WP48 Innovative Operational Solutions

This work package aims for specific innovative use cases targeting for solutions with even higher grades of automation closer to autonomy. It is one approach to operate trains, consists or even individual vehicles as e.g., freight wagons individually and to enable the infrastructure to react on the requests set by those vehicles. Consequently, this WP shall focus on three innovative operational solutions, which are core to enable this approach, namely, Autonomous Route Setting (AnRS), Virtually Coupled Train Sets (VCTS) and Self-Driving Freight Wagons (SDFW). These operational solutions rely on two core technology elements related to communication and localisation: short-range communication (SRC) and relative localisation (RL). Both technologies are required in addition to normal train-to ground communication (e.g., by FRMCS) and absolute localisation (e.g., by GNSS), which are subject of other WPs in the project. Hence, this WP will focus on the further development based on the state of the art.