Maintenance and Evolution of the ERTMS Specifications

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1 European Railway Agency Maintenance and Evolution of the ERTMS Specifications Pio Guido Head of Unit ERTMS European Railway Agency 1

2 European Railway Agency Commission Proposal 23 January 2002 in the framework of the Second Railway Package Safety Interoperability Regulation n 881/2004 establishing the European Railway Agency: Art. 1: to contribute, on technical matters, to the implementation of the Community legislation aimed at improving the competitive position of the railway 2

3 The process to decision No decision power for the Agency, the Agency provides recommendations to the Commission and technical opinions upon specific request! Decision Opinion of Article 21 Committee Agency Commission Working party NSA Network Internal reconcilement Social Partners Passengers / customers 3

4 Organisation 4

5 ERTMS Work Program Work Program for ERTMS: The Agency shall establish its role as the system authority for the ERTMS specifications, ensuring: the management of the process for handling, assessment and eventual incorporation of changes that might be required by technical, operational or safety reasons; the configuration control of the reference baselines, ensuring the quality and completeness of the ERTMS specifications 5

6 ERTMS -The role of the Agency ERTMS System Authority Configuration and Quality Control Repository of all specs Quality review Cross check Consistency Gap identification System Evolution Change Management Baseline Planning System Version mgmt Backward compatibility EE analysis 6

7 Interoperability Directives Railway Interoperability Directives are «new approach» Directives. Council resolution, 1985 : Legislative harmonisation limited to essential requirements to be met if products are to benefit from free movement within the Community Technical specifications to enable products to meet the essential requirements are laid down in harmonised standards, non mandatory Compliance with harmonised standards gives presumption of conformity Interoperability Directives add a «layer» : Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSIs) Directives (EC) TSIs (Agency) EN standards (CEN, CENELEC, ETSI) National Standards 7

8 Annex A for HS and CR TSI CCS EC decision 2007/153 ETCS Specifications CR TSI CCS EC decision 2006/679 SRS HS TSI CCS EC decision 731/2002 subset-108 SRS

9 GSM-R Specifications CR TSI CCS EC decision 2006/679 HS TSI CCS EC decision 731/2002 Annex A amendment EC decision 2004/447 6/14 7/15 FRS/SRS 5/

10 Configuration and Quality Control ERTMS specifications are not in the Official Journal - The Agency Website offers: Controlled repository of ERTMS specs agreed by the sector Support to economic actors decisions Support to EC and Art. 21 legislative process Centralised DataBase of Change Requests 10

11 ERTMS Change Control Management CCB: Suppliers & Users (GSM-R + ETCS) NB Rail & NSA Control Group: GSM-R + ETCS Suppliers & Users Economic Evaluation: involved at all stages ERA Core Team: system expertise Ad-Hoc WG s Experts from railway and/or supplier 11

12 Cooperation with the Sector Representatives in the Control Group and subgroups: CER EIM (ERFA) UNIFE/UNISIG ERTMS Users Group GSM-R Industry Group In the Change Control Board also representatives from: National Safety Authorities NB Rail Fruitful coordination with UIC: GSM-R project, Braking Curves, FRS, 12

13 Cooperation with the sector Effective support and common priorities: Agreed Change Control process Next Release Planning ETCS baseline 3 GSM-R baseline 8/16 System Version Management for compatibility SVM for ETCS SVM for GSM-R 13

14 Change Control Management CCM: 1) Maintenance of current baseline Error Correction and clarifications (e.g. crash plan for ETCS) 2) Definition and justification of future releases Enabling technology for improving competitiveness of railways, ensuring protection for interoperability investments 14

15 Agreement of the whole sector to the maximum size of the new functionality (CR list frozen in March) Progressive review and reduction of those individual CR (triage, assessment) System Version Management defined for backward compatibility CBA for the complete baseline! Writing the specifications ETCS: towards version 3 15

16 ETCS: towards version 3 Target Timetable Presented by the ERTMS Coordinator, EC and ERA: mid List of Change Requests to be included in version 3 + cost benefit analysis Full set of version 3 3 specifications Vote in Art.21 Committee Version 3 used on freight corridors 16

17 ERTMS context Today, Unified technology parametrized for different signalling principles Standardised functions employed in different operational contexts Defined safety requirements for subsytem part of overall safety assessment Options must be carefully evaluated! 17

18 ERTMS context Directive 2001/16: interoperability... rests on all the regulatory, technical and operational conditions which must be met in order to satisfy the essential requirements (art 3-b) safety reliability and availability health environmental protection technical compatibility 18

19 National Safety Authorities ERTMS success: technical and operational interoperability harmonised acceptance in the Member States National Safety Authorities role (art 16.2 Directive 2004/49): a) authorising the bringing into service of the structural subsystems constituting the trans-european Network c) supervising that the interoperability constituents are in compliance with the essential requirements. 19

20 Work in progress Survey of safety approvals for first ERTMS projects (result intended as input for I47) Feasibility of specification formalisation New Commission mandate including CCS TSIs Cooperation with corridor coordination NB Rail cooperation in ERTMS WG Feedback from operational exploitation 20

21 ERTMS - way forward Coordination Multiple actors, competition, different objectives Resources Financial and human resources (high skills, specialised) Time is now We value the opportunity of this Conference for direct and open exchanges with the involved organisations 21