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ERTMS Current Baseline

 

 Overview

 

The revised CCS TSI for HS and CR transeuropean rail has been adopted by a Commission Decision 2012/88/EU on the 25th January 2012. It has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union on the 23rd February 2012.
 
This TSI merges the former TSI for HS and CR introducing improvements mainly:
  • separate on-board and track-side subsystems according to the amended annexe 2 of the interoperability directive,
  • improved description of the certification process in chapter 6,
  • closing of a first set of important open points on compatibility of train detection systems in the Interfaces between CCS track-side and other subsystems referenced in annex A,
  • migration criteria for train detection systems.
 
The list of train protection Class B systems is in an ERA technical document
 
This TSI does not introduce modifications to the EU ERTMS deployment plan.
 
The ETCS Baseline 2 specifications originally adopted by the Decision 2008/386/EC are today  the basis of the interoperable deployment of the system in Europe.
They were integrated with the ETCS test specifications in 2010 by commission decision 2010/79/EC. The Annex A of the revised TSI in 2012 also introduces  better interface definition for the management of the cryptographic keys, improved colors and reflectivity definition for the track-side maker board, more consistent definition of the ETCS variables used in project parametrization.
 
This TSI is supported by a specific part of the TSI application guide, which also contains the references to informative specifications.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

The following links provide access to the mandatory specifications (Annex A) and to the informative specifications (from the CCS part of the TSI applicaton guide):

In the ETCS system , some variables require some kind of co-ordination during use of it, including the definition of who is assigning new values because care has to be taken not to assign identical values for different purposes or vice versa. Reasons for this may be functional or safety related.

Based on the functionality behind each variable, a list for the organisations responsible for assigning values to them has been established (see section 3.4.1.1 of Subset-054) and can be classified as follow:

  • for variables which need international co-ordination, the ERA maintains public tables allocating unique values or range of values to the requesting organisations,
  • for variables which need national co-ordination, the Member States are responsible for assigning unique values.