EuroRail January 2003

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CER Contribution to the future of ERTMS
Libor Lochman Hans Bierlein CER ERA ERTMS
Conference Lille, 7th June 2007
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Presentation content
CER organisation Role of CER in Europe CER
vision CER and the ERA CCM process The
cooperation with the other sector org. Key
factors for the railways Future activities in
regard to CCS
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CER The Community of European Railway and
Infrastructure Companies

• 63 railway undertakings and
• infrastructure companies
• from European Union (including Switzerland and
  Norway)
• EU accession countries
• Western Balkan countries

Private / State owned Integrated / Separated
Freight and/or Passenger National /
Across borders operating
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CER - Main role
A proactive influence on transport policy

• promote policy positions on legislative proposals
• monitor developments at all stages in EU
  legislative process
• propose detailed amendments to legislation
• communicate to EC, Parliament, Council
• press for new actions (e.g. CEEC issues, TEN)
• produce supporting arguments/studies
• launch communication- and PR campaigns
• relate specific members concerns to EU
  institutions (e.g. financing of rolling stock in
  Eastern Europe)

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CER Our Vision

• Railways gain market share
• Rail customers will be satisfied with the service
  they receive
• The right legal and economic conditions will be
  in place
• The environment and safety will be benefiting
• The railway sector will be an attractive
  employment market
• Public perception will be positive

Railways the locomotive of a sustainable economy
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Railways the locomotive of a sustainable economy
CER Vision
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CER and the ERA ERTMS CCM process

• CER is the representative body within the ERA
  ERTMS CCM process (where actually the baseline
  3.0 content will be defined) representing the
  largest number of European railway and
  infrastructure companies.
• CER members appreciate readiness of interoperable
  products for the first freight corridor
  applications.
• CER members support baseline 3.0 development
• CER is working in close relationship with the
  other stakeholders in order to
• fix the content of ERTMS Baseline 3.0
• propose a common way for funding of Baseline 3.0
• close the open points in the TSI CCS

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CER and the cooperation with other sector
organisations

• CER is working closely together with EIM
• Coordination of CER and EIM speakers before the
  ERA meetings
• Invitation of EIM members to the CER ERA support
  group meetings
• CER uses the ERTMS Users Group as the technical
  backbone for ERTMS/ETCS and the UIC ERIG Group
  for GSM-R
• The CER ERA support group documents are hosted by
  UIC via their website
• CER is in strong relation with the UIC ERTMS
  platform
• CER is participating in the ERTMS MoU corridors
  activities.

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Key success factors performance savings

• Railway Undertakings (RUs) and Infrastructure
  Manager (IM) need
• reduced costs
• increased performance
• Therefore
• The complete railway system shall be taken into
  consideration
• By moving key elements of the CCS system onto the
  train, the CCS trackside total life costs
  (investment, operational and maintenance) can be
  reduced.
• This should consequently lead to lower track
  access charges and thus lead to a more
  competitive rail cargo business.
• Further savings to be realised from
• economies of scale,
• the ability to operate across borders
• single homologation at European level

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Reality of business case for railway undertakings

• The RUs face the prospect of having to fund the
  costs of installing a new train protection system
  (ERTMS) without actually being able to remove
  existing systems and thus meeting also higher
  operating costs and reduced competitiveness.
• There are no immediate savings on infrastructure
  CCS costs to be passed back to operators as
  reduced access charges
• Therefore to kick start the roll out, the
  European Commission shall be ready to co-fund
  onboard ERTMS fitment of applicants.

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CER expectations

• By combining an improvement of the existing
  infrastructure (improvements of capacity,
  simplification of operational and administrative
  rules) with the coordinated installation of
  ERTMS, the performances of rail transport can be
  substantially improved in terms of
• journey times
• capacity of existing lines
• better use of assets (in particular through
  improved utilisation of locomotives)

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Future - TSI CCS completion

• ? A systematic and business driven approach to
  the further development of the CCS TSI must be
  based on the operators business needs.
• ? This will be a long term procedure but the
  sooner it is done the sooner the foreseen
  benefits may be realised and the operators become
  more competitive.
• ? It is absolutely proper to start as soon as
  possible on planning the unified CCS of the
  future, preferably on a comprehensive and common
  basis and - at the same time to progress with
  the practical migration to ERTMS

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CER vision for a new signalling system for
Europes trains

• While development work on ERTMS must continue,
  its potential will be fully realised if, and only
  if, this proceeds in parallel with the putting in
  place of the essential prerequisites and planning
  and implementing the transition to the new
  signalling system (CCS) as a whole

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Thank you for your attention. Any
questions? www.cer.be Libor.Lochman_at_cer.be
Hans.Bierlein_at_bahn.de