Joint AERRL-ALLRAIL-ERFA Postion Paper: FRMCS as an opportunity to stop the ERTMS deployment chaos
Together with AERRL and ERFA, ALLRAIL expresses its concerns about the current ERTMS deployment strategy and urges the European Union to take the opportunity offered by the deployment of FRMCS to review and refine its approach.
We call for a clear, stable and well-coordinated deployment strategy, including the development of a new technology that would allow FRMCS to be integrated with BL3.4, ensuring long-term success and supporting the future of European rail transport.
Sector priorities for the trilogue negotiations on the Regulation on the use of railway infrastructure capacity
Common position about the use of the current European Vehicle Number (EVN)
In the context of this ongoing reform, AERRL, ALLRAIL, CER, ERFA, UIC, UIP, UIRR and UNIFE have defined a new common position about the use of the current European Vehicle Number and a vision of its evolution. They highlight the advantage of the existing EVN structure as a speaking number and they advocate keeping the authorisation (managed by manufacturers) and registration (managed by keepers) processes clearly separate.
Creating a single European rail capacity market – RUs´ position on unified processes
Railway Undertakings – organised in FTE, ERFA and Allrail – consider the single European market as a necessary ambition to allow seamless domestic and cross-border traffic making running a train as easy as running a truck or a bus.
Therefore, to improve customer services, reduce the hurdles for cross-border trains, and for business expansion, RUs ask IMs and policymakers for the creation of a real single European rail capacity market, without specific national standards. The goal is that the capacity planning is done the same way all over Europe, no matter if on one IM network or across several borders. This shall be supported by a harmonised European legal framework.
Efficient digitalisation to support European rail capacity management – RUs´ position on IT in capacity management
Railway Undertakings – organised in FTE, ERFA and Allrail – consider efficient handling of the capacity management process as key to improving quality and reducing costs. With increasing traffic volumes and TCRs, the increased data flow requires modern, customer-oriented IT support across Europe.
The goal of RUs therefore is to have efficient backing by the IT landscape of IMs, aligned across Europe, making no difference between national and international traffic, covering all capacities and all process steps using end-to-end standards.