Telematic Applications for Freight

Contributing to the rejuvenation of the European rail freight industry

On 18 January 2007, CER, Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies, delivered the Strategic European Deployment Plan (SEDP) for the implementation of the TAF TSI (Telematic Applications for Freight – Technical Specification for Interoperability) Regulation to the European Commission.

The TAF TSI regulation defines the common standards which railway operators and infrastructure managers will have to apply in the coming years in their exchanges of data concerning rail freight services. The purpose of this is to improve the tracking of rail freight consignments all over Europe and improve customer information and service. The regulation also required that the European railways deliver a Strategic European Deployment Plan describing how they will progressively implement the new standards.

With this plan, the European railways are not just fulfilling a legal requirement. More importantly, they are demonstrating their collective commitment to provide better service and information to their customers. In that, the railways are not simply delivering several individual plans with no connection between them. They are moving together in a coordinated way, in line with the very spirit of the regulation when it was written in 2005.

The Strategic European Deployment Plan was developed in cooperation with other relevant European railway organisations, in particular UIC, the International Union of Railways. The project was co-financed by the railway community and by the European Union from the trans-European transport networks budget. The implementation of the plan will extend until 2013 under the leadership of Jan Sundling, Chairman of the Association of Swedish Train Operating Companies, ASTOC.

All documents relating to the Strategic European Deployment plan can be downloaded below:

• Overview
• Background
• Deployment Plan
• Framework Plan
• Deliverable 1
• Deliverable 2: Appendix a, Appendix b, Appendix b Annex 1, Appendix c, Appendix d, Appendix e, Appendix f.
• Deliverable 3
• Deliverable 5
• Draft Stakeholder Agreement

For further information contact:
Jacques Dirand (CER)
Freight Policy Advisor
53, Avenue des Arts
1000 Brussels, Belgium
Tel : 0032 2 213 08 78
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