DataPrep

  • Subject
    You will find here the EULYNX Data Preparation model releases. The model defines the format that Infrastructure Managers and suppliers/engineering companies will use to exchange information about signalling engineering and configuration data.

  • License
    This work is released under European Union Public License EUPL, version 1.2.

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  • Contents of Release 1.2 (Release notes)
    The model is published as

The model breaks down in domains Generic, Signalling and the national domains, one per IM. Domains map to XSD-namespaces, packages regroup specific subject matters.

  • Generic domain
    • Data container
    • GEO information
    • Project management
    • Common classes
  • Signalling domain
    • Assets
      • Block system
      • Controller
      • Key locks
      • Level crossing
      • Local operation devices
      • Platform
      • Point, crossing and derailer
      • Power supply low voltage
      • Power supply traction
      • Signal
      • State space
      • Support structures
      • Track
      • Train detection
    • Automatic route setting
    • Cabling
    • ETCS
    • Flank protection
    • Local operating area
    • Route
    • Speed profiles
    • Train describer
    • Train protection
    • Working safety
  • National domains
    • DB Netz (DB)
    • Network Rail (NR)
    • ProRail
    • Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI)
    • SNCF Réseau (SNCF)
    • Trafikverket (TRV)

  • Evolution
    Formal change management has been applied since Release 1.0. This includes the intake and processing of change requests from users. Changes are summarised in the release notes for each new version. A six-monthly release frequency is foreseen.

  • Contributors
    The EULYNX Data Prep model resulted from the joint effort of the infrastructure managers in the EULYNX consortium.

  • Open source developments
    The EULYNX Data Prep inspires external open source developments:
    • A-Plan is a tool which can convert legacy track data and existing CCS infrastructure data of an infrastructure manager into EULYNX XML. The tool is an open source  software that is continuously developing to fulfill the geodata requirements of participating infrastructure managers. It currently supports French and German data and enables the visualization of EULYNX XML.

Data preparation today

Every Infrastructure Manager has a long tradition of presenting signalling information in given shapes and formats, inherited from the days of paper and steam.

France:

Norway:

United Kingdom:

Netherlands:

Germany:

The signalling supply industry ingests and interprets this information, and processes it. Ingestion and interpretation of data are the weak links in the chain.  

Read more: What is EULYNX Data preparation

IT for signalling is a niche industry because it is closely tied to national markets.  

Customising software is expensive when each IM has his own model, e.g. PlanPro, IMSpoor, SDEF, Gaia. Software developers rarely have both rail and IT know-how so the language, jargon and culture remain barriers to developing pan-European software packages.

EULYNX DP is designed to help data break out of the national silo.

Read more: Breaking out of the silo