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INTElligent inteGration of RAILway systems

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A platform for information sharing and its potential for A platform for information sharing and its potential for crosscross--modal deploymentmodal deployment

Helene Köpf Helene Köpf -- UNIFEUNIFE


Sustainable Surface TransportSustainable Surface TransportProject Number FP6 012526Project Number FP6 012526



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Presentation content

1. What is InteGRail?

2. The InteGRail results

A) The technology platform - a flexible concept of a reference platformfor information sharing

B) The pilot applications running on this platform

3. InteGRail´s potential for intermodal deployment

4. Summary



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(Railway) player,

with a question to solve

or a decision to make

Situation

Why InteGRail???



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(Railway) player,

with a question to solve

or a decision to make

Legacy

Information System

Situation

PERFORMANCE WITHOUT InteGRail



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(Railway) actor,

With question to solve

or decision to make

Legacy

Information System

Situation

InteGRail

Information System

PERFORMANCE WITH InteGRail



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InteGRail

� An integrated European research project � Jan 2005- March 2009

� 6th Framework Programme – DG Research� 39 participants from 11 countries� 20 million � budget� 11 million � EC contribution� More than 100 researchers involved� 7 subprojects� 4 years of work� More than 3.000 documents produced� About 25 scientific papers published� More than 60 deliverables� 5 demonstrators



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InteGRail consortium



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InteGRail Mission Statement

InteGRail aims at creating a holistic, coherentinformation system, integrating the major railway sub-systems, in order to achieve higher levels of

performance of the railway system in terms of capacity, average speed and punctuality, safety and

the optimised usage of resources.Building on results achieved by previous projects, InteGRail will propose new intelligent procedures

and will contribute to the definition of new standards, in compliance with EC directives and TSI’s.



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Approach

MONITORING

ANALYSING

OPTIMISING

RUNNING

commonlanguage

automatically processedholistic approach - railways as

one single system

KPI measure the systembehaviour

BETTER INFORMATION �� BETTER DECISIONS �� BETTER PERFORMANCE



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Objectives

� Enable information sharing� To allow performance optimisation

Definition of a

Platform for data sharing

Examples of

Information sharing functions

Demonstration

of selected Information sharing functions

•Service Oriented Architecture

•Ontology based data model

•Cross-border and

•Cross-subsystem

•The demonstration functions work,

on the platform

•Help improve performance

Objective Keywords



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A) The technology platform B) The pilot applications running on this platform


4. Summary



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InteGRail Results

� InteGRail produced two types of results:

A) The Reference Technology Platform� The Reference Technology Platform is an open specification

and input for standardisation

B) A number of Application Prototypes� The Application Prototypes show how InteGRail can work in

the real railway world, in a business oriented context



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A) InteGRail Reference Technology Platform

THE BRICKS TO BUILD THE RAILWAYS OF THE FUTURE

Standard Railway Intelligent Communication Framework

(ICOM)

Standard Railway KPI Structure

Standard Railway Domain Ontology

Standard Railway Service Grid Architecture



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New

application

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application

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application

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application

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New

application

Existing

Information

system

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Info

system

Existing

database

Various existing systems

DOL

Front End

Back End

InteGRail Service Grid

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Back End

Standard Railway Service Grid ArchitectureA common architecture

Adapter (Fexible Com. Adapter/FCA)



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A common language

� The Ontology describes (railway) concepts and theirrelationships, avoiding ambiguity

� Data can be transformed into information, adding a semantic context

RailwaySystem

RollingStock Infrastructure

Vehicle

Subsystem Subsystem

Subsystem




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Semantic Integration The InteGRail Ontology Model and its relations




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... enables Semantic Integration of any new application


NewAppli-cation

TimetableOptimisat

ion

NewAppli-cation



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Ubiquituous communication


(ICOM)

� Applications need to speak to each other, exchanging information, independently from their location and from available networks

� ICOM integrates current and future communication technologies used in global railway information systems.



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Standard Railway KPI structure

Measurement of performance� The Key Performance Indicator (KPI) structure measures

performance with and without InteGRail



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4. Summary



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Platform / Architecture

For

Integration

B) The InteGRail applications� Based on the architecture, pilot applications prove that

IGRIS works

InteGRail Service Grid

DOL

Existing

Information

system

DOL

Modified

Info

system

DOL

Existing

database

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New

application

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Various existing monitoring systems

Front End

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Integration

Example

Integration example



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Example: the Network Statement Checker� Access to national infrastructure network descriptions � Which are the characteristics and which rolling stock can be used that will match

the route



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UniversityGhent

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TelevicIzegem

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Established nodes for distributed Information

Services in Europe



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4. Summary



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Platform for deployment

2009/2010

� To achieve a coherent integrated system the further developpment and deployment of (individual) projects must be coordinated within a framework

Platform, steered by Deployment Strategy Group or User Group

IGR deployment andfollow-up projects



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Transfer of the concept to other modes

� IGRIS is an open system, it is not limited to the railways



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IGRING: a ring of IGR supporters

Deployment Projects

(Early adopters)Deployment Projects

(Early adopters)Deployment Projects

(Early adopters)

IGRING

Support office

IGRING WG

Railway Ontology

IGRING WG

Management of IGRIS

Platform Definition

IGRING WG

External

Communication

IGRING WG

Standards

coordination

IGRING WG

ICOM

IGRING

Steering

Group

Support from strong third parties� Public institutions (European Commission) � Powerful market players� Sector organisations (EIM, UIC, UNIFE, ERFA, ERRAC, EIRAC,

ERTRAC etc…)



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InteGRail offers potential for transfer into the wholelogistic chain

� The concept of IGRIS has been developped by the railindustry, and it has been tested in the railways

� However it has a high potential for cross-modalapplication:1. The IGRIS service oriented architecture (SOA) is a group of

services that communicate with each other – this is possibleintra and inter modes

2. The concept of the reference data platform is an open systemand can be extended to other modes and aplications

3. Thanks to the use of ontologies (FCAs) and semantictechnologies IGRIS is extremely flexible

4. InteGRail is scalable5. Affordable (for all players, SMEs etc)



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4. Summary



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Summary

1. InteGRail is a project that developped a reference platformfor information exchange in the railways (IGRIS)

2. A number of applications are running on this platform and show that IGRIS works in the complex railway world and helps to improve performance

3. IGRIS is an open system: it can be transferred to othermodes, any new application can be integrated



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3 March 2009 – Final Conference

Grand Place 19, Brussels

Registration on www.integrail.info

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Back-up slides



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Ontology-Engineering … also beyond the railways

TrainPreparationPlanning

Timetable

Core Ontology(rail network,

measurements, …)Space

Train DoorHot Axle-Box

Detection

Wheel-ImpactLoad

Measurement

TrackGeometry

RailProfile

RegionConnection

Calculus

Time


14/03/2006 IGR-I-BTG-066-01 WP3B_02 at SP3B Meeting


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Ontology Model


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Com

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Mea

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Aggregation & Persistence

Data-Streams, XML

SemanticTransformation

DistributedReasoning

RDFRepositories

Real-WorldInformation DatabasesSensors

Parsers &Adapters

Reasoners

Service 3Service 1

Service 2

OWL / SPARQL

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OWL / SPARQL

OWL

Intelligent Monitoring Services

Web Services Query Interface

Rolling Stock and Infrastructure

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odel

Com

mun

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ion

Mea

ns

Aggregation & Persistence

Data-Streams, XML

SemanticTransformation

DistributedReasoning

RDFRepositories

Real-WorldInformation DatabasesSensors

Parsers &Adapters

Reasoners

Service 3Service 1

Service 2

OWL / SPARQL

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L

OWL / SPARQL

OWL

Intelligent Monitoring Services

Web Services Query Interface

Rolling Stock and Infrastructure

iMON Intelligent Monitoring Architecture-Implementation



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Standardisation proposals

� Possible IGR standardisationproposals: 1. “Standard Railway Service Grid

Architecture”2. “A standard Railway KPI structure”3. “Ontology based standard Railway

Data Model”4. “Standard Railway Communication

Framework: ICOM”

� Proposals to be addressed to IEC, CENELEC, …











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InteGRail offers a technical solution

� A common platform for integrated information management

� The right information at the right place at the right moment

� Enabling Railways to work as one single system

� Allowing to integrate legacy systems

� Implementing interoperability of information systems



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To work efficiently, railways need efficientinformation management

� To control complexity

� To enable cooperationbetween all actors

� For internationaloperations

� To enhancecompetitiveness

� Unambiguous data modelling� Ubiquituous data flow

� Interoperability betweeninformation systems

� Cross-border information exchange

� Higher performance level



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A single systemStandard Railway KPI

structure

Rolling Stock

RS1Availability

RS2Reliability

RS3Life Cycle Cost

Infrastructure

INF1Availability

INF2Reliability

INF4Life Cycle Cost

INF3Capability

Operations

OP2Number of

trains

OP3Punctuality

OP4Transported

pay-load

OP1Customer

satisfaction

OP5Cost of

operation

Traffic Management

TM1Quality of Train Plan

TM2Regulation

Re-scheduling

TM3Information

� InteGRail considers railways as a single system, to be optimised globally, according to a holistic view

� The concept can be extended, looking at Public Transport as a single Intelligent Transportation System



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Reasoner 1

Reasoner 2

Reasoner 5

Reasoner 3

Reasoner 4

TBox TABox A1

TBox TABox A2

TBox TABox A3

TBox TABox A5TBox T

ABox A4

Queryq

q1

q2

q12

Distributed Reasoning Architecture

InteGRail Approach:� Distributed reasoning� Lower network traffic� Scales well

... with the underlying Ontology Information Model



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Application middleware layer



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Deployment

Documents

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