The Technical Specifications for Interoperability for Freight Telematics

The Technical Specifications for Interoperability for Freight Telematics) TAF-TSI - revitalising European rail freight by using system integration and data exchange as strategic tools lutz@uic. org

Agenda • Where is the industry going? • What is the TAF TSI? • The role of Standardisation in IT Interoperability • The Consignment Note Function within the TAF-TSI 2 Telematic Applications for Freight

Executive Summary • Big changes are happening in the European rail freight industry brought about through an open market approach. • One aspect of the open-market approach is the TAF TSI, which is both a compulsory Regulation and also an Opportunity for RUs to create value within the rail business. 3 Telematic Applications for Freight

Aligning with Business Strategy • What the Customer Wants Reliability of transport 3, 00 Level of price 2, 75 Available capacity 2, 63 Information Management 2, 57 Transport time 2, 38 Handling time 2, 13 Frequency of transport 2, 00 Ecological aspects 1, 75 0 0, 5 1, 0 Not Important 4 1, 5 2, 0 2, 5 3, 0 3, 5 Important Telematic Applications for Freight

Interoperability TAF TSI Services Telematics Passengers Telematics Freight Operation & Traffic Management Maintenance Technology Control Command 5 Infrastructure Energy Rolling Stock Telematic Applications for Freight

TAF TSI Overview • Goals – Improve service reliability and efficiency – Help deliver the critical attributes of a successful freight service - the ability to keep track of consignments & determine when deliveries to customers will be made • Context – – 6 Is an open data layer across all rail actors Is Compulsory Became a Regulation on 18 th January 2006 Implementation commitment of the rail actors is documented in the Strategic European Deployment Plan (SEDP), submitted to the EC in January 2007 Telematic Applications for Freight

TAF-TSI Relies on Standardisation • Improvement in quality of service • Improved integration for interoperability • Savings in time and costs • Operational flexibility to introduce new business processes 7 Telematic Applications for Freight

Information Standards… Nice thing about them is that there are so many to choose from! W 3 C Specifications Documentation IEEE Standard DTD OASIS Specification DTDs and Tools Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Markup anguage for Complex Documents (Bergen MLCD Project) Manuscript Access through Standards for Electronic Records (MASTER) XCES: Corpus Encoding Standard for XML Global Document Annotation Initiative (GDA) Electronic Metadata for Endangered Languages Data (EMELD) Encoding and Markup for Texts of the Ancient Near East Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL) XML System for Textual and Archaeological Research (XSTAR) Perseus Project The Making of America II Project Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)Harvard University E-Journal Archive Project Image Metadata Aggregation for nhanced Searching (IMAGES) Encoded Archival Description (AD) Encoded Archival Context Initiative (EAC) Linking and Exploring Authority Files (LEAF) STEP/EXPRESS and XML STEPml XML Specifications Atom Publishing Format and Protocol Channel Definition Format, CDF (Based on XML) RDF Rich Site ummary (RSS) Open Content Syndication (OCS) Web Modeling Language (Web. ML) Portable Site Information (PSI) XHTML and 'XML-Based' HTML Modules Ruby nnotation W 3 C Document Object Model (DOM), Level 1 Specification Web Collections using XML Meta Content Framework Using XML (MCF) XML- ta. Namespaces in XML Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL) The Australia New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC) - Metadata NISO Circulation nterchange Protocol (NCIP) Alexandria Digital Library Project European Visual Archive Project (EVA) ATLA Serials Project (ATLAS) Biblio. ML - XML for UNIMARC Bibliographic Records bibte. XML: XML for Bib. Te. X Medlane XMLMARC Experiment - MARC to XML Nomen Project for Enhanced MARC 21 Name Authority e. Government nteroperability Framework (e-GIF) Controlled Trade Markup Language (CTML) Governmental Markup Language (Gov. ML) US Federal CIO Council XML Working Group United States Congress: XML for Legislative Documents Parl. ML: A Common ocabulary for Parliamentary Language US Internal Revenue ervice and SGML/XML for Tax Filing Tax Information Group for ECommerce Requirements Standardization (TIGERS) US Office of Justice XML Standards Initiative Legal XML Working Group Legal. XML Electronic Court Filing TC COSCA/NACM JTC XML Court Filing Project New Mexico District Court XML Interface CI)Georgia State University Electronic Court Filing Project US Patent and Trademark Office Electronic Filing ystem WIPO XML DTDs for the Electronic Patent Cooperation Treaty Application Election Markup Language (EML) XML and Voting (Ballots, Elections, Polls) Environmental Protection Agency EPA) Central Data Exchange (CDX) PEO Interchange XML Initiative (PIXIT) Tukwila Data Integration System (University of Washington) UML to XML Design ules Project XML Metadata Interchange Format (XMI) - Object Management Group (OMG) OMG Common Warehouse Metadata Interchange (CWMI) Specification OMG del Driven Architecture (MDA) Object Management Group XML/Value RFP MDC Open Information Model (OIM) Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Harmony roject ABC Ontology and Model RSLP Collection Description Project Vocabulary Markup Language (Voc. ML) Open Archives Metadata Set (OAMS) Xyleme roject: Dynamic Data Warehouse for the XML Data of the Web TV Anytime Forum Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) Extensible Graph Markup and Modeling Language (XGMML) Structured Graph Format (SGF) Graph Exchange Language (GXL) Petri Net Markup Language (PNML) XML and Petri Nets Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) Web Standards Project (WSP) BIC Workgroup for XML-based Business Standard Convergence XML Mail Transport Protocol (XMTP) for XML SMTP and MIME Representation HTML Threading - Use of HTML in mail Open oftware Description Format (OSD) Log Markup Language (LOGML) XLF (Extensible Log Format) Initiative ALURe (Aggregation and Logging of User equests) XML Specification Apache XML Project Relational Markup Language (RML)WAP Wireless Markup Language pecification Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) Common Profile for Instant Messaging (CPIM) Presence Information Data Format (PIDF) XML Messaging (IETF) Jabber XML rotocol XML Messaging Specification (XMSG) XML Encoding for SMS (Short Message Service) Messages Message. ML Multi-Channel Access XML (MAXML) The Sync. ML nitiative XML Document Navigation Language (XDNL) HTTP Distribution and Replication Protocol (DRP) Materials Property Data Markup Language (Mat. ML) Measurement Units Markup Language XML-Based 'Chem e. Standard' for the Chemical Industry Chemical Markup Language Molecular Dynamics [Markup] Language (Mo. DL) NCBI Molecular Biology Data Model Star. DOM - Transforming Scientific Data into XML Bioinformatic Sequence Markup Language (BSML) BIOpolymer arkup Language (BIOML) Cell. ML Gene Expression Markup Language (GEML) Gene. X Gene Expression Markup Language (Gene. XML) Genome Annotation Markup lements (GAME) "OMG Life Sciences Identifiers Specification (LSID) Micro. Array and Gene Expression Markup Language (MAGE-ML) Microarray Markup anguage (MAML) XML for Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAML) Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) OMG Gene Expression RFP Protein Extensible Markup Language (PROXIML) Taxonomic Markup Language XDELTA: XML Format for Taxonomic Information The Species Analyst Project Virtual Hyperglossary (VHG) eather Observation Definition Format (OMF) Open Philanthropy Exchange (OPX) Open Financial Exchange (OFX/OFE) Interactive Financial Exchange (IFX) Fin. XML - 'The Digital Language for Capital Markets' 8 Telematic Applications for Freight

The TAF-TSI Standards • Business Process Standards • Supported by Standardised Message Exchange • In a secure environment through the Common Interface 9 Telematic Applications for Freight

The TAF – TSI Functions 10 Telematic Applications for Freight

Implementing the TAF-TSI Common Components 11 Telematic Applications for Freight

The Common Components • Provide the communication backbone for data exchange in a secure environment Common Interface Common Metadata Companies Private Metadata • Common Interface for Secure Communication • Reference Files for Data Quality and Integration Locations – Location. Ident – Company. Ident • Metadata to define Messaging Standards 12 Telematic Applications for Freight

The Goals of the Project • To provide Stakeholders an integration tool that will be easy to integrate into legacy systems and maintain in the future • To easily create, maintain and distribute Common Metadata (information standards) • To assure data quality without imposing centralised applications • To comply with the requirements of the TAF-TSI to communicate via a standardised Common Interface 13 Telematic Applications for Freight

Metadata • What is the Common Metadata? – Reference Files (coding structures) • Locations - CEN • Companies - CEN • Countries – ISO – Schemas • European Rail Agency Technical Documents • Shared Schemas • All is based on current implemented base – but now in XML 14 Telematic Applications for Freight

Technical Requirements for solution • Technical solution that is: – Decentralised – Scalable – Based on Open Architecture – Free of Vendor ‘Lock-in’ – Free of 3 rd Party Licences – Security – using a PKI – Fully Configurable – Supports current industry data exchange 15 Telematic Applications for Freight

The Consignment Note Data • General Requirements – Consignment Note is used for operational purposes – no legal value – Used for trip planning and execution – Carries subset of data • Harmonization for the Operational Requirements – – – – 16 Wagon Event Reporting Train Preparation Train Event Report Delay Cause Reasons Train Movement and Forecast Trip Planning and ETA Declaration of Dangerous Goods Telematic Applications for Freight

Practical Applications – Corridors SMGS/CIM 17 17 e. Business Unit/3 rd February 2011 Telematic Applications for Freight

Defining the Processes 18 18 e. Business Unit/3 rd February 2011 Telematic Applications for Freight

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