To achieve the overall objective of a dynamic European traffic management, several improvements have been identified and described in the Europe’s Rail Multi-Annual Work Programme. It has also the objective to ensure the implementation of a railway Digital enabler and twin environment, where all digital elements of the system can play together in a coherent and interoperable way.

In the context of Network management planning and control & Mobility Management in a multimodal environment, proposals should deliver the innovative solutions to be demonstrated and monitored to achieve the following levels by 2031:

Improved strategic and tactical planning of the rail network:

• Increased number of possible trains on a given infrastructure on a reference day using improved processes and methods
• Reduction of answering time between the short term request of a cross-border train path and the answer with an adequate offer
• Improved robustness of timetables and hence, reduced impact of disturbances and disruptions

Develop resilience for a connected real-time network

• Prediction Quality as the basis for decision quality in Traffic Management
• Prediction performance as the basis for in-time decision making in Traffic Management
• ATO Journey Profile / Segment Profile provision cycle time down to 30 secs

Integrate rail traffic within door to door mobility

• Demand forecast for improved service planning:
  • Achieve 65% precision in the average forecast 1 week in advance
  • Achieve 80% precision in the forecast at 1 hour
• Improved matching between demand and supply:
  • Achieve 75% reaching passengers’ planned travel time

In the context of Digital enablers and twin, the expected specific impacts of this Destination are:

• Improved EU rail supply industry competitiveness among others by reducing duration and costs for development and certification by several measures of digitalisation e.g. virtual certification tasks that can be conducted in a laboratory by 80%
• Number of Digital Twins able to be integrated, tested and validated in the “Design Environment”: achieve minimum 5 Digital Twins developed by Destinations integrated in the “Digital Twin transversal Environment”
• Improve the use of federated Data and CDM