Values

Basic Principles

Improve Competiviness

Think Big: We aim for Big Steps to fundamentally improve the competitiveness of Rail Freight in Europe.

Open platform

Think European Rail Freight: We think from a generic RU / Multimodal Rail Freight Customer perspective including all Players (Customers/Shippers, Big & small RUs, IMs & Terminals / Ports).

Seamless Information

Free Flow of Data is fundamental to Offer a seamless Product & seamless Production! We have to maximise digital Transparency towards Customers and between involved Service Partners.

Common Platform

Typical service chains in Rail Freight span various Providers. A common European digital Platform lowers the cost of Data Exchange / Integration for all Parties involved, allows for added Customer Value.

Smart Platform Capabilities

Sector Performance may be further increased by providing Smart Capabilities for Multi-Party Use. Prominent example is brokerage of Empty Wagon Capacity across RUs & Wagon Keepers.

An open platfrom to provide

• Open data
• Shared quality level
• Open standards
• Open platform technology

Lean approach

Think Lean: We Maximise Work not Done & Eliminate Complexity without added Customer Value.

Trust

Trust in

• member
• provided data
• usage of data

Stability

Stable

• data formats
• data interfaces

Targets

The following Targets for the future RU platform were defined by the CIOs as part of their Vision considerations

Data Quality

Raise the data quality on the digital platforms. Further information can be found here: Data Quality

Coverage

Early increase of the usage of existing services in the Ecosystem. Further information can be found here: Coverage

Consolidate Ecosystem

Migrate the services to one future platform

One stable RU interface

Define one stable interface for the RUs with modern interface technology

Innovation

Develop innovative Smart Services based on the existing offered services.