Interoperability and safety
Interoperability and safety enhance and ensure the seamless and safe circulation of passengers and goods on railway vehicles across the European Union and even beyond its borders.
Related CER Publications
CER Position - Train Drivers Directive
The European Commission announced in 2022 a review of Directive 2007/59/EC on certification of train drivers (the 'Train Drivers Directive'), aiming to address...
Digital Automatic Coupling – a key element for the digital t
Today in Berlin, Alberto Mazzola, Executive Director of the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) presented, on behalf of the European railway...
2022 DAC Sector Statement
This Sector Statement on the Digital Automatic Coupler (DAC) showcases the need and the advantages to roll-out this innovative device across the European railway system in an...
Joint position - Vehicle authorisation Conformity to type (C
This CER, AERRL, UIP position and problem statement provides a return of experience from the application of the 4th Railway Package’s Technical Pillar by the railway...
Joint Statement: Data models and standards for multimodal pa
With this statement, CER and UITP (the International Association of Public Transport) jointly support leaving the choice to stakeholders to use either: OSDM as an...
Technical Report - Rear end signals
This CER Technical Report summarises the findings of the discussions carried out at expert level on rear end signals in 2022. It gives an overview about feasible...
Joint Vision for the Sector on Digital Capacity Management
The following Joint Vision, endorsed by CER alongside RailNetEurope (RNE), Forum Train Europe (FTE), the Rail Freight Forward initiative (RFF), the European Rail...
CER position on current Subset 119 and Subset 121
CER does not agree on the versions of the Subsets 119 and 121 becoming mandatory in the TSI 2022 Package as proposed to the ERA TWG ARCHI by UNISIG. CER believes that it...
Joint CER/EIM/UNIFE and EUTT Position Paper: Real-time infor
With this paper, the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), the European Rail Infrastructure Managers (EIM), the European Rail Industry (UNIFE), and the...
TSI Migration and Transitions – TSI 2022 and beyond
On 24 January 2020 the European Commission sent a request to the European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) for the preparation of the Digital rail and Green freight TSI...
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TSGA - the TAP TSI Services Governance Association
The TSGA (TAP TSI Services Governance Association) is a non-profit association helping to improve rail distribution and digitalisation. The TSGA was set up in December...
Group of Representative Bodies
The Group of Representative Bodies (GRB) is a grouping of railway associations in Europe with the role of supporting, in a transverse way, the rail sector’s input to the European...
ERRAC - The European Rail Research Advisory Council
ERRAC was set up in 2001 with the ambitious goal of creating a single European body with both the competence and capability to help revitalise the European rail sector and make it...
European Railway Agency Database of Interoperability and Safety
The ERADIS database shall ensure that the information relevant to the safety and interoperability of the railways in the Member States is accessible and transparent to all...
European Union Agency for Railways
The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) was established in 2004 to devise the technical and legal framework for creating a Single European Railway Area (SERA) as mandated...
