European Union Agency for Railways
The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) has been established in 2004 to devise the technical and legal framework for creating a Single European Railway Area (SERA) as mandated under European Union law. ERA’s core activities are creating a harmonised approach to safety, removing technical barriers, advancing the single European Train Control and Communication System (ERTMS), and promoting simplified access for customers for the European rail sector.
With the entry-into-force of the technical pillar of the 4th Railway Package, the mandate of the Agency has been extended. As of June 2019, ERA will be a European authority responsible for issuing vehicle authorisations and safety certificates in the European Union, as well as pre-authorising ERTMS trackside equipment.
Members
The database is the linked data version of the database: https://teleref.era.europa.eu/. This dataset provides access to the reference files according to Article 3.4.2 of Annex II of COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2018/1614 - of 25 October 2018 - laying down specifications for the vehicle registers (EVR Decision) and Chapter 4.2.10.1 of the TAF TSI and Chapter 4.2.19.1 of the TAP TSI.
You can search for the following information:
- Organisation Codes allocated and published by ERA
- Reference File of the Coding for IMs, RUs, Service provider companies (company codes)
- Reference File of the Coding of Locations (Primary location code)
The ERADIS and ERATV datasets contain information traintypes and certificates. It is necessary for each traintype to have a valid certificate when the trains drives over the tracks. This way a traintype if held to certain standards and can be used to transport goods over the traintrack. To check if a traintype is allowed on a track a check must be performed to check if a train has certain certificates. This dataset holds the data to check for traintypes and their certificates.
TENtec is the European Commission’s Information System to coordinate and support the Trans-European Transport Network Policy (TEN-T). The dataset contains linked data that is transformed from shp files. The dataset is a representation of the Trans-European Transport Network and contains interactive multifunctional maps (including thematic layers, base maps, search engine, print outs etc.).
Country: Netherlands
The dataset contains the tracks and railways from openstreetmap. Retrieved from QGIS and transformed in linked data.
Country: Norway
This dataset contains the infrastructure model of the Norwegian Railway Directorate. This is a digital description of the railway.
The infrastructure model provides a detailed digital description of the railway's functionality at track level. Several models have been created to reproduce both current and future infrastructure. The models are available for everyone in the NorRailView web application.
The data is downloaded and transformed to linked data.
Country: Germany
The dataset contains linked data that is transformed from RailML. The data that is transformed is a dataset containing railML datapoints from the northwest part of Germany. Here two train networks overlap. The RINF train network and EVB trainnetwork. The image below showcases the train network that is contained in the railML assets.
The data is extracted according to the ERA vocabulary.
This dataset contains the vocabulary of the ERA knowledge graph. The vocabulary of the ERA knowledge graph consists out of two different sources.
Sources:
- The ontology.Vocabulary defined by the European Union Agency for Railways to describe the concepts and relationships related to the European railway infrastructure and the vehicles authorized to operate over it. The file is synchronized on 2022-02-02.
- The skos Concepts. Controlled SKOS-based vocabularies defined by the European Union Agency for Railways to describe concepts related to the European railway infrastructure and the vehicles authorized to operate over it. The file is synchronized on 2022-02-02.