Europe’s Rail

Duration: 2022-2026

Sponsor/Grant

EU/Horizon Europe/Europe’s Rail, Trafikverket

Objective

The objective of Europe’s Rail Joint Undertaking is to deliver a high-capacity integrated European railway network by eliminating barriers to interoperability and providing solutions for full integration, covering traffic management, vehicles, infrastructure, and services, aiming to achieve faster uptake and deployment of projects and innovations. That should exploit the huge potential for digitalisation and automation to reduce rail’s costs, increase its capacity and enhance its flexibility and reliability, and should be based upon a solid reference functional system architecture shared by the sector, in coordination with the European Union Agency for Railways.

In this regard, the general aim of the partnership will be to ensure a fast transition to more attractive, user-friendly, competitive, affordable, easy to maintain, efficient and sustainable European rail system, integrated into the wider mobility system. EU-Rail will support the development of a strong and globally competitive European rail industry while contributing towards the achievement of the Single European Railway Area (SERA).

Projects status and results

The projects in Europe's Rail started in the end of 2022. Researchers from JVTC are participating in the following Flagship projects (FP):

• FP2 - Rail to Digital automated up to autonomous train operation (R2DATO)
  
• FP3 - Holistic and Integrated Asset Management for Europe‘s RAIL System (IAM4RAIL)
  
• FP4 - Sustainable and green rail systems (RAIL4EARTH)
  
• FP5 - Transforming Europe‘s Rail Freight (TRANS4M-R)
  
• FP6 - Delivering innovative rail services to revitalise capillary lines and regional rail services (FutuRe)