Import of Consignment Information :

• ISR receives a subset of the Consignment data sent by the railway undertakings to ORFEUS
• Data are used to enrich the movement information with the consignment data (transport description)
• Transport descriptions allow to match movement events belonging to one transport together.
• Another method for transport description delivery is the WSM message with type NoteCreated.

Queries and Transport Plans :

• Movement information, received from the members information system allows to build value added functionalities
• New ISR production website (open for Users only) enables for queries on wagons with many different query parameters (wagon numbers, consignment numbers, countries/stations of origin and destination, dates etc.).
• It is also possible to make query for train numbers (many wagon movement information include train number).
• After a transport has finished, a part of the transport description as well as the first and last event is used to create an Experienced Transport Plan (ETP).
• So for new transports running under the same conditions (same origin, destination, and departure weekday) the expected last event as well as any deviations can be displayed.
• ISR is also the main information source for the Xrail application, which calculates ELTA's based on trip plans for specific relations.
• Xrail can also send "Estimated Latest Time of arrival" to ISR to be forwarded to relevant railway undertakings.

Wagon Km performance Processing :

• "Mileage" information (km performance) is very useful for an efficient wagon and fleet management and maintenance,
• Some (few) ISR railway undertakings calculate "mileage" with their own tool and send results to ISR.
• For others, ISR calculates estimated distance ran by the wagon based on:
  • Movement events (wagon has reached, left or passed a location, at time) and distance sources:
    • Railway production distance tables, provided by members,
    • Road distances using Google Open Street Map,
  • Consignment note information using the DIUM distance tables
  • Distance is calculated for each movement (run from previous event) separately
  • Always the best (most exact) calculation method available is used
• ISR uses and maintains set of reference tables (production stations, DIUM stations, border crossing points, handover points etc.)
• ISR can send the calculation results to interested members for their wagons using the WSM message (version 5 is required).
• There is automatic provision of km per wagon per day performance for the UIP's RSRD2 wagon keepers database.
• Output can be either specific type of the Wagon Status Message or Wagon Performance Message (WPM).
• The calculation tool is improved step by step to provide results close to reality as much as possible.

Wagon monitoring during train run - RTIS

• Railway Undertakings (RUs) provide wagon movement events for ISR, but these events happen mostly in stations where the wagon start or terminate the transport or is taken- or handed-over from/to other partners.
• That means that after departure of a wagon in a long distance train there could be a long period without any information.
• To better the situation for wagon monitoring, RailData has realised RTIS - Running Train Information System.
• RTIS provides an advanced wagon tracking based on the real time position and deviation from the timetable of the related border crossing trains while running.
• This feature has been realised thanks to a specific integration between the Train Information System (TIS) run by Rail Net Europe (RNE) and the tracking and consignment information provided by the participating RUs within RailData systems.

• Besides improved wagon movement tracking, RTIS also provides train run information available on the ISR web site (user interface example see below).
• Between RNE and RailData a TAF TSI compliant message is exchanged and routed via the RNE Common Interface (CI).
• RailData has gained a lot of experience being a test partner for this standard TAF TSI communication software and now offers to the RUs a conversion service to allow them immediately a data exchange on TAF TSI level.