The Rolling Stock Days conferences
Introduction
The conferences bring together technical experts, manufacturers, leasing companies, builders, operators and institutions around the key challenges facing railway rolling stock.
Conferences
January 19, 2027
Maintenance
1.
Recent evolutions on the rolling stock maintenance market
Acts as a general intoduction to the Relevance of Maintenance for Rail Rolling Stock, EU Business Volume Forecast with focus on locomotive , how maintenance is delivered today, what the market will look like in the future, Risks, Constrains and opportunities
Improve the ECM’s efficiency & rail safety by standardisation & digitalisation
Starting points: new ERA ECM Guide and next ex-post evaluation report on ECM Regulation planned for June 27 (clusters of suggestions) - AERRL suggestions - experiences in the industry (operators, IOT or Digital tools providers)
Obsolescence management and spare parts
AERRL concerns and proposals - status of regulation with regard of Component deliveries - Safety critical components - 3D spare parts
Lunch break
ETCS-FRMCS
2.
ETCS, one single baseline for Europe, Standardized interfaces and modularity
AERRL Position - ERA strategy, balanced between stability and innovation
Towards a pragmatic implementation of FRMCS
ERA position - AERRL position - technologies available - coordination of deployment - BL3 compatibility
ESC tests: improvement process after the ERTMS Conferences 2024 & 2026
AERRL/ERA Position and report on action plan 26, success and initiatives
Funding innovative rolling stock
3.
EU support to finance rail
AERRL Position and lessors contribution/commitment, State Aid Guidelines, Garantee and Support from EIB, Subsidies scheme for innovation, EC proposals (SERA label, Blueprint, High speed plan)
DAC, how to bring rail to a next level and fund this ambition
DAC development status, Customer use cases, provider cases
Decarbonisation & sustainability, swapping from diesel to HVO, Battery, H2
AERRL Manifesto, Presentation of projects ongoing, technology briks, products, Market trends, military mobility
Cocktail
January 20, 2027
Cost efficiency
1.
Relaunch Rail Freight
EU Cargo Alliance as a discussion frame: together, let's increase the competitiveness of the European rail freight
Leasing supporting development of public and private passenger operators
Leasing makes sense to support the developement of market share, retrofitting passengers rolling stock
Energy metering and procurement-follow up ERA Study report 03, data, trading EU standardization
AERRL positioning (standardisation & harmonisation of standards for data exchange - lessons learned from TSI ENE implementation) - ERA solutions - the Eress experience
Lunch break
Data & Safety
2.
Digitalisation, cybersecurity and AI
Discussion at EP on AI in Safety analysis - UNIFE vision about opportunities and Challenges for AI - state of play Cybersecurity and impact on TSI's
Joint Network Secretariat (JNS) supporting cost-efficient long-term solutions to improve Safety
Lessons learned after 10 years of intense JNS work
Closing from AERRL
Clusters
Maintenance
- Market trends
- Digitalisation
- Standardisation
- Obsolescence management
- Spare parts
ERTMS
- ERTMS deployment
- FRMCS
- European interoperability
- Standardised interfaces
- Field experience and lessons learned
Financing & Cost Management
- Rolling stock financing
- DAC
- Investment optimisation
- Freight competitiveness
Energy
- Decarbonisation
- Zero-emission fleets
- Energy measurement
- Cybersecurity
Safety
- Artificial intelligence
- Operational safety
- Latest regulatory developments
- Work of the Joint Network Secretariat