Promoting the digitalization of rail by replacing conventional interlocking/fast-track programmes to speed up the roll-out of the ‘Digital Rail Germany’ (SLP)

The objective of the measure is to support the digitalization of railway in the context of the ‘Digital Rail Germany’ initiative and the ‘fast track’ programme to accelerate it. 

This initiative gathers public and private stakeholders (including the Federal Railway Authority (EBA), research and technical organizations and industry) in order to develop standardized, interoperable and modular components for the digitalization of railway operations.

The investment consists of funding seven pilot projects with solutions to replace old signal boxes and level crossing protection systems with new-generation digital security systems.

The new solutions developed by these projects shall be compatible with the technical specifications of the ‘Digital Rail Germany’ programme.

They are also expected to be upgradeable and compatible with a subsequent ETCS (European Train Control System) upgrade by means of uniform system interfaces.

All pilot projects of the programme have been completed successfully by developing solutions to replace old signal boxes and level crossing protection systems by security systems of the latest digital generation.

More information can be found on the webpage of the project here

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