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Energy efficiency and CO2 emissions

Emissions Expert Network, Best practice, Environment Strategy Reporting System (ESRS)

Chair: Vittorio Carta, DB AG Vice-chair: Alexander Gellner, SBB CFF FFS Vice-chair: Christoph Hinterleitner, ÖBB Secretary: Cristina Pini, Trenitalia (…)

Passenger Services Group

Making international freight products and services more competitive by harmonising business, operational and information processes

Freight

Combined Transport Group. Lorry, Container, Swap body, Semi-trailer, Terminal, Wagon, Rolling road.

Combined transport

Global Level Crossing Network / ILCAD

Global Level Crossing Network (GLCN) Chair: Allan Spence, mandate from RSSB Vice Chair: Gerard Pool, ProRail UIC Coordinator: Isabelle (…)

UIC’s mission Promote rail transport globally with the objective of responding effectively to current and future challenges relating to mobility and (…)

About UIC

Combined transport (CT) is key to achieve a carbon neutral transport sector in the context of the European Green Deal. Combined Transport, presenting a (…)

Combined transport

UIC, by up-skilling and boosting research ans innovation capabilities, supports the rail sector in its continous process of excellence as a sustainable (…)

Research and Innovation

Security Research Projects

a pan-European operating Train to Speed-up the Homologation of a low noise Brake System with LL Brake Blocks

EuropeTrain

Global System for Mobile communications - Railways

GSM-R

Privacy Policy

UIC Virtual Training Course on ACCESSIBILITY IN RAIL

MERITS database

Passenger Experts Subgroup

Cooperation with the United Nations

Efficient Cross Corridor Organisation

rEvERsE

Ecological Effects of Railways on wildlifE

DOOR TO DOOR

DYNALOAD

Simulation-based risk assessment tool in terms of (…)

Freight Safety

HYDROGEN RISKS

Hydrogen risks analysis and safety comparison with (…)

Freight Safety

LIFE NATURERAIL

New Alternative vegetation management TechniqUes (…)

Long trains with distributed power

Rail System Rolling Stock

IRS 30345

New IRS 30345 updating UIC Leaflet 345 “Environmental

Sustainability Rolling Stock

SFERA3

SFERA – IRS 90940 Maintenance – DAS experts group (…)

Rail System

Predicting the maintenance with digital technology

Digital Asia Pacific Maintenance

SUSTREP/330

Sustainability reporting - Second timeframe

ZEROWASTE II

Circular Economy best practice workshops (continuation

TRISTRAM

TransItion STRategy on vegetAtion Management

Tagging for Track Components and Artificial Vision Inventory Systems

RFID-AVRIS

ECO ENERGY

Reduction of energy consumption and costs with new (…)

Rail System Energy Rolling Stock

FRT 2025

Future Rail Tourism

Passenger

ECOV4R project

Ecosystem Valuation for Railways

PASSAGE

Passenger Accessibility Solutions Support and (…)

Passenger

DIGIM

Digital Impacts on Business Processes

Digital

DEMOSLEEPER

Recommendations for the DEsign and use of MOnoblock (…)

Safety Culture Peer Review

FRMCS-4

FRMCS Phase 4

Signallisation Communications

UIC aims to promote international Safety Culture (…)

Safety

ECOV4R

Ecosystem Valuation for Railways

Future Railways Mobile Communications Systems Solutions

OSDM

Open Sales and Distribution Model

Passenger Europe

DIGIM II

DIgital IMpacts on business processes II

Digital Level Crossings

CEMP

Customer Experience Management Platform

Passenger Customer-services

FRMCS

GSM-R Rail System

TER4RAIL

Transversal exploratory research activities for railway

Research Europe

HS FMI

Financial Models for Infrastructure

HSTC

High-Speed Transport Comparison

Better Integration for door-to-door journeys

D2D

Passenger Multimodality

Revision of UIC Leaflet 930

Track Circuit Shunting Booster

PROACTIVE

PREPAREDNESS AGAINST CBRNE THREATS THROUGH COMMON (…)

Security Europe

OPTIYARD

Optimised Real-time Yard and Network Management

Europe

TC-S BOOSTER

Signallisation Rail System

STABLETRACK

Track Stability and prevention of buckling

Energy and Electric Traction Experts Group

Rail System Energy

STAIRRS

Strategies and Tools to Assess and Implement noise (…)

Sustainability Noise Europe

Drone4Rail for Plain Track

D4R-PT

Robotic based Inspection Sensor Monitoring

RERA-Temp

Resilient Railways facing High Temperatures

Safety Sustainability Climate change Operations

TRAIN 2B EQUAL

Change Making for Gender Equality in Rail

Security Sustainability Training

ROB Inspections

AUDIT4ALL

Develop a joint supplier audit program for rail (…)

Freight Europe

CO2FREE 2

How to reduce GHG emissions when using concrete and (…)

CONFORCES

Validation of measurements of the wheel-rail (…)

ECOPASSENGER

EcoPassenger tool development

Passenger Sustainability

Air+HSR

Harmonised Methodology for Infrastructure Lifetime Assessment

TES 3

Traction Energy Settlement & Data Exchange (…)

Sustainability Rail System

NOVITÀ

Noise and vibration technical advice

Sustainability Noise

MILA

Formalization of Interfaces Functional Specifications

Rail System

Capacity4Rail

Rail System Europe

Long term development of railway stations

Passenger Railway Stations

Measures for the effective development of multimodal transport in the Asia-Pacific Region aimed (…)

Asia Pacific Multimodality

Railway Objects Semantic Dictionary

Rail System Digital

Artificial Intelligence for Remote Monitoring

Rail System Artificial Intelligence

RailTopoModel (ERIM)

Rail System Digital

Security platform

Security

PREDICT

PREparing for the Domino effect in crisis siTuation

Security Europe

RESTRAIL

Reduction of suicides and trespasses on railway (…)

Security Europe

SAFETY4RAILS

Data-based analysis for SAFETY and security (…)

Security Europe

BISON

Biodiversity and infrastructure synergies and (…)

Sustainability Europe

SILENCE

Quieter surface transport

Sustainability Noise Europe

5GRAIL

5G for future RAILway mobile communication system

Rail System Digital

REUSE

Sustainable Use of Resources in Railways

RERA-Rain

Resilient Railways facing Heavy Rains

Infrastructure Sustainability Rail System Climate change

OPTSPEED

Optimum Speed for High-Speed Rail Systems

Liber-Afford

Impact of liberalisation on HSR affordability

EOLE

Exceptional and Over-Loads on Existing Infrastructures

Direct Radio Link for Train Completeness Safety Check

Rail System ERTMS

Direct electropneumatic brake

Rail System Rolling Stock

Digital Observatory and New Projects Platform

Passenger Digital

Tourism Potential of Railway Services 2

Passenger

URT - PRISM (Passenger Railway International Security-based Mobile app)

Passenger

Acoustic control for new composite blocks

Sustainability Noise

EUR palette

Freight Palettes

Asset Management Common Method and Template in a GIS implementation

Rail System Asset Management

Brake Performance Deficiency of UCT (Unaccompanied Container Transport) trains

Freight Rail System Combined Transport

Train Bus Applications and Homologation

Rail System

SHERPA

Shared and coHerent European Railway Protection (…)

Security Europe

CYRAIL

CYbersecurity in the RAILway sector

Security Europe

WG Pallets

Freight

CR Research on Railway Development Policy in AP region

Asia Pacific

Big Data-Based Timetable Management

Big Data Asia Pacific

RTM GIS

RailTopoModel for Geographic Information Systems

Rail System Digital

PRM Assistance Booking Tool

Passenger

PATRIC

Passenger Accounts and Ticketing Rules Inspection (…)

Passenger

BODEGA

Proactive enhancement of human performance in (…)

Security Human Factors Europe

CIPRNET

Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience (…)

Security Europe

SIA

System for vehicle infrastructure Interaction (…)

Infrastructure Digital Europe

MODUS

Modelling and assessing the role of air transport (…)

Europe

CARBODIN

Car Body Shells, Doors and Interiors

Rail System Europe

Railway infrastructure maintenance strategy for different operation needs in Asia-Pacific

Infrastructure Research Asia Pacific

TWINNING II

Enhancing the cooperation between Railway Stakeholders

Safety Europe

CEF PSA UBS ACTION

Freight

CO2FREE

Reducing the percentage of CO2 in cement of (…)

Harmonized Methodology for design of Derailment Mitigation Measures

MITIG4DERAIL

DYNMEASURE

Railway dynamic measuring systems-applications for use

ACORD

ACOustics of Reprofiling and onboarRD monitoring of (…)

Infrastructure Sustainability

BRIDGE-FATIGUE

Fatigue load models for assessment

FROTCC2

Future Railway Operations and Traffic Control (…)

Safety Rail System

PREDICT-MAINTENANCE

OCL and Substations Predictive Maintenance

Rail System

IHSR

Intelligent High-Speed Rail

Administration of Passenger Technical Issues

Passenger

Wheel: European Standard low maintenance for 25t traffic

Rail System

Commuter and Regional Train Services II

Passenger

SATLOC 2

SATLOC+ (follow up of SATLOC) system safety (…)

Rail System

eRail Freight Intermodal – Phase 2

Freight

Broken Rail Detection

Rolling Stock Bogie Energy Management and Brake-Wheel interaction

Training centre networks

Training Expertise Development

CBB - Gap analysis

Rail System Rolling Stock

DEcision-making and Slab-track MANagement

European Standard Freight Wagon Axle for 25t (ESFA 25)

Rail System

Composite brake block behaviour under winter conditions

Rail System Brake blocks

MERITS

Multiple East-West Railway Integrated Timetable Storage

Passenger

Virtual European Rail Academy

Expertise Development

ERTMS Platform services

Rail System ERTMS

Administ of HERMES Messages + relating 900 Leaflets

Freight Interoperability Standardisation

SECRET

SECurity of Railways against Electromagnetic aTtacks

Security Europe

TETRIS

Terrorists in Europe Targeting Railway InfrastructureS

Security Europe

RAILtoLAND

Europe

FUNDRES

Future UNified DC Railway Electrification System

Rail System Europe

TRANSLATE4RAIL

Translation for breaking language barriers in the (…)

Freight Europe

RIVAS

Railway Induced Vibration Abatement Solutions

Sustainability Noise Europe

RAIL4CITIES

RAILway stations FOR green and socially inclusive (…)

Passenger Railway Stations

Alternative Treatments to creosote for wooden sleepers

At-Wood

SFERA: Smart communications for efficient rail activities

BATTERY-TRAIN

Usage of batteries on non or partially electrified (…)

Rail System Energy Rolling Stock

WAT

Warning of Approaching Trains

Safety Level Crossings ILCAD

AIST

Artificial Intelligence Models, Scalability and (…)

Digital Artificial Intelligence

Reversible substations

REVSUB

Rail System Energy

EES Platform

Tourism potential of railway services

Other Freight Activities

Freight

Passenger

Railway Telecom Panel of Experts

Rail System

GALILEO Panel of Experts

Rail System

Asset Management – unified procurement methods in order to achieve high quality for less money

Rail System Asset Management

Holding Force 2017

Freight

New UIC Standard "Overhead Conductor Rail Requirements"

Rail System Energy

Emergency Brake Valves Performance on ERTMS Lines

Rail System ERTMS

SAFER-LC

SAFER Level Crossing by integrating and optimizing (…)

Security Europe

Station Managers Global Group

Passenger Railway Stations

IRaTCA Training sessions for UIC AP members

Training Asia Pacific

Works of Programme Managers and SETs

Rail System

RTM SIM

RailTopoModel for Simulation

Rail System Digital

RTM BIM

RailTopoModel extension for Building information (…)

Rail System Digital

GSM-R Network Management

GSM-R Rail System

GSM-R

GSM-R Rail System

7th R&D Framework Programme/Horizon 2020

Research Europe

PROTECTRAIL

The Railway-Industry Partnership for Integrated (…)

Security Europe

GRAFFOLUTION

Security Europe

LOWNOISEPAD

Low cost noise control by optimised rail pad

Sustainability Noise

CACTUS

Comparative Analysis of the Combined Transport (…)

Freight Combined Transport

DP-RAIL

Digital Platform Rail

Freight Information technology Digital

IMPRESS

IMProving Railway sEcurity through awareneSS and (…)

Security

Methods of improving the track formation of existing lines

Update leaflet 722

DAC

Could be partly financed through EU-RAIL JU

Freight Security Operations

NETWORK-MONITOR

Network Surveillance and Monitoring

Rail System

NN

New Normal

Mixed Traffic HSL operations

A comprehensive study on the feasibility and (…)

High-speed Passenger

AIPM

Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Maintenance

Digital Artificial Intelligence

AI4SAFEBEHAVE

Use of Artificial Intelligence to observe misbehaviours

Safety

Mind4change

Prepare railway staff for cultural changes linked (…)

Safety

ILCAD 2012 (Don’t play with REAL trains !)

Isa APAYDIN, UIC Vice Chairman, highlights the 2018 priorities for UIC and its Members

Dear Colleagues, Since the very first appearance of railway tracks in ancient history, when wheeled vehicles were pulled by men and animals as a (…)