RTI teams with railways and suppliers to advance Platform for future rail operation
Summary
In this context, the railway initiatives Reference CCS Architecture (RCA) and Open CCS Onboard Reference Architecture (OCORA) started working on a Safe Computing Platform concept in 2020, which is expected to provide the basis for safety-relevant railway applications for both onboard and trackside developments. This decouples domains with very distinct life cycles and leverages advances in the IT sector, while still leaving room for vendor differentiation on the detailed computing platform implementation. To take this work to the next stage, the railways and industry players DB Netz AG, duagon AG, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, RTI, SBB, Siemens Mobility GmbH, SNCF Voyageurs, SNCF Reseau, SYSGO GmbH, Thales and Wind River have now teamed up to jointly develop a first version of the possible Application Programming Interface (API) between railway applications and the Safe Computing Platform. The work is expected to be published in Spring 2022 through RCA and OCORA to serve as a basis for prototyping Safe Computing Platform implementations. To learn more, join RTI and SYSGO on 15th March for a webinar and demonstration on modernising rail systems for interoperability, scalability and safety.