collaboration with other EU-RAIL Destinations

The purpose of this document is to present a Workplan for collaboration with other EU-RAIL Destinations for Flagship Project 1: MOTIONAL. The Workplan outlines the objectives, guidelines, collaboration activities, deliverables, outcomes and risk management strategies for the collaboration between Flagship Project 1 and the other participating EU-RAIL Destinations. The objectives of collaboration include improving knowledge sharing, enhancing collaboration and coordination, and increasing efficiency and effectiveness of technical enablers developed by the Flagship projects. The guidelines for collaboration address communication and coordination mechanisms, roles and responsibilities, data sharing and confidentiality, intellectual property rights, and timelines and milestones. The activities include identifying potential collaboration, joint planning and implementation of pilots, and documentation exchange. Overall, this Workplan aims to establish a successful and productive collaboration between Flagship Project 1 and the other EU-RAIL Destinations, with the aim to provide better results in all involved projects. This document was updated after the first FP1 Maturity Checkpoint, considering comments from EU-Rail and other Destinations.

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D3.1 Mapping against scope_ specification of technical enablers_ high-level use cases_ high-level requirements_ high level design for demonstrators in WPs 4-9

This document constitutes the Deliverable D3.1 “Mapping against scope, specification of technical enablers, high-level use cases, high-level requirements, high-level design for demonstrators in WPs 4-9” in the framework of the Flagship Project FP1-MOTIONAL.

The objective of this deliverable is to align, prepare and deliver the high-level specifications of requirements, high-level design, and high-level use cases for the development of the technical enablers 1 to 7. The high-level specification is done in parallel with more detailed specifications from WP4, WP6 and WP8. Participants from all WPs contributed to the texts.

In the project proposal, seven technical enablers were linked to Workstream 1.1 (Planning work packages), i.e., WP4/WP5 (Integration of Planning Systems and Processes), WP6/WP7 (Decision Support and Optimization) and WP8/WP9 (Simulation and Operational feedback). Here, each of the technical enablers are described in detail, including alignment with previous results, current state of practice, assigned development needs and high-level requirements.

An extensive mapping is also a result that is presented in this deliverable. All demonstrators (that further on will be called demonstrations) in Workstream 1.1 are introduced and described, together with related use cases. There are 13 demonstrations and they are all mapped against technical enablers, TRL levels, use cases and the high-level requirements defined for each technical enabler. They are also mapped against simulation environments and frameworks to be used within WP4/WP5, WP6/WP7 and WP8/WP9. Finally, the alignment and interactions between WP4-WP9 demonstrations and other FA1 WPs, other Flagship Projects and SP Task 3 CMS/TMS and RNE are mapped.

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D17.1 Requirements Specification for Automated Decisions and Decision Support for Traffic Management optimisation

This report is the deliverable of Task 17.1 “Requirements Specification for Automated Decisions and Decision Support for Traffic Management Optimization” of the Flagship Project 1 – “Network management planning and control & Mobility Management in a multimodal environment and digital enablers” of the EU-MAWP. The aim of this work package is to specify European standardized requirements for a system to provide automated decisions and decision support for traffic management optimization.

The main results contained in this document are specified functional, non-functional, and operational requirements that have been agreed upon between all partners involved in the work package. These requirements were developed with a view towards both technical enablers associated with Work Package 17: Technical Enabler 16 “Automation of very short-term train control decisions” as well as Technical Enabler 17 “Real-time conflict detection and resolution for main line and optimization”. The implementation of these technical enablers represents a stepping-stone towards the development of an overall general level system. The requirements delivered here were developed with a focus on the demonstrators developed in Work Package 18. The whole product requirements have only been mentioned and defined where they are needed to understand the setting and scope of the demonstrators’ requirements. The requirements specification for the final product will be developed within the next ERJU calls. The European standardization of the requirements delivered here supports the System Pillar in achieving the interoperability of the European railway networks by 2031. In the last chapter of this report, we provide benchmarking criterion for the development of a testbed for the standardized testing and comparison of methods developed in later stages of the work package.

The requirements delivered in this report are further classified into the following classes and sub-classes:

Functional requirements: System Interaction with User Groups, System Scope, System Forecast and Conflict Detection, System Solutions, System Integration, and User Interaction.
Non-functional requirements: System, Scalability, Performance, and Regulations and Security.
Operational requirements: Compliance and Automation.

These requirements were obtained systematically through the collaboration of three groups of industrial and infrastructure partners: an Author Group, an Expert Group, and a Review Group. The delivered requirements are the result of an iterative querying of the Expert Group by the Author Group using specially designed requirements questionnaires. Subsequent phases of the deliverable were quality controlled by the Review Group – consisting of EU-wide and cross-industry representatives.

Overall, more than 80 requirements have been developed. A special focus has been put on the system scope, the integration into the existing IT-infrastructure and processes, conflict detection, and conflict resolution and mitigation. To reflect the differences in the technical enablers, requirements for Technical Enabler 16 and Technical Enabler 17 were developed separately.

The results of this document are the basis for the later stages of Work Package 17, in which methods for automated decisions and decision support for traffic management optimization are developed on a demonstrator level. Furthermore, these results feed into the subsequent Work Package 18, in which systems with a higher maturity level incorporating Technical Enabler 16 and Technical Enabler 17 are to be developed. There is also a symbiotic interaction between Work Package 17 and Work Package 10: In Work Package 10 high-level requirements and specifications for both technical enablers were developed, which were taken as input here. In turn, the standardized requirements contained in this report will be taken as inputs into Task 10.2 of Work Package 10, in which specifications for high-level Use Cases and demonstrators of Work Packages 11-17 will be developed. The developments of Work Package 17 are also interacting for Work Package 2, which is responsible for technical coordination.

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D27.1 Data model and format for a harmonised EU planning of railway assests, starting from CCS+

The present document examines how a harmonized set of data can be used to realize the idea of SERA and a Single European Railway Traffic Management system. This vision is based on the concept that a common data model can be used in the supply chain, regardless of the specific domain. The System Pillar CCS-TMS Data Model is a first instance of a common model fully dedicated to CCS-TMS engineering and operations. The potential utilization of such data in other domains besides signalling, such as diagnostics, maintenance, and so forth, is analysed through the presentation of a set of business cases. The business cases allow us to identify key data requirements for the WP27 digital planning toolbox and other applications. The content of this deliverable (D27.1) will be used as input for the task 27.2 to guide the extraction of selected objects from the data sources identified. The extracted objects can be used by both the toolbox and other railway applications as a result of FP1 and other FP interactions and collaborations.

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D31.1 Federated data space “Sandbox Environment” description

As stated in its Master Plan, the Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking (ERJU) public-private partnership “aims to accelerate research and development in innovative technologies and operational solutions supporting the fulfilment of European Union policies and objectives relevant for the railway sector and supporting the competitiveness of the rail sector and the European rail supply industry”; [it] “will foster a close cooperation and ensure coordination with related European, national and international research, innovation deployment and investment activities in the rail sector and beyond, in particular under Horizon Europe, Connecting Europe Facility, and the Digital Europe Programme".

The creation of a Rail Data Space (RDS) as one of the implementation deliverables of the ERJU is a concrete instance of cooperation and coordination with the Digital Europe Program: its ultimate goal is to align data sharing and communication in the Rail Sector to the European Data Strategy, making the Rail Sector both a contributor and a beneficiary of the “single market for data” for a “data-driven” European society:

Leveraging the resources and know-how provided by the Dataspace Support Center, funded by the Digital Europe Programme,
Ensuring at inception and by design compliance with the European legislative acts that complement the establishment of European data spaces (Data Actions)
Ensuring at inception and by design the ability to deploy the Rail Data Space on Next Generation Cloud infrastructure (Cloud Actions)

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D32.1 Project dissemination and communication plan

FP1 - MOTIONAL paves the way for implementation the future European Capacity Planning and Traffic Management System, built on digitalisation, automation, and connectivity, supported by Europe’s rail technology initiative. The FP1 - MOTIONAL project provides the rail industry players with digital access to automated and harmonised solutions for a common European capacity planning and traffic control railway system with shared data, with the goal to make rail the preferred mode of transport. Improving the planning and operational management of services and offers is of paramount importance to meet the European ambitious target of making rail the preferred mode of transport in the future. The future European railway system will be interoperable, resilient and able to adapt its capacity and integrate all involved services including last mile operations by exploiting the opportunities provided by digitalisation. The development of the future European Traffic Management is key for achieving the foreseen Single European Railway Area (SERA). To achieve these goals, the project activities are carried out in two large Workstreams:

1) Workstream 1 (WS1) covers three main focus areas; planning, operational activities (including managing future interactively coupled timetable planning) and finally operational traffic management systems, which also includes integration activities for door-to-door mobility. 2)

2) Workstream 2 (WS2) refers to the delivery of a set of digital enablers for all European rail destinations, i.e., crosscutting, to support the development of destination-specific digitalisation solutions.

The communication and dissemination plan must be used as guidance in the communicative work and provide support for prioritising the right message and activities and ensuring coherent communication. The plan is based on EU-Rail's communication policy and communication strategy and on the common goal of strengthening the overall EU-Rail programme [2]. This is done by highlighting FP1 - MOTIONAL as an important contribution to the whole. From this, the goal is to disseminate and communicate the project developments and results to share the successes with the public and other stakeholders. The aim of the deliverable is to provide a transparent dissemination and communication plan for the FP1 - MOTIONAL project and to describe the measures and approaches that will be used to facilitate the wide-spread distribution of information and knowledge of the results created by the project. The dissemination of FP1 - MOTIONAL is essential throughout the project duration and needs to be carried out with the active cooperation of all consortium members. Furthermore, it is expected that the dissemination plan, through an effective dissemination of results on selected channels, can be used as guidance for future work. The communication and dissemination plan is a document that will be updated throughout the project lifecycle to reflect progress and outcome. This document introduces materials and documents to communicate and disseminate FP1 - MOTIONAL to railway stakeholders, the scientific community and the general public.

Important findings and useful results will be widened with tailor-made messages, through the most appropriate channels and frequency to railway stakeholders, the scientific community and the general public by the mean above. Knowledge can then be used to “Go Research, Go External, Go Internal” by their interest and needs. The result can be used by research organisations, by other actors in the rail system community or by the partners within FP1 - MOTIONAL. The dissemination plan will not include the verification of content for which WP leaders are responsible. WP Leaders are responsible for ensuring that the inputs to the Dissemination Work Package reflect the actual output and progress within the respective Work Packages.

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D32.2 Exploitation Strategy

This document outlines the FP1-MOTIONAL project’s exploitation approach and strategy to ensure the best use of the project’s results, in addition to the communication and dissemination activities which are described in a separate deliverable, D32.1 – Communications and Dissemination Plan. The delivery of FP1-MOTIONAL project is structured in two Workstreams (WS) as follows:

1. WS1 – Rail Services Planning and Operations – with an aim to deliver developments for a future European Traffic Management, to pave the way towards a Single European Rail Area, and make rail the backbone of a multimodal transport system for passengers and freight. This WS1 has three major focus areas: WS1.1 – Planning, WS1.2 – Operations, and 1.3- Integration activities to support a door-to-door mobility.

2. WS2 – Digital Enablers for all Europe’s Rail Destinations (i.e. Flagship Areas) – with an aim to deliver solutions to support the digital transformation of the rail system as a whole. Each of the workstreams mentioned above has specific approaches to exploitation due to differences in scope and stakeholders. In general, WS2 places a stronger emphasis on internal exploitation, whereas WS1 is focused more on external exploitation.

The scope of this exploitation plan excludes the verification of the project results content, which is attributed to the Work Package (WP) leaders, who are also responsible for ensuring that the inputs into the exploitation activities reflect the actual output and progress within the respective Work Packages.

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