Multi Industry Scenarios for Transport - Eurofer

HERMES applications
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MIST Working Group, version 2001
HERMES applications relate to fret information exchange between railways in non-
EDIFACT messages. The number of railways involved in each application varies from 2 to
10.
As these messages are part of the real business I don’t think we can forget them in our
scenario exercise. The way they are represented in EDIFACT can not be easily determined.
So I am only suggesting possible message
Preannounce (30)
Objective:
This message is sent when a train crosses the border: the basic idea is that such movement
creates a wagon exchange between Railway companies.
Event :
International Train Departure at the last marshalling yard before the frontier.
Trains Entiers Internationaux (34)
Objective :
Automatisation of the information exchange for « complete train » (set of wagons sent
directly from the consignor to the consignee without any intermediate manipulation).
The messages cover:
- the creation of reference files (specifying the origin and the destination of the train, the
transported goods and the validity period),
- the real request of a train, its starting and the follow-up (sometimes more than one
train)
- the follow-up of the train
- time-table exchanges
Damocles (71)
ENEE (70)
Objective:
There is an international database for dangerous goods that can be reached in real time.
Information relate to goods identification, type of danger according to RID, danger
description plus related measures, meaning and description of danger labels.
Note that the update of the database is also made throughout some messages.
Objective:
The context is similar to Damocles but this time the database relates to the directory of what
we call « Etablissement ». It can be a station, a stopping, a travel agency, a technical
service,...
Location (place on a rail track, …) is generally attached to an « Etablissement » which can
have several forms.