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CORRIDOR 10 - a sustainable way of integrations
railway transportation is proven by several references in documents of European Union and United
Nations.
3.1. Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI)
The TSI are specifications drafted by the European Railway Agency and adopted in a Decision by the
European Commission, to ensure the interoperability of the trans-European rail system. The first set of
TSI was adopted in 2002 for the trans-European high speed rail system. TSIs related to freight
wagons, telematics applications for freight, control-command and signaling, noise emitted by rolling
stock and traffic operation and management were adopted in late 2004 and mid-2005. The revision of
the TSI related to freight wagons was started with the aim of finalizing it by early 2011. As an
intermediate step, amendments of the conventional freight wagon and operation TSIs, facilitating the
traffic across borders under the so-called „cross-authorization“ of the freight wagons, were adopted in
2009 [5].
Marshalling yards are explicitly mentioned in TSI TAF, TSI WAG and TSI CCS. For example, under
TSI TAF, for the reporting of the movement of a wagon, specific data must be stored and electronically
accessible – Wagon Yard Arrival, Wagon Yard Departure [3]. These messages are mentioned in same
document as relevant for measurement of quality. TSI WAG defines conditions for wagon construction
concerning passing over vertical transition curves in marshalling yard humps and over braking,
shunting or stopping devices [2]. The aim of ERMTS European Deployment Plan mentioned in TSI
CCS is to ensure that locomotive, wagons and other railway vehicles equipped with ERMTS can
gradually have access to an increasing number of lines, ports, terminals and marshalling yards without
needing national equipment in addition to ERTMS. List of main European ports, marshalling yards,
freight terminals and freight transport area is defined by TSI CCS. The ports, marshalling yards, freight
terminals and freight transport areas listed in this list shall be linked to at least one of the six corridors
specified in TSI CCS. The date and the conditions of it are specified in this document too [1].
3.2. European Agreement of Main International Railway Lines (AGC)
AGC provides the legal and technical framework for the development of a coherent international rail
network in Europe. The AGC identifies the rail lines of major international importance, the E-rail
network and defines the infrastructure parameters to which they should conform. It defines
infrastructure parameters for two categories of lines: those are already existing and those to be newly
constructed. The latter are again divided into lines for freight and passenger traffic and others for
passenger traffic only [11]. This document has undergone several revisions in frame of sessions of
Inland Transport Committee of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Working Party of
Rail Transport issued Recommendation concerning the system of marshalling yards of major
European importance by its resolution No. 66 on July 31st 2000 [6]. Concentration of international
traffic in a limited number of marshalling yards is recommended in this document. Marshalling yards
should under this recommendation:
make up freight trains for foreign destinations or receive freight trains from other countries
be situated on lines within the European railway network or near and with good connections to
the domestic network,
correspond to these parameters:
o yard has two or three subyards (reception and classification/departure or reception,
classification and departure yard),
o working length of track in yards is no less than 750 meters,
o wagon sorting is realized using mechanization and automation equipment in the
hump,
o operation is managed using automated control system.
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