Dear Railway Community,
SFERA = Smart communication For Efficient Railway Activities
This workshop is proposed to introduce you to the latest developments for the IRS 90940 edition 3 and its implementation by members and railway actors.
Click here to access UIC IRS 90940 edition 2
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 even more stable.
Besides, 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 (DI) and Free Text Communication (FTC) between the trackside and on-board personnel.
Hence the new edition (third, to be published later) of IRS 90940 describing SFERA will be named
SFERA Protocol: Train Operation Data Exchange with On-Board Devices
To introduce you to the latest developments (for both edition 3 of the IRS and its implementation)
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.
Provisional agenda
- 12:00 Welcome lunch
- 12:45 Welcome by UIC
- 12:50 Introduction
- 13:00 Presentation on the status of SFERA
- Publication of XSD v3.00
- Digital Instructions, FTC and Edition 3
- 13:25 XSLT: new evolution and examples
- 13:35 SFERA: Future developments: Ontology
- 13:45 Coffee Break
- 14:00 DAS Implementations
- CFL
- Cubris: Integrating IM data for Eurostar trains
- SBB
- Infrabel / SNCB DAS
- 15:00 Teaser of all DI projects
- Infrabel, ÖBB, ProRail, SNCF Réseau, DB
- 15:30 Networking/Fair & Posters
- Introduction of the fair & SFERA posters
- 17:30 Closing
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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