Project information
- Rules for the consist and braking of international freight trains
- Project director: Christian Chavanel
- Project manager: Giulia Russo
- Status: ongoing project
- Project code: 2016/RSF/496
Project description
Problem to solve:
- Improvement and harmonisation of cross-border traffic for more profitable freight business.
- Valorization of the TrainDy software for the calculations and the validation of the extended freight train configurations.
Benefits:
- Accessibility to standardised Freight train configurations for international traffic.
- Unique reference document availability usable for the authorisation procedure.
- Reduction of time in the border crossing and simplification/unification of the necessary custom documentation
- Extension of the use of the TrainDy software to the optimisation of train composition
For further information about TrainDy:
https://uic.org/special-groups/traindy/