Technical specifications for interoperability
Technical specifications for interoperability ( TSI ) are agreed requirements that are placed on rail vehicles for cross-border traffic in the European Economic Area . In Switzerland, these regulations are rules of technology and rules of care.
history
The TSIs were created to enforce EC Directive 96/48 / EC and were issued gradually from 1999. The history is published by the European Railway Agency (ERA).
ERA endeavors to initially make the TSI technically consistent and grants various transition periods. Any further adjustments should only be made for simplification.
At the end of 2019, 614 of the 33,291 km operating length in the Deutsche Bahn network were TSI-compliant, and the trend is rising.
General
The individual TSIs define properties that subsystems of the railways must have in order to obtain a consistently usable rail system. These subsystems include:
- Structural subsystems:
- Infrastructure ,
- Energy ,
- Track-side train control / train protection and signaling ,
- on-board train control / train protection and signaling,
- Vehicles ,
- Functional subsystems:
- Operations management and traffic control
- maintenance
- Telematics applications for passenger and freight transport.
TSIs are issued for each of these subsystems, which have been valid since 2015 for both high-speed traffic and conventional traffic and also include the expanded area of the national rail networks. In addition, cross-cutting issues (safety in rail tunnels and passengers with restricted mobility) are dealt with in overarching TSIs.
The specifications describe technical requirements and their verification to regulate the implementation of the general EC directives 96/48 / EC on the interoperability of the trans-European high-speed rail system and 2001/16 / EC for conventional rail systems, which were last amended by Directive 2004/50 / EC have since been merged in Directive 2008/57 / EC on the interoperability of the rail system in the Community. TSIs have been in effect in the respective countries since 2015 due to their status as a regulation of the European Commission . The previous TSIs had to be implemented in national law by the individual member states. This happened in Germany through the regulation on the interoperability of the trans-European rail system (TEIV).
Requirements for the interoperability of the railway system
For new, upgraded or renewed subsystems, an EC test certificate must be issued by a notified body in accordance with Chapter IV IOP-RL 2008/57 / EC according to the EC conformity assessment procedure required and described in the respective TSI , which is the basis of the test declaration and the commissioning authorization (see Art 20 of the IOP-RL).
For the placing on the market of interoperability components, i.e. “components, component groups, sub-assemblies or complete material assemblies that are or will be built into a subsystem” (Art 1 lit f IOP-RL 2008/57 / EG), there is an analogous procedure for creating an EG - Declaration of conformity and suitability for use (Chapter III, Art 10 ff IOP-RL) required.
The EC test certificate regulated in Chapter V IOP-RL entitles its owner to declare conformity with the requirements of the TSI for each individual vehicle of the vehicle series concerned. A vehicle cannot be put into operation without this declaration.
For subsystems for which a TSI does not yet exist, the national approval procedures continue to apply.
In Germany there is only one notified body called Eisenbahn Cert . Other notified bodies are registered in other EU countries. The certificates obtained from a notified body are valid throughout Europe.
Regulations
The following EU regulations (TSIs) are currently valid and are represented in Germany by the notified body :
| subsystem | Abbreviation (Engl.) |
decision | validity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure | INS | 2014/1299 | since January 1, 2015 |
| Safety in railway tunnels | SRT | 2014/1303 | since January 1, 2015 |
| Safety in railway tunnels | SRT rev | 2016/912 | since July 1, 2016 |
| energy | ENE | 2014/1301 | since January 1, 2015 |
| energy | ENE rev | 2014/1301 | since January 15, 2015 |
| Train control, train protection and signaling |
CCS | 2016/919 | since July 1, 2016 |
| Train control, train protection and signaling |
CCS rev | 2008/386 | since November 7, 2006 |
| Accessibility for people with disabilities and people with reduced mobility |
PRM | 2014/1300 | since January 1, 2015 |
| Vehicles - noise | NOI | 2014/1304 | since January 1, 2015 |
| Vehicles - locomotives and passenger cars | LOC & PAS | 2014/1302 | since January 1, 2015 |
| Vehicles - locomotives and passenger cars | LOC & PAS rev 3 | 2014/1302 | since April 19, 2016 |
| Vehicles - locomotives and passenger cars | LOC & PAS rev 2 | 2014/1302 | since December 22, 2015 |
| Vehicles - locomotives and passenger cars | LOC & PAS rev 1 | 2014/1302 | since January 16, 2015 |
| Vehicles - freight cars | WAG | 2013/321 | since January 1, 2014 |
| Vehicles - freight cars | WAG rev 1 | 2013/1236 | since January 1, 2014 |
| Vehicles - freight cars | WAG rev 2 | 2013/321 | since July 1, 2015 |
| Vehicles - freight cars | WAG rev | 2012/464 | since January 24, 2013 |
In addition, the following TSIs in the telematics area are coordinated by DB Netz in Germany:
| subsystem | Abbreviation (Engl.) |
decision | validity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telematics - Freight Transport | TAF | 2014/1305 | since January 1, 2015 |
| Telematics - passenger transport | TAP | 2011/454 | May 12, 2011 |
High speed classes for trains
Trains are divided into two high-speed classes:
- Class 1: Trains with a maximum speed of 250 km / h or more
- Class 2: Trains with a maximum speed of at least 190 km / h, but less than 250 km / h.
In addition, there is also a specification of the speed-dependent dynamic wheel load, where the limit at 250 km / h is included differently:
| V (km / h) | dynamic wheel load (kN) |
|---|---|
| 190 <V ≤ 250 | 180 |
| 250 <V ≤ 300 | 170 |
| V> 300 | 160 |
Route classes
With the publication of the new TSI on January 1, 2015, the route classes were redefined and market / product-specific route classes with the designations P1 - P6 for passenger traffic and F1 - F4 for freight traffic were introduced.
The TEN -T regulation VO (EU) 1315/2013 also revised the names of the European routes; there are now the corridors in the core network and the comprehensive network. Here, however, only the network of a member state, which is necessary from a European perspective, is seen under the overall network, not the entire railway network of a member state, so the term is not clear.
In the previous TSI-INF, the following line classes were defined and differentiated using Roman numerals :
- New TENs of the core network (IV)
- Expanded TEN section of the core network (V)
- New additional TEN line (VI)
- Expanded further TEN line (VII)
In illustrations of the European rail network, often only connections up to category V are shown.
Web links
- TSI overview table with direct access to the Official Journal of the EU on the website of the Federal Railway Authority ( MS Excel ; 965 kB)
- List of Notified Bodies in Europe
- Website of the European Railway Agency (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI) . Federal Office of Transport . Archived from the original on May 12, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
- ↑ Chronology of TSIs. In: website. European Railway Agency , July 18, 2016, accessed January 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Timon Heinrici, Werner Balsen: It is progressing - albeit slowly . In: Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung . No. 75 , September 2016, ISSN 0342-166X , p. 10 .
- ↑ Infrastructure status and development report 2019. (PDF) Performance and financing agreement II. In: eba.bund.de. Deutsche Bahn, April 2020, p. 124 , accessed on May 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Annex II of the directive on the interoperability of the rail system in the European Union
- ^ Ordinance on the interoperability of the trans-European rail system . juris . Retrieved May 10, 2014.
- ↑ Eisenbahn-Cert - Technical Specifications (TSI). In: website. RAILWAY CERT; Notified body interoperability, accessed on January 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Regulation (EU) No. 1305/2014 of the Commission of 11 December 2014 on the technical specification for interoperability for the subsystem "Telematics Applications for Freight Transport" of the rail system in the European Union and repealing Regulation (EC) No. 62 / 2006 from the Commission , accessed December 15, 2014 . In: Official Journal of the European Union . L 356.
- ↑ List of documents on regulation on "technical specification for interoperability relating to the subsystem 'telematics applications for passenger services' of the trans-European rail system". (PDF) EU , European Railway Agency , May 5, 2011, accessed on April 2, 2016 (English).
- ↑ 2011/275 / EU: Commission decision of April 26, 2011 on the technical specification for the interoperability of the “Infrastructure” subsystem of the conventional trans-European rail system (announced under file number K (2011) 2741)
