Banverket installed RFID readers on trains to track vehicles and goods throughout Europe. This would support intermodal transport, lower costs, and change the business model to base operator payments on actual usage rather than reported plans. Banverket proposed to create an RFID detector infrastructure across Sweden to enable proactive maintenance, lower infrastructure costs, improve efficiency, and ensure correct train composition based on detector information and RFID identification. This would transform Banverket's role to designing digital infrastructures and providing IT services, implying changes to research, education, and reorganization into the new Trafikverket agency.

1. • 2007 SSAB started put tags on approx. 400 Train Cars.
– Banverket installed RFID-readers at Sävast, Koler och Tväråbäck
Background

2. Objective
– A common RFID-vision and strategy for Banverket concerning
all sorts of services and requirements
The next step Feasability Study

3. • Support Intermodal transport
• Track and Trace Vehicles and Goods througout Europe
• Lowering transport costs
• Sustainability
• Chaging the whole buiness model (The operators will pay based of
their actual use of the railway not based on what they report or their
plans)
RFID-Identification General Objectivs

4. • 60 - 70 % of freight railroad cars in Sweden are from another European
country
• European standard for RFID-system
• Standard for information exchange
Railroad Traffic in Europe

5. • Uppgrade TSD/TSI technial specifications for operations (TSD/TSI),
TSD/TSI are standardisation documents in the Railroad Sector
– Mandatory with RFID-tags on Railroad Cars
– Upgrade the standard to 18000-6 C – air protocol
– Develop a standard data and information protocol
A standard for RFID-enabled identification
of Railroad Cars

6. RFID-detector
Reader
Axis sensor
- recognise vehicles without RFID-tags
- speed
- direction
- distance between axes
Trafikverket
RFID
-­‐
detector

7. EPC - Code
Manufact_nr
EPC-code–GIAI 96 (Header, FilterValue, Partition, Company Prefix, Individual Asset Reference)
Companyprefix, CarVehicle No.+A/B
12 digits
Information
Transponder/tagg
Railway
Car

8. .
The
Individual
Assets
Referene
is
based
on
the
Railroad
Car
Vehicle
Iden@fier

9. The
Authorised
Railroad
Vehicle
Ins@tu@onal
Object
• The
Car
Vehicle
Iden@fier
is
based
on
the
Standardised
European
Vehicle
Iden@fier
and
is
12
posi@ons
long
• It
represents
the
ins@tu@onal
object
”Authorised
Railroad
Vehicle”
• Its
instan@a@on
is
based
on
European
EU
statues
that
the
describes
the
rules
that
make
them
valid
• In
Sweden
these
ins@tu@onal
objects
are
instan@ated
by
Transportstyrelsen
and
kept
in
the
Swedish
Vehicle
Registry.
• The
object
and
its
iden@fier
has
a
pragma@c
meaning
because
it
represents
an
number
of
rights
and
obliga@ons
• In
a
couple
of
years
Physical
Railroad
Vehicles
that
are
not
registered
in
one
of
the
European
Vehicle
Registers
will
not
be
allowed
to
be
used
on
the
railroads
in
Europe

10. Design – EPCIS Gateway
Railroad Vehicle Identification
Reader
Tag
Vehicle-
Register
At
Transportstyrelsen
Train-
Configuration
informationEPC
ISO18000-6 C
GS1 - Standard
EPCIS
Vehicle
Identfier
Gateway
Traffic operators
The UTIN-Gateway
The Opera system and other
Internal system and databases
at Banverket
?

11. Applica@on
E-­‐infrastructure
for
detector
informa@on
combined
with
RFID-­‐Iden@ficia@on
informa@on
Informa@on
about
train
configura@on
and
goods
from
railroad
companies
Alerts
to
driver
through
ERTMS/MobiSIR
Sta@s@cs
Database
OPERA
EPC-­‐IS
Detector
Detector
informa@on
presenta@on
at
traffic
control
centre
The
na@onal
Railroad
Vehicle
Registry
European
Railroad
Vehicle
Registers
DPC

12. Detectors
Detectors for wheel and axis damage
Overheating detector

13. 1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
AVI/RFID-­‐detector
Axes
sensor
Na@onal
Vehicle
Registry
Vehicle
iden@fier.
liUera,
number
_of_axis.
Tag-­‐ID1
(A-­‐end),
Tag-­‐ID2
(B-­‐end)
taggID1
taggID2
Train-­‐Composi@on
XML
EPC
OPERA
Train-­‐Composi@on
XML
XML
DPC
XML
Vehicle
ID
and
Detector
informa2on
Traffic
Operators
Engineering
Workshop
Vendors
of
Vehicles
UTIN
XML

14. • Pro-active maintenance based on detector information (huge costs)
• Lowering costs for infrastructure maintenance (huge costs)
• Less disturbences
• Effektivare range (do not know the correct term in English)
• Correct train composition
RFID-identification and Detector Information

15. • Create an infrastructure of RFID-detectors (500-700)
• Procurement 2010
• Limited deployment 2010
• Full deployment 2011- 2013
Future plans for Sweden

16. Implica@ons
for
Banverket
• Ins@tu@onal
ambiguity
no
longer
an
organisa@on
that
build
and
maintain
railroads,
a
new
role
is
to
be
a
designer
of
an
e-­‐infrastructures
• This
implies:
– To
be
involved
in
Informa@on
Standardisa@on
work
– PPP-­‐coopera@on
with
the
industry
developing
the
e-­‐infrastructure
– IT-­‐Service
provision
to
other
organisa@ons
– IT-­‐Service
Management
• Focus
on
the
role
to
support
transport
effec@veness,
fulfilling
na@onal
transport
poli@cal
goals.
IT
becomes
more
and
more
important
to
fulfil
this
role
• Re-­‐organisa@on
of
Banverket
merging
with
Vägverket
into
Trafikverket
due
to
the
new
role

17. .
A
new
understanding
of
the
no@on
for
of
Informa@on
System

18. A
new
understanding
of
the
no@on
for
of
Informa@on
System

19. Tradi@onal
view
informa@on
system
concern
only
Sema@cs
and
Syntac@cs

20. Implica@ons
for
Research
and
Educa@on
• Ins@tu@onal
ambiguity
no
longer
an
organisa@on
that
build
and
maintain
railroads,
a
new
role
is
to
be
a
designer
of
an
e-­‐infrastructures
• This
implies:
– To
be
involved
in
Informa@on
Standardisa@on
work
– PPP-­‐coopera@on
with
the
industry
developing
the
e-­‐infrastructure
– IT-­‐Service
provision
to
other
organisa@ons
– IT-­‐Service
Management
• Focus
on
the
role
to
support
transport
effec@veness,
fulfilling
na@onal
transport
poli@cal
goals.
IT
becomes
more
and
more
important
to
fulfil
this
role
• Re-­‐organisa@on
of
Banverket
merging
with
Vägverket
into
Trafikverket
due
to
the
new
role