European Rail Infrastructure Managers EIM

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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)

• European Railway Technical Strategy
• Michael Robson
• Secretary General
• 05 November 2007

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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)

• Created in April 2002.
• 11 members Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the
  Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, the UK, France,
  Portugal, Spain (and Slovenia until recently)
• 52 of EU25 lines
• 58 of EU25 rail passengers
• 17 of EU25 rail freight
• Social dimension direct and indirect employment
  of over 300.000.
• Total investments of 14.5bn

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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)

• Our mission
• Improve the development of the rail transport
  mode
• Act as a lobbying organisation towards the
  European Institutions and together with the
  industry
• Provide our expertise to the appropriate bodies
• (incl. ERA, CEN CENELEC)

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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)

• Our vision is to
• Create an intra- and intermodal level playing
  field
• Promote the development of rail traffic
• Provide an efficient cost effective and open rail
  network
• Allow infrastructure managers to operate in an
  independent and non-discriminatory manner to
  facilitate optimisation of overall system cost
  and performance

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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)
Why a technical strategy
Year
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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)
ERTS is a vision and a technical strategy for the
development of the European rail network

• It is intended to
• Support a common vision of the future railway.
• Discuss how to reach interoperability.
• Provide strategies for the development of the
  TSIs and cross acceptance.
• Create a partnership between EC, ERA, and the
  industry through EIM, CER, and UNIFE.
• Identify the key decisions that need to be taken
  to deliver the vision.
• Assessing the current incentives and recommending
  change where needed
• Prioritising industry improvement initiatives

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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)

• The ERTS includes definitions for
• European regulations for interoperability
• The TSIs must regulate one target system (class
  A).
• An accepted class B systems may exist for many
  years
• National implementation plans and a common
  European implementation plan needed.
• Keeping regional lines in operation will be
  facilitated when adopting the concept of line
  differentiation.

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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)
Business categories
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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)
Heavy Freight
Conv. Freight
High Speed Logistics Freight
Comm-unity Light Rail
Sub.urb. Metro
Inter urb. Passenger
Conv. Higher speed
High Speed
Regional Passenger Only
Train
Parameter
Rolling Stock Characteristics developing through
to 2035
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Infrastructure Characteristics developing through
to 2035
Conventional rail are made up of all categories
except Community and Urban Tramway.
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Business categories future vision
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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)
EIM working with the ERA
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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)
Cross acceptance Procedures must be standardised
and the results predictable RUs can gradually
generate interoperability even between networks
Focus on safety in the cross acceptance
procedure must be balanced with a focus on
economy. Closing of the TSI open points in
the TSI will help ease the cross acceptance
procedure.
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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)
Cross acceptance Optimisation of interaction
between rolling stock and infrastructure The
design of trains that are optimised for specific
route needs gives huge opportunity to take cost
out of infrastructure provision and maintenance.
Some of this optimisation will happen
naturally, but some will require planned
strategic changes and changes to incentives.
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European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM)

• Cross acceptance
• Open up for a line categorisation of the network
  in order to optimise the lines according to usage
  and by doing so also cutting costs.
• Define key priorities for long term research by
  ERRAC
• Help industry prioritise current improvement
  initiatives
• Provide guidance for specification of new assets
  and projects
• Assuring that this does enhance the
  competitiveness of the railways with respect to
  other modes of transport.

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