TAF-TSI Proposal and Budget Estimate

TAF-TSI Proposal and Budget Estimate EMC 17 October 2007 Jan Sundling, Chairman

Agenda • Activities to date • Proposal for Development of Common Components • Governance Structure • Development Scenario • Tendering Procedures and Timelines • Operations of the Common System Components (RNE Proposal)

Activities to Date • 3 Steering Board Meetings • Scenario Decision • Budget determination • Contract Announcement for Common System Components • Tender Preparation • 4 Meetings with the Commission for the confirmation/acceptance of the SEDP and Steering Board roadmap • 2 High-level Freight meetings with the CEOs of the Freight Operators • 1 EMC and Regional Assembly Meeting • 1 CER General Assembly • 1 IM/RNE Cluster Meeting

Mission - SEDP Agreed Timeline Milestone

Steering Board Decision Points • The EMC mandated Jan Sundling to report back in October with a final proposal, budget and completed organisation • The Steering Board approved a self-funding scenario • Assure the succesful outcome of the development project • Maintain agreed governance and financial oversight • Provide for open and free license of the Intellectual Property of the applications • Funding Proposal from the Commission submitted • Application for TEN-T funding for (10% – 30%) co-financing of works (call is oversubscribed 4:1)

Operational Proposal • The Steering Board generally supported a proposal for RNE to Operate the Common System Components. It was decided that: • RNE was to get formal GA approval for providing this service • RNE was requested to develop a formal proposal to be reviewed at the next Steering Board • A decision will be taken either using Benchmarking or Public Tender to ensure that the decision is based on sound commercial criteria

Governance Structure Steering Board Strategic Governance Deployment Team Project Management/Change Control Operator RNE? To be chosen Users

Development Scenario • Goal is to have ONE Common Interface initiative led by Steering Board • Mulitiple Common Interface initiatives could be compatible Industry controlled Metadata Master UIC CI PLK CI Metadata Copy Metadata Copy

Budget Repartition • It was agreed that Stakeholders will share the costs of development amongst themselves (CER, EIM, ERFA, UIP, etc) • Use the UIC Key to determine the organisational contribution of the UIC, CER and EIM members. • Other representative organisations to determine their own keys for portion of the cost. • The following repartition key is proposed, but is being negotiated:

Budget Request for 2008 and 2009 • Development Budget is only an ESTIMATE and should be kept in confidence • Final budget will be known after the Tender Process • Individual Railway estimates are available from John Lutz, and will not be published

TAF-TSI Functions and Existing Investment • Analysis has been done to ensure the maximum use of existing investments and common applications • There is no existing application that will fulfill the requirements of the Common Interface • The following applications will be used for other functions • EUROPTIRAILS, Pathfinder, ISR, ORFEUS, XRail, etc.

Tendering Procedures and Timelines • Contract Notice and Prequalification procedures have begun • Tender for Development of Common Components by late November • Operation of the Common Components may be tendered or assigned • A Technical Team was established within the Deployment Team to work with Operations

TAF-TSI Proposal and Budget Estimate