Advisory Group for Rail Research and Innovation

Current and future calls

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INTEGRAIL (Integrated Project)

• Objective: To enable a higher level of coordination and cooperation between the key railway processes (infrastructure, vehicles, operations etc), through information sharing, to achieve higher system level performance and optimised usage of resources.
• Budget: Euro 22M
• UK Representatives: AEA Technology Rail, Bombardier (not just UK), ATOC, University of Birmingham, Heriot-Watt University, Seebyte Ltd and Network Rail are all partners;
• Likely Implementation Impact: Candidate standards (esp in Communications); Data protocol specifications; Definition of interfaces for data exchange; Other impacts will emerge once project is underway.
• Current Situation: Project started Jan 05.

MODURBAN

• Objectives:

- design, development and test of an innovative and open common core system architecture and its key interfaces
- harmonisation of command and control, energy saving and passenger access subsystems
- definition of system architecture for driverless trains
• Budget: Euro10.5M
• UK Representatives: Westinghouse Brakes; Invensys; LUL; Newcastle University are all partners
• Likely Implementation Impact:
• Current Situation: Project started Jan 05