Dear Railway Community,
Many things happened in the SFERA world since the last time we met in person in November 2023.
The UIC SFERA working group is about to publish a revision of its Appendices, which will render the protocol more stable. And several implementations are being deployed around Europe.
In the meanwhile, the SFERA Working Group has decided to expand the scope of SFERA to make it a protocol between track and train which can accommodate more than one function: DAS, of course, but also Digital Instructions and text messaging between the trackside and on-board personnel.
Hence the new edition (third) of IRS 90940 describing SFERA will be named
SFERA Protocol: Train Operation Data Exchange with On-Board Devices
The SFERA Working Group would like to invite you to a Workshop on
13 May 2025 at UIC Headquarters in Paris
The topics of the workshop will be:
• SFERA implementations in use and in the works: DAS and Digital Instructions
• SFERA as a protocol for track-train communication
• SFERA in the context of the international interoperability
There will also be a sizable amount of time dedicated to Q&A, direct interaction among participants and networking.
Please register & mark the date on your calendars! (you will be able to save a calendar appointment from the registration confirmation)
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