Railway Domain
Purpose
The purpose of the Railway Domain is to accelerate and exploit new digital opportunities for railway systems and create a comprehensive and applicable digital representation of the entire railway ecosystem that will support all phases of the lifecycle. This provides the basis of interoperable support systems, reduced complexity, secure and safe solutions and reduced costs for all stakeholders.
Below there are two important documents outling the mission and purpose for the Domain.
Charter
The Railway Room (RWR) is focused on digital transformation of the railway sector. Its aim is to enable a digital mature railway sector across all stakeholders by using harmonized, accepted and open standards along the value chain. Read the Charter below.
Manifesto
Our vision here is to create a modern, efficient and sustainable rail infrastructure that meets the needs of customers and society, based on open data standards (such as IFC) and Building Information Modelling (BIM). Read the manifesto below.
Steering Committee
The steering committee is led by representatives from ÖBB-Infrastruktur, SBB, Trafikverket, CRBIM, MINnD, SNCF, FTIA, and RFI. The steering committee facilitates the project and activities of the domain, including overseeing the IFC Rail workshops and online meetings of the domain groups and technical services, leading the domain sessions at buildingSMART Summits, interacting with the Standards Committee and ensuring the buildingSMART Process is followed.
| Name | Organisation |
|---|---|
| Kristian Fevejle Andersen | BANE Danmark |
| Edouard Chabanier | SNCF |
| Xenia Fiorentina | Italy Chapter |
| Joachim Kanis | DB NETZ AG |
| Konstantinos Kessoudis | STRABAG SE |
| Franz Josef Peer | ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG |
| Susanne van Raalte | Trafikverket |
| Stefan Reiser | SBB |
| Tarmo Savolainen | Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency |
| Liming Sheng | CRBIM |
| Giovanni Sorrentino | RFI |
| Winfried Stix | Austria Chapter |
| Benjamin Stuntner | TMC |
| Eivind Pagander Tysnes | Bane NOR |
| Lawrence Chapman | HS2 |
Key Objectives
- Develop interoperable support systems
- Reduce the complexity of the rail ecosystem
- Assure secure and safe solutions
- Reduce project cost and delay for all partners
- Work with buildingSMART, rail owners and operators, and other stakeholders to:
- Extend the IFC Infrastructure Schema for the rail domain, construction and maintenance
- Contribute to IFC Common Schema development
- Build on international consensus
- Take into account iterative works with complementary data and IFC deployments
- Support early deployment and testing by making the deliverables publicly available and open
Learn More
To learn more about the Railway Domain and the activities here, or contribute in the work, please contact us.
