UIC Project Annual Report - ERTMS

ETCSUIC code I/92/E/051Annual Report 2004 DOCUMENT CODIFICATION REV. PAGEC 5 of 211 Summary page1.1 IntroductionThe ETCS project aims at supporting UIC member Railway administrations in their planning orrealisation of ETCS applications. With the new structure of UIC, ETCS has become a commoninterest project, part of the Interoperability - ERTMS programme.The main focus of the work in 2004 was in the following areas: The elaboration of ETCSmigration strategies on corridors including cost/benefit analysis, support for the AEIFConventional Rail TSI CCS working group (e.g. the list of open points and the ERTMSRegional explanatory document), support for the AEIF Change Request organisation, ensuringand supporting that functions relevant for the Conventional Rail system was recognised asimportant functions such as infill in level 1, awakening on loops in level 1, level crossings, and atpresent, work is carried out to establish a good platform for the introduction of the new modeLimited Supervision, organizational work on the ETCS variables, work on the braking projectphase 3, support to the ERTMS implementation on corridors in Central Europe as well as ahandbook for implementation.2 Status and achievements during the year 20042.1 ETCS migration strategy for European Rail corridorsA cost/benefit analysis (document “ETCS migration strategies on corridors and at national level– cost/ benefit analysis”) has been elaborated by P. De Cicco on the 10 international railcorridors which have been described in the report “Implementing the European Train controlSystem – Opportunities for European rail Corridors” (Dec. 2003). These corridors representapproximately 20 % of the TEN network. The costs and benefits arising from different migrationstrategies towards ETCS are presented for each of the corridors. Costs and benefits have alsobeen determined for a more general scenario of ETCS implementation.The first information on the findings of this study was presented at the InfrastructureCommission meeting in June 2004 and was endorsed by the members. Subsequently thedocument was circulated among UIC members. The EC and the Industry were given a copy inJuly 2004 for their constructive comments.In the summer of 2004, a comparative study between the 10 UIC corridors identified andanalysed by the UIC Migration strategy Group and the TEN-T priority projects proposed by theEuropean Commission and amended with the Decision 884/2004/EC has been carried out(document: ”Implementing the European Train Control System – Corridor synthesis”). The