Commission Regulation (EU) No 1305/2014 of 11 December 2014 on the technical specification for interoperability relating to the telematics applications for freight subsystem of the rail system in the European Union and repealing the Regulation (EC) No 62/2006 Text with EEA relevance
Modified by
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/278of 23 February 2018amending the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2014 as regards the structure of the messages, data and message model, Wagon and Intermodal Unit Operating Database, and to adopt an IT standard for the communication layer of the Common Interface, 32018R0278, February 24, 2018
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/778of 16 May 2019amending Regulation (EU) No 1305/2014 as regards Change Control Management(Text with EEA relevance), 32019R0778, May 27, 2019
- Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/541of 26 March 2021amending Regulation (EU) No 1305/2014 as regard the simplification and improvement of data calculation and exchange and the update of the Change Control Management process(Text with EEA relevance), 32021R0541, March 29, 2021
(a) the trans-European conventional rail system network as defined in Annex I, Section 1.1 of Directive 2008/57/EC; (b) the trans-European high-speed rail system network as defined in Annex I, Section 2.1 of Directive 2008/57/EC; (c) other parts of the network of the rail system in the Union.
| Abbreviation | Definition |
|---|---|
| CI | Common Interface |
| EC | European Commission |
| ERA | European Union Agency for Railways (also referred to as Agency) |
| IM | Infrastructure Manager |
| ISO | International Organisation for Standardisation |
| LCL | Less than Container Loads |
| LRU | Lead Railway Undertaking |
| RISC | Rail Interoperability and Safety Committee |
| RU | Railway Undertaking |
| TAF | Telematics Applications for Freight |
| TAP | Telematics Applications for Passengers |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TSI | Technical Specification for Interoperability |
| WK | Wagon Keepers |
| Ref. No | Document Reference | Title | Last Issue |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | Directive (EU) 2016/797 | Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council of | |
| (2) | TAP TSI Regulation (EU) No 454/2011 | Commission Regulation (EU) No 454/2011 of | |
| (3) | Directive 2012/34/EU | Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of | |
| (4) | ERA-TD-105 | TAF TSI – ANNEX D.2: APPENDIX F – TAF TSI DATA AND MESSAGE MODEL. | |
| (5) | TAF TSI Regulation No 62/2006 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 62/2006 of | |
| (6) | C(2010)2576 final | Commission Decision of | |
| (7) | Directive (EU) 2016/798 | Directive (EU) 2016/798 of the European Parliament and of the Council of | |
| (8) | Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2017/1474 | Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2017/1474 of |
applications for freight services, including information systems (real-time monitoring of freight and trains), marshalling and allocation systems, whereby under allocation systems is understood train composition, reservation systems, whereby here is understood the train path reservation, management of connections with other modes of transport and production of electronic accompanying documents.
Path information. Train Running Information on agreed reporting points, including at least departure, interchange/handover and arrival points of the contracted transport. Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) to the final destination including yards and intermodal terminals. Service Disruption. When the Lead RU learns about a service disruption, it shall deliver to the Customer in due time.
DEFINING: services in terms of price and transit times, wagon supply (where applicable), wagon/Intermodal unit information (location, status and the wagon/Intermodal unit related estimated time of arrival "ETA"), where shipments can be loaded on empty wagons, containers etc., DELIVERING: the service that has been defined in a reliable, seamless manner through the use of common business processes and linked systems. There must be a capability for RUs, IMs and other service providers and stakeholders such as customs to exchange information electronically, MEASURING: the quality of the service delivered compared to what was defined. i.e. billing accuracy against price quoted, actual transit times against commitments, wagon supplied against order, ETAs against actual arrival times, OPERATING: in a productive manner in terms of utilisation: train, infrastructure and fleet capacity through the use of business processes, systems and data exchange required to support wagon/Intermodal unit and train scheduling.
Safety, Reliability and Availability, Health, Environmental protection, Technical compatibility. Accessibility.
Chapter 4.2.9: The Main Reference Data, Chapter 4.2.10: Various Reference Files and databases, Chapter 4.2.11: Networking & Communication.
Consignment Note data, Path Request and Path Allocation, Train Preparation, Train Running Information and Train Running Forecast, Service Disruption Information, Wagon/Intermodal unit ETI/ETA, Wagon Movement, Data Exchange for Quality Improvement, The Main Reference Data, Various Reference Files and Databases, Networking & Communication.
Control data: defined through the mandatory message header of the messages of the catalogue. Information data: defined by the mandatory/optional content of each message and mandatory/optional data set in the catalogue.
Consignor and consignee information, Routing information, Consignment identification, Wagon information, Place and time information.
Departure from departure point, arrival at destination, Arrival and departure at handover points, interchange points and at agreed reporting points based on contract (e.g. handling points).
Wagon Release notice Wagon Departure notice Wagon Yard arrival Wagon Yard departure Wagon Exceptions message Wagon Arrival notice Wagon Delivery notice
Administrative data, related to certification and registration items. Additionally, according to Commission Regulation (EU) No 445/2011 Commission Regulation (EU) No 445/2011 of 10 May 2011 on a system of certification of entities in charge of maintenance for freight wagons and amending Regulation (EC) No 653/2007 (OJ L 122, 11.5.2011, p. 22 ).Design data, which shall include all constitutive (physical) elements of the rolling stock, especially information required by RUs for train planning and operation.
Reference File of the Coding for all IMs, RUs, Service provider companies; Reference File of the Coding of Locations (Primary and subsidiary),
Status: loading of the rolling stock This status is required for the information exchange between the RU and the IMs and to other railway undertakings involved in the transport journey Status: loaded wagon on journey This status is required for the information exchange between the IM and the RU, with other infrastructure managers and with other railway undertakings involved in the transport journey. Status: empty wagon on journey This status is required for the information exchange between the IM and the RU, with other infrastructure managers and railway undertakings involved in the transport journey. Status: unloading of rolling stock This status is required for the information exchange between the RU at destination and the Lead RU for the transport. Status: empty wagon under fleet management control This status is required to get the information about availability of a vehicle of defined characteristics.
is designed to reconcile heterogeneous information models by semantically transforming the data that are exchanged between the systems and by reconciling the differences in business process and application-level protocol, has a minimum impact on the existing IT architectures implemented by each actor, safeguards IT investments made already.
metadata – structured data describing the content of messages, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Certification Authority (CA),
message formatting of outgoing messages according to the metadata, signing and encryption of outgoing messages, addressing of the outgoing messages, authenticity verification of the incoming messages, decryption of incoming messages, conformity checks of incoming messages according to metadata, handling the single common access to various databases.
(i) positive send ACK; (ii) negative send NACK.
Path contract, where within the line segment description the relevant information about usable command control and signalling equipment is given, and various Rolling Sock Reference Databases, where the command control and signalling equipment of the rolling stock must be stored.
| Interface | Reference Telematics Applications for Freight TSI | Reference Telematics Applications for passengers TSI |
|---|---|---|
| Train ready | ||
| Train running forecast | ||
| Train running information | ||
| Train running interrupted to RU | ||
| Handling of short term timetable data | ||
| Common Interface | ||
| Central Repository | ||
| Reference Files |
are Error free: accessible, accurate, timely, complete, consistent with other sources, etc., and possess desired features: relevant, comprehensive, proper level of detail, easy-to-read, easy-to-interpret, etc.
Accuracy, Completeness, Consistency, Timeliness.
the completeness of data (percent of data fields having values entered into them) and the consistency of data (percent of matching values across tables/files/records), the timeliness of data (percent of data available within a specified threshold time frame), the required accuracy (percent of stored values that are correct when compared to the actual value).
Use Case document including: TAF TSI function covered Reference to TAF TSI chapter List and documentation of messages (including their sequence) to be tested Description of IT System, which uses TAF messages Description of communication interface of IT System (CI, other etc.) Information if request is for milestone of an EU funded project Version of the TAF TSI technical documents relevant to the scope of the assessment of the compliance XML file(s) of the IT System and their corresponding XSD file(s)
If the Message(s) carries all mandatory elements from TAF TSI, If the Message(s) complies with the TAF TSI technical documents, If the Messages sequence is compliant with TAF TSI.
(a) Project governance The development and deployment is put under the governance of the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee shall provide for the strategic management structure to efficiently manage and coordinate the work for implementing the TAF-TSI. This shall involve setting the policy, the strategic direction and prioritisation. The Steering Committee, co-chaired by the Commission and a person nominated by the rail sector representative bodies, shall be composed of: the representative bodies from the railway sector acting on a European level as defined in Article 5(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/796 ("the rail sector representative bodies"); the Agency; the Commission and other organisations proposed to the Steering Committee to be included as observers where there are sound technical and organisational reasons for doing.
(b) Development of the system All actors concerned shall deploy the system following their individual master plan. For actors who have not submitted an individual master plan, their communicated individual plan is binding.
(c) Deployment and operation monitoring process The monitoring of the deployment and operation harmonized throughout Europe is managed by the TAF Implementation Cooperation Group (ICG). The ICG, established and managed by the Agency, is composed of: the Agency; the National Contact Points (see Appendix III); the Representatives Bodies and other organisations designated by the Agency and having relevant technical and organisational experience.
The ICG is made responsible for: assessing the progress of implementation and operation, analysing the deviations from the Master Plan and proposing improvement actions; assisting the NCPs to follow-up the TAF TSI implementation and operation at national level; approving the reports about the TAF TSI implementation and operation; reporting via the Agency to the European Commission.
the identification of the technical constraints underpinning the change, a statement of who takes responsibility for the change implementation procedures, the procedure for validating the changes to be implemented, the policy for change management, release, migration and roll-out, the definition of the responsibilities for the management of the detailed specifications and for both its quality assurance and configuration management.
(1) The change requests affecting the documents are submitted either via the Member States or via the representative bodies from the railway sector acting on a European level as defined in Article 38(4) of Regulation (EU) 2016/796, or via the TAF TSI Steering Committee. (2) The Agency shall gather and store the change requests. (3) The Agency shall present the change requests to the dedicated ERA working party, which will evaluate them and prepare a proposal accompanied by an economic evaluation, where appropriate. (4) Afterwards the Agency shall present each change request and the associated proposal to the change control board that will or will not validate or postpone the change request. (5) If the change request is not validated, the Agency shall send back to the requester either the reason for the rejection or a request for additional information about the draft change request. (6) If the change request is validated, the technical document shall be amended. (7) If no consensus about the validation of a change request can be reached, the Agency shall submit to the Commission a recommendation to update the documents listed in Appendix I together with the draft new version of the document, the change requests and their economic evaluation and shall make these documents available on their web site. (8) The new version of the technical document with the validated change requests shall be made available at the site of the Agency. The Agency will keep the Member States informed via the Committee established in accordance with Article 51(1) of Directive (EU) 2016/797. (9) If a change request would require a change of the legal text of the TAF TSI, the Agency shall send a request to the European commission to request a revision of the TAF TSI and/or request the technical opinion from the Agency. (10) Where change control management affects elements which are in common use within the TAP TSI, the changes shall be made so as to remain as close as possible to the implemented TAP TSI in order to achieve optimum synergies.
| 1 | ERA-TD-100 | TAF TSI – ANNEX A.5:FIGURES AND SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS OF THE TAF TSI MESSAGES |
| 2 | ERA-TD-101 | TAF TSI – Annex D.2: Appendix A (Wagon/ILU Trip Planning) |
| 3 | ERA-TD-102 | TAF TSI – Annex D.2: Appendix B – Wagon and Intermodal Unit Operating Database (WIMO) |
| 4 | ERA-TD-103 | TAF TSI – Annex D.2: Appendix C – Reference Files |
| 5 | ERA-TD-104 | TAF TSI – Annex D.2: Appendix E – Common Interface |
| 6 | ERA-TD-105 | TAF TSI – Annex D.2: Appendix F – TAF TSI Data and Message Model |
| AB | See Allocation body |
| Allocation body | Body responsible for path allocation, which is independent in its legal form, organisation and decision-making from any railway undertaking (Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council |
| Applicant | means a railway undertaking or an international grouping of railway undertakings or other persons or legal entities, such as competent authorities under Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council |
| Block train | A specific form of a direct train with only as much wagons as needed, running between two transhipment points without intermediate marshalling. |
| Booking | The process of making a reservation for space on a means of transport for the movement of goods. |
| CA | Certification Authority |
| CN-code | 8-digit Code list for products used by customers. |
| Intermodal transport where the major part of the European journey is by rail and any initial and/or final legs carried out by road are as short as possible. | |
| Consignee | |
| Consignment | Freight sent under a single contract of carriage. In combined transport, this term may be used for statistical purposes, to measure loading units or road vehicles. |
| Consignment note | A document, which evidence a contract for the transportation by a carrier of one consignment from a named place of acceptance to a named place of delivery. It contains details of the consignment to be carried. |
| Consignor | |
| Cooperation mode | Mode of train operation where various RU cooperate under the leadership of one RU (LRU). Each involved RU contracts the needed path for the transport journey on its own. |
| CT | Combined Transport |
| Customer | Is the entity which has issued the consignment note to the Lead RU. |
| Departure date/time, actual | Date (and time) of departure of means of transport. |
| Direct train | A train with related wagons which runs between two transhipment points (initial source – final destination) without intermediate marshalling. |
| Duty holder | Any individual or legal entity responsible for the risk, which he imports onto the network, i.e. the RU. |
| Encryption | |
| ETA | Estimated Time of Arrival (at destination). The estimated time of arrival (ETA) is the time when the train is expected to arrive at a certain place. Estimates can be based on production plans (predictions) and/or stochastic computation. |
| ETH | Estimated Time of Handover of a train from one IM to another. |
| ETI | Estimated Time of Interchange of wagons from one RU to another. |
| ETP | Estimated Time of Pick-Up (at arrival intermodal terminal) |
| Forecast Time | Best estimate of arrival, departure or passing time of a train. |
| Gateway | Station within the journey of a train with Intermodal units, where the load changes the wagons. |
| Gross weight of load | Booked/actual total weight (mass) of goods, including packing but excluding the carrier’s equipment. |
| Handling point | Station where the RU may change the train composition, but where it remains responsible for the wagons, no change of responsibility. |
| Handover point | Location of train’s journey or between two paths where the responsibility for planning and/or allocation and/or operation changes from one IM to another. The involved IM assumes the role Planning IM. |
| Haulage | Transport by road |
| Hirer | Any individual or other legal entity designated as such by the keeper/owner of a wagon. |
| HS code | 6-digit Code list for products used by customers, identically to the first 6 digits of the CN Code. |
| IM | |
| Infrastructure manager (IM) | See IM |
| IM Entry Point | Section where the CT train leaves the intermodal terminal area and enters the first public IM network |
| IM Exit Point | Section where the CT train leaves the last public IM network and enters the arrival terminal |
| Interchange |
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| Interchange point | Location of train’s journey or of a path where the transfer of responsibility for the whole train from one Responsible RU to another Responsible RU takes place. |
| Intermediate point | Location which defines a point of a train’s journey or path between its start (origin) or end (destination) point. |
| Intermodal Service Integrator | Any body or undertaking, which has the contract with customers for the transport of Intermodal units. He is preparing waybills, managing capacity on block trains etc. |
| Intermodal terminal | Location which provides the space, equipment and operational environment under which the loading units (freight containers, swap bodies, semi-trailers or trailers) transfer takes place. |
| Intermodal transport | The movement of goods in one and the same loading unit or vehicle, which uses successively several modes of transport without handling of the goods themselves in changing modes. |
| Intermodal Loading Unit | Containers, swap bodies and semi-trailers suitable for combined transport |
| Journey | A "journey" denotes the spatial forwarding of a train or of a loaded or empty wagon from the forwarding station to the destination station. |
| Journey section | |
| Keeper | The person, who being the owner or having the right to dispose of it, exploits a vehicle economically in a permanent manner as a means of transport and is registered as such in the Rolling Stock Register. |
| Lead Railway Undertaking | Applicant/RU, which is responsible to organise and manage the transport line according to the customer’s commitment. It is the single point of contact for the customer. If more than one Railway Undertaking is involved in the transport chain, the LRU is responsible for the coordination of the various Railway Undertakings on the harmonization of train’s journey including the various path requests. |
| LRU | See Lead Railway Undertaking |
| MAY | |
| Metadata | Simply put, is data about data. It describes data, software services, and other components contained in the enterprise information systems. Examples of the types of metadata include standard data definitions, location and routing information, and synchronisation management for distributing shared data. |
| MUST | This word, or the terms "REQUIRED" or "SHALL", mean that the definition is an absolute requirement of the specification. |
| MUST NOT | This phrase, or the phrase "SHALL NOT", means that the definition is an absolute prohibition of the specification. |
| One Stop Shop (OSS) |
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| Open Access mode | Mode of train operation where only one RU is involved, which runs the train on various infrastructures. This RU contracts the needed paths with all involved IMs. |
| OSS | One Stop Shop |
| Path | Path means the infrastructure capacity needed to run a train between two places over a given time-period (Route defined in time and space). |
| Path assembly | Joining up of individual train paths to extend path in terms of time and space. |
| Peer-to-Peer | The term "peer-to-peer" refers to a class of systems and applications that employ distributed resources to perform a critical function in a decentralised manner. The resources encompass computing power, data (storage and content), network bandwidth, and presence (computers, human, and other resources). The critical function can be distributed computing, data/content sharing, communication and collaboration, or platform services. Decentralisation may apply to algorithms, data, and metadata, or to all of them. This does not preclude retaining centralisation in some parts of the systems and applications if it meets their requirements. |
| PKI | Public key infrastructure |
| Place of delivery | Place where the delivery happens (departure rail station to be given). A place where responsibility for the wagon is changed. |
| Place of departure | Place from which a means of transport is scheduled to depart or has departed. |
| Place of destination | |
| Planning IM | |
| PIM | See Planning IM |
| Pre-departure Period | Is the delta time before the scheduled time of departure. The pre-departure period starts at scheduled time of departure minus delta time and ends at the scheduled time of departure. |
| Primary data | Basic data as reference data input for messages or as the basis for functionality and calculation of derived data. |
| Put into Service | A procedure dependent on the technical approval of a wagon and a contract for use with a RU, which allows commercial operation of the wagon. |
| Railway Undertaking (RU) | |
| Responsible Applicant (RA) | The RA is the applicant/customer and contractor as well as the single point of contact for respective IM (infrastructures manager) in the whole planning process phase. The main task of the role RA is to request the booking of capacity to an IM. The RA does not need to be a Railway Undertaking, it can also be another entity, which is able and permitted to book capacity. |
| Responsible IM | The Responsible IM (RIM) is the Infrastructure Manager who is the owner of the respective network and responsible for all operational handling of trains and paths on its network. |
| Responsible RU (RRU) | |
| Release date/time | Date/time when the goods are expected to be released or were released by the customer. |
| Release time for wagons | Date and time when the wagons are ready to be pulled from the named place on the customer siding. |
| Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety (RAMS) | |
| Reporting point | Location on the train journey, where the responsible IM has to issue a "train running forecast message" with TETA to the path contracted RU. |
| Repository | A repository is similar to a database and data dictionary; however, it usually encompasses a comprehensive information management system environment. It must include not only descriptions of data structures (i.e. entities and elements), but also metadata of interest to the enterprise, data screens, reports, programs, and systems. Typically, it includes and internal set of software tools, a DBMS, a metamodel, populated metadata, and loading and retrieval software for accessing repository data. |
| RIV | |
| Route | The geographical way to be taken from a starting point to a point of destination. |
| Route section | A part of a route |
| RU | See Railway Undertaking |
| Scheduled time of departure | Date and Time of departure for which the path is requested. |
| Scheduled Timetable | Chronologically defined occupation of rail infrastructure for a train movement on open line or in stations. Changes to the timetables will be supplied by the IM s at least 2 days before the commencement of the day when the train departs from its origin. This timetable applies to a specific day. Known in some countries as the Operational Timetable. |
| Service Disruption | Means the unplanned stop of a train during operation, without any information regarding the continuation of the journey |
| Service Provider | Responsible carrier for this specific transport stage. Party who receives and handles the booking. |
| Shipment | Wagons or intermodal loading units transported under the terms of a single consignment, irrespective of the quantity or number of containers, packages, or pieces. Also called consignment. |
| Short notice path request | Individual request for a path according to Directive 2012/34/EU, due to additional transport demands or operational needs. |
| SHOULD | This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course. |
| SHOULD NOT | This phrase, or the phrase "NOT RECOMMENDED" mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances when the particular behaviour is acceptable or even useful, but the full implications should be understood and the case carefully weighed before implementing any behaviour described with this label. |
| Stakeholders | |
| Terminal Operator | Means an organisational entity, which has been made responsible for the management of a marshalling yard, multimodal or intermodal terminal, port terminal |
| TETA | See Train Estimated Time of Arrival |
| Tracing | Activity at request of finding and reconstructing the transport history of a given consignment, vehicle, equipment, package or cargo. |
| Tracking | Activity of systematically monitoring and recording the present location and status of a given consignment, vehicle, equipment, package or cargo. |
| Train | Definition of OPE TSI: A train is defined as (a) traction unit(s) with or without coupled railway vehicles with train data available operating between two or more defined points. |
| Estimated Time of Arrival of a train at a specific point, e.g. handover point, interchange point, destination of the train. | |
| Train path | See "path" |
| Transhipment | The operation of moving intermodal loading units from one means of transport to another. |
| Trip plan | For wagon or Intermodal unit shows the planned reference trip of the wagon/Intermodal unity. |
| Unit capacity used | Code to indicate to which extent the equipment is loaded or empty. (e.g. full, empty, LCL). |
| Unit Load | A number of individual packages bonded, palletised or strapped together to form a single unit for more efficient handling by mechanical equipment. |
| Unit train | A freight train dispatched with only one consignment note and only one type of goods and composed of uniform wagons running from a consignor to a consignee without intermediate marshalling. |
| Wagon load | A unit load whereas the unit is a wagon. |
| Consignment order | |
| Waybill | The document made out by the carrier or on behalf of the carrier evidencing the contract for the transport of cargo. |
(a) the trans-European conventional rail system network as defined in Annex I, Section 1.1 of Directive 2008/57/EC; (b) the trans-European high-speed rail system network as defined in Annex I, Section 2.1 of Directive 2008/57/EC; (c) other parts of the network of the rail system in the Union.
| Abbreviation | Definition |
|---|---|
| CI | Common Interface |
| EC | European Commission |
| ERA | European Union Agency for Railways (also referred to as Agency) |
| IM | Infrastructure Manager |
| ISO | International Organisation for Standardisation |
| LCL | Less than Container Loads |
| LRU | Lead Railway Undertaking |
| RISC | Rail Interoperability and Safety Committee |
| RU | Railway Undertaking |
| TAF | Telematics Applications for Freight |
| TAP | Telematics Applications for Passengers |
| TCP/IP | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TSI | Technical Specification for Interoperability |
| WK | Wagon Keepers |
| Ref. No | Document Reference | Title | Last Issue |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | Directive (EU) 2016/797 | Directive (EU) 2016/797 of the European Parliament and of the Council of | |
| (2) | TAP TSI Regulation (EU) No 454/2011 | Commission Regulation (EU) No 454/2011 of | |
| (3) | Directive 2012/34/EU | Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of | |
| (4) | ERA-TD-105 | TAF TSI – ANNEX D.2: APPENDIX F – TAF TSI DATA AND MESSAGE MODEL. | |
| (5) | TAF TSI Regulation No 62/2006 | Commission Regulation (EC) No 62/2006 of | |
| (6) | C(2010)2576 final | Commission Decision of | |
| (7) | Directive (EU) 2016/798 | Directive (EU) 2016/798 of the European Parliament and of the Council of | |
| (8) | Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2017/1474 | Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2017/1474 of |
applications for freight services, including information systems (real-time monitoring of freight and trains), marshalling and allocation systems, whereby under allocation systems is understood train composition, reservation systems, whereby here is understood the train path reservation, management of connections with other modes of transport and production of electronic accompanying documents.
Path information. Train Running Information on agreed reporting points, including at least departure, interchange/handover and arrival points of the contracted transport. Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) to the final destination including yards and intermodal terminals. Service Disruption. When the Lead RU learns about a service disruption, it shall deliver to the Customer in due time.
DEFINING: services in terms of price and transit times, wagon supply (where applicable), wagon/Intermodal unit information (location, status and the wagon/Intermodal unit related estimated time of arrival "ETA"), where shipments can be loaded on empty wagons, containers etc., DELIVERING: the service that has been defined in a reliable, seamless manner through the use of common business processes and linked systems. There must be a capability for RUs, IMs and other service providers and stakeholders such as customs to exchange information electronically, MEASURING: the quality of the service delivered compared to what was defined. i.e. billing accuracy against price quoted, actual transit times against commitments, wagon supplied against order, ETAs against actual arrival times, OPERATING: in a productive manner in terms of utilisation: train, infrastructure and fleet capacity through the use of business processes, systems and data exchange required to support wagon/Intermodal unit and train scheduling.
Safety, Reliability and Availability, Health, Environmental protection, Technical compatibility. Accessibility.
Chapter 4.2.9: The Main Reference Data, Chapter 4.2.10: Various Reference Files and databases, Chapter 4.2.11: Networking & Communication.
Consignment Note data, Path Request and Path Allocation, Train Preparation, Train Running Information and Train Running Forecast, Service Disruption Information, Wagon/Intermodal unit ETI/ETA, Wagon Movement, Data Exchange for Quality Improvement, The Main Reference Data, Various Reference Files and Databases, Networking & Communication.
Control data: defined through the mandatory message header of the messages of the catalogue. Information data: defined by the mandatory/optional content of each message and mandatory/optional data set in the catalogue.
Consignor and consignee information, Routing information, Consignment identification, Wagon information, Place and time information.
Departure from departure point, arrival at destination, Arrival and departure at handover points, interchange points and at agreed reporting points based on contract (e.g. handling points).
Wagon Release notice Wagon Departure notice Wagon Yard arrival Wagon Yard departure Wagon Exceptions message Wagon Arrival notice Wagon Delivery notice
Administrative data, related to certification and registration items. Additionally, according to Commission Regulation (EU) No 445/2011 Commission Regulation (EU) No 445/2011 of 10 May 2011 on a system of certification of entities in charge of maintenance for freight wagons and amending Regulation (EC) No 653/2007 (OJ L 122, 11.5.2011, p. 22 ).Design data, which shall include all constitutive (physical) elements of the rolling stock, especially information required by RUs for train planning and operation.
Reference File of the Coding for all IMs, RUs, Service provider companies; Reference File of the Coding of Locations (Primary and subsidiary),
Status: loading of the rolling stock This status is required for the information exchange between the RU and the IMs and to other railway undertakings involved in the transport journey Status: loaded wagon on journey This status is required for the information exchange between the IM and the RU, with other infrastructure managers and with other railway undertakings involved in the transport journey. Status: empty wagon on journey This status is required for the information exchange between the IM and the RU, with other infrastructure managers and railway undertakings involved in the transport journey. Status: unloading of rolling stock This status is required for the information exchange between the RU at destination and the Lead RU for the transport. Status: empty wagon under fleet management control This status is required to get the information about availability of a vehicle of defined characteristics.
is designed to reconcile heterogeneous information models by semantically transforming the data that are exchanged between the systems and by reconciling the differences in business process and application-level protocol, has a minimum impact on the existing IT architectures implemented by each actor, safeguards IT investments made already.
metadata – structured data describing the content of messages, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Certification Authority (CA),
message formatting of outgoing messages according to the metadata, signing and encryption of outgoing messages, addressing of the outgoing messages, authenticity verification of the incoming messages, decryption of incoming messages, conformity checks of incoming messages according to metadata, handling the single common access to various databases.
(i) positive send ACK; (ii) negative send NACK.
Path contract, where within the line segment description the relevant information about usable command control and signalling equipment is given, and various Rolling Sock Reference Databases, where the command control and signalling equipment of the rolling stock must be stored.
| Interface | Reference Telematics Applications for Freight TSI | Reference Telematics Applications for passengers TSI |
|---|---|---|
| Train ready | ||
| Train running forecast | ||
| Train running information | ||
| Train running interrupted to RU | ||
| Handling of short term timetable data | ||
| Common Interface | ||
| Central Repository | ||
| Reference Files |
are Error free: accessible, accurate, timely, complete, consistent with other sources, etc., and possess desired features: relevant, comprehensive, proper level of detail, easy-to-read, easy-to-interpret, etc.
Accuracy, Completeness, Consistency, Timeliness.
the completeness of data (percent of data fields having values entered into them) and the consistency of data (percent of matching values across tables/files/records), the timeliness of data (percent of data available within a specified threshold time frame), the required accuracy (percent of stored values that are correct when compared to the actual value).
Use Case document including: TAF TSI function covered Reference to TAF TSI chapter List and documentation of messages (including their sequence) to be tested Description of IT System, which uses TAF messages Description of communication interface of IT System (CI, other etc.) Information if request is for milestone of an EU funded project Version of the TAF TSI technical documents relevant to the scope of the assessment of the compliance XML file(s) of the IT System and their corresponding XSD file(s)
If the Message(s) carries all mandatory elements from TAF TSI, If the Message(s) complies with the TAF TSI technical documents, If the Messages sequence is compliant with TAF TSI.
(a) Project governance The development and deployment is put under the governance of the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee shall provide for the strategic management structure to efficiently manage and coordinate the work for implementing the TAF-TSI. This shall involve setting the policy, the strategic direction and prioritisation. The Steering Committee, co-chaired by the Commission and a person nominated by the rail sector representative bodies, shall be composed of: the representative bodies from the railway sector acting on a European level as defined in Article 5(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/796 ("the rail sector representative bodies"); the Agency; the Commission and other organisations proposed to the Steering Committee to be included as observers where there are sound technical and organisational reasons for doing.
(b) Development of the system All actors concerned shall deploy the system following their individual master plan. For actors who have not submitted an individual master plan, their communicated individual plan is binding.
(c) Deployment and operation monitoring process The monitoring of the deployment and operation harmonized throughout Europe is managed by the TAF Implementation Cooperation Group (ICG). The ICG, established and managed by the Agency, is composed of: the Agency; the National Contact Points (see Appendix III); the Representatives Bodies and other organisations designated by the Agency and having relevant technical and organisational experience.
The ICG is made responsible for: assessing the progress of implementation and operation, analysing the deviations from the Master Plan and proposing improvement actions; assisting the NCPs to follow-up the TAF TSI implementation and operation at national level; approving the reports about the TAF TSI implementation and operation; reporting via the Agency to the European Commission.
the identification of the technical constraints underpinning the change, a statement of who takes responsibility for the change implementation procedures, the procedure for validating the changes to be implemented, the policy for change management, release, migration and roll-out, the definition of the responsibilities for the management of the detailed specifications and for both its quality assurance and configuration management.
(1) The change requests affecting the documents are submitted either via the Member States or via the representative bodies from the railway sector acting on a European level as defined in Article 38(4) of Regulation (EU) 2016/796, or via the TAF TSI Steering Committee. (2) The Agency shall gather and store the change requests. (3) The Agency shall present the change requests to the dedicated ERA working party, which will evaluate them and prepare a proposal accompanied by an economic evaluation, where appropriate. (4) Afterwards the Agency shall present each change request and the associated proposal to the change control board that will or will not validate or postpone the change request. (5) If the change request is not validated, the Agency shall send back to the requester either the reason for the rejection or a request for additional information about the draft change request. (6) If the change request is validated, the technical document shall be amended. (7) If no consensus about the validation of a change request can be reached, the Agency shall submit to the Commission a recommendation to update the documents listed in Appendix I together with the draft new version of the document, the change requests and their economic evaluation and shall make these documents available on their web site. (8) The new version of the technical document with the validated change requests shall be made available at the site of the Agency. The Agency will keep the Member States informed via the Committee established in accordance with Article 51(1) of Directive (EU) 2016/797. (9) If a change request would require a change of the legal text of the TAF TSI, the Agency shall send a request to the European commission to request a revision of the TAF TSI and/or request the technical opinion from the Agency. (10) Where change control management affects elements which are in common use within the TAP TSI, the changes shall be made so as to remain as close as possible to the implemented TAP TSI in order to achieve optimum synergies.
| 1 | ERA-TD-100 | TAF TSI – ANNEX A.5:FIGURES AND SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS OF THE TAF TSI MESSAGES |
| 2 | ERA-TD-101 | TAF TSI – Annex D.2: Appendix A (Wagon/ILU Trip Planning) |
| 3 | ERA-TD-102 | TAF TSI – Annex D.2: Appendix B – Wagon and Intermodal Unit Operating Database (WIMO) |
| 4 | ERA-TD-103 | TAF TSI – Annex D.2: Appendix C – Reference Files |
| 5 | ERA-TD-104 | TAF TSI – Annex D.2: Appendix E – Common Interface |
| 6 | ERA-TD-105 | TAF TSI – Annex D.2: Appendix F – TAF TSI Data and Message Model |
| AB | See Allocation body |
| Allocation body | Body responsible for path allocation, which is independent in its legal form, organisation and decision-making from any railway undertaking (Directive 2012/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council |
| Applicant | means a railway undertaking or an international grouping of railway undertakings or other persons or legal entities, such as competent authorities under Regulation (EC) No 1370/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council |
| Block train | A specific form of a direct train with only as much wagons as needed, running between two transhipment points without intermediate marshalling. |
| Booking | The process of making a reservation for space on a means of transport for the movement of goods. |
| CA | Certification Authority |
| CN-code | 8-digit Code list for products used by customers. |
| Intermodal transport where the major part of the European journey is by rail and any initial and/or final legs carried out by road are as short as possible. | |
| Consignee | |
| Consignment | Freight sent under a single contract of carriage. In combined transport, this term may be used for statistical purposes, to measure loading units or road vehicles. |
| Consignment note | A document, which evidence a contract for the transportation by a carrier of one consignment from a named place of acceptance to a named place of delivery. It contains details of the consignment to be carried. |
| Consignor | |
| Cooperation mode | Mode of train operation where various RU cooperate under the leadership of one RU (LRU). Each involved RU contracts the needed path for the transport journey on its own. |
| CT | Combined Transport |
| Customer | Is the entity which has issued the consignment note to the Lead RU. |
| Departure date/time, actual | Date (and time) of departure of means of transport. |
| Direct train | A train with related wagons which runs between two transhipment points (initial source – final destination) without intermediate marshalling. |
| Duty holder | Any individual or legal entity responsible for the risk, which he imports onto the network, i.e. the RU. |
| Encryption | |
| ETA | Estimated Time of Arrival (at destination). The estimated time of arrival (ETA) is the time when the train is expected to arrive at a certain place. Estimates can be based on production plans (predictions) and/or stochastic computation. |
| ETH | Estimated Time of Handover of a train from one IM to another. |
| ETI | Estimated Time of Interchange of wagons from one RU to another. |
| ETP | Estimated Time of Pick-Up (at arrival intermodal terminal) |
| Forecast Time | Best estimate of arrival, departure or passing time of a train. |
| Gateway | Station within the journey of a train with Intermodal units, where the load changes the wagons. |
| Gross weight of load | Booked/actual total weight (mass) of goods, including packing but excluding the carrier’s equipment. |
| Handling point | Station where the RU may change the train composition, but where it remains responsible for the wagons, no change of responsibility. |
| Handover point | Location of train’s journey or between two paths where the responsibility for planning and/or allocation and/or operation changes from one IM to another. The involved IM assumes the role Planning IM. |
| Haulage | Transport by road |
| Hirer | Any individual or other legal entity designated as such by the keeper/owner of a wagon. |
| HS code | 6-digit Code list for products used by customers, identically to the first 6 digits of the CN Code. |
| IM | |
| Infrastructure manager (IM) | See IM |
| IM Entry Point | Section where the CT train leaves the intermodal terminal area and enters the first public IM network |
| IM Exit Point | Section where the CT train leaves the last public IM network and enters the arrival terminal |
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| Interchange point | Location of train’s journey or of a path where the transfer of responsibility for the whole train from one Responsible RU to another Responsible RU takes place. |
| Intermediate point | Location which defines a point of a train’s journey or path between its start (origin) or end (destination) point. |
| Intermodal Service Integrator | Any body or undertaking, which has the contract with customers for the transport of Intermodal units. He is preparing waybills, managing capacity on block trains etc. |
| Intermodal terminal | Location which provides the space, equipment and operational environment under which the loading units (freight containers, swap bodies, semi-trailers or trailers) transfer takes place. |
| Intermodal transport | The movement of goods in one and the same loading unit or vehicle, which uses successively several modes of transport without handling of the goods themselves in changing modes. |
| Intermodal Loading Unit | Containers, swap bodies and semi-trailers suitable for combined transport |
| Journey | A "journey" denotes the spatial forwarding of a train or of a loaded or empty wagon from the forwarding station to the destination station. |
| Journey section | |
| Keeper | The person, who being the owner or having the right to dispose of it, exploits a vehicle economically in a permanent manner as a means of transport and is registered as such in the Rolling Stock Register. |
| Lead Railway Undertaking | Applicant/RU, which is responsible to organise and manage the transport line according to the customer’s commitment. It is the single point of contact for the customer. If more than one Railway Undertaking is involved in the transport chain, the LRU is responsible for the coordination of the various Railway Undertakings on the harmonization of train’s journey including the various path requests. |
| LRU | See Lead Railway Undertaking |
| MAY | |
| Metadata | Simply put, is data about data. It describes data, software services, and other components contained in the enterprise information systems. Examples of the types of metadata include standard data definitions, location and routing information, and synchronisation management for distributing shared data. |
| MUST | This word, or the terms "REQUIRED" or "SHALL", mean that the definition is an absolute requirement of the specification. |
| MUST NOT | This phrase, or the phrase "SHALL NOT", means that the definition is an absolute prohibition of the specification. |
| One Stop Shop (OSS) |
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| Open Access mode | Mode of train operation where only one RU is involved, which runs the train on various infrastructures. This RU contracts the needed paths with all involved IMs. |
| OSS | One Stop Shop |
| Path | Path means the infrastructure capacity needed to run a train between two places over a given time-period (Route defined in time and space). |
| Path assembly | Joining up of individual train paths to extend path in terms of time and space. |
| Peer-to-Peer | The term "peer-to-peer" refers to a class of systems and applications that employ distributed resources to perform a critical function in a decentralised manner. The resources encompass computing power, data (storage and content), network bandwidth, and presence (computers, human, and other resources). The critical function can be distributed computing, data/content sharing, communication and collaboration, or platform services. Decentralisation may apply to algorithms, data, and metadata, or to all of them. This does not preclude retaining centralisation in some parts of the systems and applications if it meets their requirements. |
| PKI | Public key infrastructure |
| Place of delivery | Place where the delivery happens (departure rail station to be given). A place where responsibility for the wagon is changed. |
| Place of departure | Place from which a means of transport is scheduled to depart or has departed. |
| Place of destination | |
| Planning IM | |
| PIM | See Planning IM |
| Pre-departure Period | Is the delta time before the scheduled time of departure. The pre-departure period starts at scheduled time of departure minus delta time and ends at the scheduled time of departure. |
| Primary data | Basic data as reference data input for messages or as the basis for functionality and calculation of derived data. |
| Put into Service | A procedure dependent on the technical approval of a wagon and a contract for use with a RU, which allows commercial operation of the wagon. |
| Railway Undertaking (RU) | |
| Responsible Applicant (RA) | The RA is the applicant/customer and contractor as well as the single point of contact for respective IM (infrastructures manager) in the whole planning process phase. The main task of the role RA is to request the booking of capacity to an IM. The RA does not need to be a Railway Undertaking, it can also be another entity, which is able and permitted to book capacity. |
| Responsible IM | The Responsible IM (RIM) is the Infrastructure Manager who is the owner of the respective network and responsible for all operational handling of trains and paths on its network. |
| Responsible RU (RRU) | |
| Release date/time | Date/time when the goods are expected to be released or were released by the customer. |
| Release time for wagons | Date and time when the wagons are ready to be pulled from the named place on the customer siding. |
| Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety (RAMS) | |
| Reporting point | Location on the train journey, where the responsible IM has to issue a "train running forecast message" with TETA to the path contracted RU. |
| Repository | A repository is similar to a database and data dictionary; however, it usually encompasses a comprehensive information management system environment. It must include not only descriptions of data structures (i.e. entities and elements), but also metadata of interest to the enterprise, data screens, reports, programs, and systems. Typically, it includes and internal set of software tools, a DBMS, a metamodel, populated metadata, and loading and retrieval software for accessing repository data. |
| RIV | |
| Route | The geographical way to be taken from a starting point to a point of destination. |
| Route section | A part of a route |
| RU | See Railway Undertaking |
| Scheduled time of departure | Date and Time of departure for which the path is requested. |
| Scheduled Timetable | Chronologically defined occupation of rail infrastructure for a train movement on open line or in stations. Changes to the timetables will be supplied by the IM s at least 2 days before the commencement of the day when the train departs from its origin. This timetable applies to a specific day. Known in some countries as the Operational Timetable. |
| Service Disruption | Means the unplanned stop of a train during operation, without any information regarding the continuation of the journey |
| Service Provider | Responsible carrier for this specific transport stage. Party who receives and handles the booking. |
| Shipment | Wagons or intermodal loading units transported under the terms of a single consignment, irrespective of the quantity or number of containers, packages, or pieces. Also called consignment. |
| Short notice path request | Individual request for a path according to Directive 2012/34/EU, due to additional transport demands or operational needs. |
| SHOULD | This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course. |
| SHOULD NOT | This phrase, or the phrase "NOT RECOMMENDED" mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances when the particular behaviour is acceptable or even useful, but the full implications should be understood and the case carefully weighed before implementing any behaviour described with this label. |
| Stakeholders | |
| Terminal Operator | Means an organisational entity, which has been made responsible for the management of a marshalling yard, multimodal or intermodal terminal, port terminal |
| TETA | See Train Estimated Time of Arrival |
| Tracing | Activity at request of finding and reconstructing the transport history of a given consignment, vehicle, equipment, package or cargo. |
| Tracking | Activity of systematically monitoring and recording the present location and status of a given consignment, vehicle, equipment, package or cargo. |
| Train | Definition of OPE TSI: A train is defined as (a) traction unit(s) with or without coupled railway vehicles with train data available operating between two or more defined points. |
| Estimated Time of Arrival of a train at a specific point, e.g. handover point, interchange point, destination of the train. | |
| Train path | See "path" |
| Transhipment | The operation of moving intermodal loading units from one means of transport to another. |
| Trip plan | For wagon or Intermodal unit shows the planned reference trip of the wagon/Intermodal unity. |
| Unit capacity used | Code to indicate to which extent the equipment is loaded or empty. (e.g. full, empty, LCL). |
| Unit Load | A number of individual packages bonded, palletised or strapped together to form a single unit for more efficient handling by mechanical equipment. |
| Unit train | A freight train dispatched with only one consignment note and only one type of goods and composed of uniform wagons running from a consignor to a consignee without intermediate marshalling. |
| Wagon load | A unit load whereas the unit is a wagon. |
| Consignment order | |
| Waybill | The document made out by the carrier or on behalf of the carrier evidencing the contract for the transport of cargo. |