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Subject matter
This Regulation lays down common, specific and interface requirements for the interoperability of data sharing in rail transport by establishing a technical specification for interoperability (TSI) relating to the ‘telematics applications for passenger and freight services’ subsystem of the rail system in the Union, as set out in the Annex.
Scope
1. This Regulation applies to ‘telematics applications for passenger and freight services’ referred to in point 1(b), third indent, of Annex II to Directive (EU) 2016/797 and described in point 2.6 of that Annex, with respect to the following processes: (a) as regards both freight and passenger rail transport services: (i) capacity management; (ii) train preparation; (iii) traffic management; (b) as regards freight rail transport services only: management of freight wagons and their load; (c) as regards passenger rail transport services only: (i) rail ticketing; (ii) rail passenger travel information. 2. This Regulation applies to the Union rail system as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2016/797. 3. This Regulation does not apply to rail transport services leaving or entering the Union to or from a third country which are not subject to similar rules under an international agreement. However, telematics stakeholders may apply alternative measures between the border and the border station designated for cross-border operations.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘data’ means a machine-readable representation of acts, facts or information and any compilation of such acts, facts or information intended to be shared in a harmonised and structured format; (2) ‘data sharing’ means the provision of data by a data holder to a data recipient for the purpose of the joint or individual use of such data, directly or through an intermediary, for example under open or commercial licences subject to a fee or free of charge; (3) ‘rail ticketing’ means the process comprising at least one of the following for passenger rail transport services: (a) the digital presentation of passenger rail transport services for journey planning; (b) the digital checking of the availability or the digital reservation of corresponding rail products for sales; (c) the digital issuing and control of tickets; (d) the digital handling of after sale processes; (4) ‘rail product’ means a tailored service in relation to a passenger rail transport service linked to a tariff; (5) ‘ticket’ means a ticket as defined in Article 3, point (7), of Regulation (EU) 2021/782; (6) ‘reservation’ means a reservation as defined in Article 3, point (8), of Regulation (EU) 2021/782; (7) ‘rail transport service’ means a scheduled service for carriage by rail between a point of departure and a point of arrival and covers transport services for goods, passengers, luggage, bicycles or cars, and tailored transport arrangements, as well as passenger assistance including services for re-routing and journey continuation; (8) ‘operator of rail freight service facility’ means operators of service facilities as defined in Article 3, point (12), of Directive 2012/34/EU, that provide services necessary for operating a freight rail transport service and whose service facilities are listed in point (2), subpoints (b), (c), (d) and (g), of Annex II to Directive 2012/34/EU and are connected to the trans-European transport network as specified in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2024/1679, limited to the multimodal freight terminals identified pursuant to Article 36 of that Regulation; (9) ‘telematics stakeholder’ means the following data holders or data recipients whose activities entail the use of telematics applications for passenger and freight services’: (a) railway undertakings; (b) infrastructure managers; (c) station managers; (d) operators of rail freight service facilities; (e) intermodal transport operators; (f) applicants for railway infrastructure capacity or capacity in service facilities; (g) bodies responsible for allocating infrastructure capacity or capacity in service facilities; (h) railway undertakings, or ticket vendors as defined in Article 3, point (5), of Regulation (EU) 2021/782, where those undertakings or vendors act as either a retailer, a distributor, an issuer, or a combination of two or more of those roles, in the processes referred to in Article 2(1), point (c); (i) entities in charge of maintenance as defined Article 3, point (20), of Directive (EU) 2016/798; (j) third-party service providers that either have an operational responsibility in the functioning of the rail system or in supporting the delivery of passenger or freight rail transport services, or that are contracted to monitor the movements of trains or the flow of passengers or goods; (k) freight customers; (l) holders of a freight transport contract relating to a specific train or to a specific type of rail transport service; (m) non-commercial third-party information aggregators that provide independent, non-discriminatory, publicly available data relating to rail transport services; (n) any other entity that is involved in the operation of telematics applications, in relation to the elements of the subsystem referred to in point 2.6 of Annex II to Directive (EU) 2016/797; (10) ‘Union bodies’ means Union bodies as defined in Article 2, point (27), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854; (11) ‘public sector body’ means public sector body as defined in Article 2, point (28), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854; (12) ‘data holder’ means a natural or legal person that has the right to use or an obligation to produce and make available data; (13) ‘data recipient’ means a natural or legal person that has the right to access the data produced and made available by the data holder under specified access conditions for use; (14) ‘access to data’ means the right to consult the data with or without control over it, distinctively from other rights and obligations relating to its use for non-commercial or commercial purposes; (15) ‘national access point’ means a national access point within the meaning of Article 3 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1926; (16) ‘ERA Ontology’ means a technical document issued by the Agency pursuant to Article 4(8) of Directive (EU) 2016/797, setting out human-readable and machine-readable data definitions and presentations and the associated quality and accuracy requirements for data elements of the Union rail system; (17) ‘data element’ means a field, value, or attribute of the data shared, which is structured in a consistent manner with the overall protocol used for data sharing and carries essential information that contributes to the meaning and purpose of the data shared, enabling data sharing between systems, applications or organisations; (18) ‘reference data’ means a data set of standardised and interoperable single identifiers to be used as a basis for data sharing in a specific domain; (19) ‘metadata’ means metadata as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854; (20) ‘multi-network process’ means a process that is affected by the operation of a rail transport service across two or more networks managed by different infrastructure managers or operators of rail freight service facilities; (21) ‘direct rail transport service’ means a rail transport service that may include intermediate commercial stops between its origin and destination but does not involve any transfer of passengers or freight between trains; (22) ‘application programming interface’ or ‘API’ means a set of functions, procedures, definitions and protocols for interoperable data sharing between telematics applications; (23) ‘station manager’ means a station manager as defined in Article 3, point (3), of Regulation (EU) 2021/782; (24) ‘minimum connection time’ means the minimum amount of time that is sufficient for a passenger to connect between the access nodes of two consecutive passenger transport services included in a journey; (25) ‘person with disabilities’ and ‘person with reduced mobility’ means a person with disabilities and person with reduced mobility as defined in point 2.2 of the Annex to Regulation (EU) No 1300/2014 (‘PRM TSI’); (26) ‘journey’ means an end-to-end trip of a passenger or a load that can include multiple legs; (27) ‘public departure time’ means the boarding time limit for passengers, that is the point in time when access to the train, platform or station is closed in preparation for departure and after which passengers are no longer allowed to board and that takes into account the time that may be required for the check-in of passengers, bicycles, or luggage; (28) ‘public arrival time’ means the alighting time for passengers, that is the point in time when the doors of the train are opened at the destination platform or terminal and disembarkation is allowed for passengers; (29) ‘working timetable’ means working timetable as defined in Article 3, point (28), of Directive 2012/34/EU that is used for capacity and traffic management as referred to in Section 2 of the Annex to this Regulation; (30) ‘meta station’ means a group of stations within a functional urban area, including one or more urban nodes listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2024/1679, that may extend across multiple Member States and where distinct stations can be reached by connecting urban transport modes and urban transport services, whether scheduled or unscheduled; (31) ‘access node’ means access node as defined in Article 2, point (25), of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1926; (32) ‘applicant’ means applicant as defined in Article 3, point (19), of Directive 2012/34/EU; (33) ‘passenger timetable’ means the date and time of passenger rail transport services operated as a commercial service by a railway undertaking during a given time interval that are used in the context of rail ticketing and rail passenger travel information referred to in Section 4 of the Annex; (34) ‘shunting movement’ means shunting movements as defined in Table 1 of the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/773 (‘OPE TSI’); (35) ‘freight customer’ means the entity that has issued the consignment information to the relevant freight railway undertaking and which may be a logistics service provider, an intermodal transport operator, a freight forwarder, a fleet manager of empty wagons, or where relevant the data holder, that has concluded a contract of carriage covering transport services for goods; (36) ‘intermodal transport operator’ means an entity that organises freight transport services connecting two or more freight terminals with more than one transport mode; (37) ‘consignment note’ means a transport document referred to in Article 6 of Council Regulation No 11 ( 34 ) ; (38) ‘distributor’ means an entity that, deriving from contractual provisions, has: (a) the technical capacity to combine one or more rail products from one or more railway undertakings, for the purpose of supplying them to an issuer or a retailer; (b) rights to operate without an initial query to the attributing systems of those undertakings in relation to the rail products referred to in point (a); (c) autonomous rights to check the availability of price for each of the services that is part of the combined rail products referred to in point (a); (39) ‘journey planner’ means a search engine used to find an optimal journey based on defined criteria set out by its user; (40) ‘issuer’ means an entity that has the legal and technical capacity, deriving from contractual provisions, to issue, for a retailer, a ticket on which the parties to the contract of carriage are indicated; (41) ‘attributing system’ means the railway undertaking’s digital system that hosts the online catalogue of individual rail transport services and that enables distributors to check the availability of those services and make reservations; (42) ‘retailer’ means an entity that: (a) has the legal and technical capacity, deriving from contractual provisions, to combine, or combine and sell, one or more rail products made available to it by one or more distributors; (b) obtains access to the rail products referred to in point (a) after submitting an initial request to the distributors involved; (c) sells the rail products referred to in point (a), where relevant, but without autonomous rights to amend the content of those rail products or conditions of the offers set out by distributors; (d) is permitted to apply fees or reductions to the offers set out by distributors; (43) ‘tariff’ means the aggregated data established by a railway undertaking, or, where relevant, by the data holder, that provides all relevant details of a tariff, including the rail transport service price due by a distributor to the railway undertaking and the associated attributes and conditions; (44) ‘offer’ means the aggregated data established by a distributor combining applicable tariffs that include the rail product price due by the retailer to the distributor and which may vary from the price set out by the railway undertaking due to the application of automated pricing rules, discounts or other commercial conditions; (45) ‘yielded price’ means the price associated to a tariff resulting from the application of an algorithm based on variables, referred to as the yielding rule; (46) ‘ticket control organisation’ or ‘TCO’ means an organisation empowered to inspect passenger tickets, including at platform access doors; (47) ‘data quality’ means the degree of fitness for use at which the characteristics of data satisfy the stated and implied level of accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness and uniqueness of datasets, and create actionable insights for other users under specified conditions.
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