Good afternoon, everybody can yam yam yam well, I guess, yeah, that's cool.
It's a bit unfortunate that the commission is making now presentation after hearing
a call for you from, so I'm not here to fund any project, just to make everybody comfortable.
I'm saying, I'm walking at the open commission in a unique dealing with technical matters
specifically for RAV, and that's my pleasure actually to tell you a story about mobility
data architecture and whole, we need disruptions there too, as we could hear from the study
of the previous colleagues.
There is actually a vision of what we want to do, what we would like to do from a political
perspective with data, relevant for ticketing, John Eplaner and so on.
This is finding in one single place, digital tickets for RAV, John E and Volving,
multi-operators, so from Lisbon to Tallinn in one single ticket in one single place.
It's a vision, so from the vision to the technical implementations there is obviously a gap
and this is the story I would like to tell you today in a bit more detail.
So to do that, working for the commission, this being the good start or not, the starting
point for us is to look at legislation, right, so just a little snapshot on what else
the legislation at stake here.
First, I would like you to forget for some, the market pillar, which does not exist yet.
So we have the technical pillar because obviously there is a common understanding that
every body in the market is have a good intention to serve citizens in the best way possible
or passengers that's generally speaking the case, but in a competitive market, of course,
at a certain point you need to put some market rules on the table, so that everybody
behave in the most appropriate way in an early quarter term.
So that the market pillar does not exist yet.
The first part is market rules related to platforms and other parts is market rule related
to hardware operators.
When I say platforms, this is platform independently of the type of transport mode.
So let's put aside for a moment, there will be future discussion on that.
Would like to give you today a focus on the technical pillar, without forget things that,
of course, when we are on this transport, there is also a social pillar.
We need also rights to enjoy when taking transport and this is also addressed by the regulation.
So let's focus today on this technical pillar, there is two aspects out of it, one which
is searching horizontal principle for all mode of transport and one specifically, this is the
one we came to talk to you about, about rail specification for interoperability in relation
to data, of course.
So for that, there is the reflection, okay, what is the technical enable to make this vision
happen?
And basically there was three words that we could summarize it.
The first one is we need data, we need data which is interoperable, but we also need data
which is available because that's good to have rules for data to be interoperable, but
if it is a nobody, makes all that data available, does not exist, I mean that does not work.
So what is interoperable, what we have defined it, so data which is serialized with a harmonized
ontology, so if everybody speaks the same vocabulary or at least there is compatibility
between the different way to express things digitally in a structured manner, and this
data is available, or if you are common or federated systems and then we need data space.
And this is all, this is all on those principles that the regulation is built to make that
data available, and we look at what is the data at stake here.
The first piece of this technical pillar is the so-called MMTIS regulation, European Union
wide multimodal travel information services, MMTIS, 2017 regulation almost a decade now,
is there any progress in terms of implementation?
I will give you some words at the very end of this presentation on this, and this is where
your community can actually play, and big role, and this is why it was very important for
me personally to be there today to have some disruption also from the open community.
So this is about travel and traffic data, this is about establishing a single point of
success for data users, you are the data users among us as, and whole this single point
of success is created by establishing national access points.
So each member state has, I will not say, east too, because now these are established,
this is a data is inside of it, another story, but national access point must be and
I've been set up by member state.
Now on rail, and why I'm here today is because actually this regulation is so recent
that I invite you to follow DGMove on, so DGMove is a director of a general for transport
as the European Commission on social media to be aware of the publication of the text on
the tense of February, so that you will be able to read actually its content about which
I'm going to give you an overview now.
So what this regulation is about, and here I will talk only about what is interesting
for the topic of this session and this devroom, this is not only about this, but a part
of what's regulation is about the results aspect.
So I mentioned there is an issue about availability of data, so let's say, the single
place for that data to be available exist, but are not yet really populated or the regulation
is not really applied, I would say, I think I'm not recorded or maybe I am, I don't know.
So it's not only about mandating things to be done or requiring things to be done by
law, it's of course also about disseminating these regulations, this is why I'm also
here today, this is about supporting financial easy implementation of the regulation and also
enforcing it, and this is of course the last step, the last result step, but before this
enforcement step, I also believe there is kind of disruption attitude that got come to
actually put to the light, that there is things which are not functioning well, public
and free of charge that are made available or legally required to be made available by
the operators, this is about, this is about reference data, this is about timetable, this
is about connection time, connection time is the time which only did between two different
trains to be connected so that you can actually in the future enjoy passenger rights, when
also taking two different trains from two different operators, this is about condition of
carriage, so what are the condition in the different transport to transport your bike, to
transport your luggage, your plan and so on and so forth, this is about accessibility, in
the sense of a person with reduced mobility, both for trains and stations, this is about
real time and forecast information about where the train are and where the train will be,
this is about the composition of the train, this is about also the historical record of all
this, to make sure that when something goes wrong, it's not only only your on-word against
the word, but there is also a historical record, all this publicly and free of charge available
via national access point established by member states, based on European standards
and common profiles via common IPI as well for data consumption and based on standard open licenses.
In addition to that, this is a battle we have lost, it's a service, it will be subject
to contractual provision, so to make tariff available, not publicly available, not free
of charge, but subject to contractual provision, the justification behind that is that tariff
are to be used for commercial purposes to actually sell those tickets, not only for passenger
information, therefore the conclusion of the political discussion was that it's justified,
that tariff are only available, subject to contractual provision and not publicly and free
of charge, we could debate it outside of this room, but this is the outcome of the political
conclusion, so my last word for today, before I hand over to my colleague Stefan Fugel
for deep diving to a technical aspect from the European Union Agency for Railways, is
go search, find the data and reuse it, it is not available, even though legally required,
go to the national authority, be disruptive and complain, without complain, the data will not
be available, so goes there, find it, not available, go there and complain, there is deadline
in that regulation, with very short period of time for this data to be finally available,
public and free of charge, the European Commission with the support of the agency will
monitor the progress, will take enforcement action, but for this enforcement action to be taken,
we need a disruptive attitude of the open source community, consuming that data making
creative use of it and pushing it to the next level, so I understood there is a date which
is taken in Switzerland, well I don't know what is the level of implementation of SBB visas
would be a good question I guess, but go there, ask them and consumes and they are data and
let's see where we can push that first, many thanks, I will now give the floor to my colleague
for a deep dive on a technical aspect, sorry, the deadline for implementation, the
there is deadline for each different data type, so my advice is that they tune,
look at another tensor for rearrangement legislation, I cannot quote them all by heart,
it says that the earlier deadline is in March this year for veterans data,
that is also in the one year, the latest deadline for which the regulation also cover free
and the latest deadline, so when I spoke passenger, which is 28, I believe.
So can you help me? Okay, very well, okay, I take over now from my colleague Jan's, let's say
more technical part, of course, I will not bother you with all bits and bits of tickets, I think
there are people in the room who have elaborated this in much more detail and I will talk a bit
about some technical details of the telematics applications, because this is a regulation that
will give you a hard decision, but first of all I would like to tell you what is the European
Union agency for always because most of you have maybe a very good understanding what the European
Commission does, but what is the European Union agency for railways? We are one of these,
so, context-interalyzed agencies dealing with specific tasks for the European Commission and
our task as the name says is dealing with questions related to railways and here more on the
technical side, not on the market pillar. We have found a term already a long time ago in 2004
based on two regulations, one regulation from 2004, which has been updated 10 years ago
in the so-called force-ravy package, which gave us more tasks and we have a bit more than 200
employees and are based in a nice north-on-flange town called Wollungsjende, not far away from
Brussels, but on the other side of the border. And we have some topics which are our core topics
we are dealing with, it's railway interoperability, it's so-called technical specifications for
interoperability for rail, dealing with all technical details for rail and as well as the rail
they saved. And with a new regulation from 2016, we are as well responsible for the authorization
of running stock of railway vehicles in Europe and as well of the undertakings. It means if a
railway undertaking wants to operate in Europe and wants to operate cross-border trains, they
have to come to us and asking us, would you autorise that I operate them and after the check
off-served documents, then we autorise and so-called vehicles can one. So maybe you are
you were, if you were coming by rail to Brussels, you have already used trains which were
autorised by all actions. Continuing with the topic, what is interoperability, what we have to
regulate because sometimes there's an action scene, an authority have to regulate everything.
For interoperability, it is not the case. We have to regulate some things to specify those
technical details which are necessary which are specifying only so-called essential requirements
and so-s requirements which are necessary to ensure that different parties can speak with each
other different parties can operate also in networks with different infrastructures, operators
with different railways operators and these essential requirements are mentioned in European
regulations or the railways safety, the railia ability and availability, health environment protection,
technical compatibility and as well accessibility. And we have teased lies related to structural
subsystems means for instance rolling stock and infrastructure and here we come to the
telemetics here so-called functionalist subsystems. Where we have different functions which have to
be fulfilled in an interoperable way by all parties addressed by these regulations.
Going down to the telemetics here's I and to the tiers I which is regulating the data exchange
for trade transport for the operation of rail but as well for any aspect dealing with passenger
information and ticketing because this is also three pillars of this tiers I and this is a tier
side which will be published on 10th of February as you have heard now and we are regulating now
these topics here including a common government for things which should be shared between those parties.
This is for instance a so-called river and state I mean that if you address a railways station
then even the railways station has sometimes the same name in Europe you should be sure if the
railways station is located in Italy or in Germany even if the name Rome is the same of the
most stations for instance and then we have a part called planning and operations this means
this is a data exchange how the undertakings itself can reserve an access pass a slot for
the railway network and follow up sends a slot if the train is running. Then freight specific
data exchange for instance the exchange between freight companies if a wagon has reached a certain point
to behind it over to another undertaking or all topics which are related to passenger information
and ticketing starting from time-level information until the final ticketing at the end.
And here I picked up some so-called basic parameters defining what kind of data have to be made
a railway label and made a railway means as well not always only to rave a undertaking spot as well
other parties and here I picked up one of the topics which is maybe the most interesting one for most
of you it's the passenger information and it is a timetable data and here the purpose is to provide
harmonize timetable data which can be understood in all member states which are harmonized
in a way that if I read such a data set I have a clear understanding what is within that the
partial time is clearly indicated and not enhanced by some information that you have to be earlier
at the platform for instance it's intended to enable a facilitated journey planning and
cover all the railway undertakings in Europe. There is no exception as long as the railway
undertaking belongs to the interoperability directive. This is the overarching regulation.
They have to follow this basic parameters and provide safe timetable data.
The data format if you have just changed this a new TSI and the past we have used a format
which has been developed decades ago by the rail sector and is still in use based on an
artifact format and we just changed to a European standard called a netx which has been
developed some years ago by the European standardization organization site.
And to be published has also any alternative data have to be published. Updates must be published
on time means we have as well requirements concerning the data quality and also historical data
have to be available for instance to follow up the past or complaints in case of a delay.
And the task is split between two and about a between two. Rolls here on the one hand side
we have the railway undertakings which have to provide your time tether data but now as well
the station manager, the entities managing the stations comes into force, they have as well
to exchange data for instance about connecting times between trains.
And so the data have to be published by the national access points.
And the second topic I would like to address is the data just mentioned by my colleague
and here we are talking about the railway undertakings which have to publish as well
via the national access points that have a data but as I said restricted to service data which
intended to be exchanged under a contractual agreement means before you can receive
so a data kind of contractual agreement has to be agreed with in the parties and we are using
as well here in this case a European standard as well a change of the standardization from let's say
a bit outdated protocols based on CSV data which are to a certain extent still in use
to an an example based format based on a European standard model and called SLL networks.
And the last topic I would like to address because we are not only providing a technical
expertise to provide those data and to support the European legislation with technical
expertise we are also profiting from the work which is done in the open source community and I would
like to show you one showcase we have here on the table because we have as well an obligation
as European Union agency for avis to publish accessibility data for avis stations and here we build
our system based on open source system a database which has been developed some decades some years
ago by colleagues from Antio to provide information about accessibility of railway station and here
the customized and open source tool in a way which is we'll be soon published as well on a
production system on our side we are still on the customization phase on our systems to provide
your accessibility data for all European stations which have to be feeded into the system
by entities on the member state level means all member states have to feed the system which should
allow you in the future to determine if the station in Europe is accessible for a wheelchair user
for instance if you can come from any stop in the neighborhood from the public transport to
the station without any obstacle and you can use the public transport even if you have if you
are a wheelchair user for instance and so you see as well we try to profit from the work which is
done in this community here and would like to extend this in the future if we see similar
log projects which could help us to fulfill all tasks and now we are available for your questions
so here and here so is there any work done by era or by the commission on ensuring that the
data that is published by the national by the railway undertaking or the national infrastructure
operators are actually correct in a sense that like frequently maybe there is some data that is
published but there is duplicate data that is published by like in multiple different
next files we'll see the same bit of data where there will be different station ideas use across
different files like is there any work in progress to sort of unify this so that you can
write down what all the data is. Short answer yes long answer we have with the new TSI as error
as a task to manage this reference data means the station ideas centrally and we are starting to work
on this topic even ideas are way labors nothing we have stopped from scratch but now we have to
migrate this to this new work and yes quality parameters are foreseen in the TSI and are defined
as legal requirements yeah they can be enforced by the commission we don't need to I mean we can
take an extra question but let me answer so if you prefer not answer I can do both so of course
the commission is enforcing your legislation what you need to be aware as I mentioned you
endorsement is based on a complaint or assumption of non-compliance this TSI or this legislation
also include a requirements on compliance meaning that and these are the following so the one on
which the requirements are have to demonstrate compliance and then on the base of non-compliance
or presumption of non-compliance or complaint the agency as system authority as actually authority
to do a formal compliance check if this compliance check is negative as a sense of the alleged
compliance is not only alleged but it's an actual non-compliance then the commission can take
enforcement aid action against the member state and the member state are taking
enforcement action against the company themselves we find and so on I think we can
approach the commission they's putting not that deep in pressure
or something like that.
So how strong is the involvement of an enforcement
for seeing its regulation is?
You might really definitely wait to get it to community time.
So the commission is putting nobody in prison.
Be disruptive.
Raise awareness on the non-compliance.
And blame and shame exercise is actually quite well
walking from my personal experience.
Thank you very much.