Number: 7759300
Country: Belgium
Source: TED
Further development of a European Rail Locations
To develop a EU-wide web-based Rail Locations Portal with GIS functionalities, capable of presenting relevant data for different kinds of last-mile infrastructure in a transparent way, The portal should become the tool of choice:
(a) that potential rail stakeholders use to access information about rail facilities in Europe; and
(b) that could assist operators of rail service facilities (freight as well as passenger rail service facilities) to comply with their information provision obligations as foreseen in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2177 of 22.11.2017 on access to service facilities and rail-related services.
The objective of the portal is 2-fold:
— Constitute an efficient and user-friendly market tool providing all the necessary information on rail facilities, in particular rail freight facilities, e.g. for the planning of rail services.
— Help the service facilities operators to comply with their obligations under the Recast Directive (Directive 2012/34/EU) and the Implementing Regulation, including the ability to indicate whether or not their facility has capacity available, on a live dynamic basis.
— Provide a reporting capability in order to allow monitoring of the number and type of service facilities and their attributes the technical specifications include the following tasks:
— Fine-tuning strategies for:
− Governance for the ongoing management of the portal.
− Business Model to make the portal self-sufficient in future.
− Data collection and management.
— Further developing the functionality of the portal taking into account the forthcoming implementing regulation, and developing necessary interfaces with service facility operators or other relevant entities for entering their data.
— Updating the existing data and sourcing a critical mass of the remaining data, in particular data on freight facilities, from third parties. Adding it to the portal so that the portal becomes the “European tool of choice” for:
− individual service facility operators, infrastructure managers or other relevant entities for publishing information required by the Implementing Regulation,
− remaining entities operating facilities to publish their information for marketing purposes, even if not required by law, and
− potential users to access information about rail freight facilities in Europe.
— Launching a production version of the portal that will be available to the public and handing it over to the System Manager.