Digital Capacity Management (DCM)

1. Adjusting Infrastructure Managers (IM) legacy national systems to allow cross-border data exchange, to facilitate integrated infrastructure capacity and traffic management digitalisation.
2. Supporting rail stakeholders in developing common Telematics Reference Files, merging the existing TAF and TAP Reference File sets to be used in the telematics framework and by other registers managed by the ERA or the rail sector.
3. Supporting IMs and Railway Undertakings (RUs) in implementing and ensuring the compliance of the rail system and its sub-systems with the TAP/TAF TSI, RINF and TSI OPE.
4. Supporting IMs in aspects regarding Traffic Management and Train Performance Management in line with the Draft proposal of EC Regulation on the use of railway infrastructure capacity in the single European railway area.
5. Providing, updating, and adjusting common European sector IT components.

The programme was launched as a project in 2014 with the overall aim to increase cross-border rail attractiveness and efficiency by removing interoperability barriers, so that rail can increase its competitiveness and market share on the European transport market.